From the monthly archives:

August 2009

NTT Adds 2nd Data Center in Silicon Valley

August 31, 2009

Just like NTT America’s other info centers, the new Santa Clara info center is designed for “enterprise-class buyers who are looking for state of the art facilities for their IT infrastructure”.   The new information center will integrate managed services and co location services to meet the particular needs of their solution. NTT America’s portfolio of [...]

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Sedo Debuts Domain Price Suggestion Tool

August 31, 2009

According to its statement late last week, Sedo’s Price Idea Tool helps Sedo users by proposing a fixed price for their domains, based totally on key traits of their domain name, offering sellers a key initial step in their sales process.  According to Sedo’s market research, a domain listed at a fixed price is 3 [...]

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ICANN Seeks Lobbyist, Hires Key Positions

August 31, 2009

According to the job posting, the applicant must “have intensive leadership and political experience as well as the power to successfully organize and execute ICANN’s policy, political and business objectives at the Fed. and world level.  The responsibilities of the supposed lobbyist include leading “the design and execution of state affairs strategies to recommend and [...]

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Peak 10 Exhibits at Game Developers Conference

August 31, 2009

The GDC Austin meeting will host delegates from computer and computer game firms around the globe. At the meeting, members of the Top 10 game technology team will talk to game firms about their technology and IT security desires and how Top 10’s virtualization and cloud-based computing solutions can benefit them. Top 10 will provide [...]

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“PubStop” Wins 34SP Pub Mashup Contest

August 31, 2009

Mashups are web applications that mix information or functionality from 2 or more sources into a single integrated application, often made by re-tooling open APIs and info sources like Google or Twitter to supply results that weren’t the first reason for manufacturing the raw source info. Phil Ronan’s bar mashup, PubStop, finds the nearest boozers [...]

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Latisys Expands Chicago Data Center

August 31, 2009

The company claims the enlargement is intended to meet its singificant expansion.  The Firm has doubled the scale of its Chicago worker base since the start of the year and is expecting to grow workers at the Chicago-area info center by a further thirty three % over the following half a year. Phase 1 of [...]

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Uptime Institute to Make Tier Guidelines More International

August 31, 2009

Having grown from the publication of the Tier Classifications Outline Site Infrastructure Performance white paper in latter 1990s, the Tier Classification System is at present the de facto world standard for objectively gauging an info center’s mission urgent functionality and efficacy.  “What makes a Tier four here may not make a Tier four there,” Wills [...]

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ServerBeach Goes Offline After Outage

August 31, 2009

Regardless of ServerBeach restoring the building’s power inside an hour of the outage at 5:30 pm EST, some consumers said that they were still experiencing issues well into Sat. morning. ServerBeach posted a communication on its purchaser forum addressing the event on Sat. . “On Aug 28th, at roughly 17:39 PDT there had been a [...]

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Consonus Hosts Virtualization Events

August 28, 2009

The first event, titled “Streamline Storage with Virtualization”, will be held on Sep 15th at the Consonus Info Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, followed by “Virtualization Showcase” on Sep 17th at Consonus HQ in Cary, North Carolina.  The events will supply attendees with info on virtualization technologies and techniques that may help IT departments optimize [...]

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