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November 18, 2008 -- ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Yahoo co-Founder Jerry Yang has stepped down as the company's chief executive officer, ending a tumultuous almost year-and-a-half long post as the head of the second-largest US internet-search engine company.

November 18, 2008 -- ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- According to reports in The Oregonion on Monday, Mark Reyer, the administrator of a $64 million state data center, has quietly resigned for undisclosed reasons.

November 18, 2008 -- ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Rackspace Hosting's cloud division Mosso announced on Monday it has named Emil Sayegh the company's new general manager.

November 18, 2008 -- ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- San Diego colocation provider American internet Services has acquired Complex Drive, a San Diego data center provider known for its customer support and innovation, helping it deliver carrier-neutral solutions to the local market.

November 18, 2008 -- ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- On the outskirts of Denver, the Red Rocks Data Center will now be cooled for more than 80 percent of the year by cool mountain air, after installing an air economizer that pulls in and filters outside air to cool customer's servers.

November 18, 2008 -- ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Emerson Network Power, a business-critical continuity business, issued a new white paper on Tuesday that discusses how an industry-wide measure of data center efficiency is a crucial next step in addressing IT energy consumption.

November 18, 2008 -- ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- The Planet announced on Tuesday the launch of a new application programming interface that will extend the management capabilities of Planet Alpha's dedicated hosting customers, particularly its reseller customer base.

November 18, 2008 -- ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Amazon web services has officially lauched the public beta of CloudFront, a content delivery service that is integrated with other Amazon services to give developers and businesses an easy way to distribute content to end users.

San Antonio, Texas - (The Hosting News) - November 18, 2008 - Clustered hosting provider, and Rackspace Hosting's cloud division, Mosso, has expanded its leadership team, naming Emil Sayegh as general manager, previously the vice president of the product group at Rackspace. Mr. Sayegh's responsibilities at Rackspace included the development, marketing and management of new products and services for the company's managed hosting product line. Prior to joining Rackspace, Mr. Sayegh spent more than 15 years in the IT industry in various product development and marketing roles. Most recently, Mr. Sayegh was the services marketing and development director at Dell Inc. where he oversaw the global services roadmap. Additionally, Mr. Sayegh served in leadership positions at several notable IT companies including RLX Technologies, Compaq Computers and W.L. Gore and Associates. He holds nine patents in the fields of electronics and telecommunication. Lanham Napier

Noord-Holland, Amsterdam - (The Hosting News) - November 18, 2008 - web hosting provider, LeaseWeb, in order to facilitate the exponential growth in bandwidth demand from existing and new clients, has more than doubled the capacity of its hosting network, from 210 Gbps to 500 Gbps, or half a Terabit. Pieter Dijkhuis, Finance Director of LeaseWeb says, ''Our client database has expanded to approximately 10,000 this year. We are pleased with the trust that our clients have given us. Doubling the number of clients was also a logical step for us. Until last year, we primarily focused on developing a stable structure for our hosting network and our support organization. The current structure of our organization allows us to easily facilitate further growth. Growth is a key requirement for LeaseWeb to be able to maintain competitive prices and an attractive price-quality ratio.'' LeaseWeb expanded its capacity to 500 Gbps by purchasing additional port capacity from telecom c