September 19, 2008 — Data center management and holding company Digital Realty Trust has announced a data centre it is building has been awarded the first BREEAM “Excellent” environmental rating in the UK from the Building Research Establishment.
September 18, 2008 — Cybersquatters are quickly scooping up domain names corresponding to recent bank mergers with many of them already being sold online, after reports of the proposed mergers surfaced Friday, according to the BBC.
July 11, 2008 — According to reports on Thursday, the website of The Financial Times encountered a bit of struggle after the theft of equipment at its third-party data center.
May 9, 2008 — Any other week, the big, notable thing about this week’s news would be the steady continuation of the flood of data center openings we’ve seen in recent weeks. But this week also saw the utterly remarkable matter of two separate disappearances of servers containing customer data from facilities.
May 9, 2008 — Financial institution HSBC admitted this week to losing a server containing transaction data on 159,000 account holders from its Hong Kong branch office.
April 24, 2008 — Internet infrastructure services provider VeriSign announced on Wednesday that HSBC will be implementing VeriSign’s EV SSL certificates to protect its three million UK customers registered for online banking services.
April 7, 2008 — HSBC is reportedly on the verge of being investigated by UK financial watchdog the Financial Services Authority after it revealed it misplaced a CD containing the private information of 370,000 customers, four weeks ago.
April 4, 2008 — UnitedLayer announced on Friday it is once again expanding its turn-key data center space at the Digital Realty Trust facility located at 200 Paul Avenue in San Francisco, California.
February 12, 2008 — Data center operator Digital Realty Trust announced on Tuesday that Web hosting provider Hosted Solutions will establish a mission critical data center in DRT’s 125 North Myers Street facility in Charlotte, North Carolina.
February 1, 2008 — Data center operator Digital Realty Trust announced on Friday that it has begun constructing a built-to-suit data center facility for banking and financial services institution HSBC.
