Recently we have started a small honeypot project within our network to monitor and analyze malicious requests. With this information we can make our network more secure.

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Since two days we are offering new virtual servers on our VMware platform.

In the recent months we have deployed our new VMware platform to start hosting VPS. After some testing by our engineers and some customers, we are now ready for production. Starting from EUR 99,-/month you will get a full VMware VPS with (almost) all features (DRS/HA/Vmotion/GUI).

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I gave a presentation on April 3rd as a key note speaker on the financial impact of virtualization on the Netapp Innovation event. I must give my compliments to Theo van Theylingen and his Netapp team for organizing such a major event. It was a pleasure to present in such an outstanding setting and there were around 900 people attending. (more…)

Today I did a presentation during the IDC conference in Amsterdam regarding our experiences in the field of virtualization with our new VMWare platform. Please refer to the IDC site for more information. I also enclose a copy of our presentation: IDC Presentation Virtualization. Let me summarize by saying that we have a lot of confidence in virtualization and think that this is a disruptive technology. I will talk more on the subject during the Innovation 2008 conference on April 3rd in Rotterdam.

A good source of information on the latest developments in the tech space is the blog of Nick Carr. He is the acclaimed author of the article “Does IT matter” which made him sort of a guru on IT and cloud computing in the US. Carr just made a new post where he shares with the reader a few rumors on Microsoft’s imminent strategy announcement of the building of 20 new datacenters around the world.

I do not consider myself to be such an authority as Carr with special contacts but I was at a Microsoft Round Table discussion in December 07 for the Dutch hosting industry when this point was openly discussed by Microsoft executives.

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The hosting business is still very young and many people in society do not really understand what we do. Some in my immediate surrounding still think of 16 year old teenagers toying around with computers when they think of the hosting industry. My mother still does not understand what I do. If I look at Leaseweb, then I think that the hosting business is not older than 10 years.

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