Fusepoint, a long time vendor of dedicated hosting has now moved into the cloud hosting arena.  They stated that: “Private Clouds facilitate customization and integration with dedicated components that yield a higher-level of performance and availability for your critical infrastructure that is not always possible in Shared or Public Clouds.

The Fusepoint Managed Services line of Private Cloud Hosting solutions has extended service capabilities that include Microsoft’s (News – Alert) Hyper-V virtualization technology. In their own words, “Fusepoint’s Fully Managed, Private Cloud hosting solutions are ideal for organizations that want to create a private resource pool dedicated to run their mission-critical hosted infrastructure.”

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New Microsoft Exchange Server migration tool in the cloud for Google apps helps clients to migrate their Microsoft Exchange Server (email and calendar) to the cloud hosting service.  It expands the Outlook sync and Lotus Notes.

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Rackspace announced today at SXSW 2010 the launch of a Direct-to-Consumer Web Infrastructure offering for the Music recording industry service.  This enterprise solution will provide open source web infrastructure to media segments. It looks like this will  all be offered in the cloud hosting space.

“Music recording labels have traditionally focused their resources on non-differentiating IT tasks or have outsourced their D2C applications to third parties in an attempt to support hundreds of Artists’ complex sites and infrastructures. Rackspace gives labels the freedom to focus on differentiating their businesses via application development and the support of business processes to meet the needs of both the Artist and the fan,” said Wes Laird, Director of Rackspace Media Services, Rackspace Hosting.

This is either perfect timing for Rackspace or just savvy marketing, because according to the economy the music industry is booming while others are lagging. Score one for Rackspace! Check out full article at Marketwatch.