April 26, 2011 — IT infrastructure hosting provider CAPS Inc. announced on Tuesday that it has completed the service auditor’s review of its general controls supporting its remote backup and recovery hosting solutions.
Updates from April, 2011
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Data Center Firm CAPS Completes SAS 70 Type II Audit
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Web Host SoftLayer Opens its First California Data Center
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April 26, 2011 — Web hosting provider SoftLayer Technologies announced on Monday it has opened its first California data center data center, located in San Jose.
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MessageLabs Security Report Sees April Spike in Daily Targeted Attacks
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April 26, 2011 — IT security provider Symantec announced on Tuesday it has published its April 2011 MessageLabs Intelligence Report, which saw the highest number of daily targeted attacks in over two years.
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US Could Save 188B in Data Center Consolidation Efforts says Study
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April 26, 2011 — IT government IT research group MeriTalk announced on Tuesday that it has released a new study that shows that Federal agencies could save $18.8 billion from their data center consolidation efforts.
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Hostway Named Microsoft Hyper-V Cloud Provider of the Year
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April 26, 2011 — Web hosting provider Hostway (www.hostway.com) announced on Tuesday that it has been chosen as the 2011 Microsoft Hyper-V Cloud Provider of the Year. The award was delivered at the opening keynote of the Microsoft Hosting Summit, held in late March in Bellevue, Washington.
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Italian Telco Tiscali Launches Storage Cloud Using Scality
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April 26, 2011 — Cloud storage technology provider Scality announced on Tuesday that Italian telecommunications carrier Tiscali has launched a storage-as-a-service cloud hosting offering based on Scality’s RING storage architecture – under the fairly straightforward moniker “Tiscali Cloud Storage.”
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Web Host Perigee Global Includes Voxel CDN in Hosting Plans
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April 25, 2011 — Cloud and managed hosting provider Voxel announced last week that its VoxCAST On-Demand CDN platform is now available for free for all Perigee Global’s hosting customers.
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Sony Says PlayStation Network Outage Self-Imposed Following Intrusion
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April 25, 2011 — Technology giant Sony said on Monday that a five-day outage affecting its PlayStation Network, the online service connected to the company’s PlayStation 3 video game console was the company’s own doing – a dramatic move in an attempt to protect user data, following the discovery of an intrusion.
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Iran Says it Was Targeted by Another Stuxnet-Like Worm Stars
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April 25, 2011 — In a report published Monday by Iran’s Mehr News Agency, an Iranian general involved in investigating the Stuxnet worm, which targeted Iran’s nuclear infrastructure last year, said the country has been targeted by a second worm, called Stars.
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Vantage 1102 GRAND Showcased Green Data Centers for Earth Day
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April 25, 2011 — To celebrate last Friday’s Earth Day, Rosendin Electric and Vantage Data Centers held the Smart Data Center Revolution, providing a tour of Vantage’s new energy-efficient data center campus.
