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Novemeber 7, 2008 -- ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Completing its program of acquisition-driven growth in the US Hosting market, British web hosting provider and registrar UK2 Group has acquired Utah-based WestHost which currently hosts more than 70,000 web sites.

November 7, 2008 -- ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- According to several reports on Thursday, a former Intel design engineer has been charged with stealing $1 billion worth of trade secrets from the chipmaker while he worked for its main rival, Advanced Micro Devices.

November 7, 2008 -- ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- This week's web hosting news was most notably marked by the entry of a company that has long operated on the fringes of what could be considered "hosting" stepping full-bore into the hosting business.

November 7, 2008 -- ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- The Texas government has ordered IBM to resolve key service issues regarding a state data center in the next month or it will terminate the $863 million contract.

Novemebr 7, 2008 -- ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Delaware construction company Vadata has begun construction on a 116,700 square-foot building, the first of three that will comprise a massive server farm in energy-rich eastern Oregon, which may house Amazon operations.

November 7, 2008 -- ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Dedicated hosting provider Limestone networks announced on Friday has opened a new data center in the DataBank building in downtown Dallas.

November 7, 2008 -- ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Many of the discounts announced on the first week of November targeted clients dealing with the uncertain economy. For instance, Domain.com is offering a flexible by-the-month payment structure for the market weary.

November 7, 2008 -- ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- internet access and network solutions provider Internet Initiative Japan along with network operation outsourcing company Net Care announced on Thursday the opening of a new data center in the Nerima ward of Tokyo.

Plano, Texas - (The Hosting News) - November 7, 2008 - Provider of ''on demand'' IT infrastructure, Layered Technologies, is the first hosting company to give enterprise customers the option of transferring the Microsoft Windows operating system (Windows OS) environment to an AppLogic-based cloud computing solution. Jack Finlayson, CEO of Layered Tech remarked, ''In the current economic conditions where everyone is looking to spend less but still achieve their business objectives and profitability, Layered Tech is presenting customers with a particularly compelling opportunity to significantly cut costs by consolidating their Windows OS server operations onto our virtualization platform. By bringing Windows OS onto The Grid Layer, we are literally creating a market that didn't have a place before. To achieve virtualization's high-availability, scalability and replication in a physical server environment would cost customers millions, yet with Layered Tech

Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - November 7, 2008 - Privately held dedicated web hosting company, The Planet, recently hosted the Techxans Fall CIO Panel Forums in Dallas and Houston, focused on trends in enterprise IT, project management, virtualization and cloud computing, Web 2.0 and enterprise relationship management. The events featured industry thought leaders who will provide insight from their own experiences in corporate IT. The Dallas event took place at the Infomart. The Houston event was held at The Planet's headquarters in downtown Houston. The Planet's Vice President of Technology Will Charnock served as a panelist at both events, along with Allan Skov, former VP of IT for DCP/Duke Energy. In Dallas, they will be joined by Robert Clines, CIO for Dallas County; and in Houston, Brian Trudeau, CIO for Amerex Energy. Carl Meadows, senior product manager for The Planet, was a featured speaker at the events, along with executives from Compuwa