Rumors and Speculation GI Partners Buying SoftLayer
By Liam Eagle Anybody who attended HostingCon last week probably had - or heard - at least a couple of conversations about the big rumor that was making the rounds. I heard the same thing from a half-dozen knowledgeable people (but nothing like an official source): that GI Partners is buying SoftLayer; that the deal is more or less complete; and that it's worth more than $300 million.

Put Tough Questions to Your Hosting Provider (Before the Going Gets Tough)
Just how secure is your website? How tough is your webhosting provider's backbone? How vulnerable are you to cyberattacks like those that played havoc with Facebook and other sites in the past -- the victims of a rogue blogger? While no site is absolutely safe from assault, it pays to be vigilant and to determine the strength of your webhosting provider's defenses and its tenacity.

BurstNET CTO Joe Marr Comments on Blogetery Shutdown
July 20, 2010 -- After a flurry of attention based partly on incomplete information, BurstNETs chief technology officer Joe Marr offered some more insight into the suspension of the Blogetery service in an email interview with the WHIR, in which he outlines the companys justification for taking the customer server offline, including details of the history of abuse alluded to in BurstNETs ...

ServerCentral Doubles Space, Power at DuPont Fabros CH1 Data Center
CHICAGO----ServerCentral, Chicagos leader in managed data center solutions has completed commissioning of an additional 1.3 megawatts of high-density colocation space in Elk Grove Village, a suburb of Chicago, IL.