Weekly White Paper: Curbing Skyrocketing IT Energy Costs
Switch on a server and you’ve just doubled its cost. According to Gartner, between 2007 and 2012, most U.S. enterprise datacenters will spend as much on power and cooling as on the hardware itself. Gartner predicts that energy costs for IT operations could also double by 2012 due to the volume of data that will flow through organizations and the expected increase in utilities. The answer …ReadWriteWeb – Sep 06 12:08pm


Cycle30 Selects SunGard Enterprise Cloud Solution to Run Billing Services for Telecom, Cable and Utility Operators
Cycle30, a subsidiary of GCI, Alaska’s largest telecommunications and cable provider , has selected the enterprise-grade cloud platform from SunGard Availability Services to launch its billing services for telecom, cable and utility operators in North America.PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance – Aug 26 06:30am


Easy On-Ramp to Virtualized Datacenters Now Available From Convirture
SAN FRANCISCO — Organizations large and small that wish to get a quick start with virtualization can now do so easily and cost-effectively with the release of ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise Starter Edition from Convirture.GlobeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance – Aug 30 08:30am


Digital Realty Trust Guarantees Data Center Construction Pricing and Delivery
September 7, 2010 — In a first-of-its-kind program for the data center industry, wholesale data center provider Digital Realty Trust is guaranteeing the completion of its Turn-Key Datacenters, Custom Data Centers, and POD Architecture Services projects on time, and on budget.Web Host Industry Review – Sep 07 11:29am



Tornadoes Threaten Dallas – Click2Houston.com
DALLAS — A series of tornadoes spawned by the remnants of Tropical Storm Hermine are menacing the Dallas area but there are no immediate reports of damage. Tornado funnels have touched down just southeast, east and north of downtown Dallas. Only single funnels were observed touching down at any one

Clinton: Florida church’s planned Quran burning doesn’t reflect U.S. – Kansas City Star
With concerns growing about hostile or even violent international reaction to a Florida pastor’s plans to burn the Quran on Saturday, the Obama administration is stepping up its efforts to mitigate the damage. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sent a cable to all U.S. diplomatic posts

Hurd hiring strains HP, Oracle ties – Boston Globe
SAN FRANCISCO Hewlett-Packard Co. s quarter-century alliance with Oracle Corp. has been strained by the dispute over Oracle s hiring of former HP chief executive Mark Hurd, HP s interim chief said yesterday. Cathie Lesjak also said Hurd needs to be reminded that he signed

Clinton: Dems battling anger, apathy and amnesia – San Jose Mercury News
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. Former President Bill Clinton says it would be a “terrible mistake” for Arkansas voters to defeat Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln and lose her post chairing the Senate Agriculture Committee. Clinton returned to his home state on Wednesday to rally support for Lincoln’s re

Obama won’t extend Bush tax cuts for the wealthy – Houston Chronicle
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama on Wednesday will rule out any compromise that would extend the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy beyond this year, officials said, adding a populist twist to an election-season economic package that is otherwise designed to entice support from big businesses

Army: Fort Lewis-based sergeant kept body parts – Montana Standard
New documents released by the Army say a staff sergeant charged in a conspiracy to murder civilians kept Afghan body parts and threatened subordinates. Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs is the most senior of five Fort Lewis-based Stryker soldiers charged in the deaths of three Afghan civilians earlier this

BP report blames itself, others for oil spill – Detroit News
New Orleans — In an internal report released Wednesday, BP blames itself, other companies’ workers and a complex series of failures for the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill and the drilling rig explosion that preceded it. The 193-page report was posted on the company’s website even though

Spears’ former bodyguard sues for sex harassment – Huffingtonpost.com
LOS ANGELES A former bodyguard sued Britney Spears on Wednesday, claiming the singer repeatedly subjected him to “repeated unwanted sexual advances” and harassment. Fernando Flores filed the sexual harassment lawsuit in suburban Los Angeles, alleging the singer intentionally inflicted emotional



New Enterprise Associates, Shasta Ventures and Intel Capital to sell stake in – TMCnet
their stakes in Arch Rock The acquisition further positions Cisco as a strategic partner to utilities working to better manage power supply and demand, improve the security and reliability of energy delivery,

