Managed Hosting

After evolving its Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) model into a consultative, hybrid multi-cloud sales approach last year, managed hosting company Codero is now celebrating the successful migration of more than 1,000 servers and 500 customers to Microsoft Azure in 2018.

Managed hosting provider Hostway has been awarded FERPA attestation. Hostway is now uniquely positioned to provide educational IT systems with compliance and security in protecting student information.

ServerCentral, a managed hosting infrastructure provider with services including colocation, IaaS, and managed cloud solutions, has acquired Turing Group - an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Advanced Consulting Partner. The acquisition comes one year after ServerCentral made a minority investment in Turing Group.

Green House Data has announced the Phase 3 expansion of its Cheyenne, Wyoming data center and headquarters. Construction of the new data center expansion has begun already and is expected to be complete within Q1 2019. Phase 3 will add two new data center floors for a combined 7,500 square feet of white space.

Ubisoft, the France-based global creator, publisher and distributor of popular games such as Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, For Honor, Just Dance, Watch Dogs, as well as Tom Clancy's video game series, has acquired managed hosting provider i3D.net, headquartered in the Netherlands.

Codero, a managed hosting company offering a diverse portfolio of fully managed offerings - from bare metal servers within its own data centers to custom cloud and technology solutions, has added Melissa Bradbury to its management team as Director of Marketing.

Connectria, a global cloud managed hosting provider and one of the largest IBM i hosting companies in North America, has entered into a partnership with IBM i application management expert Fresche.

ServerCentral has achieved compliance for its VMware-powered Enterprise Cloud with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).

Managed hosting provider Liquid Web has launched a Beginner Plan to augment their Managed WooCommerce hosting product line – a platform dedicated to WooCommerce stores. Liquid Web claims WooCommerce to be the fastest growing eCommerce platform for store owners today.

Alibaba Cloud has unveiled a new suite of cloud product offerings globally within the inter-related areas of cloud architecture, machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT) and security. Although the company has made its nine new cloud solutions available globally, the suite of managed cloud hosting products is specifically aimed at the Asia Pacific retail market.

Instaclustr, a provider of an Open Source-as-a-Service platform delivering fully hosted and managed big data technology solutions, has raised $15 million in new funding from Level Equity - a New York City-based private investment firm.

Cox Business has acquired RapidScale - a managed and hybrid managed cloud services provider that delivers secured and reliable cloud solutions to businesses of all sizes. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Managed hosting and managed application services provider Liquid Web has announced the launch of their Protection and Remediation Services, to further help safeguard customers from cyber-attacks and to address many standard compliance requirements.