Web Hosting Provider Go Daddy Implementes Trend Micro Deep Security

Greatresponder – 2011-08-21 – On Thursday, the web hosting provider and leading domain registrar Go Daddy has made he announcement that it has implemented Trend Micro Deep Security to protect systems in its data centers, as stated in a recent press release.

According to this recent press release report, the extremely secure solutions designed by Trend Micro was created to provide advanced protection to physical, virtual or cloud servers, as well virtual desktops for end users.

“Since Trend Micro Deep Security has a small footprint, it allows us to keep the same customer density on our servers. The Deep Security console is very easy to use, and anything you can do from the console can be carried out automatically to keep the cost of administration low,” Todd Redfoot, Go Daddy chief information security officer said in a statement.

Trend Micro claims that its security solution has allowed the web hosting company, Go Daddy, to block threats in the cloud before they could even reach Go Daddy network and servers. With customized rules the service will also improve visibility of threat activity and responds to changing threats.

Deep Security was designed to ensure the combination of intrusion detection and prevention, firewall, integrity monitoring, log inspection, and agentless anti-malware capabilities.

The solution supports compliance with standards and regulations like PCI, FISMA and HIPAA.

The web hosting company Go Daddy is certified by CIRA as the world’s #1 domain registrar and has currently more than 9.4 million customers, more than 49 million domains and maintains more than five million active hosting accounts.

Web Hosting Provider Go Daddy Implementes Trend Micro Deep Security

Web Hosting Go Daddy Gets Investment

Greatresponder.com – 2011-07-04 – Go Daddy web hosting and domain registrar giant has sold a major piece to a business group of private equity for around $2.5 billion USD. As reported just week ago, the group is led by KKR & Company, Silver Lake Technology Crossover Ventures and will assume all of Go Daddy Inc.’s debt as well as its assets.

As the world bigest domain registrar company, GoDaddy have over 9.4 million customers and manages over than 48 million domain names in different domain zones. Despite such impressive stats, Go Daddy web hosting and domain registrar has reported consecutive annual losses with very small growth only during the latest fiscal year.

For at least the time being, current CEO and President mr. Robert Parsons will remain in that position, and has stated the company’s plans to expand its offerings by increasing its international presence and moving its hosting solutions into the cloud based infrastructure. Mr. Parsons founded Go Daddy web hosting company in 1997 year and in 2006 failed in his attempt to go public, citing poor market conditions when withdrawing its IPO.

Whether this acquisition is considered an investment or a purchase, mr. Parsons is reported to remain GoDaddy’s biggest single shareholder while the new private equity group of companies becomes the biggest corporative investor.

Silver Lake has a great experience of flipping and growing different Internet companies, with the sale of Skype communicator for around $8.5 billion to Microsoft Corporation, after purchasing it from EBay corporation several years ago for only $2 billion. KKR and Silver Lake are familiar partners with their 2005 group investment of Avago Technologies, while TCV leads a group of firms that has invested a reported $135 million in Facebook. Silver Lake and TCV are co-investors in the leading daily deal site Groupon and the social gaming company Zynga.

In conclusion we just want to note that $2.5 billion USD is a biggest investment for hosting company ever made before.

Web Hosting Go Daddy Gets Investment

GoDaddy Web Hosting Experienced Outage Due To Software Update

Greatresponder.com – 2011-06-15 – One of the biggest web hosting providers and domain registrars Go Daddy experienced an outage on its website Monday after software update. According to a report, Go Daddy did software update and for some reason it went wrong. As result it cause noticeable website downtime.

This downtime comes a week after Go Daddy announced it now protects over than 500,000 web sites with its unique SSL certificates and other affordable security solution.

Turning back to this accident, Go Daddy’s home page was completely offline for approximately 3 hours on Monday evening though visitors were redirected to a mobile version of the site that was available and worked fine.

“We made some changes to our website, and those updates failed,” Neil Warner, chief information officer for Go Daddy said in a statement. “As a result, Go Daddy.com went down. No customer account information was compromised. This was not an attack on Go Daddy servers. We caused the issue, not someone else.”

The report says that the mobile version of Go Daddy website allowed users to continue to manage domain names, accounts and all transactions. So, despite the issue which happened due to software update, Go Daddy web hosting service continued to provide customers with minimal set of necessary functions to manage accounts, prolong domains and web hosting service. And that’s definitely good sign.