Centrify Enlists immixGroup to Provide Government Customers With Security and – MSN Money
Centrify has broad acceptance throughout DOD and civilian agencies for its reliable identity management and data center security solutions. By adding the Centrify Suite to its solution set, immixGroup will be able

Keyes Realty Selects the ColoHouse Miami Data Center to Centralize Mission – Yahoo Finance
MIAMI, FL–(Marketwire – 09/08/10) – ColoHouse, a premier Miami Data Center , is proud to announce the addition of its new client Keyes Realty. Keyes Realty has put its trust in the ColoHouse Miami Data Center to

NYSE Euronext to Present at the Barclays Capital 2010 Global Financial Services – PR Inside
NYSE Alternext and NYSE Arca represent one-third of the world’s equities trading, the most liquidity of any global exchange group. NYSE Euronext also operates NYSE Liffe, one of the leading European derivatives

Charlotte USGBC chapter names new executive director – Charlotte Business Journal
Paid Subscribers ONLY. If you are already a Charlotte Business Journal subscriber please create or sign into your bizjournals.com account to link your valid print subscription and have access to the complete

Colocation Firm Latisys to Open Second Data Center in Orange County – WHIR
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Colocation and managed hosting provider Latisys ( www.latisys.com ) announced on Wednesday it is constructing a 93,000 square foot Tier 3 data center in the heart of Orange County. The

Lincoln Property Acquires Data Center Brokerage Firm Rackhouse – WHIR
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Real estate management and development firm Lincoln Property Company ( www.lincolnproperty.com ) announced on Wednesday it has acquired data center brokerage firm Rackhouse Group ( www



Infrastructure-as-a-Service Company Offers Significant Savings on Multiple Servers – TMCnet
servers. For a limited time, new customers purchasing servers for their dedicated hosting (http://www Codero has a customer loyalty Rewards Program and offers green hosting from the Phoenix, Arizona data

Does Zoomerang or SurveyMonkey Offer Better Privacy – PC World
about how long your survey content might reside on the companies’ servers and privacy policy doesn’t offer the kind of proof vendor-assurance professionals look for. The one paragraph dedicated to security starts

Infinitely Virtual Provides Premium Memory Performance with Edge Memory on Blade Servers – PRLog (free press release)
This enables us to continue to offer our customers the most affordable, highest performing, virtual dedicated servers in the market, says Adam Stern, President and CEO Infinitely Virtual. The use of Edge s 4GB

IT Company Pc Computer Server Repairs Networking Services Boise – Computer Security News
Call 208-538-2209 There are many services that Cutting Edge Networks offer for your I servers, computer networks and IT systems to match the needs of your business and your budget. Just let us know what your IT

Acronis and iland Debut Service for Cloud-Based IT Recoveries New Solution to Offer Offsite IT – PR Inside
technology provides the local to remote datacenter linkage as well as the offsite disaster recovery infrastructure that allows Acronis backups of servers to be and staffing a dedicated offsite data center by

Which Survey Service Offers Better Privacy? – PC World
about how long your survey content might reside on the companies’ servers and privacy policy doesn’t offer the kind of proof vendor-assurance professionals look for. The one paragraph dedicated to security starts




Load Balancing – Round Robin
Round Robin Load balancing allows you to distribute client requests across multiple servers. Load balancers improve server fault tolerance and end-user response time.DABCC – Citrix, VMware, Microsoft Virtualization, Terminal Server, MS Server 2008 News & Support – Sep 03 11:59am

Load Balanced Servers – Blog Results


Dell to Buy 3PAR for $1.15 Billion
Dell has inked a deal to acquire 3PAR, a maker of virtualized, multi-tenant storage arrays, for approximately $1.15 billion in cash.Enterprise Storage Forum – Aug 17 03:39am


Top 10 Backup Mistakes in Virtual Environment
Storage Virtualization By Dave Elliott By now, most IT pros are neck deep in virtualization. Virtualization has been gaining steam steadily over the past few years. In fact, according to one survey, 95 percent of data centers are deploying some level of server virtualization (Metrics Bases Assessment LLC, 2009). The benefits of server virtualization are obvious: increased utilization rates …Computer Technology Review – Aug 25 03:25pm


load balancing in red hat Linux
[Blog - by linluck] I am a newbie for Linux. I wanna know how to configure load balancing server in Red Hat Enterprise 5.LinuxQuestions.org – Sep 01 01:32am


