Expand Networks announced another customer win today (Wingspan Care Group)
“The pain of WAN communications continues to increase as organizations become more dispersed globally, and remote workers increase in number,” said Efi Gatmor, Chief Technical Officer of Expand. “At Expand, our goal is to solve that pain wherever it may be, with technology that has the [...]

Another hosting provider that exhibited at eCommerce Expo in London was NetBenefit. Mark Stephens and Kristel Scattergood of NetBenefit were kind enough to spend some time in conversation about where they see the challenges and opportunities for users of hosting.
 
NetBenefit are part of the publicly listed Group NBT plc (LSE:NBT) and have a broad customer base. They [...]

Rackspace (UK site here) has been in the news, and rattling around the blogosphere a fair amount these last few weeks. Not just because they are the top dedicated hosting provider (see Gartner report), but because of their recent adventures:

Acquired on-line storage company Jungle Disk.
Acquired specialist hoster Slicehost. (see Rich Miller’s post)
Struck a CDN Deal with Limelight Networks (detail [...]

As far as the network is concerned, F5 Networks have become part of the furniture for most hosting providers, and I mean that in a good way. Load balancing across multiple servers has progressed a long way since the early days of Cisco’s Local Director, and Checkpoint’s early load balancing capabilities. F5 have evolved too. A number [...]

Next in the series of Interviews from IP08 is Meru Networks. US-Based Meru sits in the unusual situation of being a company that no-one has heard of, but everyone talks about. I’ll explain why in a bit, but first a little background on this wireless player.
Meru has a strong engineering bent and a strategic [...]