Hackers Target European Web Host 123-reg in DDoS Attack

Explore Web Host Industry Review (May 24 2012)

...tatus page, 123-reg advised customers to keep up to date via its phone status message, Twitter, and Facebook accounts in the event of a DDoS attack since access to its status page could be intermittent. While......t for this type of activity, and we know this type of activity is on the increase – particularly in Europe – as recent press coverage has shown.” At the end of April, UK-based web hosting ... (Read Full Article)

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Apple’s data center in Maiden gets approval for fuel-cell plant

Explore News, Sports, Business, Politics (May 23 2012) Construction , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell

... and service. Two congressional committees are looking into the troubled initial public offering of Facebook Inc., aides said Wednesday. A big final-hour comeback pulled the Dow Jones industrial average nearl......e the stock started trading. Asian stock markets faltered Thursday as the lack of a breakthrough in Europe's attempts to shake off its debt crisis kept sentiment gloomy. Grading work continues at the site o... (Read Full Article)

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Why Facebook’s IPO is Good for the Data Center Industry

Explore Data Center Knowledge (May 18 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

...e size of our infrastructure, ” the company said in its IPO filing. “We are investing in additional Facebook-owned data centers in the United States and Europe and we aim to deliver Facebook products rapidly and reliably to all users around the world.” (Read Full Article)

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DealBook: Spotify Deal Would Value Company at $4 Billion

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...to the United States only last year underscores how fast the online music start-up, built on top of Facebook’s social network, has grown. Founded in Sweden in 2006, Spotify operated for years in Europe, but it did not make its American debut until last year, after protracted negotiations with record ... (Read Full Article)

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Will Facebook’s IPO Have a Web Hosting Impact?

Explore Web Host Industry Review (May 17 2012)

...b hosts and other security providers can identify an opportunity. For example, StopTheHacker offers Facebook malware scanning to web hosting customers through various partnerships including one with Host Europe. Stay tuned for the launch of the digital edition of the WHIR magazine on Thursday focused on how w... (Read Full Article)

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Cisco Helps Iceland’s Farice Play a Key Role in Green Cloud Computing

Explore Home | SYS-CON MEDIA (May 12 2012)

...er to grow their economies with new data center facilities. A publicly announced example of this is Facebook which has built an enormous facility in northern Sweden. Iceland with its cooler temperatures and g......h its cooler temperatures and green geothermal power, plus ideal location between North America and Europe has seen a significant growth in its data center industry. However, being an island nation it faces... (Read Full Article)

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Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of May 5

Explore Data Center Knowledge (May 5 2012) Construction , Fuel Cell , Cloud Computing

...eet demand from Apple and other new clients. European Giant OVH to Enter US Hosting Market – One of Europe’s largest web hosting companies is entering the North American market. French hoster OVH, which ope......nter news by subscribing to our RSS feed and daily e-mail updates, or by following us on Twitter or Facebook or join our LinkedIn Group – Data Center Knowledge. (Read Full Article)

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Updated: Nordics emerge as top green datacentre location

Explore businessgreen.com (Apr 30 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Geothermal

...ise of the Nordics, which may in the future dilute the market share from the traditional centres in Europe," said Keith Inglis, partner in the European datacentre advisory group at Cushman & Wakefield. "Goo......acentre advisory group at Cushman & Wakefield. "Google has built a facility in Hamina, Finland, and Facebook is constructing a substantial new datacentre in Lulea, Sweden. "The cool climate is ideal for free ... (Read Full Article)

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Nordic Countries Increasingly Attractive as Sites for Data Centers

Explore The New York Times (Apr 30 2012)

At the edge of this small northern city, in a thicket of trees and hardened snow, a future hub of Facebook’s global data traffic is taking shape.Scaffolding still clings to its exterior, but soon, the struc......his is just the beginning,” Mr. Engman said. “What we want is to be the hub for all data traffic in Europe.”As computing moves to the cloud, where music, photos and ... (Read Full Article)

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Green Data Centers: Is It Worth Running a “Losing” Race?

Explore Triple Pundit (Apr 26 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

...) of just under 30 percent between 2011 and 2016. Double-digit revenue growth is also projected for Europe and North America (CAGRs of almost 27 percent for both markets).” Is it possible to “go green” fast......h have become more active in supporting policies to drive greater renewable energy investment. * Facebook, one of the largest online destinations with over 800 million users around the world, has now commi... (Read Full Article)

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U.S. Still Best Data Center Location, But Nordics Gaining

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Apr 25 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling

...ise of the Nordics, which may in the future dilute the market share from the traditional centres in Europe,” said Keith Inglis, partner in the EMEA Data Centre Advisory Group at Cushman & Wakefield. “Google......a Centre Advisory Group at Cushman & Wakefield. “Google has built a facility in Hamina, Finland and Facebook is constructing a substantial new data center in Lulea, Sweden. The cool climate is ideal for free ... (Read Full Article)

