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Contributed by Wallace Manfrin on April 25 Questions have been raised as to the viability of the cloud computing system in light of recent technical difficulties faced by Amazon. Technical problems caused extensive interruption of the computer services provided by the company on Friday for the second day in a row

A screen shot of Greenpeace`s Dirty Energy report page (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- Environmental organization Greenpeace ( www.greenpeace.org ) announced on Thursday it has released a new study that highlights the rapidly growing environmental footprint of the online world and evaluates both good and bad energy choices made by top IT companies such as Facebook, Google, Apple, and Yahoo!. Titled “How Dirty is Your Data?,” the report details the large amount of electricity required to power cloud offerings

A screen shot of Greenpeace`s Dirty Energy report page (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- Environmental organization Greenpeace ( www.greenpeace.org ) announced on Thursday it has released a new study that highlights the rapidly growing environmental footprint of the online world and evaluates both good and bad energy choices made by top IT companies such as Facebook, Google, Apple, and Yahoo!. Titled “How Dirty is Your Data?,” the report details the large amount of electricity required to power cloud offerings

Apple’s iPhone, one of the devices running the IOS platform (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — According to several reports issued Friday, consumer electronics giant Apple ( www.apple.com ) issued version 4.3.2 of its IOS software, the platform that powers its iPhone and iPad devices this week, a patch that includes measures to address last month’s Comodo SSL breach. In March, two Comodo resellers were compromised by a hacker in an attack that led to the issuing of several rogue certificates for well-known communications services.

Apple’s iPhone, one of the devices running the IOS platform (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — According to several reports issued Friday, consumer electronics giant Apple ( www.apple.com ) issued version 4.3.2 of its IOS software, the platform that powers its iPhone and iPad devices this week, a patch that includes measures to address last month’s Comodo SSL breach. In March, two Comodo resellers were compromised by a hacker in an attack that led to the issuing of several rogue certificates for well-known communications services. All the major browser developers issued updates that marked those certificates as invalid

Timmons speaks at a Port of Quincy event relating to data center tax breaks (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — In a move that has been referred to alternately as “poaching,” “stealing” and “snagging,” Apple reportedly hired Microsoft’s data center general manager Kevin Timmons yesterday, to an unspecified position, though one generally expected to closely related to the company’s near-complete 500,000 square-foot data center in Maiden, North Carolina. In a post on his Green Data Center Blog, breaking the news that Timmons was leaving Microsoft for Apple , Dave Ohara observed that perhaps the most interesting point was the fact that the most scarce resource in the data center business was not power or cooling, but talent at the executive level. “It is such a small world in data centers and especially smaller for the executive rank,” wrote Ohara, “information flows as recruiters call and others want opinions on various candidates and companies to work for.  Besides the executives, senior data center design engineers are heavily recruited.” Timmons leaves the same post at Microsoft that Data Center GM Mike Manos left several years ago to work at Digital Realty Trust