Federal US Government Shutting Down 137 Data Centers in 2011

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Apr 292011
 

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- Federal CIO Vivek Kundra announced on Thursday that the US Federal government has already shut down 39 data centers just four months of 2011, according to a report by Data Center Knowledge.

If the government manages to succeed, it will shut down a total of 137 data centers in the first year of the Obama administration’s massive initiative to consolidating data centers run by Federal agencies.

Earlier this week, MeriTalk issued a new study that showed that the consolidation efforts could save the government $18.8 billion.

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Customer Data Reportedly Lost In Amazon EC2 Outage

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Apr 282011
 

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — According to reports issued Thursday, last week’s major outage at Amazon’s EC2 cloud computing service resulted in the permanent loss of some customer data. A report published in Business Insider Thursday included a notice sent to a “big customer,” informing them of the data loss.

Business Insider reports that the data lost was “small” relative to the total data stored, but rightly points out that with the massive volume of data residing on EC2 and AWS database instances, even a tiny percentage could be a huge amount of data, and damaging to a customer.

“A few days ago we sent you an email letting you know that we were working on recovering an inconsistent data snapshot of one or more of your Amazon EBS volumes,” says the letter, quoted in the BI piece. “We are very sorry, but ultimately our efforts to manually recover your volume were unsuccessful.  The hardware failed in such a way that we could not forensically restore the data.”

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Storage Firm TwinStrata Launches CloudArray V25

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Apr 282011
 

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- Data storage provider TwinStrata (www.twinstrata.com) announced on Thursday it has launched CloudArray Version 2.5 (www.twinstrata.com/CloudArray-software).

This latest release includes new features and performance improvements including volume expansion, bandwidth throttling and scheduling, and automatic metadata backup to the CloudArray portal.

Additionally, CloudArray now has two new physical appliances to meet the increasingly stringent performance and availability needs for enterprise environments.

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DiscountASPNET Extends Hosted Team Foundation Server to Europe

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Apr 282011
 

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- Hosting and SaaS solutions provider DiscountASP.NET (www.discountasp.net) reported on Thursday that it is extending its hosted Team Foundation Server SaaS offering to Europe, delivered from a data center based in the UK.

Team Foundation Server 2010 is part of Microsoft’s Visual Studio, the collaboration platform that is central to the software company’s application lifecycle management solution. Using DiscountASP.NET’s hosted TFS solution, developers use Visual Studio development tools to manage source control and track bugs, either alone or with a team.

DiscountASP.NET first launched its TFS server SaaS product in October of 2010.

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Verizon Develops New Metric to Measure its Carbon Efficiency

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Apr 282011
 

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- Telecommunications provider Verizon (www.verizon.com) announced on Thursday it has developed a new metric for measuring carbon efficiency, which will allow the company to accurately quantify the impact of all of its green initiatives.

The metric will help the company to continually improve energy conservation and efficiency, as the rapid increase in demand for broadband, IP network services, wireless data and video increases the demands on the company’s network – and the amount of energy needed to operate the network.

Dubbed the “carbon intensity metric,” the new measurement was developed by Verizon’s Sustainability Office and tested over the past 12 months by the group.

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Cloud Storage Firm Caringo Names Storage Veteran Its Marketing Head

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Apr 282011
 

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- Cloud storage technology firm Caringo (www.caringo.com) announced this week that it had appointed industry veteran Adrian J. Hererra, formerly of cloud storage technology firm Nirvanix, as its senior director of marketing.

Hererra, says Caringo, most recently was marketing head at Nirvanix, and a member of the founding team, giving him experience being involved in bringing an innovative storage product to market. He was responsible for closing the company’s initial customers, and Nirvanix grew from its initial stages to more than 700 customers during his tenure.

Prior to joining Nirvanix, Herrera was director of business development at a consumer cloud storage service, which is not explicitly identified in the press release, but appears to be a service called Streamload, according to Herrera’s page on LinkedIn.  There, he defined the company’s B2B web services strategy.

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HP Wins 25 Billion NASA Cloud Services Contract

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Apr 282011
 

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- IT services giant HP  (www.hp.com) announced on Thursday that its enterprise services unit has been awarded a $2.5 billion services contract with NASA (www.nasa.gov).

In the fixed price deal, HP will provide end-user desktop services and devices that will “increase NASA’s efficiency and allow its employees to more easily collaborate in a secure computing environment”. The contract is for a four year term with two three year option periods.

As a part of NASA’s agency consolidated end-uer service program, HP will update NASA’s entire end-user infrastructure by delivering a full range of personal computing services and devices to more than 60,000 users.

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Cloud Host Rackspace Extends Cloud Files CDN with CNAMES Support

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Apr 282011
 

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cloud hosting provider Rackspace (www.rackspace.com) announced today that, through a partnership with content delivery network operator Akamai (www.akamai.com), it has expanded the functions of its Cloud Files cloud storage offering by adding CDN support for CNAMES.

Rackspace says its Cloud Files storage solution is built on the OpenStack Object Storage technology, and provides enterprise-ready, scalable storage and serves content through a CDN based on Akamai’s service.

The CNAMES function lets users of Rackspace’s Cloud Files integrated with Akamai’s content delivery network to map the long and complex CDN URLs associated with stored CDN content to shorter, branded URLs.

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Web Host Codero Launches Disaster Recovery Services

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Apr 282011
 

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider Codero (www.codero.com) announced on Wednesday that it has launche a new service around developing customized off-site disaster recovery solutions, including design, deployment and management functions.

The company says its new disaster recovery solution is – like disaster recovery solutions in general – is designed to help enterprise customers ensure the continuity of mission critical applications, data and communications systems in the event of an unplanned outage or disaster.

Codero says the solution is built on EVault backup storage, stored at an off-site location, and features secure data transfer. The solution supports Windows, Linux and Unix operating systems.

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Web Host Site5 Adds New Option to Host in Australia

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Apr 282011
 

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- Web hosting provider Site5 (www.site5.com) announced on Tuesday via its company blog that it has added a new data center location of Sydney, Australia.

The move comes a couple months after Site5 partnered with hosting software provider CloudLinux to improve the stability of Site5′s servers.

The company said it decided to honor the “countless requests for an Australian option” from customers for the Australian location.

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