Web Host Interoute Launches Virtual Data Center Infrastructure as a Service

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Jan 26 2012) Cloud Computing

...public cloud. The virtual data center service allows users to select between different countries in Europe where the physical VDC infrastructure is located to comply with European data legislation. Interout......ification as well as ISO 27001 and PCI DSS compliance. “With Virtual Data Centre we are taking what Amazon has done in the world of public cloud computing and making it fit for all enterprise needs, either ... (Read Full Article)

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Europe Weighs a Tough Law on Online Privacy and User Data

Explore The New York Times (Jan 23 2012)

SAN FRANCISCO — Europe is considering a sweeping new law that would force Internet companies like Amazon.com and Facebook to obtain explicit consent from consumers about the use of their personal data, delete... (Read Full Article)

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2011 – the year Ireland became ‘home of the cloud’

Explore siliconrepublic.com (Dec 22 2011) Cloud Computing

...n meetings, and a crazy thought struck me. Nevermind Ireland’s pitch to be the ‘internet capital of Europe’, it is already the home of cloud computing in many ways. You see, most of the moving parts that......Data Electronics was bought by TeleCityEurope for €100m and earlier this year global internet giant Amazon bought a 22,539 sq-metre facility at Greenhills Industrial Estate in Dublin 24 to expand its ... (Read Full Article)

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Beijing hopes to dominate cloud computing with “Cloud Valley”

Explore SmartPlanet (Dec 16 2011) Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing

American firms like Amazon and Google may have pioneered cloud computing, but Beijing’s city government hopes the industry wil......Valley’s engineers have returned to China after working for IT firms and universities in the US and Europe, and Supercloud’s CEO studied computing in California. The Valley has managed to attract foreign fi... (Read Full Article)

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Web Host Savvis Hires Away Microsoft Amazon Cloud Executives

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Nov 15 2011) Cloud Computing

... sales position, according to the press release. Patton previously ran the Americas sales team for Amazon Web Services. This kind of hiring is prevalent in the industry as cloud providers look for the best......, Parker was most recently the general manager of the enterprise and partner group, Central Eastern Europe. In this position he was responsible for more than $1 billion in sales and software related to serv... (Read Full Article)

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Equinix Business Exchange Plays Proximity Card

Explore The New York Times (Oct 24 2011) Cloud Computing

...Appleby, the chief marketing officer. Equinix fields 99 data centers in 38 markets in the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Asia. It claims 4,000 business customers. Partnering with partners that use the sa......center hosts have done to cut latency times and boost throughput for business customers. In August, Amazon Web Services Direct Connect program gave large data center services companies, including Equinix, ... (Read Full Article)

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Iceland cometh

Explore SmartPlanet (Oct 5 2011)

...to move into the Verne center and use it to transmit data via subsea fiber that connects Iceland to Europe and the U.S. But, apparently deterred by unfavorable valued-added tax requirements (since rescinded...... media and communications, social networking, technology and software.” Datapipe also has ties to Amazon – the two companies work together to provide cloud computing services (exactly what they do togethe... (Read Full Article)

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Buildings house secret servers that keep net humming

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... in the footprints of the old," he says. Giant companies such as Google, Facebook, Apple, Yahoo and Amazon often build their data centers in rural areas. "They're looking for cheap power and cheap real esta......rust, which bought the building in 2005, owns 96 properties, most of them data centers, in the USA, Europe and Asia, Caron says. There is, he says, "a lot of demand" and the company ... (Read Full Article)

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Lightning Takes Down Amazon And Microsoft Clouds

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Aug 8 2011) Data Center Outages

... not say whether this system had come into play during yesterday’s power outage when asked by eWEEK Europe UK, but it appears it did not. By 15:00, Amazon’s dashboard had reported that 75 percent of the EC2 instances affected had been recovered but the l... (Read Full Article)

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Enterprise Plus For Amazon Virtual Private Cloud

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Aug 5 2011) Cloud Computing , Networking

...prise customers.” Available In All AWS Regions Part one of the three-part announcement is that AWS (Amazon Web Services) has extended Amazon VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) to all AWS Regions, enabling enterprises to launch their Amazon VPC environments in Europe, the US East and West Coasts, Singapore and Tokyo, and in multiple AWS Availability Zones within ea... (Read Full Article)

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Europe Turns to the Cloud

Explore The New York Times (Jul 24 2011) Cloud Computing

...chnology. The company carries out more than 1,000 deliveries a day over a cloud network operated by Amazon, the U.S. Web retailer. Amazon.com, one of the world’s largest sellers of cloud services, helped clinch deals with Shutl and other Eur......, and bigger clients like the European Space Agency and the Fraunhofer Institute of Germany, both Amazon clients, to use the cloud are signs that the outsourcing ... (Read Full Article)

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Amazon Slashes Cloud Data Transfer Fees

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Amazon Web Services Expands CDN and DNS Services in Sweden

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Jun 28 2011) Cloud Computing

... Justin Lee, June 28, 2011 * + Tweet + + A screenshot of the AWS Management Console Related Topics: europe content delivery network cloud computing domains amazon sweden (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Cloud services provider Amazon Web Services (aws.amazon.com) announced on Tuesday via its blog it has expanded content delivery service Amazon CloudFront (http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront) and DNS service Route 53 edge (http://aws.amazon.com/route53) with new locations ... (Read Full Article)

