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Google Tops Greenpeace ‘Cool IT Leaderboard’ for Clean Energy Advocacy

February 8, 2012 — Non-profit environmental organization Greenpeace released the results of its fifth Cool IT leaderboard, a list that ranks 21 IT companies on clean energy use and green policy advocacy. Its latest report finds Google to be the top green IT leader.

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Facebook IPO Filing Details Data Center Spending

February 2, 2012 — With 845 million users, and more than half of users logging in everyday, Facebook has provided some insight into how much it costs to run its infrastructure through the release of its IPO filing on Wednesday. Facebook has invested more than $1 billion in its infrastructure, comprised of its own data centers in Oregon, North Carolina and Sweden, and leased facilities in California and Virginia, according to a report by Data Center Knowledge.

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Web Host Lightning Base Launches Version 2 of WordPress Hosting

February 1, 2012 — WordPress hosting provider Lightning Base announced on Wednesday that it has launched version 2.0 of its Wordpress hosting platform. The new release provides more compatibility for diverse WordPress setups and makes it easier for users to self-manage their service.

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Fujitsu Touts Web Hosting Application of High-Density Server Rack

January 25, 2012 — Data center hardware manufacturer Fujitsu issued a press release this week saying that the scale-out potential demonstrated in a recent test of its PRIMERGY CX1000 Cloud eXtension server rack illustrated the possible web-hosting and telecommunications application of the technology.

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Intel Appoints Data Center Group General Manager

January 23, 2012 — Intel announced on Thursday that it has made several changes to its senior management team, including its chief information officer and vice president Diane Bryant leading its data center business. Kim Stevenson vice president of It global operations and services, will succeed Bryant as CIO. According to the press release, Bryant will succeed Kirk Skaugen as general manager of Intel’s data center group.

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Web Host Cirrus Tech Launches CloudTO Cloud Hosting in Canada

January 17, 2012 — Web hosting provider Cirrus Tech announced on Tuesday that it has launched its CloudTO cloud hosting in Canada. The web host specializes in VPS and VM hosting and recently improved its VPS hosting services to provide private cloud environments, additional SaaS tools and extended support options.

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Data Center Outage Hits 400,000 Clients of Email Marketing Tool MailChimp

January 4, 2012 — Email marketing platform MailChimp experienced an outage at one of its data centers on Monday, affecting about 400,000 customers. According to a post by  founder and CEO Ben Chestnut on Tuesday, the issues stemmed from multiple hardware failures at its US1 data center.

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Web Host 1&1 Enhances Dedicated Server Line with 32 Core, 64 GB RAM Server

December 20, 2011 — Web hosting provider 1&1 announced on Tuesday that it has launched a new line of servers with 32 processor cores. With this release, 1&1 claims it is one of the first large scale web hosts to deliver dedicated servers with this capacity.

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ScaleMatrix Launches “Cloud in a Box” at CA World 2011

December 5, 2011 — In a press release issued Thursday, December 1, cloud computing technology provider ScaleMatrix announced that it had used the CA World 2011 event as the launch platform for its “Cloud in a Box” mobile compute platform.

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Italian ISP Libero Runs New Public Cloud on Joyent Cloud Platform

November 25, 2011 — Italian Internet service provider Libero announced on Friday that it has launched its public cloud based on Joyent’s SmartDataCenter cloud platform. This news comes a few months after Joyent launched its revamped public cloud platform.