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Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: NaviSite Rejects Takeover Bid from Atlantic Investors Blogs: Should I buy customers or grow organically?

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: IBM Defends its Performance in TX Data Center Deal Blogs: Video Interview with Steve Lesem of Mezeo Software News: Cloud Platform FlexiScale to Provide Basis for EU’s €9M FP7 Initiative News: Cloud Firm ScaleUp Names Privacy and Security Officer News: Pentagon Spokesperson Asks WikiLeaks to Remove Classified War Documents (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The European Union ( www.europa.eu ) has chosen Flexiant’s ( www.flexiant.com ) cloud platform, FlexiScale, as the infrastructure foundation for a €9 million euro (about $11.9 million) Seventh Framework Programme (known as FP7) to enable the transition of mobile applications to the cloud. Conducted under the EU’s FP7 for research and technological development, the “4CaaSt” project will create a standards-based Platform as a Service platform that is not specific to one cloud provider or one technology. Ensuring uniformity of standards and protocols across the industry, 4CaaSt will help contribute to an ecosystem where applications from different providers can be tailored to different users, mashed up and traded together

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: IBM Defends its Performance in TX Data Center Deal Blogs: Video Interview with Steve Lesem of Mezeo Software News: Cloud Platform FlexiScale to Provide Basis for EU’s €9M FP7 Initiative News: Cloud Firm ScaleUp Names Privacy and Security Officer News: Pentagon Spokesperson Asks WikiLeaks to Remove Classified War Documents (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — European Cloud computing provider ScaleUp Technologies ( www.scaleupcloud.com ) announced on Friday it has appointed Scott Sanchez as privacy and security officer. One of Sanchez’s key responsibilities is in leading and developing ScaleUp’s Security Advisory Council, which will take input from end users around privacy and security issues. Comprised of customers and partners, Security Advisory Council will help guide the company’s security investments and focus

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: IBM Defends its Performance in TX Data Center Deal Blogs: Video Interview with Steve Lesem of Mezeo Software News: Cloud Platform FlexiScale to Provide Basis for EU’s €9M FP7 Initiative News: Cloud Firm ScaleUp Names Privacy and Security Officer News: Pentagon Spokesperson Asks WikiLeaks to Remove Classified War Documents (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Telecommunications provider Deutsche Telekom ( www.deutschetelekom.com ) announced on Friday it has named four new key executives.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: IBM Defends its Performance in TX Data Center Deal Blogs: Video Interview with Steve Lesem of Mezeo Software News: Cloud Platform FlexiScale to Provide Basis for EU’s €9M FP7 Initiative News: Cloud Firm ScaleUp Names Privacy and Security Officer News: Pentagon Spokesperson Asks WikiLeaks to Remove Classified War Documents (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The New York Stock Exchange ( www.nyse.com ) will open its massive trading data center in Mahwah, New Jersey next week before Monday’s opening bell, according to a report by The Record . The exchange group first announced it would be building the data center last September . Parent company NYSE Euronext says it plans to start  trading 19 stocks on servers “matching engines” housed inside the 400,000-square-foot data center, located along Route 17.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: IBM Defends its Performance in TX Data Center Deal Blogs: Video Interview with Steve Lesem of Mezeo Software News: Cloud Platform FlexiScale to Provide Basis for EU’s €9M FP7 Initiative News: Cloud Firm ScaleUp Names Privacy and Security Officer News: Pentagon Spokesperson Asks WikiLeaks to Remove Classified War Documents (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Following a number of high-profile hosting deals, Amazon Web Services ( aws.amazon.com ) could be well on its way to successfully tapping into the traditional Web hosting market, according to a top technology blog. After talking with AWS product management and developer relations vice president Adam Selipsky, influential blogger Om Malik wrote that Amazon may be “suddenly (and perhaps unintentionally) find[ing] itself competing with thousands of Web hosts.” Founder of the GigaOM Network, where he is currently a senior writer, Malik notes that AWS could very well threaten major web hosts such as RackSpace (www.rackspace.com) and The Planet ( www.theplanet.com ), which is in the process of merging with Web host SoftLayer ( www.softlayer.com ). Selipsky told Malik that AWS in being used by Newsweek and PBS’s network to host their websites.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: IBM Defends its Performance in TX Data Center Deal Blogs: Video Interview with Steve Lesem of Mezeo Software News: Cloud Platform FlexiScale to Provide Basis for EU’s €9M FP7 Initiative News: Cloud Firm ScaleUp Names Privacy and Security Officer News: Pentagon Spokesperson Asks WikiLeaks to Remove Classified War Documents (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — In a briefing at the Department of Defense, Pentagon spokesperson Geoff Morrell has called on the controvertial WikiLeaks ( www.wikileaks.org ) organization to return all the classified war documents in their possession and remove them from the WikiLeaks site . WikiLeaks has faced strong opposition from government officials since it released close to 100 thousand military documents last week, which provided the basis for allegations that Pakistan has been aiding Afghan insurgents , as well as evidence of previously unreported civilian casualties.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: IBM Defends its Performance in TX Data Center Deal Blogs: Video Interview with Steve Lesem of Mezeo Software News: Cloud Platform FlexiScale to Provide Basis for EU’s €9M FP7 Initiative News: Cloud Firm ScaleUp Names Privacy and Security Officer News: Pentagon Spokesperson Asks WikiLeaks to Remove Classified War Documents (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The New York Stock Exchange ( www.nyse.com ) will open its massive trading data center in Mahwah, New Jersey next week before Monday’s opening bell, according to a report by The Record . The exchange group first announced it would be building the data center last September . Parent company NYSE Euronext says it plans to start  trading 19 stocks on servers “matching engines” housed inside the 400,000-square-foot data center, located along Route 17

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: CSC Wins $104M Contract with US Army Aviation and Missile Research News: Google, Verizon Near Agreement on Prioritizing Content: Reports Articles: Going Beyond The Fog Of Private Clouds Blogs: Video Interview with Todd Abrams of Layered Tech News: IT Firms to Heavily Invest in Green Data Centers: Report (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — A report from the New York Times  has suggested that a possible deal between online services provider Google ( www.google.com ) and broadband provider Verizon ( www.verizon.com ) could result in a system where content creators can pay extra for faster content delivery.