January 23, 2012 — Data center management software provider Rackwise announced on Monday that it ecommerce web hosting firm SimpleHelix has chosen its DCIM software as a service offering to plan, manage and optimize its IT infrastructure.
January 16, 2012 — Online retailer Zappos announced on Sunday that the passwords, email addresses, and partial credit card information belonging to 24 million customers may have been exposed in an attack on a server in a Kentucky data center. On Monday morning Zappos website was unavailable to international traffic. Zappos has also shut down its phone support lines and is accepting email only.