Saint Paul, Minnesota - (The Hosting News) - March 19, 2008 - Web hosting high-speed Internet, data, video and voice services firm, Qwest Communications International Inc., has executed a 3-year contract to provide voice and networking to home products distribution company, Dey Distributing.

Since 1944, Dey Distributing began operations out of a home office and opened its first branch location in Sioux Falls, S.D., in 1973. It has since expanded to include 14 stores in eight Midwestern states. Now, the company uses Qwest iQ Networking Private Port wide area networking services to link its stores to its headquarters, transferring critical data over Qwest's secure, reliable network and providing access to essential applications that manage wareh

Amsterdam, The Netherlands - (The Hosting News) - March 18, 2008 - International business hosting services firm, LeaseWeb, has reported a significant interest in its Carbon Neutral (green) market demand, with 450 cabinets filled, out of the 500 racks placed in its new carrier-independent and Carbon Neutral Data Center, EvoSwitch.

Con Zwinkels, Managing Director of LeaseWeb noted, ''Of course it is difficult to know in advance whether customers will be interested in a new data center. Particularly when it concerns a 'green' data center. Although it's a new addition to the market, we haven't really had to work hard to convince customers of the commercial benefits it can provide.''

LeaseWeb manages a total of 1,500 cabinets and more than 11,000

New York, New York - (The Hosting News) - March 18, 2008 - A new report released by New York-based independent research firm, Tier1 Research (T1R), analyzes the financial and industry implications of developments affecting public and private companies within the hosting, IT, communications and Internet sectors.

Philbert Shih, Senior Analyst at T1R and lead author of the report noted, ''The transformation under way has forced hosters to reconsider old concepts, explore new opportunities and change the way they traditionally do business. But it has also opened the door to increased competition as the likes of Google, Microsoft and others look to target the mass market for various types of Web-based services, of which web hosting is just one, alb

Broomfield, Colorado - (The Hosting News) - March 18, 2008 - Colocation web hosting provider, Level 3 Communications, has received the 2007 Frost and Sullivan North American Growth Strategy Leadership Award in Carrier Ethernet Services.

Frost and Sullivan presented Level 3 with the award in recognition of the company's ability to foresee the growth potential of Ethernet services beyond the LAN and address this potential by adding capabilities through strategic acquisitions.

Roopashree Honnachari, Senior Industry Analyst for Frost and Sullivan noted, ''Level 3 has strategically moved away from being branded as a wholesale-only provider and has proven its ability to quickly perceive the market demand for retail Ethernet services and e