From the monthly archives:

September 2009

Blackwave Gets $7M of Funding

September 30, 2009

Internet video storage and distribution infrastructure for developers Blackwave (www.blackwave.tv) announced the successful completion of a Series C investment of $ 7 million, bringing its total venture capital funding and more strategic of $ 29M to boost global growth of online video storage and delivery.
According to its announcement Wednesday, Blackwave will use the capital to [...]

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DH Capital Closes $20M Debt Financing for SoftLayer

September 30, 2009

Investment banking firm DH Capital (www.dhcapital.com) announced Wednesday that it has closed $ 20 million in financing for SoftLayer Technologies (www.softlayer.com) from an unidentified group of private investment.
The announcement follows another round of high-profile debt financing DH Capital closed in July Cervalis IT service provider, to the sum of $ 48 million from a group [...]

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SmarterTools, Extends Microsoft Patent Licensing

September 29, 2009

A recent licensing agreement between Microsoft Corp. and SmarterTools Inc. patented technology extends Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync on over 15 million end users through the latest version of SmarterMail mail server.
The agreement provides for a patent license for this technology to SmarterTools industry leader and allows Microsoft to extend its reach to include solid customer base [...]

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ElasticHosts Aims at European Cloud Market

September 29, 2009

With the launch of its services in mid-August, cloud hosting provider ElasticHosts (www.elastichosts.com) played a claim at the beginning of what could someday become a European competition landscape of cloud computing.
While the market for cloud hosting service in the U.S. is well developed – in the claims-staking and disputed meaning – the European market is [...]

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Host.net Grows Presence in Atlanta

September 29, 2009

Bringing new placement, cloud computing, and storage services to companies in the Atlanta area, Florida, a provider of network infrastructure services Host.net (www.host.net) is extending its lease with the interconnection placement and data center operator Telx (www.telx. com) at its 56th Marietta Street in Atlanta.
Telx According to the announcement on Tuesday, its 160,000 square feet [...]

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LeaseWeb, Releases Extensive Support Upgrade

September 29, 2009

Dedicated hosting provider, Leaseweb, has made significant improvements to your Support Department in the past six months in response to signs that the customer experience of support could be improved.
Haspers Rolph, Leaseweb Operations Director commented, “Several events caused our support department to be a bit overloaded at the end of 2008.In Q4 2008, Leaseweb experienced [...]

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DEAC Opens Largest Data Center in Baltic States

September 28, 2009

Latvia data center operator DEAC (www.deac.lv) announced last week opened a new 1968 square-foot data center in Riga, Latvia, which is the largest and most modern center data in the Baltic States and Company largest investment to date.
The company invested a total of $ 4,367,144 in the new data center, called “Riga”, which took two [...]

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Egenera Gets An Added $3M in Venture Capital Funds

September 28, 2009

Data Center Hardware and software vendor Egenera (www.egenera.com) has received $ 3 million in new venture capital funds in a continuing round of capital from existing investors, said officials of the regional business news web industry high-tech mass.
According to Monday’s report, Marlborough, Massachusetts, funding for new investments Egenera has reached a total of at least [...]

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Phishing at a Two Year High

September 28, 2009

Brand reputation firm MarkMonitor (www.markmonitor.com) said Monday it has released the results of a new study showing that phishing attacks are at a record level during the second quarter of 2009, according to a study by the firm MarkMonitor brand reputation.
Earlier this year, MarkMonitor released its annual report, “MarkMonitor Brandjacking Index: 2008 – The Year [...]

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