WestHost announces progress two months after being acquired by Hosting Services. Improvements scheduled for the second quarter of 2009 include introduction of cPanel as a replacement for the current WestHost Site Manager control panel. Existing clients will be migrated later in the year.
More details of this upgrade will be announced as the launch time gets closer.
Google Sites makes creating a team web site as easy as editing a document. You can quickly gather a variety of information in one place — including videos, calendars, presentations, attachments, and gadgets — and easily share it for viewing or editing with a small group, your entire organization, or the world.
Create a single place to bring together all the information your team needs to share, including docs, videos, photos, calendars and attachments. The addition of Google Sites to Google Apps opens up major new possibilities for sharing information within a workgroup or publically on the Internet. Calendering and scheduling just got a whole lot easier.
You can learn more about Google Sites at http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/sites.html.
Amazon expects Web Services to grow into a significant business segment. Amazon Web Services, as the business is called, could improve chances for a new generation of Web startups by slashing how much they spend up front on costly infrastructure. Amazon’s Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) allows developers to host Internet applications on virtual computers in Amazon data centers around the world. The offerings include computational power (EC2), storage, database instances, payment processing and more. All these services are provided on a pay as you go basis making the technology available to small startups. Most of Amazon’s competitors demand a contract or minimum payments.
This article provides a good background on Amazon Web Services and relevant examples of how this technology is being used today. Read the full article on Yahoo Business.
Coghead is 3X faster than before. Performance improvements were achieved by re-implementing the UI using Adobe’s Flex software. Beyond performance, Flex gives great cross platform support.
Coghead 2.0 delivers an entirely new generation of the Coghead system. Major advancements in performance and usability have been achieved and they deliver over 50 new features. The entire Coghead system is now hosted by Amazon.com. Customers now have the assurance of knowing their Coghead data and application definitions are stored in a secure and dependable place.
Coghead is a 100% web-based system that allows knowledge workers to create their own custom business applications. For more information about Coghead 2.0 see the Coghead Web site.
