Virgin Media, a British ISP is shutting down its web hosting service called Webspace. Customers that have websites with the Webspace service will have until April 28, 2016 to relocate to GoDaddy. Virgin Media & GoDaddy are offering customers that make the move over to GoDaddy, 12 months of free web hosting with additional bonuses. […]

Datacenter operator Equinix has announced that the company has completed its acquisition of TelecityGroup. With the acquisition of TelecityGroup’s assets, Equinix is now Europe’s largest datacenter operator. The transaction was valued at $3.8 billion dollars. The deal increases Equinix portfolio of datacenters from 111 to 145. Equinix also got over 1,000 new customers from TelecityGroup. […]

Disclosure: VNKB.com at the time this article was published is hosted by Linode. After almost 2 weeks of becoming under a siege of DDoS attacks. VPS provider Linode has managed to defend most of the attacks. Datacenters that were attacked by the DDoS included: Dallas, Singapore, Atlanta, London, Newark, Fremont, and Frankfurt. The first signs […]

Verizon maybe looking to unload 48 datacenters and hopes the sale of the 48 datacenters fetch at least $2.5 billion dollars. Verizon is hoping to sell each datacenter at an average price of about $52 million dollars. The datacenter assets include assets that Verizon acquired when the company brought Terremark Worldwide. Likely buyers include Microsoft […]

AT&T announced a few days ago that the company would be transitioning its managed application and managed hosting customers to IBM. Verizon is another giant telecommunications company is a lot alike AT&T. If AT&T doesn’t want to stay in the business of web hosting but only in the business of providing the network infrastructure. Verizon […]

IBM and AT&T has announced that IBM will take over AT&T’s managed application and managed web hosting services. IBM will be getting the equipment and access to the floor space where the servers are housed in AT&T datacenters. The terms of the transaction was not disclosed. AT&T will continue to provide some networking services but […]

Disclosure: VNKB.com is a customer of Linode at the time this article was published. VPS hosting provider Linode, has brought a 15,000 square foot historic building in Old City Philadelphia for $5 million dollars. Linode plans to use the building as a new office for Linode employees. The three story building served as the setting […]

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Rackspace has announced that the company has hired Alex Pinchev to lead the company’s global sales and marketing. Alex Pinchev will start on January 1, 2016. Alex Pinchev was with Red Hat from 2003 to 2012. Pinchev was the president and CEO of Acronis and most recently the CEO of Capri Ventures. Press release from […]

Google has announced that the company’s Cloud SQL service has received an update. The first generation of the Cloud SQL service from Google offered MySQL in October 2011. Since then the company has improved the speed of the service. The second generation of Cloud SQL is 7 times faster than the first generation. Google Cloud […]