( The Hosting News ) – Competing cloud services could be on the way from two top industry leaders.

( The Hosting News ) – Coolcentric® a division of Vette Corp today announced the expansion of its family of data center cooling solutions with the Coolcentric Sidecar Heat Exchanger.

( The Hosting News ) – Standing Cloud ( http://www.standingcloud.com ), a leading provider of cloud application management solutions, today announced support for the newly launched HP Cloud Services ( http://hpcloud.com ), providing HP Cloud Services customers with a vastly simplified way to deploy, manage and distribute applications in the cloud. The new offering, Standing Cloud powered by HP Cloud Services, leverages HP Cloud Services’ infrastructure capabilities and elements of the Standing Cloud Marketplace to provide developers, enterprise users and ISVs with one-stop application hosting, installation and management via scalable virtual servers on demand.

( The Hosting News ) - Application hosting specialist,  eApps , is one of the new breed of cloud providers offering scalable, fully-supported cloud services powered by  OnApp software. eApps was founded in 1986 by three ex-‘Big 4’ consultants. It has been active in hosting services since the mid-1990s, with particular strengths in Java application hosting and enterprise collaboration, email and security services.

( The Hosting News ) – New availability for virtual machines in the cloud was announced by web hosting provider eApps on Wednesday. The expansion was made possible by a new presence representing 183 thousand square feet of currently operational space in Richmond, Virginia at a data center campus managed by Quality Technology Services.

( The Hosting News ) -  Appnomic Systems , a leading provider of automated enterprise and Cloud IT performance management solutions, today introduced release 4.0 of its AppsOne solution.   AppsOne 4.0 is the industry’s first Application Behavior Learning (ABL) solution to leverage real-time application usage patterns in a three-dimensional (3D) performance management model.  AppsOne leads the market in enabling IT organizations to spend more-time-to-prevent (MTTP) application performance issues rather than grappling with mean-time-to-repair (MTTR) incidents after they have occurred. As a result, Appnomic customers achieve game-changing improvements to SaaS, Cloud, and enterprise application operations and support functions. Diverse software application architectures and disparate data sources in today’s complex IT ecosystems are introducing multiple potential performance break points.

( The Hosting News ) – The patent battle between Google and Oracle heated up on Monday when a jury on the Federal District Court level concluded that Google had indeed used some patents owned by the database management company. However, there was a catch. It wasn’t necessarily the finding that Oracle was looking for and the results?

( The Hosting News ) – Would you feel comfortable with U.S. authorities having more power to snoop in on some of your most used online services including Facebook, Skype and Gmail?

( The Hosting News ) – A top news resource for all things related to the data center industry recently got a new owner.

( The Hosting News ) – Cloud hosting and colocation provider ViaWest recently unveiled plans to expand its data center facility located in Portland, Oregon by 23 thousand square feet. The move adds more server space for a data center infrastructure from the company that already includes other facilities in Texas, Colorado, Utah and Nevada