Host information company Hostcabi has an infographic revealing the hosts of top million sites in the world. Who is the top global host? The answer might just surprise you...

In fact, the hosting company with the most top-million sites in the world is ThePlanet.com, also known as cloud services provider SoftLayer, with around 40000 sites. 

Coming 2nd and 3rd are two European companies-- France-based Ovh Systems (top web hosting company in Europe according to Netcraft) and Germany's Hetzner Online AG. 

Google trails at 4th place with around 25000 sites, Read more...

Following downbeat Q3 2012 results Systemax exists the PC making business, moves its European offices to E. Europe and drops the CompUSA and Circuit City brands.

Q3 2012 revenues for the Misco owner drop by -6% Y-o-Y to reach $846.3 million, while operating losses total $1.9m (down from $19.3m profits in Q3 2011).

From 2013 pan-European Systemax operations will be consolidated in "a shared services centre in E. Europe" providing admin and back-office functions.  The move will cost the company $15m.

The results also lead to Systemax paying a Read more...

Gartner reveals the top 10 technology trends it believes are "strategic for most organisations" in 2013-- the top technologies IT leaders should factor in their plans for the near future. 

The analyst defines a "strategic technology" as one with the potential for significant impact on enterprise in the next 3 years. A strategic technology may represent a mature technology ripe with potential, as well as an emerging opportunity for early adopters. 

All the technologies listed emerge from what Gartner calls the "nexus of converging forces"-- social, mobile, cloud and information. 

Mobile Device Battles: According to Gartner mobile phones will overtake PCs as most common global internet access device by 2013, and by 2015 80% of handsets sold in mature markets will be smartphones. By 2015 tablet shipments will reach around 50% of laptop shipments, with Windows 8 placing 3rd behind Android and iOS. This means the end of the Windows-dominated PC era, in the face of a post-PC environment catering for different form factors and operating systems. 

Mobile Applications and HTML5: Developers face a complex mobile app-development tool market, one Gartner divides in 6 architectures (native, special, hybrid, HTML 5, Message and No Client). In the long term, development will shift towards HTML5-based web apps, while developers will also need to learn how to deliver cross platform touch-optimised apps.  Read more...

The PowerCool Series from Middle Atlantic claims to be the industry’s first and only integrated power distribution and thermal management product. A family of single-space (1RU) power and cooling solutions, PowerCool uses Middle Atlantic’s purpose-designed quiet blowers. Each blower unit removes 50 CFM of heated air while providing high static pressure to maintain airflow even in crowded racks. Middle Atlantic also says the unit is energy efficient, running only when temperatures breach a safe operating threshold and at proportional speeds to e Read more...