Load Balancing – Least Connections
Load balancing allows you to distribute client requests across multiple servers. Load balancers improve server fault tolerance and end-user response time.DABCC – Citrix, VMware, Microsoft Virtualization, Terminal Server, MS Server 2008 News & Support – Sep 05 01:00pm


ARM-based servers to carve out a datacentre niche
Daniel Robinson, V3.co.uk , Friday 3 September 2010 at 13:52:00 ARM architecture is ideal for power efficiency, but faces the market dominance of x86 servers Smooth-Stone caused a minor sensation in August when the Texas-based start-up disclosed a funding injection from some big names in the IT industry to help it develop power efficient server chips based on the ARM architecture. The news …vnunet.com – Sep 03 06:10am


Dell Nabs 3PAR in $1.15B Storage Push
The move gives the PC giant new capabilities in cloud-friendly storage arrays.InternetNews.com – Aug 16 10:23am


HP, Dell in Bidding War for 3PAR
HP blindsided Dell this morning by offering to acquiring storage vendor 3PAR for $1.6 billion, a bid that is 33 percent higher than last weeks $1.15 billion from Dell.Enterprise Storage Forum – Aug 25 12:53am


The broadband battle: what will they really deliver?
The political message of the Coalitions broadband policy is that they can deliver the same outcome as Labor sooner, for less cost and with less risk. But while both Labor and the Coalition promise the same speeds, theyre otherwise wildly different propositions.Crikey – Aug 10 08:44pm




Web Host Cool Handle Doubles Size of Data Center
September 1, 2010 — Web hosting provider Cool Handle announced on Wednesday it has doubled its data center size and infrastructure.Web Host Industry Review – Sep 01 11:59am


Brautigam Named as MAC’s Volunteer of the Month for September
MACs Managing Assistant to the Director of Visitor Services, Dawn Brautigam, was recently recognized as MACs Volunteer of the Month for September for her dedication to MACs volunteer program.Cape May County Herald – Sep 07 10:04pm

Dedicated Servers – Blog Results


Staying power: Former bodybuilder now has fitness studio in Stillwater
Valley Voices goes beyond regular newsmakers to highlight the varied residents who make the St. Croix Valley what it is.Stillwater Gazette – Sep 07 09:03am


Double rainbow at Burning Man: ‘What does it mean?’
Rain and sun at the famous arts festival inspired a large-scale and spontaneous recitation of the famous “Double Rainbow” meme.CNET – Sep 02 08:46am


Wiredtree dedicated server review
[Blog - by Yogesh Sarkar] Its been almost 6 months, since I first started using dedicated server with Wiredtree and I guess a review is long overdue.Yogesh Sarkar’s Blog – Sep 01 08:21am



Men: Ask for Directions, Save the Planet (A Little) – Minneapolis Star Tribune
My wife and I have differing views of what it means to be lost when driving. She declares that we’re lost at the very moment I seem unsure of where to make the next turn toward our destination. I believe

Haye: I m the most devastating fighter on the planet – BoxingNews24.com
By Scott Gilfoid: WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (24-1, 22 KO s) appears to be suffering from delusions of grandeur as he started melting down and bragging about himself at his press conference with Audley

Marin-based nonprofit motivates kids, families to save the planet – San Jose Mercury News
A group born in Marin that encourages youth to be better stewards of Mother Earth is making an impact beyond the county’s borders. Launched by Greenbrae parents Carleen and Jeff Cullen just over three

RAW: Text of Discover Channel gunman’s manifesto – Fox41.com
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB Fox 41) — TMZ.com has obtained the raw text of a manifesto allegedly written by a man police say stormed the Discovery Channel headquarters in Maryland. James J. Lee allegedly walked into the

Phillyist Goes to the Festival: Hello From the Children of the Planet Earth , Chicken – Phillyist.com
Aggrocrag’s debut production has a lot of things going for it: creativity, a decent story, and what looked like access to a great space (Underground at the Wolf Building) and technology. Hello follows