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Edison's Revenge: The Rise of DC Power

Explore Technology Review (Apr 24 2012) Construction , Solar , Cloud Computing

...zed data center in the U.S. at $1.2 million, and the value should be considerably more in Japan and Europe, where power prices are higher. Also catching on are DC lighting circuits. Emerge Alliance, a conso......ity to stabilize the grid Homomorphic Encryption Making cloud computing more secure Social Indexing Facebook remaps the Web to personalize online services (Read Full Article)

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Letter to Ballmer, Bezos, Cook: Go to Iceland

Explore SmartPlanet (Apr 20 2012)

...rs that drive your cloud computing operations. It says that compared to other big IT companies like Facebook, Google and Yahoo, you use too much coal and nuclear, and not enough “renewable” power. “Three of t......rd of in a world of volatile fossil fuel energy prices. It has good high-speed fiber connections to Europe and North America, which are set to get even better when League City, Texas-based Emerald ... (Read Full Article)

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Cool like Facebook: Where does free cooling make sense?

Explore GreenBiz.com (Apr 17 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Servers

Air conditioners may soon be a thing of the past, as major companies like Facebook, eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) make the switch from mechanical cooling to outside a......cooling can be used year round in more than 75 percent of North America and more than 97 percent of Europe, even in places with temperatures as high as 113 degrees Fahrenheit. Other countries present more o... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   The Green Grid   Facebook

European Data Centre News: Facebook, Interxion, Sefaira

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Apr 11 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

News from across the Atlantic includes funding for Facebook from the EU, Service provider FFastFill locating in Interxion London, and 10.8 million funding for ...... and materials manufacturers on a global scale. For more European data centre coverage, visit DCK’s Europe channel. (Read Full Article)

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Iceland Exports Energy as Data

Explore Technology Review (Apr 11 2012) Cloud Computing

...rs. Every decade or so, someone runs the numbers to see what it would cost to plug the country into Europe's electricity grid. Depending on where it made land, the cable would have to be around twice the le...... an edge. Greenpeace last year published a report excoriating major tech firms, including Apple and Facebook, for relying on coal and nuclear energy to power server farms. "We see this ... (Read Full Article)

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Iceland, Data-Center Hub?

Explore BusinessWeek (Mar 29 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Geothermal

...Iceland, Data-Center Hub? By Jonathan Browning and Omar R. Valdimarsson on March 29, 2012 * Tweet * Facebook * LinkedIn * Google Plus * Comments * Email * Print Related * Tech_smartphones11__01__190x127 Story......s Iceland, population 319,575, is seeking to reinvent itself as a secure data haven halfway between Europe and North America as it recovers from a near total economic collapse and the 2008 failure of its t... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Verne Global

Cloud computing = green it....right?!

Explore Billing and OSS World (Mar 21 2012)

...Let me explain.   The green of IT regularly garners headlines. Some examples from the past year are Facebook's Open Compute Project Initiative, Google's Solar initiatives andIvanpah Solar Electric Generating ......ight?! 39 minutes ago Comments Posted in Blog, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Data Centers, North America, Europe Print Peter Caron By Peter Caron We all know that green IT can only be built with cloud technology.... (Read Full Article)

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Data Center Pulse IDs Top 10 Industry Challenges

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 13 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing

...n the intended audience for the Top 10. Large organizations like Microsoft, Yahoo, eBay, Google and Facebook have eliminated many of the bariers between facilities and IT, a trend that needs to penetrate the ......es of electricity. Data Center Pulse sees potential for progress in approaches that have worked in Europe, where renewable power is more readily available than in the U.S. These include focusing business d... (Read Full Article)

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Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of Feb. 24th

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 25 2012) Construction , Fuel Cell , Solar , Cloud Computing

..., Oregon, and plans to build a major data center in the rural town, which is already home to a huge Facebook data center campus. A deed filed last week shows that Apple has purchased the land from Crook Count......atts of capacity to its data center in Dublin, Ireland, which powers its online services throughout Europe and the Middle East, the company said today. The new expansion will feature enhancements ... (Read Full Article)

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Delegation Aims To Pull Silicon Valley Data Centres To Sweden

Explore TechWeekEurope UK (Feb 23 2012) Construction

...will cover 30,000m² (35,880yds²), equivalent to four soccer pitches, and will serve the 300 million Facebook users in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. (Read Full Article)

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Europe Weighs a Tough Law on Online Privacy and User Data

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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 that data fo... (Read Full Article)

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Are Clouds Green?

Explore BBC - Homepage (Dec 20 2011)

...tes - every click uses energy somewhere. But a new breed of data centres is opening up in northern Europe - cooled by the chilly air and powered by cheap renewable energy. Facebook became the latest company to move north last month, when it announced plans to build a new data cen... (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

...rate at higher-temperatures, along the lines of the fresh-air “Free Cooling” system developed at Facebook’s data centers. Cloud Valley’s firms aren’t content with serving the growing Chinese market, but ho......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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