Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: After Controversial Content-Related Shutdown, Blog Host Blogetery is Back Online News: AMD Names Intel Engineer to VP and CTO of Server Division News: Q&A: Eirikur Hrafnsson, CEO and Founder, Greenqloud News: Afilias’ Project Safeguard Aims to Boost Global DNSSEC Deployment 50 Percent News: IBM Blames Texas’ DIR in Data Center Contract Dispute (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Processor maker AMD ( www.amd.com ) announced on Monday it has named Donald Newell, a senior principal engineer at Intel Labs, as the company’s new VP and CTO of its server division. Newell will report to Rick Bergman, senior VP and General Manager of AMD Products Group

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: After Controversial Content-Related Shutdown, Blog Host Blogetery is Back Online News: AMD Names Intel Engineer to VP and CTO of Server Division News: Q&A: Eirikur Hrafnsson, CEO and Founder, Greenqloud News: Afilias’ Project Safeguard Aims to Boost Global DNSSEC Deployment 50 Percent News: IBM Blames Texas’ DIR in Data Center Contract Dispute (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Several weeks after free blog hosting service, Blogetery ( www.blogetery.com ), was shuttered by its hosting provider, BurstNET ( www.burst.net ), for hosting content allegedly posted by members of terrorist group al-Qaeda, the blog site is back online with a new host. In July, it was reported that Blogetery was shut down in relation to a request from authorities  and what BurstNET described as “terrorist material” posted to a free blog, including “bomb-making instructions and an al-Qaeda ‘hit list.’” BurstNET later clarified that it had been alerted to the content by an unspecified law enforcement agency, and shut Blogetery down because of terms of service and acceptable use policy violations.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: After Controversial Content-Related Shutdown, Blog Host Blogetery is Back Online News: AMD Names Intel Engineer to VP and CTO of Server Division News: Q&A: Eirikur Hrafnsson, CEO and Founder, Greenqloud News: Afilias’ Project Safeguard Aims to Boost Global DNSSEC Deployment 50 Percent News: IBM Blames Texas’ DIR in Data Center Contract Dispute (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Several weeks after free blog hosting service, Blogetery ( www.blogetery.com ), was shuttered by its hosting provider, BurstNET ( www.burst.net ), for hosting content allegedly posted by members of terrorist group al-Qaeda, the blog site is back online with a new host. In July, it was reported that Blogetery was shut down in relation to a request from authorities  and what BurstNET described as “terrorist material” posted to a free blog, including “bomb-making instructions and an al-Qaeda ‘hit list.’” BurstNET later clarified that it had been alerted to the content by an unspecified law enforcement agency, and shut Blogetery down because of terms of service and acceptable use policy violations.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: After Controversial Content-Related Shutdown, Blog Host Blogetery is Back Online News: AMD Names Intel Engineer to VP and CTO of Server Division News: Q&A: Eirikur Hrafnsson, CEO and Founder, Greenqloud News: Afilias’ Project Safeguard Aims to Boost Global DNSSEC Deployment 50 Percent News: IBM Blames Texas’ DIR in Data Center Contract Dispute (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Internet infrastructure services provider Afilias ( www.afilias.info ) will be deploying Domain Name System Security Extensions across its registry platforms, signing 13 more top-level domains and increasing DNSSEC deployment among domain registries by 50 percent. According to Afilias’ Monday announcement, its “Project Safeguard” initiative will deploy DNSSEC extensions in 13 top-level domains not currently among the 26 TLDs that have already deployed DNSSEC.  Based on the proven strategy for the .ORG registry’s successful DNSSEC deployment effort , Afilias will adopt a similar, careful, step-by-step approach to the other domains starting with the .INFO domain in September, then moving on to TLDs it supports in Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Europe.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: After Controversial Content-Related Shutdown, Blog Host Blogetery is Back Online News: AMD Names Intel Engineer to VP and CTO of Server Division News: Q&A: Eirikur Hrafnsson, CEO and Founder, Greenqloud News: Afilias’ Project Safeguard Aims to Boost Global DNSSEC Deployment 50 Percent News: IBM Blames Texas’ DIR in Data Center Contract Dispute (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — IBM ( www.ibm.com ) said on Friday that the Texas’ Department of Information Resources’ letter to the company last week contained “inaccuracies” regarding its right to end their $863 million deal to consolidate the state’s data centers, according to a report by Data Center Knowledge . The two have been butting heads with one another for months.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: CoreLink Data Centers Relocates HQ, Opens New Facility News: Peer 1 Completes SAS70 Type II and CICA 5970 Audits News: Swedish Pirate Party to Host Wikileaks Servers News: Texas Seeks Help on IBM Data Center Contract News: Consonus Gets First Commercial Data Center Energy Star Seal (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The state of Texas has began searching for new companies to complete a massive data center consolidation project that IBM ( www.ibm.com ) is currently the lead contractor for, in the midst of an ongoing dispute between the two sides. The move could potentially bring an end to the seven-year deal IBM and Texas’ Department of Information Resources signed in 2006, which aimed to consolidate 28 state agencies into two data centers

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: CoreLink Data Centers Relocates HQ, Opens New Facility News: Peer 1 Completes SAS70 Type II and CICA 5970 Audits News: Swedish Pirate Party to Host Wikileaks Servers News: Texas Seeks Help on IBM Data Center Contract News: Consonus Gets First Commercial Data Center Energy Star Seal (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — According to several reports released late Tuesday and Wednesday, the much-discussed whistleblower website Wikileaks ( www.wikileaks.org ) has found new support, both ideological and technical, this week with the news that the Swedish political group The Pirate Party would host web servers for the Wikileaks site.