New Eco-App Declares U2 Bad for the Planet – AOL News
(Sept. 7) — Justin Bieber’s place in the musical canon may be a matter of debate, but from an environmental standpoint, at least, he’s on the side of the angels. Bieber is one of a number of artists — along with



AMD to test upcoming netbook chips in servers – HEXUS.net
AMD spent quite some time this week going into the intricacies of its upcoming CPU platforms . While the highly-scalable Bulldozer architecture is destined for the desktop and server markets, the low-power Bobcat CPUs

Data Centers Target Higher Energy Efficiency, Lower Carbon Footprint – Environmental Leader
As an example, Georgia Data Center, an 80,000-square-foot data center located in Atlanta, Georgia, was designed to use 40 to 50 fewer air conditioning units than typical data centers. The data center

Northern Virginia Data Centers – Associated Content
Northern Virginia data center providers such as CoreSite and Switch and Data (Equinix) in Reston, Equinix and Dupont Fabros Technology in Ashburn, and other area providers such as Savvis and AT&T provide companies with

State Capitol, other buildings lauded for energy efficiency – Daily Oklahoman
The state Capitol and three other state-run buildings have been named Energy Star buildings by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency . The attorney general’s building, 313 NE 23 St.; the Jim Thorpe Building, 2101 N

BLADE’s New VMready 3.0 With Virtual Vision First to Bring Scalable VM-Aware Networking to – msnbc.com
scalable and non-disruptive VM-aware networking for enterprise data centers. VMready 3.0 extends the company’s leadership in supporting scalable VM mobility. VMready equips a single switch or a stack of switches for

Easy On-Ramp to Virtualized Datacenters Now Available From Convirture – msnbc.com
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 30, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Organizations large and small that wish to get a quick start with virtualization can now do so easily and cost-effectively with the release of ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise

Facebook Begins Constructing Data Centers – WHIR
UPDATE: Facebook confirmed via its blog that it has broken ground on a 117,000 square foot data center in Prineville. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Social network Facebook ( www.facebook.com ) is building its own data

OPM, GAO to review agencies’ plans to consolidate data centers – Federal Times
Most agencies submitted final plans last month for consolidating the government’s massive inventory of data centers. The plans, aimed at reducing data center costs and energy consumption, are tied to the




10 reasons why Windows Terminal Services is growing more popular
Windows Terminal Services has recently been enjoying a resurgence. Brien Posey offers his thoughts on why that’s happening.TechRepublic – Sep 03 01:13am


Epic Lines Burn Visitors to Parked Food Truck Fest
Blondie and Brownie ’s Flickr [UPDATE BELOW] On Sunday MeanRed Productions , which has had past success hosting funky parties and concerts at unique locations like BKLYN Yard , held a big food truck festival on Governors Island. By all accounts, it was a total clusterfuck, and dissatisfied attendees have taken to Twitter and the blogs to vent about the looooong hour-plus lines for each truck …Gothamist – Sep 07 11:41am


HostNine Affiliate Program Soars, Ranks First for Web Hosting with Commission Junction
HostNine, a leader in Shared Hosting, Reseller Hosting, Dedicated Servers, and Virtual Private Servers, announced today its soaring affiliate program was ranked #1 among all Web hosting affiliate programs by Commission Junction, the worldwide lea…W3Reports – Sep 01 12:41am


Danah Boyd: How Censoring Craigslist Helps Pimps, Child Traffickers and Other Abusive Scumbags
Craigslist is not a pimp, but a public perch from which law enforcement can watch without being seen. It’s a lot easier to set up stings online, posing as buyers or sellers and luring scumbags into making the wrong move.The Huffington Post – Sep 06 05:31pm


SEO, Meet Server. Server, Meet SEO.
Servers play an important role in SEO and deserve more attention than they get. Tips on domains, subdomains, international search implications, and redirects. …Search Engine Watch – Aug 29 10:30pm


HostNine Web Hosting Affiliate Program Ranks First at Commission Junction
Affiliate payouts from HostNine are in excess of $150 per referred sale.TopHosts.com – Sep 01 05:44am


