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📅 - SmartyHost Compensates For Downtime - According to reports published Monday by ZDNet Australia (zdnet.com.au), Australian Web hosting provider SmartyHost (smartyhost.com.au) has offered to provide compensation for customers whose services became inaccessible when the company moved to a new data center last week. On Tuesday, SmartyHost migrated from a facility operated by Primus to a new location operated by Optus. Since the move, intended as a way to improve quality of service, customers have complained of service interruptions, many in a lengthy series of posts on broadband community site whirlpool.net.au.The company says it sent out email notices prior to making the transition. The messages asked th
📅 - AT&T Adds Gaming Hosting Service - Communications carrier AT&T (att.com) announced at the Electronic Entertainment Expo on Thursday that its enterprise hosting services has launched a service designed for online gaming. This service has a dedicated team of labs and operations engineers partnered with hosting sales specialists devoted specifically to its online gaming customers. The company says its global set of data centers and its enterprise hosting services enable AT&T to provide solid infrastructure and management services to online gaming companies, including Sony Online Entertainment and its popular multiplayer online gaming titles, including EverQuest and PlanetSide. In addition, AT&T has a team dedicated to
📅 - Unisys Hosts Cathay Pacific Airways - IT services provider Unisys (unisys.com) announced on Friday it has signed a three-year, multi-million dollar contract with Cathay Pacific Airways to host the airline's core business applications. Unisys will move Cathay's reservations, departure control and cargo platforms to the Unisys data center in Rhodes. The agreement will see Unisys host the airline's passenger reservations, departure control and cargo management systems as a sub-contractor. It has been providing these services as a sub-contractor for nine years. The new extendable contract includes new services, which include the management of middleware applications and the migration from legacy communications han
📅 - VeriSign to Acquire GeoTrust - Internet security infrastructure provider VeriSign (verisign.com) announced on Tuesday that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire SSL and security solutions provider GeoTrust (geotrust.com) for approximately $125 million in cash. The acquisition, subject to regulatory approvals, is expected to close in the second half of this year. VeriSign says the acquisition will extend its mission to enable and protect networked interactions of every kind, and will help it to address the needs of the evolving SSL market. GeoTrust operates a channel of more than 9,000 direct resellers in more than 140 countries, which will complement VeriSign's direct-sales SSL business,
📅 - Newtek Names Chief Legal Officer - Business service and Web hosting provider Newtek Business Services (newtekbusinessservices.com) announced on Tuesday that it had appointed Andrew E. Lewin to the position of chief legal officer, from which he will primarily focus on SEC work and Sarbanes Oxley compliance. Lewin has worked as a corporate and securities attorney and investment banker for more than 20 years. Before joining Newtek, Lewin served as general counsel to Fusion Telecommunicaions International and took the company through its public offering.He also worked in venture capital and investment banking, and was a senior vice president of First Albany Corporation and a senior technology investmen
📅 - AboveNet Extends dcXchange - Custom fiber and access solutions provider AboveNet (above.net) announced on Tuesday that it had introduced dcXchange, a data center to data center service providing high-performance connections over a dedicated DWDM core network between locations in the Washington DC and Northern Virginia market. AboveNet says dcXchange is pre-provisioned, offering DWDM, SONET and Gig E connections to enterprise, carrier and indirect sales customers.The service is supported by AboveNet's Global Network Management Center, and provides the flexibility to support a range of applications for media and entertainment, wireless backhaul, financial and banking industries as well as large