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AWS Uses Low-Density Containers To Cut Cooling Costs

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jun 15 2011) Servers

... are currently three sites under development in Virginia and Oregon, in the US, and in Ireland, for Europe. As a measure of this growth, James Hamilton, vice president and distinguished engineer for Amazon Web Services (AWS), has said that every day the company brings on stream as much compute power as i......y brings on stream as much compute power as it used in the first five years of its ... (Read Full Article)

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CO Domain Reaches 1 Million Registrations

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Jun 2 2011)

... to rebrand as O.CO. Overstock bought the one-character domain for $350,000 in July. Most recently, Amazon signed an agreement for an undisclosed amount to acquire A.CO, K.CO, Z.CO and Cloud.CO. "Entreprene......e world." According to the registry, North America accounts for half of .CO domain registrations. Europe accounts for approximately 25 percent of registrations. According to a report by ADI News, mu... (Read Full Article)

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The Good News About Cloud Architecture: Everything Fails

Explore Forbes.com Blogs (May 26 2011) Cloud Computing

...ional disaster recovery strategies. Several weeks later, the Elastic Block Storage system in one of Amazon’s data centers in the Eastern U.S. failed due to a faulty router upgrade and a cascade of resulting...... from my laptop I can launch servers in a dozen disparate locations worldwide – including the U.S., Europe, and Asia – for pennies per hour. As a result, I can design a system for my ... (Read Full Article)

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Fujitsu Offers Free Three-Month Ride on its Cloud

Explore Home | SYS-CON MEDIA (May 24 2011) Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing

...the turnkey Microsoft Azure platform appliance and services that go around it for sale in Japan and Europe. See http://solutions.us.fujitsu.com/cloud-beta-trial. Unlike Amazon, registrants can expect a background and credit check. About Maureen O'Gara Maureen O'Gara the most... (Read Full Article)

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eWEEK Readers Not Fazed By Amazon Cloud Outage

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (May 18 2011) Cloud Computing

...you all by. Next: let’s talk about physical servers A well-publicised outage at the market-leading Amazon EC2 service appears to have had little or no effect on eWEEK readers’ plans for cloud adoption. When a...... you will be looking at other cloud providers – which may be good news for choice in the market, as Amazon’s dominance is currently very strong. “In cloud services, if Amazon is Coke, there ... (Read Full Article)

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Sony, Amazon Problems Aren’t Unique To The Cloud

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (May 3 2011) Cloud Computing

...nherently less secure than those held in data centres. In fact, they may be more secure The recent Amazon EC2 outage and the Sony PlayStation Network data breach have served to renew concerns in enterprises th......ses that cloud computing is inherently less secure than private, self-contained data centres. Sony, Amazon Problems Aren’t Unique To The Cloud May 3, 2011 by Fahmida Y Rashid sonyplaystationhack Tweet Cloud... (Read Full Article)

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Dublin Emerges as Cloud Computing Hub

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 17 2011) Cloud Computing

...uge data centers powering the global cloud operations for two of the largest players in the sector, Amazon.com and Microsoft. Dublin also hosts major data centers operated by Digital Realty Trust and facilities......ealty Trust and facilities for IBM and SunGard, among others. Dublin has become a key gateway to Europe and beyond for U.S. companies due to several factors, including the city’s location, connectivity, ... (Read Full Article)

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Amazon Buys Tesco’s Dublin Shed For Cloud Services

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Feb 16 2011) Cloud Computing

...lin, as it plans to build a new data centre to accommodate its expanding cloud computer services in Europe. The big shed will house servers for Amazon’s rapidly-expanding European cloud business, which Amazon has spearheaded since it launched Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2002, and which has provided online services to other websites, including (un... (Read Full Article)

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Retaliation for Cloud Computing coming?

Explore greenm3.com (Jan 3 2011) Cloud Computing

...building a data center. Can a company who uses the cloud claim they have a green data center? Could Amazon or some other cloud provider give an environmental impact statement as part of their cloud use?  I ......oud provider give an environmental impact statement as part of their cloud use?  I think someone in Europe will do this before the US. Who would protest the coming of Cloud Computing?  The ... (Read Full Article)

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WikiLeaks, Amazon, the Cloud & the Law

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Dec 2 2010) Cloud Computing

...e and at this point, one can only wonder if Wikileaks paid their bills before getting dropped or if Amazon had to absorb the bandwidth spike.” WikiLeaks ousted by Amazon, moves to Europe – Netcraft has been providing regular updates on the shifts in Wikileaks’ infrastructure. Today’s u... (Read Full Article)

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Research Calls For End To Green IT Apathy

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Nov 24 2010) Monitoring , Carbon Footprint , Emissions

...print – particularly in relation to consumers’ regular use of online services, such as Facebook and Amazon. Research Calls For End To Green IT Apathy November 24, 2010 by Tom Jowitt greenpictree1 New resear...... consumption,” said Marina Stedman (left), EMEA director of marketing at nlyte, speaking to eWEEK Europe UK. “We also found that customers are pushing this off to outsourcing companies, but they also now ... (Read Full Article)

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