Weekly Case Study: Yes Virginia, You Can Cool Your Datacenter
The Virginia Community College system had a problem. The IT department had run out of ways to cool its data center. They explored going through the expense of transforming the building where the servers were housed or moving to a new building all together. Virtualization helped sort things out. They discovered servers that were soaking up power but were doing next to nothing. The results came …ReadWriteWeb – Sep 02 05:38pm


Justin Bieber Claims 3% of Twitter Traffic
“At any moment, Justin Bieber uses 3% of our infrastructure,” according to a designer who tweeted about his conversation with a Twitter employee Monday. Racks of servers are dedicated to him.”Billboard – Sep 07 04:20pm



Scouting Fox Valley area girls volleyball teams – Arlington Heights Daily Herald
balanced team this season than in the past, when we depended mainly on outside hitters to carry the load. We have a lot of the basics is a strong server and good passer. Martinez, the squad’s only junior,

Spartoo, European Leader in Internet Footwear Market, Selects KENSHOO to Manage Online – SYS-CON Media (press release)
and control free f5 load balanced cloud infrastructures and complex host servers morph into disposable horsepower, and backups lose their fragility. Eliminating the need to own information processing assets helps

Email Archiving Solutions Firm Smarsh Deploys 3PAR Utility Storage – WHIR
By deploying 3PAR Utility Storage in conjunction with SQL Server, Smarsh was able to increase its scalable performance by leveraging 3PAR s massively parallel and autonomically load-balanced architecture to deliver

Return of the Internet kitchen appliance! – CNET News
or stand-by power , load from TVs and chargers which runs off power-hungry servers. She then made a number of electricity-saving changes so that the servers, a “charging station” for gadgets, and some appliances

GoGrid Named Silver Sponsor of Cloud Expo Silicon Valley – Soa Wolrd
and control free f5 load balanced cloud infrastructures and complex hosted virtual server networks with full root access/administrative server control. GoGrid physical and virtual server instances maintain industry

Secure Your Virtualized Infrastructure – Processor.com
Many of the same security approaches that organizations have in place for their standard physical servers will also application delivery controller) to ensure it is load-balanced and receives traffic

Sanderson Wetherall consolidates email services in the cloud with Mimecast – SYS-CON Media (press release)
and control free f5 load balanced cloud infrastructures and complex host servers morph into disposable horsepower, and backups lose their fragility. Eliminating the need to own information processing assets helps



Easy On-Ramp to Virtualized Datacenters Now Available From Convirture – msnbc.com
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 30, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Organizations large and small that wish to get a quick start with virtualization can now do so easily and cost-effectively with the release of ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise

Facebook Begins Constructing Data Centers – WHIR
UPDATE: Facebook confirmed via its blog that it has broken ground on a 117,000 square foot data center in Prineville. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Social network Facebook ( www.facebook.com ) is building its own data

Consonus Data Center Reports 1.35 PUE Rating Following Renovation – WHIR
September 2, 2010 — Data center and IT solutions provider Consonus ( www.consonus.com ) has announced the latest Power Usage Effectiveness score for its 15-year-old West Data Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, which

State Capitol, other buildings lauded for energy efficiency – Daily Oklahoman
The state Capitol and three other state-run buildings have been named Energy Star buildings by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency . The attorney general’s building, 313 NE 23 St.; the Jim Thorpe Building, 2101 N

BLADE’s New VMready 3.0 With Virtual Vision First to Bring Scalable VM-Aware Networking to – msnbc.com
scalable and non-disruptive VM-aware networking for enterprise data centers. VMready 3.0 extends the company’s leadership in supporting scalable VM mobility. VMready equips a single switch or a stack of switches for

San Jose, Texas data centers bought for $50.3M – Birmingham Business Journal
Digital Realty Trust Inc. said Monday it acquired two fully leased data-center properties for $50.3 million. San Francisco-based Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) said the first property is 2950 Zanker Road

AMD to test upcoming netbook chips in servers – HEXUS.net
AMD spent quite some time this week going into the intricacies of its upcoming CPU platforms . While the highly-scalable Bulldozer architecture is destined for the desktop and server markets, the low-power Bobcat CPUs

