Web Infrastructure

With the 2010 American fiscal budget comes an innovative request: move to cloud computing. The U.S. government is pushing its agencies to move to cloud technology in an effort to save money. Despite the need to cut costs, IT and cybersecurity experts are afraid the switch might happen too quickly. …

According to Christina Torode, a senior writer at Tech Target, the price of hosting will decrease over the next two years. Due to increased competition, reduced costs, and new technology like cloud computing, she predicts a 20% decrease. This price drop mainly applies to application hosting, but could hit the …

Yesterday, data center provider Digital Realty Trust published the results of a survey among European IT professionals. Only upper management at large companies were surveyed in what is considered to be one of the largest data center studies to date. According to Jim Smith, CTO of Digital Realty Trust: This …

Every site uses an IP address, such as 68.812.23.1. If you use shared hosting, your site runs on the same server as hundreds of other websites, meaning that several sites share one IP address. This helps web hosts conserve the limited number of IPs they have. For a small fee …

European Commissioner Viviane Reding said this week that EU members must “continue to invest in internet infrastructure despite the global recession, and use the technology to help develop a more sustainable society.” According to Reding, improving the infrastructure of the Internet is not just about IT and business. It can …

This May 17-21, companies from around the world will gather in Las Vegas for Interop 2009, a business technology expo held four times a year. There will be 55 exhibitors in all, each of which will be announcing at least one new product. California-based Xirrus will showcase its Rapid Deployment …

The New Zealand Māori Internet Society (NZMIS) is spearheading a movement to create a new .indigi domain for all the indigenous tribes of the world. It will also request TLDs for translations of the word and will let tribes have their own subdomains under the TLD (tribe.indigi). The goal of …

In an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, ICANN CEO, Paul Twomey has responded to last week’s calls by EU commissioner Viviane Reding to turn over ICANN to a 12-body international coalition (dubbed the G12). Twomey agrees with Reding’s belief that the United States Department of Commerce should release ICANN, …

ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has proposed to expand the the resolution system for Generic Top Level Domains (gTLD) in 2010. This will directly affect legal cases involving cyber-squatting, when someone registers a domain name that is identical or similar to the trademark of a business (such …

Digital Reality Trust is preparing to introduce a new technology that will install (or plug in) complete data centers on demand. Planning to compete directly with companies like IBM and HP, Digital Reality takes on the expense of building the data center and then charges rent to enterprises for the …