From the monthly archives:

July 2009

ThermoCabinet Keeps Phoenix ONE Cool

July 31, 2009

Drawing cool, pressurised air up from the raised floor thru the closed cupboard, ThermoCabinet enables users to pack up to 10 times as much equipment compared to normal information centers. “We’ve been doing vented and chimney cupboards for years, and this is the subsequent iteration — to actually have that chimney as a draw or [...]

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Black Hat Conference Exposes SSL Flaw

July 31, 2009

IOActive analyst Dan Kaminsky and independent analyst Moxie Marlinspike presented matching findings in separate shows, having each come to the conclusion working separately, according to Wired. Both men demonstrated that an assailant can legitimately get an SSL certificate with a special personality in the web site name that would enable the site to deceive virtually [...]

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Hosting Sales and Promos Roundup

July 31, 2009

The last week of July had a number of web hosting sales and promotions, including BT Business rebating its starter hosting package by forty p.c and DWHS cutting the cost of its reseller hosting. Its “Standard Linux Hosting” now includes 4GB of bandwidth every month, and the “High Usage” Business Account has been upgraded to [...]

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PUE Can Be Misleading

July 31, 2009

The net peak featured presentations by industry members who provided real life examples of NGDC implementation, best practice concerns, and new technologies that impact the info center. The event also covered the applications and technology that support and integrate energy efficient practices, including storage, servers, networking and communications. The Green Grid developed PUE as a [...]

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Go Daddy Markets Affordable EV SSL Certificates

July 31, 2009

The vetting process for Extended Validation is seriously more concerned than other certificates.
The rules, established by the CA / Browser Forum make the EV vetting process matching at any Certificate Authority, which raises issues why the price range can be so sundry, says Go Daddy . “The fact [that] somebody is charging more than 7 [...]

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Government Recommending Web Security Practices

July 31, 2009

Executive officers are asking for a new Net paradigm that incorporates a risk-management approach and cutting edge technologies to keep the web secure in future generations.
Assistant aid secretary of defense for cyber identity and info guarantee, Robert Lentz, related now could be the time to secure and preserve the web in a Black Hat 2009 [...]

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NetEarth Becomes GlobalSign Platinum Partner

July 30, 2009

With thousands of resellers over 5 continents, NetEarth Group was looking to partner with a well-established, leading certificate authority who could offer a variety of price added SSL certificates to finish its existing product portfolio of site solutions.
NetEarth Group is launching a new internet site to market and resell GlobalSign’s range of SSL certificates. “GlobalSign’s [...]

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Gandi Launches Server Monitoring Service

July 30, 2009

A defining feature of Gandi’s web hosting is its acute suppleness, whereby users can buy “shares” of a server, each representing 1 / 64th of the total capacity of a server. Purchasers also have the choice of setting up automated actions like adding server resources, increasing the server’s power automatically as per the load.
“Simply imagine [...]

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Microsoft & EPA Speaking at DatacenterDynamics 2009

July 30, 2009

The meeting will include shows from industry and regime leaders, where they may explore what existing and approaching environmental legislation will mean for the info center sector at a period of fast enlarging demand, limited energy supply and a continual recession.
Microsoft’s chief environmental strategist Rob Bernard will debate the systems and technologies for capitalizing on [...]

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