Google has announced that the company has activated a new long-haul undersea fiber optic cable that has a total capacity of 60 Tbps. Google will have access to 10 Tbps or 1/6th of the total undersea fiber optic cable’s capacity. Customers of Google Cloud will get to enjoy access to this new high capacity link […]
United Internet the parent company of 1and1, is reportedly taking a look at buying Host Europe Group. Bloomberg is reporting that United Internet is working with advisors to draft a possible bid for Host Europe Group. It has been reported that Deutsche Telekom is also taking a look at Host Europe Group. No known bids […]
Peak Hosting has filed for bankruptcy protection. The Tualatin, Oregon based web hosting firm is restructuring and is in the midst of litigation against Machine Zone. Peak Hosting is seeking $96.7 million in damages after Machine Zone terminated its relationship with Peak Hosting. Before, Peak Hosting signed Machine Zone as a customer, Peak Hosting had […]
Deutsche Telekom may make a bid for Host Europe Group, the parent company behind European web hosting brands such as: 123-reg, domainFACTORY, Host Europe, Heart Internet, Host Europe Iberia, PlusServer, Server4You, World Hosting Days, and Paragon Internet Group (Tsohost, Vidahost). Bloomberg is reporting that Deutche Telekom is exploring a possible bid with a private equity […]
Joyent has announced that the company will be acquired by Samsung Electronics. Joyent is expected to help Samsung Electronics improve the company’s cloud presence. Services for Samsung mobile products, interactive smart TVs, and other web based offerings are expected to increase with more products connecting to the internet. The acquisition of Joyent by Samsung Electronics […]
The CentOS project has announced that CentOS 6.8 is now available for i386 and x86_64. CentOS 6.8 is based on the source code for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.8. Some major changes with CentOS 6.8: -XFS file system can now support a maximum size of 300 TB -squid 3.4 is now available -enhancements made […]
Alibaba Group and SoftBank have announced that they will jointly launch a new business together. The new company is called SB Cloud and will focus on providing cloud hosting services in the Japanese market. SB Cloud will launch a new datacenter in Japan and will receive support from Alibaba Cloud. Alibaba Cloud is a web […]
Automattic has announced that the company will be introducing the .blog gTLD domain extension to the general public later this year. The new .blog domain extension is just like .com, .net, and .org except it is owned by Automattic. It has been reported that Automattic paid somewhere between $19 million to $20 million dollars for […]
Rackspace posted $48.8 million dollars in net income for the three months that ended on March 31, 2016. When compared to the same quarter in 2015, Rackspace almost doubled its net income. For the same quarter that ended on March 31, 2015 Rackspace reported a net income of $27.5 million dollars. Net revenue for the three […]
GitLab has announced that the Git repository management provider and DigitalOcean will be partnering up to provide GitLab hosted users free GitLab Runner service. GitLab Runner service is a hosted application that handles process builds. The new service will be called GitLab Runner Autoscale. GitLab also announced that GitLab Community Edition and GitLab Enterprise Edition […]