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Data Center Firm ViaWest Completes SSAE 16 Type II SOC 3 and PCI DSS Reports

admin — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:07:38 +0000

January 10, 2012 — Data center services provider ViaWest announced on Tuesday that it recently received a dual-standard SSAE 16 Type II SOC 1 report, a SOC 3 report and a PCI report on compliance for PCI DSS in its Cornell and Synergy Park data centers.

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Data Center Firm ViaWest Completes SSAE 16 Type II SOC 3 and PCI DSS Reports

Dell Appoints Chief Commercial Officer to Boost Sales

admin — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 02:06:30 +0000

January 6, 2012 — Dell announced on Friday it has named Steve Felice its president and chief commercial officer in a role where he will lead the company in selling more packages of technology products and services to customers. Felice will now oversee all customer business segments including public, large enterprise, small medium business and consumer.

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Logicalis Public Cloud Hosting Gets the VMware vCloud Cloud Powered Stamp

admin — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:12:16 +0000

January 4, 2012 — Cloud hosting provider Logicalis announced this week that its Logicalis Enterprise Cloud public cloud service has been awarded VMware vCloud Powered verified status, which illustrates for customers that the company’s cloud services are built on VMWare’s vSphere and vCloud Director technology.

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Data Center Firm Digital Realty Acquires San Francisco Atlanta Data Centers

admin — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:06:27 +0000

January 4, 2012 — Data center firm Digital Realty announced on Wednesday that it has acquired a data center in San Francisco for $85 million, and a data center in Atlanta for $63 million. These acquisitions come on the heels of Digital Realty’s appointment of David Schirmacher senior vice president of technical operations.

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Web Host Certified Hosting Offers CloudFlare Security and Performance Service

admin — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:07:29 +0000

January 4, 2012 — Web hosting provider Certified Hosting announced on Wednesday that it has introduced CloudFlare to all shared hosting and reseller hosting accounts. The security and web performance service is fully integrated with its existing cPanel web hosting setup.

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Web Host Certified Hosting Offers CloudFlare Security and Performance Service

NYSE Wants to Sell Colocation Space at New Jersey Data Center

admin — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:14:22 +0000

January 3, 2011 — According to several reports published last week, the stock exchange NYSE Euronext is looking to broaden its horizons by offering up some of the capacity in its Mahwah, New Jersey data center as colocation space.

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Data Center Firm Digital Realty Trust Names SVP of Technical Operations

admin — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:04:39 +0000

January 3, 2012 — Wholesale data center provider Digital Realty Trust announced on Tuesday that it has named David Schirmacher senior vice president of technical operations. According to the press release, Schirmacher will be responsible for technical operations, including uptime and reliability of Digital Realty’s global portfolio of data centers in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific.

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Colocation Firm Internap Acquires Web Host Voxel for 30 Million

admin — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:27:43 +0000

January 3, 2012 — Colocation and hosting provider Internap announced on Tuesday that it has acquired web host Voxel Holdings in an all cash transaction valued at $30 million.

Belgian Web Host Combell Meets ISO 27001 Standard

admin — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:54:11 +0000

December 21, 2011 — Belgian web hosting provider Combell announced on Wednesday it became the first hosting provider in Beglium to meet the ISO 27001 standard. Combell recently came into the news when researchers at Symantec found one of its servers was being used for malicious activity, and Combell shut down the server two days after being notified.

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Belgian Web Host Combell Meets ISO 27001 Standard

Yahoo Study Says Small Businesses Find Washington Policies Obstacle to Growth

admin — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:18:40 +0000

December 20, 2011 — Small business owners say that the biggest obstacle to growth of their business is Washington, according to a study released by Yahoo! on Tuesday. The survey of 250 small business owners conducted by Yahoo! Small Business and Ipsos MediaCT to measure the concerns that will affect the 2012 election.

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