An image of The Benaroya Company’s South Hill North Data Center (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- The Benaroya Company ( www.benaroya.com ) announced on Tuesday that its South Hill North Data Center ( http://www.southhilldatacenter.com/SouthDataCenter.aspx ) in Puyallup, Washington has earned the Gold Certification from the US Green Building Council’s LEED program ( www.usgbc.org/LEED ) for the design, construction and operation of energy efficient buildings. The facility joins only a handful of data centers around the country to earn the upper-tier certification, including IBM’s Raleigh, North Carolina data center , Sabey Data Centers’ Intergate.Columbia facility in East Wenatchee, Washington , and eBay’s flagship data center in Salt Lake City . South Hill’s commissioned data center delivers 56,605 square feet of raised floor space, robust critical infrastructure scalable up to 260 watts per square foot, uninterruptable low cost power and energy efficiency for extremely low total operating cost.  Additionally, South Hill utilizes clean energy in the form of wind and hydroelectric power.  “South Hill Data Center is very attractive both fiscally and environmentally,” says Larry Benaroya  of The Benaroya Company, which developed and owns South Hill

An image of The Benaroya Company’s South Hill North Data Center (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- The Benaroya Company ( www.benaroya.com ) announced on Tuesday that its South Hill North Data Center ( http://www.southhilldatacenter.com/SouthDataCenter.aspx ) in Puyallup, Washington has earned the Gold Certification from the US Green Building Council’s LEED program ( www.usgbc.org/LEED ) for the design, construction and operation of energy efficient buildings. The facility joins only a handful of data centers around the country to earn the upper-tier certification, including IBM’s Raleigh, North Carolina data center , Sabey Data Centers’ Intergate.Columbia facility in East Wenatchee, Washington , and eBay’s flagship data center in Salt Lake City .

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A screen shot of the Data Centres in Europe Awards award nominations (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- The Green Grid ( www.thegreengrid.org ) announced on Tuesday it has given its endorsement to the Green Award for Sustainability in Data Centers, to be presented at the annual Data Centres in Europe Awards which takes place on June 2 in London ( www.datacentres.com/awards2011 ). The announcement comes a month after The Green Grid launched three new metrics at its annual Technical Forum. Now in its fourth year, the European awards will recognize panel the technical and commercial success of the data center industry in Europe

A screenshot from CouponFollow’s list of elephant-related hosting and domain coupons (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — A coupon code tracking website CouponFollow ( www.couponfollow.com ) issued a press release this week, saying it has seen a spike in discounted offerings from web hosting providers targeting customers looking to move their accounts away from hosting giant Go Daddy in the wake of a controversial video of the company’s CEO Bob Parsons shooting and killing an elephant while on vacation in Zimbabwe. Parsons discussed the video in a phone interview with the WHIR , in which he credited “a very vocal minority” with producing most of the objection to the video. He says he isn’t worried about a backlash, and he actually expects the company to end up with more new business because of the controversy (though he says that wasn’t why he posted the video).

Austin, TX, April 01, 2011 —(PR.com)— Green web hosting provider, Green Host It, Inc., announced that it will be exhibiting at the Austin GoGreen conference to be held at the Austin Convention Center, April 6. The move comes a week before the one year anniversary of the web host and underscores the company’s commitment to businesses and environmentally friendly green practices. Additionally, Green Host It is offering a $25 discount for all attendees that enter coupon code GHI upon registering for the convention

A screenshot from CouponFollow’s list of elephant-related hosting and domain coupons (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — A coupon code tracking website CouponFollow ( www.couponfollow.com ) issued a press release this week, saying it has seen a spike in discounted offerings from web hosting providers targeting customers looking to move their accounts away from hosting giant Go Daddy in the wake of a controversial video of the company’s CEO Bob Parsons shooting and killing an elephant while on vacation in Zimbabwe. Parsons discussed the video in a phone interview with the WHIR , in which he credited “a very vocal minority” with producing most of the objection to the video.

Austin, TX, April 01, 2011 –( PR.com )– Green web hosting provider, Green Host It, Inc., announced that it will be exhibiting at the Austin GoGreen conference to be held at the Austin Convention Center, April 6. The move comes a week before the one year anniversary of the web host and underscores the company’s commitment to businesses and environmentally friendly green practices. Additionally, Green Host It is offering a $25 discount for all attendees that enter coupon code GHI upon registering for the convention

Hosting Reviews – Cupertino, CA – Cloud.com, a provider of open source cloud computing software, today announced that KT, Korea’s largest landline operator and mobile service provider, has selected its flagship technology, CloudStack™, as the foundation for its new public cloud offering, KT ucloud.

An ariel shot of Vantage’s data center campus (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Wholesale data center operator Vantage Data Centers ( www.vantagedatacenters.com ) announced on Wednesday it will be hosting the “Smart Data Center Revolution” at its Santa Clara data center campus on April 22 from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. The event will celebrate the largest LEED platinum candidacy campus in the US, highlighting Vantage Data Center’s Santa Clara project as an example of how companies can work together.  Vantage launched as a company last June , following its acquisition of a 18-acre site on Walsh Avenue.