August 17, 2011 — Cloud hosting and colocation provider ScaleMatrix announced on Tuesday that it has opened a 50,000 square foot data center in San Diego, California. ScaleMatrix has access to 11 additional data centers throughout the country through a partnership with Forsythe. According to the press release, the facility will create more than a hundred new jobs in the region.

Web Hosting – SANTA CLARA, CA – Vantage Data Centers, an innovative wholesale data center operator backed by the largest U.S. technology-based private equity firm, today announced the start of construction on V2 Santa Clara.

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

An image, courtesy of Cisco, of the company’s new Allen, Texas data center (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Networking hardware maker Cisco ( www.cisco.com ) unveiled its new data center in Allen, Texas this week, a facility that will support the company’s internal private cloud efforts, and its IT as a service offering, as well as serving as a showcase for the company’s own data center technology.

Web Hosting – TekLinks, a regional I.T. services provider headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, announced today their third data center is officially open. This state of the art facility will triple their data center space in the Birmingham area

Hosting Reviews – FORT COLLINS, CO – HP (NYSE:HPQ) today announced the opening of a state-of-the-art research facility in Fort Collins, Colo., in which the company will advance sustainable data center technologies. The new facility will expand on HP’s Converged Infrastructure architecture by developing technologies to eliminate IT sprawl, increase energy efficiency and reduce power consumption to help clients minimize their carbon footprint and reinvest cost savings into business innovation. Built in collaboration with HP Labs, the company’s central research facility, the 50,000 square-foot site will enable HP to explore new strategies for reducing the environmental impact of next-generation data centers.

An artist rendering of the Nuremberg facility (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Web hosting provider Hetzner Online AG ( www.hetzner.de ) announced last week its plans to open a new 430,000 square foot data center park in Nuremberg, Germany.