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📅 - AppRiver Spots September Virus Trends - Although virus activity tapered off in September, sophisticated phishing, Storm Worm and image spam attacks have contributed to the problems plaguing email according to email security provider AppRiver (http://www.appriver.com). While the total volume of spam emails fell in September to less than 11 billion messages, a three percent decrease from the previous month, more advanced spam and malware led to more focused and effective campaigns.AppRiver reported that the most notable phishing campaigns featured the US Presidential election, Hurricanes Gustav, Hannah, and Ike, and a fictitious nuclear meltdown in Canada. These attention-grabbing stories link to video that ...
📅 - Green Survey Finds Lack Of Funds - While a majority of chief information officers and other senior IT executives strongly agree that an environmentally friendly data center will become mission-critical in the coming years, yet many "lack the 'green' to go green," according to a new survey. Israeli server and storage switching and software developer Voltaire (http://www.voltaire.com) released the results of its survey Wednesday, finding almost 90 percent of executives polled said making their data centers more environmentally friendly is crucial in meeting their companies' business objectives in 2009, but 76 percent said they do not have a committed budget for a greening policy.The survey, which queried ...
📅 - Fasthosts Fined £1,500 - A UK judge has ordered Fasthosts (fasthosts.co.uk 👉 Total Reviews: 11
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👈 Official Responses: 0) to hand over almost £1,500 to a former client, for damages and fees for not honoring its uptime and customer service guarantees, according to reports from news site The Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk). Consultancy firm UK Mobile Media (http://www.ukmobilemedia.com) filed a complaint with Southampton small claims court after its web site reported 22 percent downtime for a four month period. UK Mobile Media had been paying about £15,000 per year for its dedicated infrastructure used to offer clients services such as mobile email. It was reportedly awarded £1,212.68 damages and £220 in fees and loss of earnings.The UK Mobile ...
📅 - Replace 3 Year Servers, says Memset - UK web hosting provider Memset (memset.com 👉 Total Reviews: 4
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👈 Official Responses: 0) 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 which showed that, on average, servers needlessly use 1000 kWh of energy, producing an excess of 632Kg of CO2 per server per year. These staggering results compelled the company to launch of a new range of servers in the UK entitled Eco Range that use only half the ...
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👈 Official Responses: 0) 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 which showed that, on average, servers needlessly use 1000 kWh of energy, producing an excess of 632Kg of CO2 per server per year. These staggering results compelled the company to launch of a new range of servers in the UK entitled Eco Range that use only half the ...
📅 - 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 (http://www.telegeography.com), internet traffic showed a growth of 53 percent, down from 61 percent reported in the preceding one year period ending in mid-2007. TeleGeography also reported that total internet capacity grew faster than internet traffic for the past two years, leading to lower utilisation levels on many internet backbones. A chart illustrating web traffic growth, ...
📅 - DataChambers Expands NC Facility - IT solutions firm DataChambers (http://www.datachambers.com) announced on Wednesday it is significantly expanding the infrastructure that supports the company's Winston-Salem, North Carolina data center. The company says it has signed 22 contracts for outsourced information technology services with companies spanning various industry sectors in the first half of 2008 alone. Located 18 feet underground in a blast-resistant building, the company's current data center houses dozens of systems for customers from across the nation. The expansion, which is expected to cost over $600,000, will increase the available floor space by 25 percent, while upgrading the ...