Tagged: Hosting & News
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Hosted private cloud services business to surpass US$24bn by 2016 News
01.03.2013 Global spending on hosted private cloud services will be more than US$24bn by 2016, IDC has predicted. The sector will grow at a compound annual rate of 50pc a year over the...Categories: Storage, Servers, Infrastructure Management, Hosting Services, Global CIO, Digital Media, CIO -
The jailing of Anton Vickerman – recording industry wants to make harsh examples News
16.08.2012 Yesterday the first person in the UK for linking to pirated copies of TV shows and movies was jailed for four years. To many advocates of net freedom this is an injustice since... -
Data Protection Commissioner issues guidelines for cloud computing News
05.07.2012 Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner Billy Hawkes has outlined new cloud computing guidelines for data controllers in firms. The fundamental lesson is that the key issue is...Categories: Software Development, Software & Web Development, Servers, Security, Legal, IT Management, Internet, Data Management, CIO -
Blacknight rolls out ‘WHOIS Privacy’ service for .com and .net domains News
05.07.2012 Domain registrar and hosting provider Blacknight has launched a new service called WHOIS Privacy that protects the identity and personal information of the domain registrant. -
BT signs €850,000 cloud computing deal with Tourism Ireland News
05.07.2012 Tourism Ireland has moved the majority of its IT operations to a private cloud based in BT’s Dublin data centre. The five-year deal worth €850,000 will reduce the tourism... -
Blacknight to increase its staff across 2012 News
16.04.2012 Irish registrar and hosting firm Blacknight expects to increase its employee base in the coming months, saying it has remained ‘relatively untouched’ by Europe’s current... -
Unified comms player ShoreTel buys M5 Networks News
06.02.2012 IP telephony player ShoreTel has acquired M5 Networks, a pioneer in hosted unified comms, in a cash and shares deal valued at US$146.3m. -
Blacknight hit with external security breach News
02.02.2012 Hosting provider and domain registrar Blacknight has revealed it had been hit by a security breach. While no data was compromised, the breach may include client contact details,... -
Ireland’s SOPA: could a new Copyright Act be the way forward? News
30.01.2012 Primary legislation, potentially in the shape of a new Copyright Act or an amendment to the existing legislation, is being examined as a way to ensure Ireland is at the...Categories: Government, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Communications, Intellectual Property, Internet, Legal -
Hosting Ireland launches iPhone app News
20.10.2011 Domain name registration and website hosting company Hosting Ireland is giving smartphone users the ability to access various domain and hosting products and services with its... -
Dediserve builds €1m cloud business in less than two years News
07.09.2011 The use of the OnApp management layer is credited with enabling Dublin cloud-hosting provider Dediserve to build a €1m UK and Ireland cloud-hosting business within a two-year... -
News International gains SunonSunday.co.uk domain News
12.07.2011 The domain SunonSunday.co.uk has been transferred to News International, suggesting that the media group will replace the News Of The World with a Sunday edition of The Sun. -
Consortium buys GoDaddy.com for US$2.2bn News
04.07.2011 Web hosting and domain name registrar GoDaddy.com has been bought by a consortium of private equity firms – including KKR, SilverLake Partners and Technology Crossover Ventures...Categories: Web, Software & Web Development, Mergers & Acquisitions, Investments, Internet, Hosting Services, Funding, Deals Done -
4,800 websites erased in Australian web host hack News
22.06.2011 Australian domain registrar and web host DistributeIT is unable to recover 4,800 websites after a "malicious attack" on its servers. -
Global ‘Website Passport’ could boost trustworthy e-commerce News
25.03.2011 Up to 70pc of online shoppers abandon their shopping carts before completing the checkout process, because of a lack of trust in the site. Now a Waterford-based company intends...Categories: Web Development, Security, Online Business, Internet, Hosting Services, eCommerce, Digital Business -
Future of the internet event News
23.03.2011 IET Ireland is holding an event in Dublin tomorrow (24 March) to evaluate the possibility that in less than a year ISPs applying to regional internet registries will be refused....Categories: Web Development, Web Design, Web 2.0, Web, Networking & Telecoms, Mobile, Internet, Data Management, Data Centre, Consumer Tech, Computers, Apps -
Online cloud computing resources News
23.03.2011 Without the internet there would be no cloud. The beauty of the cloud is that, via broadband, you can provision entire servers or state-of-the-art apps and software services...Tags: IBM, Interxion, Tibus, Digiweb, Cisco, Trilogy Technologies, Microsoft, EMC, Cost Savings, Broadband, Hosting, Cloud Centre, Online -
DAA awards €1m hosting contract to Data Electronics News
18.03.2011 Dublin Airport Authority, which is in the process of a €400,000 virtualisation investment, has awarded a contract worth more than €1m to Irish data centre firm Data Electronics...Categories: Virtualisation, Security, IT Management, Investments, Hosting Services, Deals Done, Data Centre -
ISPs getting faster at removing child porn from the internet News
15.03.2011 There has been a dramatic reduction in the length of time child porn images remain active on the internet, a new report by the UK’s Internet Watch Foundation reveals.Categories: Web, Software & Web Development, Networking & Telecoms, Investments, Internet, Hosting Services -
Datapac in managed services alliance with KeepItSafe News
10.02.2011 Online backup provider KeepItSafe has forged a managed services partnership with Irish IT services player Datapac.