Northern Virginia Data Centers – Associated Content
Northern Virginia data center providers such as CoreSite and Switch and Data (Equinix) in Reston, Equinix and Dupont Fabros Technology in Ashburn, and other area providers such as Savvis and AT&T provide




The Leading Business Weekly
Because this web site wants to demonstrate its commitment to your privacy, it has agreed to disclose its information practices and have its privacy practices reviewed for compliance. If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should contact The Standard.Zimbabwe Independent – Aug 31 02:20pm




How the enterprise came to Apple
Apple never seriously went after enterprise sales, but in the end, the enterprise came to Apple on the client side.CNET – Sep 02 09:09am


Wagering on warfare: Black Ops multiplayer revealed
Even though it’s set to hit PCs and consoles in a little over a month, there has been little in the way of multiplayer details for the Treyarch-developed Call of Duty: Black Ops . This all changed yesterday when Activision held a press event in Los Angeles to reveal the multiplayer gameplay: COD fans can expect bots, enhanced customization, and a new currency that can be used both to upgrade …Ars Technica – Sep 02 08:08am


BSG delivers IT support to midwives
IT outsourcing specialist BusinessSystems Group (BSG) has clinched a five-year deal worth 5.2m with the Nursingand Midwifery Council (NMC).V3.co.uk via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News – Aug 31 06:31am


StorageCraft Partners with Symform to Create Comprehensive Cloud Backup
DRAPER, Utah & SEATTLE—-StorageCraft Technology Corporation, a provider of innovative disk-based backup, disaster recovery, system migration, data protection and security solutions for servers, desktops and laptops, and Symform, a pioneer in decentralized cloud computing services for data protection, today announced they are partnering to provide an affordable cloud backup solution for small …Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance – Sep 01 05:00am


Exar Announces Enhanced Management Support for 10 GbE Adapters Running With VMware ESX 4.1
FREMONT, Calif., Aug. 31 /PRNewswire/ — Exar Corporation (Nasdaq: EXAR) today announced the availability of an enhanced suite of management tools for its Neterion X3100 family of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) adapters running with VMware ESX 4.1. Exar will demonstrate the new suite of tools highlighting the dynamic bandwidth management capabilities at the VMworld conference this week in San …redOrbit – Aug 31 10:55am


Troy City Schools puts new office on display at open house
Jason Reeves gave Dr. Linda Felton-Smith the OK to brag on Sunday afternoon.The Troy Messenger – Aug 31 12:05am


India to Give RIM’s Data-Monitoring Solution a Whirl
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion has struck a deal with officials in India that will allow it to continue to operate in the country, for now. According to a statement by the Indian Ministry of Home Affairs, the two parties will conduct a 60-day trial of access methods that RIM has proposed so that the Ministry can monitor communications sent on RIM devices.TechNewsWorld.com – Aug 31 07:37am



BLADE’s New VMready 3.0 With Virtual Vision First to Bring Scalable VM-Aware Networking to – msnbc.com
scalable and non-disruptive VM-aware networking for enterprise data centers. VMready 3.0 extends the company’s leadership in supporting scalable VM mobility. VMready equips a single switch or a stack of switches for

Consonus Data Center Reports 1.35 PUE Rating Following Renovation – WHIR
September 2, 2010 — Data center and IT solutions provider Consonus ( www.consonus.com ) has announced the latest Power Usage Effectiveness score for its 15-year-old West Data Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, which

Data Centers Target Higher Energy Efficiency, Lower Carbon Footprint – Environmental Leader
As an example, Georgia Data Center, an 80,000-square-foot data center located in Atlanta, Georgia, was designed to use 40 to 50 fewer air conditioning units than typical data centers. The data center

Northern Virginia Data Centers – Associated Content
Northern Virginia data center providers such as CoreSite and Switch and Data (Equinix) in Reston, Equinix and Dupont Fabros Technology in Ashburn, and other area providers such as Savvis and AT&T provide

Easy On-Ramp to Virtualized Datacenters Now Available From Convirture – msnbc.com
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 30, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Organizations large and small that wish to get a quick start with virtualization can now do so easily and cost-effectively with the release of ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise

State Capitol, other buildings lauded for energy efficiency – Daily Oklahoman
The state Capitol and three other state-run buildings have been named Energy Star buildings by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency . The attorney general’s building, 313 NE 23 St.; the Jim Thorpe Building, 2101 N

