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The economic turmoil around the world is a bitter reality that we’re all facing. And the incident has left online users with little to no choice but to search for website hosting services that are free of cost or cheaper in price.

New data and statistics from a number of reports have highlighted how free-of-cost web hosting has massively peaked. Moreover, it’s actually at its highest level than what we’ve seen in the last two years.

But the real question is how many of us are surprised by these figures? Remember, global inflation is a worldwide concern and when you’re forced to deal with high costs of living to try and combat the economic decline, there’s not much that anyone can do.

On average, data taken between the months of May and June of this year proved how search…

FOI 22/542

12th April 2022

Dear

Thank you for your email. Please see the response to your Freedom of Information Request below:

Further to the original Hosting request, the contract below has expired. Please provide the current status.

Azure – Cloud contract

I wish to submit a request to the organisation around their hosting contract(s) with 3rd party providers.

The type of contract I wish to see is below:

1. Dedicated hosting- Managed environment

2. Co-Location- hosting allows a business to still own their own server equipment; however, instead of storing it in their own data centre, they instead are able to store it in rented space in a colocation hosting centre.

3. Cloud Hosting- Cloud hosting services provide hosting for websites on virtual servers,…

FOI 21/1271

13th December 2021

Dear

Thank you for your email.

The type of contract I wish to see is below:

1.       Cloud Hosting- Cloud hosting services provide hosting for websites on virtual servers, which pull their computing resources from extensive underlying networks of physical web servers.

Not all of these will be applicable to the organisation.

For the different types of hosting services, can you provide me with the following information:

1. Type of hosting – Dedicated, Co-Location, Cloud Hosting, Other?

Co-Location and Cloud Hosting

1. Who is the supplier of the contract? If possible can you also provide me with the name of the vendor, if applicable?

Co-Location – SunGard Availability Services (UK) Ltd

Cloud Hosting – Red Ant, Azure, Mulesoft and…

Can I get this information…

The September 2021 announcement of a major fundraising campaign — which will include a state-of-the-art building — to help launch the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s new School of Computer, Data and Information Sciences, or CDIS, brought together an array of campus luminaries.

Chancellor Rebecca Blank was there that day at the Discovery Building. So were John and Tashia Morgridge, alumni who contributed a staggering $125 million to the new enterprise, and Erik Iverson, CEO of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, or WARF, which granted $50 million.

It’s fitting that the one best able to appreciate the day in historical context — past being prologue — was the new school’s founding director, Tom Erickson.

As the first UW–Madison freshman ever…