http://www.vpshostingdir.com VPS hosting providers and virtualization technologies. Tue, 19 Jan 2010 07:16:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Mount Hosting, a UK web host, announced that it has started a partnership with MyAntivirus.info, a reseller of antivirus and IT security software products. the hosting provider offers to all customers a 10% discount on all of the security products available at Myantivirus.info's website. Anyone who wants to purchase any of those ... http://www.vpshostingdir.com/2010/01/mounthosting-adds-antivirus-to-vps-hosting-plans/ Overselling is an industry standard in Shared Hosting, something that web hosts underline. When any shared hosting provider states on its home page "Unlimited Disc Space", this makes it confident that the magic word "unlimited" allows the company to better compete on the hosting market. The truth is that consumers ... http://www.vpshostingdir.com/2009/07/overselling-vps-hosting-please-dont-go-there/ Red Hat and Microsoft announced a technical support agreement which, according to IT analysts is aimed to compete the leader in virtualization technologies VMware. Microsoft has recently been put under pressure from customers who demand to run Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) smoothly on their Windows servers and desktops. The Microsoft's virtualization ... http://www.vpshostingdir.com/2009/02/red-hat-and-microsoft-team-up-vs-vmware/ During his opening keynote at the Parallels Summit 2009, Serguey Belousov, CEO of the virtualization producer defined a few types of clouds*. Cloud Type 1: The Google cloud. Truly massive, huge data centers, heavily hardware dependent, unmatched in many senses. Cloud Type 2: The Microsoft cloud. Also massive, less hardware dependent, more ... http://www.vpshostingdir.com/2009/02/how-many-cloud-types-do-we-have/ VMware's won two prestigeous awards with its Infrastructure 3. One of them came from InfoWorld's. The magazine's technology of the Year Award for the best server virtualization platform went to the VM producer for the 5th consecutive year. WMware has also been honoured as "Best Overall Cloud Product" and "Best Cloud Platform" at ... http://www.vpshostingdir.com/2009/02/vmware-on-top-of-virtualization-for-another-year/ The Tech Target website has published a comparison article that compares the pricing of Hyper-V and WMware and the benefits consumers have with each of those Windows virtualization technologies. "Microsoft touts Hyper-V as a lower-priced virtualization option than VMware's ESXi, but for straight server consolidation, it's unclear whether Hyper-V is that ... http://www.vpshostingdir.com/2009/02/hyper-v-against-vmware/ In order to beat the competition and to attract new customers amid gloomy expectations during the world spread financial crisis some VPS hosting providers launched promotional campaigns on their service plans. Stardothosting a Canadian, toronto base web host since 2003 said it added one free month for each Linux Virtual Private ... http://www.vpshostingdir.com/2009/02/vps-hosting-providers-dicount-prices-in-february/ More than 1000 Parallels technology partners, resellers and guests registered for the companys annual conference - Parallels Summit 2009. The CEO of Parallels Mr. Serguei Belousov announced that the summit welcomed citizens of 62 countries. In his welcome keynote Mr Belousov analyzed the development of the web hosting industry and technologies ... http://www.vpshostingdir.com/2009/02/parallels-rocks-in-2009-summit/ "Do you wonder about virtualization? Are you seeking for the best virtualization platform for your specific environment? Project VRC shows you the way!", this is the first question that suggest what kind of information we can find on new VRC website. The project has been launched by virtualization experts, Ruben Spruijt and ... http://www.vpshostingdir.com/2009/02/virtual-reality-check-project-lauched/ The virtualization pioneer VMware announced plans to to launch a line of new products in 20o9 in an effort to fight slowdown of IT spending. the company that reported growth in 4th quarter of 2008 of 25% also said that its expectations for the first-quarter on 2009 are much weaker. VMware ... http://www.vpshostingdir.com/2009/01/vmware-loosing-market-share-to-microsofts-hyper-v/