Managed Data Names Sales Exec / Data center operator Managed Data Holdings (manageddataholdings.com) announced on Monday it has hired Don Goodwin as executive vice president of sales, marketing and channel partnerships.
He will be responsible for driving the sales for the company's three current data centers, which includes its recently acquired Stargate facility in Oak Brook, Illinois, as well as the Denver Data393 facil ...
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Rackspace Aims at Asian Market / Early on Monday, hosting company Rackspace (rackspace.com) issued the announcement that it had established an Asian headquarters and a data center in Hong Kong, exhibiting, according to the press release, the company's confidence in the business opportunity represented by the area.
Rackspace's plans for the region include an investment of "at least $20 million," which covers the lease on the ...
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Google to Build Water-Based Facility / According to several reports on Monday, search engine giant Google (google.com) has filed a patent for what the company calls a "water-based data center," which will use waves from the ocean to provide power and cooling to portable facilities.
In its patent, Google writes that its "computing centers are located on a ship or ships, which are then anchored in a water body from which energy from ...
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Replace 3 Year Servers, says Memset / UK web hosting provider Memset (memset.com) announced on Friday it has found that "ripping and replacing" servers that are over three years old is essential.
In fact, holding onto these old servers is neither economically nor environmentally sound for companies, says Memset. The study comes just a couple weeks after European web hosting provider Amenworld revealed the results of its study wh ...
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Web Traffic Grows 53%, Capacity More / Global internet traffic grew by over half in the one-year period ending in mid-2008, with the US and Latin America leading expansion, growing 112 percent year-over-year, while overall capacity continues to keep ahead of demand.
According to a new study by IT research firm TeleGeography (telegeography.com), internet traffic showed a growth of 53 percent, down from 61 percent reported in the p ...
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