Friday, May 15, 2009

Web-hosting firms defy recession; Most claims dismissed in Hannaford data breach suit

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Web-hosting firms defy recession

Carolyn Duffy Marsan By Carolyn Duffy Marsan
After the dot-com bubble burst in 2001, mothballed data centers operated by bankrupt companies such as Exodus and PSINet were the most visible signs of the IT-driven downturn. Today, despite the worst recession in 50 years, Web hosting is one of the few thriving segments of the IT industry. Read full story

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05/15/09

Today's most-read stories:

  1. Google ran out of bandwidth?
  2. Where the IT jobs are: 10 American cities
  3. Poster on Chinese forum leaks next-gen iPhone specs
  4. Microsoft IT goes live with its Geneva identity platform
  5. Too much experience could be hurting your IT job search
  6. What Cisco devices will come of the Clearwire deal?
  7. Nortel is certainly taking its time
  8. Microsoft outlines OCS virtualization support
  9. Inside a data leak audit
  10. Full disk encryption comes to Workgroups


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