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📅 Apr 3, 2025 - Hornetsecurity Acquires French Email Security Firm Altospam - German cloud cybersecurity provider Hornetsecurity has announced plans to acquire French email security specialist Altospam, further reinforcing its presence in France and advancing its mission to deliver European-built cybersecurity solutions globally. The announcement was made during the Forum INCYBER Europe (FIC) held in France, where Hornetsecurity took over the 1,800-square-meter Zenith de Lille venue to present an immersive cybersecurity experience.

The acquisition remains subject to approval by the French Ministry for the Economy, in accordance with the countrys regulations on foreign direct investment. If approved, it will mark another significant step in Hornetsecuritys continued [...]

📅 Apr 3, 2025 - Datadog to Launch Australian Data Center for Cloud, Data Sovereignty - Datadog, the cloud application security and monitoring platform listed on NASDAQ (DDOG), has announced plans to open a new data center in Australia. The facility, which will be built on Amazon Web Services (AWS), marks Datadogs first local deployment in the country and expands its global footprint, which already includes North America, Europe, Asia, and AWS GovCloud.

The new data center is designed to support the growing demand for data sovereignty and compliance with local privacy and security standards in Australia and New Zealand. It would allow Datadogs regional clients to store and process data domestically, a key requirement for industries such as financial services, healthcare, [...]

📅 Apr 3, 2025 - Hawaii Data Center Firm DRFortress Acquired by 1547 and Harrison Street - Hawaiis largest carrier-neutral colocation data center, DRFortress, has been acquired by 1547 Critical Systems Realty and investment firm Harrison Street. The deal, which marks a significant development in the digital infrastructure space in the Pacific region, transitions ownership from GI Partners, which had held a controlling interest in DRFortress since early 2020. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

DRFortress has long been recognized as the states most prominent interconnection hub, serving enterprise clients, global networks, and cloud providers across the Asia-Pacific region. Since GI Partners initial investment, the company has nearly quadrupled its colocation [...]

📅 Apr 4, 2025 - Hosted.com Deploys LiteSpeed Server Technology Across Web Hosting Platform - Thanks to its event-driven architecture, LiteSpeed Web Server technology differs fundamentally from traditional web servers, such as Apache, which use process-based models to handle each new request. Their architecture enables the server to handle multiple connections with fewer processes, using less resources and overhead.

This allows for faster content delivery because the server skips the overhead of creating new processes every time, leaving more memory available for handling databases and applications.

According to tests, LiteSpeed can process requests up to 2-5 times faster than traditional web servers, such as Nginx and Apache, resulting in consistently low CPU and memory usage, [...]

📅 Apr 4, 2025 - PhoenixNAP Boosts Global Cloud with HPE and Intel Xeon 6 Tech - PhoenixNAP, a global provider of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), is enhancing its cloud service capabilities through a strategic deployment of Hewlett Packard Enterprises (HPE) new modular server systems. The company is integrating HPEs ProLiant Compute DL320 Gen12 servers, equipped with the latest Intel Xeon 6700 series processors, to support its expanding multi-tenant data center footprint and meet evolving enterprise demands.

This move represents a shift from traditional monolithic server infrastructure toward a more modular, scalable, and pluggable architecture in line with the Open Compute Projects Data Center Modular Hardware System (DC-MHS) standards. The adoption allows [...]

📅 Apr 4, 2025 - 67% of Businesses Lose Revenue Due to Poor Website Performance - A new report from hosting provider Liquid Web underscores the significant financial and reputational risks businesses face due to unreliable website performance. The study, titled The Impact of Downtime on Businesses, draws attention to the consequences of slow load times, outages, and subpar hosting infrastructure in an increasingly digital-first economy.

The findings show that 67% of surveyed companies reported direct revenue loss as a result of poor website performance. In an era where websites are critical tools for lead generation, customer engagement, and sales, even brief disruptions can have immediate and lasting consequences. A quarter of respondents said they believed website [...]