Go Daddy web hosting providers and domain registrar apologized for the length of the outage, saying it was longer than it was expected.

“My team is investigating what went wrong with our site update process so we can avoid an issue like this in the future,” Warner stated.

Also few days ago, Go Daddy announced it was expanding its team at its Iowa primary customer service center by 300 employees.

Summarize on Go Daddy web hosting and domain registrar company:

Go Daddy – the world’s largest ICANN accredited registrar of domain names. Go Daddy group supports more than 34 million domain names in the major domain areas of the first level, including the COM, ORG, NET, BIZ, INFO.

GoDaddy Web Hosting Experienced Outage Due To Software Update

Web Hosting Provider Go Daddy Implementes Trend Micro Deep Security

Greatresponder – 2011-08-21 – On Thursday, the web hosting provider and leading domain registrar Go Daddy has made he announcement that it has implemented Trend Micro Deep Security to protect systems in its data centers, as stated in a recent press release.

According to this recent press release report, the extremely secure solutions designed by Trend Micro was created to provide advanced protection to physical, virtual or cloud servers, as well virtual desktops for end users.

“Since Trend Micro Deep Security has a small footprint, it allows us to keep the same customer density on our servers. The Deep Security console is very easy to use, and anything you can do from the console can be carried out automatically to keep the cost of administration low,” Todd Redfoot, Go Daddy chief information security officer said in a statement.

Trend Micro claims that its security solution has allowed the web hosting company, Go Daddy, to block threats in the cloud before they could even reach Go Daddy network and servers. With customized rules the service will also improve visibility of threat activity and responds to changing threats.

Deep Security was designed to ensure the combination of intrusion detection and prevention, firewall, integrity monitoring, log inspection, and agentless anti-malware capabilities.

The solution supports compliance with standards and regulations like PCI, FISMA and HIPAA.

The web hosting company Go Daddy is certified by CIRA as the world’s #1 domain registrar and has currently more than 9.4 million customers, more than 49 million domains and maintains more than five million active hosting accounts.

Web Hosting Provider Go Daddy Implementes Trend Micro Deep Security

Web Hosting Provider Go Daddy Implementes Trend Micro Deep Security

Greatresponder – 2011-08-21 – On Thursday, the web hosting provider and leading domain registrar Go Daddy has made he announcement that it has implemented Trend Micro Deep Security to protect systems in its data centers, as stated in a recent press release.

According to this recent press release report, the extremely secure solutions designed by Trend Micro was created to provide advanced protection to physical, virtual or cloud servers, as well virtual desktops for end users.

“Since Trend Micro Deep Security has a small footprint, it allows us to keep the same customer density on our servers. The Deep Security console is very easy to use, and anything you can do from the console can be carried out automatically to keep the cost of administration low,” Todd Redfoot, Go Daddy chief information security officer said in a statement.

Trend Micro claims that its security solution has allowed the web hosting company, Go Daddy, to block threats in the cloud before they could even reach Go Daddy network and servers. With customized rules the service will also improve visibility of threat activity and responds to changing threats.

Deep Security was designed to ensure the combination of intrusion detection and prevention, firewall, integrity monitoring, log inspection, and agentless anti-malware capabilities.

The solution supports compliance with standards and regulations like PCI, FISMA and HIPAA.

The web hosting company Go Daddy is certified by CIRA as the world’s #1 domain registrar and has currently more than 9.4 million customers, more than 49 million domains and maintains more than five million active hosting accounts.

Web Hosting Provider Go Daddy Implementes Trend Micro Deep Security

Web Hosting Go Daddy Gets Investment

Greatresponder.com – 2011-07-04 – Go Daddy web hosting and domain registrar giant has sold a major piece to a business group of private equity for around $2.5 billion USD. As reported just week ago, the group is led by KKR & Company, Silver Lake Technology Crossover Ventures and will assume all of Go Daddy Inc.’s debt as well as its assets.

As the world bigest domain registrar company, GoDaddy have over 9.4 million customers and manages over than 48 million domain names in different domain zones. Despite such impressive stats, Go Daddy web hosting and domain registrar has reported consecutive annual losses with very small growth only during the latest fiscal year.

