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Parallels’ Server for Mac Bare Metal Edition

Parallels has introduced a bare-metal hypervisor solution for Apple Xserve systems. This product offers greater performance and hot migration to users, which lets a user migrate a system without going offline. The introduction also presents cloud services providers an opportunity to diversify their product offerings. GoDaddy is among companies that plan to support Parallels’ Server […]

CA expansion into cloud computing continues with 3Tera acquisition

CA is getting into cloud computing game. The company says it will acquire 3Tera, a privately-held company that recently launched Certified Cloud Operator and Certified Cloud Architect programs. 3Tera has over 80 enterprise and service provider customers. The company helps its customers maintain full control of cloud computing environments while provisioning and deploying. Among other […]

Emerson Network Power brings economization solutions for DCs

Emerson Network Power is now offering a an air- and fluid-side economization solutions for data centers. Its plant uses outside temperature to make water cool. Temperature of wet bulb, supply and return water are some of the aspects that affect the length of economization.

WordPress.com outage downs 10.2 million blogs for 2 hours

The giant of blog hosting WordPress.com has seen an outage Thursday this week that lasted for nearly 2 hours. An unscheduled router change took 10.0 million blogs down when all the mechanisms for failover also broke. The company is working on a plan to make sure a similar issue does not occur in the future.

Brainpulse Technologies’ offers free hosting service

Brainpulse Technologies has launched an ad-free web hosting services that is only available to college students and aspiring developers. It is a simple offer but enough to create a personal or a small business website. CPanel, 25MB of space, Javascript and PHP are part of the free package.

Yahoo! invests in new DC to support email and search engine services

Yahoo! has launched a new data center and a customer care center in La Vista, Nebraska – an investment worth $100 million. The facility will hold approximately 100,000 servers and will be operated by 50 employees, making it the company’s biggest data center to date. It will support the company’s core product offerings such as […]

Infosys opens Aussie data center, hires 100 employees

An Indian IT service provider Infosys Technologies has opened a data center in Australia. Last year the company signed a $450 million contract with Telstra, an Australian telecommunications firm, for which the new DC was built. Infosys Technologies expects 100 people to work at the data center, 90 of whom were already hired.

HostDime launches a division in India

A U.S.-based web hosting provider HostDime has launched an operation in India, which is company’s sixth international division. With an office in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India (west coast of the country), company’s clients have a choice to host either in Orlando, Florida or Mumbai, India.

Malware makers get into Olympic spirit

MessageLabs Intelligence has identified a few Olympic-themed malware being distributed via email. One of the cases included: “Information and resources to help you travel during the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games. TravelSmart 2010.htm” in the subject line of an email. Another one says, “How to make Olympics more interesting?”. The company advices the public to be […]

WebHost.Uk.Net brings Quad Core dedicated servers to customers

WebHost.Uk.Net has launched a new range of Dell managed dedicated servers, which utilize Intel Dual Core and Quad Core processors. According to the hosting provider, these machines should handle running complex applications with relative ease. The servers are connected by redundant gigabit connections and clients can choose to run either a Windows or Linux operating […]