Inside BendBroadband’s data center (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- Web hosting provider BendBroadband ( www.bendbroadband.com ) announced on Monday it has launched the Vault, a 30,000 square foot Tier III enterprise-class green data center in Bend, Oregon.

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 capture of Google`s PPA Oklahoma wind energy video (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- Google announced via its blog it has signed a power purchase agreement for wind energy in Oklahoma, marking its second renewable energy purchase in less than a year. In a recently released Greenpeace report r, the environmental organization highlighted IBM and Google efforts in demonstrating the best overall approach to reducing their current footprints.

A screen capture of Google`s PPA Oklahoma wind energy video (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- Google announced via its blog it has signed a power purchase agreement for wind energy in Oklahoma, marking its second renewable energy purchase in less than a year. In a recently released Greenpeace report r, the environmental organization highlighted IBM and Google efforts in demonstrating the best overall approach to reducing their current footprints.

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

An image of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- Tennessee-based Oak Ridge National Laboratory ( www.ornl.gov ) was hit with a spear phishing attack Friday, forcing the federal data center to cut Internet access for employees, according to a report by Wired . The federal government lab said the cybercriminals only managed to steal a “few megabytes” of information before it realized that the data was being transferred from a server. As of Tuesday, the lab could not say what the stolen data actually entailed

Web Hosting – New measurements for data centre efficiency defined by industry alliance The Green Grid, will feature in a plenary debate at the 7th annual DataCentres 2011 The Green Grid consortium, which developed the widely used PUE metric for measuring energy efficiency in data centres, has launched new metrics to address carbon emissions and water usage. Carbon usage efficiency – CUE – is intended to help managers determine the amount of greenhouse gas emissions generated in delivering work from the IT gear in a data centre facility. The event features an in depth assessment of these new tools and includes Mark Monroe, Executive Director of The Green Grid, Andre Rouyer, Chair EMEA Liaison Committee, The Green Grid, Christina Page, Director, Climate and Energy Strategy, Yahoo! Inc, Alain Anglade, Director Data Centre Energy, ADEME [Agence de l'Environnement et de la Maitrise de l'Energie], Dr