Shane Schick has written an interesting article on “Cloud Computing”.  As often happens in the industry new terms for technologies are born and then later loosely defined by the rest IT industry.   That is also the case with “Cloud Computing”  Shane briefly describes the top five definitions of this new trend/technology in his recent article.  His article is featured here on the IT World Canada Blog site

Managed hosting provider ServePath (servepath.com) announced it has launched the GoGrid (gogrid.com) commercial beta, the first server hosting provider to deliver static IP addresses, full root and administrator access, private networks and web-controlled load balancing.

SAVVIS Inc. has opened a second data center in Irving.   The new facility has approximately 37,000 square feet of raised floor space with an additional 45,000 square feet available for expansion. It offers customers 170 watts per square foot of conditioned power delivered by a five bus electrical system and backed up with uninterruptible power supplies and diesel generators.  Read more here.

SingleHop, Inc, a hosting provider in Chicago, recently launched a new line of servers it calls the PARAMOUNT Series. The new servers come with SingleHop’s most robust managed support package. “PARAMOUNT is the perfect server for almost any sized business, comes in two flavors, Linux and Windows, and features our highest level of managed support,” says Zak Boca, President of SingleHop in a company statement. “We are committed to serving our customers in the best way possible, and this server meets or exceeds the needs of most businesses.”   Featuring Intel Core3Duo E6320 Dual Core 1.86 GHz with 4 MB cache processors, 2048 MB ram and a 250 GB Sata hard drive, all PARAMOUNT Servers are eligible for 10,000 GB of Monthly Bandwidth for a limited time. Read more here.

ServerBeach, a PEER 1 company specializing in self-managed hosting, has reached the 10,000 servers mark. The company has reached this milestone through its dedication to providing the kind of control and flexibility that customers expect, in order to grow their businesses and web presence. Read more here.

Netcraft.Com has named INetU at the most reliable hosting company for March 2008. The ranking is based on uptime, DNS time, connect time, and time to first byte. Currently INetU offers a 100% uptime guarantee and based on the chart they have meet that uptime goal. More information her at Netcraft.com.

Tier 1 Research (t1r.com) released a new quarterly report on the managed hosting sector. In the report they state the sector has “experienced tremendous growth” of approximately 30 percent in the past 12 months. Driven by a handful of different trends including virtualization, business continuity services and security technologies.