Web Hosting – Denver, CO – ViaWest, a leading provider of colocation, hosting, and managed services, announced the grand opening of its twenty-first enterprise-class data center located in Portland, Oregon. Hillsboro II is the company’s second data center investment in the region. Grand opening ceremonies are scheduled for May 12 and will feature tours of the new facility, product overviews, and local celebrity appearances

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. First announced last June , the data center has partnered with managed hosting provider Logicalis ( www.logicalis.com ) to offer a full host of dedicated managed services, in addition to colocation, disaster recovery, and cloud computing services. The data center is built in a former warehouse in the Basalt Business Park at 20845 Sockeye Place, located in Oregon’s Enterprise Zone

Dave Leonard, SVP of data center operations at ViaWest (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Web hosting provider ViaWest ( www.viawest.com ) announced on Thursday that the grand opening ceremony for its Portland, Oregon data center are scheduled for May 12.  According to the press release, Hillsboro II is the company’s second data center investment in the region. “ViaWest continually invests in its data centers, technology, and people,” Roy Dimoff, chairman and CEO of ViaWest said in a statement. “We are very excited to expand both our investment and our local involvement in the Portland area.”  ViaWest says it owns and operaties 21 data centers including Hillsboro II

Dave Leonard, SVP of data center operations at ViaWest (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Web hosting provider ViaWest ( www.viawest.com ) announced on Thursday that the grand opening ceremony for its Portland, Oregon data center are scheduled for May 12.  According to the press release, Hillsboro II is the company’s second data center investment in the region. “ViaWest continually invests in its data centers, technology, and people,” Roy Dimoff, chairman and CEO of ViaWest said in a statement. “We are very excited to expand both our investment and our local involvement in the Portland area.”  ViaWest says it owns and operaties 21 data centers including Hillsboro II

Managed Web hosting provider, ViaWest plans to cut the ribbon on May 12 to celebrate increasing it’s national data center footprint to 21 facilities. Hillsboro II, as it’s named, is located in Portland, Oregon and is the company’s second data center in the state. Tours of the new facility, product overviews, and local celebrity appearances will mark the May 12th grand opening

Facebook’s Open Compute servers and the hot aisle doors, photographed by Alan Brandt (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- Social media giant Facebook ( www.facebook.com ) announced on Thursday it has launched the Open Compute Project, an initiative to share the custom-engineered technology in its first dedicated data center in Prineville, Oregon. This advanced technology delivered a 38 percent increase in energy efficiency at 24 percent lower cost for Facebook. Now, the social media firm will share the specifications and best practices behind this data center technology to companies across the industry.

A video still from Greenpeace’s new TV ad asking Facebook to “unfriend coal” (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Environmental organization Greenpeace ( www.greenpeace.org ) released an ad urging social media firm Facebook ( www.facebook.com ) to “unfriend coal” power in its data centers by Earth Day on April 22. The ad will be broadcast in California Wednesday, where Greenpeace hopes to reach many of the company’s 2,000 employees in Silicon Valley, according to a blog post by the Guardian . Realistically, would be highly unlikely for Facebook to change its power source, let alone by the tight deadline set out by Greenpeace.