Digital Realty Trust Completes the Acquisition of Two Fully Leased Datacenters – Earthtimes
SAN FRANCISCO , Aug. 23 — Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: DLR), the world’s largest wholesale datacenter provider, announced today that it completed the acquisition of two fully leased datacenter properties

San Jose, Texas data centers bought for $50.3M – Birmingham Business Journal
Digital Realty Trust Inc. said Monday it acquired two fully leased data-center properties for $50.3 million. San Francisco-based Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) said the first property is 2950 Zanker Road

Facebook Begins Constructing Data Centers – WHIR
UPDATE: Facebook confirmed via its blog that it has broken ground on a 117,000 square foot data center in Prineville. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Social network Facebook ( www.facebook.com ) is building its own data



New Zealand Faces $1.4 Billion Bill After Earthquake – BusinessWeek
(Updates with comment from eyewitness in fourth paragraph.) Sept. 6 (Bloomberg) — New Zealand faces a NZ$2 billion ($1.4 billion) damage bill and a massive clean-up after Christchurch, its second-biggest city, was hit by a magnitude 7.0 earthquake that closed the central business district

Va. woman devours 181 chicken wings in NY contest – Denver Post
NEW YORK The Black Widow of eating contests gobbled up nearly 181 chicken wings in 12 minutes, devouring the national championship record in Buffalo on Sunday. “I’m so happy!” said Sonya Thomas, who ate 4.86 pounds of chicken wings to win the contest, besting world eating marvel Joey Chestnut at

German Flight Show Crash Kills 1, Injures 38 – Denver Channel
BERLIN — A pilot of a small propeller-driven plane lost control of his aircraft while taking off at a flight show in southern Germany and crashed into a group of spectators Sunday, leaving one person dead and 38 injured, police said. The crash occurred at the Lillinghof airfield about 20 miles (30

Querrey wins, hopes to put ‘US’ back in US Open – CharlotteObserver.com
NEW YORK Sam Querrey wants to put the “U.S.” back in the U.S. Open. It’s been seven years since a man from the United States won the country’s most important tennis tournament. Indeed, it’s been that long since an American man won any Grand Slam singles title. Querrey is all-too-aware of such

Report: Oracle, ex-HP CEO Hurd in talks over job – Boston Globe
NEW YORK Former Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO Mark Hurd, who resigned from the company last month in the wake of a sexual harassment investigation, is in talks about a position with Oracle Corp. , according to published reports. Hurd could join Oracle in an executive role, though he is not expected to

Earl leaves biggest damage to business in US – Today’s Zaman
In the end, Earl s worst damage in New England was to seasonal businesses hoping to end their summer on a high note. The tropical storm, far less intense than feared, brushed past the Northeast and dumped heavy, wind-driven rain on Cape Cod cottages and fishing villages but caused little damage



RAW: Text of Discover Channel gunman’s manifesto – Fox41.com
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB Fox 41) — TMZ.com has obtained the raw text of a manifesto allegedly written by a man police say stormed the Discovery Channel headquarters in Maryland. James J. Lee allegedly walked into the

Regarding global warming, the planet is just fine, thank you – Warren Tribune Chronicle
DEAR EDITOR: Global climate change will be a topic of heated debate for decades to come. Due to politicization of the issue, data manipulation, exclusion and suppression of non-global climate change supporting

Interesting Facts for Kids About the Planet Neptune – Associated Content
Are you searching for random facts and trivia about the planet Neptune? Are you working on a science report about Neptune? Are you a home school parent writing a lesson plan about the solar system? Just

Calif Republican Whitman unveils new iPhone app – San Jose Mercury News
SACRAMENTO, Calif. Can’t get enough Meg Whitman? Now there’s an application for that. The Republican gubernatorial candidate’s campaign announced Friday that it now has a free iPhone app. Supporters can use

Save the Planet Protest Gunman James Lee killed by police – HULIQ.com
Police shot and killed James J. Lee, a radical environmentalist who has been opposed to the Discovery Channel for years. James Lee believed the Discovery Channel produced pseudo-environmental programs that