For at least the time being, current CEO and President mr. Robert Parsons will remain in that position, and has stated the company’s plans to expand its offerings by increasing its international presence and moving its hosting solutions into the cloud based infrastructure. Mr. Parsons founded Go Daddy web hosting company in 1997 year and in 2006 failed in his attempt to go public, citing poor market conditions when withdrawing its IPO.

Whether this acquisition is considered an investment or a purchase, mr. Parsons is reported to remain GoDaddy’s biggest single shareholder while the new private equity group of companies becomes the biggest corporative investor.

Silver Lake has a great experience of flipping and growing different Internet companies, with the sale of Skype communicator for around $8.5 billion to Microsoft Corporation, after purchasing it from EBay corporation several years ago for only $2 billion. KKR and Silver Lake are familiar partners with their 2005 group investment of Avago Technologies, while TCV leads a group of firms that has invested a reported $135 million in Facebook. Silver Lake and TCV are co-investors in the leading daily deal site Groupon and the social gaming company Zynga.

In conclusion we just want to note that $2.5 billion USD is a biggest investment for hosting company ever made before.

Web Hosting Go Daddy Gets Investment

Web Hosting Provider Go Daddy Appoints New Deputy General Counsel

Greatresponder.com – 2011-08-02 – On Thursday, the web hosting and domain name registrar Go Daddy made the announcement that it has now names Andrew Kline, former Obama policy advisor and attorney the new deputy general counsel for global policy of Go Daddy. This announcement came in in about a week after the web hosting provider officially launches the 4^th Generation of their cloud-based web hosting services.

Thanks to his new position, Andrew Kline will help the web hosting company expand internationally. He will also help as combat online illegal activities such as rogue Internet pharmacies and copyright infringement.

Kline will be based in Washington, DC and joins vice president for government relations Martha Johnston, who joined Go Daddy in December of 2005.

“After seeing Go Daddy’s commitment and pledge to ‘do the right thing,’ I was inspired … and knew I could go into the private sector and make a difference. Go Daddy has demonstrated its commitment to keeping the Internet safe in a way that gets results and I want to be a part of that team.” said Andrew Kline.

Andrew Kline has spent many years in his career focusing on said Go Daddy CEO and founder Bob Parsons. Kline was previously a federal prosecutor.

“Andrew’s record speaks for itself. Like our General Counsel Christine Jones, Andrew is an attorney who knows how to get things done, a leader and a person who works to make a difference … and as fast as the Internet is growing, Go Daddy is going to stay ahead of it,” said Go Daddy CEO and founder Bob Parsons.

The web hosting company recently announced that it has plans to have a partnership with KKR, Silver Lake and Technology Crossover Ventures. The investments are allegedly estimated at around $2.3 billion.

Web Hosting Provider Go Daddy Appoints New Deputy General Counsel

Web Hosting Provider Go Daddy Implementes Trend Micro Deep Security

Greatresponder – 2011-08-21 – On Thursday, the web hosting provider and leading domain registrar Go Daddy has made he announcement that it has implemented Trend Micro Deep Security to protect systems in its data centers, as stated in a recent press release.

According to this recent press release report, the extremely secure solutions designed by Trend Micro was created to provide advanced protection to physical, virtual or cloud servers, as well virtual desktops for end users.

“Since Trend Micro Deep Security has a small footprint, it allows us to keep the same customer density on our servers. The Deep Security console is very easy to use, and anything you can do from the console can be carried out automatically to keep the cost of administration low,” Todd Redfoot, Go Daddy chief information security officer said in a statement.

Trend Micro claims that its security solution has allowed the web hosting company, Go Daddy, to block threats in the cloud before they could even reach Go Daddy network and servers. With customized rules the service will also improve visibility of threat activity and responds to changing threats.

Deep Security was designed to ensure the combination of intrusion detection and prevention, firewall, integrity monitoring, log inspection, and agentless anti-malware capabilities.

The solution supports compliance with standards and regulations like PCI, FISMA and HIPAA.

The web hosting company Go Daddy is certified by CIRA as the world’s #1 domain registrar and has currently more than 9.4 million customers, more than 49 million domains and maintains more than five million active hosting accounts.

Web Hosting Provider Go Daddy Implementes Trend Micro Deep Security