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Carter Validus Mission Critical Completes Atlanta Data Center Acquisition

January 6, 2012 — Carter Validus Mission Critical REIT announced on Thursday it has acquired a $94.75 million, multi-tenant, wholesale data center in downtown Atlanta. First announced in November, the buy comes a year after Carter Validus Mission Critical REIT began selling shares for a stock offering in an effort to raise between $200 million and $1.75 billion to acquire data centers and medical facilities.

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Data Center Firm Fortress International Group Names CEO

January 5, 2012 — Data center holdings group Fortress International Group announced on Thursday it has appointed Anthony Angelini its new CEO and a member of its board of directors. Angelini replaces Thomas P. Rosato, who will remain with the company as non-executive chairman of FTIG’s board of directors

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Jobs Requiring Cloud Computing Skills Grow by 61 Percent

January 5, 2012 — Marketplace talent resource WANTED Analytics announced on Thursday that according to The Hiring Scale, employers and staffing firms have posted more than 10,000 job ads that included requirements for cloud computing skills and experience in the past 90 days.

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IBM to Acquire Cloud Environment Test Software Green Hat

January 5, 2012 — IBM announced on Thursday it has acquired Green Hat, a software quality and testing solutions for the cloud and other environments.

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IBM to Acquire Cloud Environment Test Software Green Hat

Federal Government Increases Data Center Closures by More Than 200

January 5, 2012 — The Federal government has once again increased the number of data centers it plans to close as part of its massive consolidation plans.

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Data Center Outage Hits 400000 Clients of Email Marketing Tool MailChimp

January 12, 2012 — Email marketing platform MailChimp experienced an outage at one of its data centers on Monday, affecting about 400,000 customers. According to a post by  founder and CEO Ben Chestnut on Tuesday, the issues stemmed from multiple hardware failures at its US1 data center.

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Web Host OneNeck IT Services Completes SSAE 16 Audit for Arizona Data Centers

January 4, 2012 — Web hosting provider OneNeck IT Services announced on Wednesday that it has achieved compliance with SSAE 16 Type II in its Arizona data centers. SSAE 16 Type II compliance replaces the previous data center industry standard SAS 70, which OneNeck held for the last five years. 

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Data Center Firm Digital Realty Acquires San Francisco Atlanta Data Centers

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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Colocation Firm Phoenix NAP to Defend Against Taco Disaster

January 4, 2012 — Colocation provider Phoenix NAP announced on Tuesday that it will provide disaster recovery services to Mexican fast food chain Del Taco. This announcement comes a few months after Phoenix NAP launched its public cloud offering, Secured Cloud that features pay-as-you-go pricing and has a white-label option.

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Cloud Host Cloudeeeu Says it is Provisioning 300 Cloud Servers Daily

January 3, 2012 — European cloud hosting provider Cloudee.eu announced on Tuesday that it is now provisioning 300 new cloud servers daily, a number that is growing quickly, thanks to the trend toward using cloud servers.

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Cloud Host Cloudeeeu Says it is Provisioning 300 Cloud Servers Daily