Wind Power Won’t Cool Down the Planet – Wall Street Journal
The wind industry has achieved remarkable growth largely due to the claim that it will provide major reductions in carbon dioxide emissions. There’s just one problem: It’s not true. A slew of recent

Facts for Kids About the Planet Venus – Associated Content
Searching for random facts and trivia about the planet Venus? Are you working on a science report about the planet Venus? Are you writing a lesson plan about the solar system and need information about

It s Easy Being Green: The New Organic Helps Save the Planet – American Progress
Four women in San Francisco coined the term locavore in 2005, and since then many similar groups have popped up all around the country. Each has the same idea: eating locally helps the environment

Men: Ask for Directions, Save the Planet (A Little) – Minneapolis Star Tribune
My wife and I have differing views of what it means to be lost when driving. She declares that we’re lost at the very moment I seem unsure of where to make the next turn toward our destination. I believe



Virtual Dedicated Servers Prove Flexible and Durable Under Scrutiny – TMCnet
In talking about dedicated servers, it is possible that only IT managers will understand the difference between a dedicated and shared server. A recent The Hosting News report takes a closer look at the

Web Hosting Company MyHost Corporation Expands Name Servers Infrastructure to Europe – Newswiretoday.com
has recently increased the number of name servers in its web hosting infrastructure in order to cover both reseller hosting and dedicated server hosting packages, don t hesitate to browse the official website

Tool suite eases deployment of virtual servers – Electronic Engineering Times
easy deployment and management of virtual servers , enabling dramatic reduction in total cost of ownership Each virtual interface has the dedicated hardware resources of a complete NIC and includes multiple

Dedicated Server Company Warp Speeds Toward Hyper-VTM Virtualization – TMCnet
Layered Tech is a company providing IT infrastructure, including dedicated servers, managed hosting, and grid computing, to businesses of all sizes. Jeremy Suo-Anttila, chief technology officer at Layered

Call of Duty: Black Ops : dedicated servers, dev console, mods – Ars Technica
Modern Warfare 2 was not especially loved in PC gaming circles , because of the lack of dedicated servers, the inability to tweak the game’s settings, and the absence of support for user-created content

SafeNet Japan Announces Latest Versions 9.2 of ProtectDrive and ProtectDrive for Servers 9.2 – Newswiretoday.com
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Infrastructure-as-a-Service Company Offers Significant Savings on Multiple Servers – TMCnet
new customers purchasing servers for their dedicated hosting (http://www.codero.com/dedicated-server/) or managed services (http://www.codero.com/managed-hosting/) from Codero will receive a discount of up to forty

Singapore Based Hosting Provider Usonyx Partners With Cloud Linux Inc To Update Its Dedicated Server – PRLog (free press release)
announces today that Singapore based USONYX will begin to offer CloudLinux with its dedicated servers. As Asia’s leading web hosting provider, USONYX offers a full suite of hosting services including domain name

Dedicated Server – Managed Or Unmanaged – Gather.com
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Managing Dedicated Servers With Load Balancing – Server Watch
Load balancing, according to this report on The Hosting News, is all about hardware expansion — it s only a matter of time until you will need more than one server for your website. Also mentioned in the story is




SanDisk offers super-tiny flash drives
Why bother flash drives as big as a hard drive with rotating platters? SanDisk’s iSSD is 2cm long and can be soldered straight to a motherboard.CNET – Aug 18 02:17pm


Web Host Codero Offers Significant Savings on Multiple Servers
New dedicated or managed Web hosting customers qualify for a 40 percent discount.TopHosts.com – Sep 03 09:59am


The Best Android Apps for Your Car [Android]
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Exar Announces Enhanced Management Support for 10 GbE Adapters Running With VMware ESX 4.1
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Steadfast Networks Ranks in Top 1500 on Prestigious Inc. 5000 List for 3rd Straight Year
Steadfast Networks, a leading Chicago based data center and dedicated server hosting provider, announced today its #1359 ranking on the Inc. 5000 list, a list published by Inc. Magazine featuring America’s fastest-growing private companies.PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance – Aug 30 01:42pm


Apple Rumors: New iPod Expected
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The Planet Launches Web Hosting Technical Support Library
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