Inside 1102 GRAND’s data center (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- To celebrate last Friday’s Earth Day, Rosendin Electric and Vantage Data Centers ( www.vantagedatacenters.com ) held the Smart Data Center Revolution , providing a tour of Vantage’s new energy-efficient data center campus. First announced last month , the event included a tour of the first of three data center buildings, presentations by David Gottfried, founder of the US Green Building Council, Fujitsu, GE Intelligent Platforms, Symantec, and VMware. Electrical contractor Rosendin Electric has been working closely with Vantage Data Centers on the design and buildthe electrical systems for the $300 million, 18-acre data center campus

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

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.

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Web Hosting – SAN JOSE, CA – Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced a new green data center in Allen, Texas, with an architecture deploying Cisco’s entire data center technology portfolio spanning computing, switching, and data storage access to support Cisco’s internal private cloud and deliver Information Technology (IT) as a service. The new data center demonstrates the value of a network-based approach through improved resilience, performance and use of resources, while delivering IT services such as video, mobility, security, and collaboration to Cisco employees, customers, partners, and other constituents.

An image outlining the makeup of the NetApp partner ecosystem (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cloud computing company PeakColo ( www.peakcolo.com ) announced on Friday that it has joined the Partner Program for Service Providers operated by storage solutions vendor NetApp ( www.netapp.com ), giving it access to tools and best practices from the company, along with a more direct relationship with that company’s sales and engineering departments. PeakColo says it delivers its infrastructure as a service cloud computing offerings to customers based, in part, on NetApp storage technologies

A screenshot of the court filing agains the 13 “John Doe” operators of Coreflood (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — According to a report posted Wednesday on the Wired Threat Level blog, and a Thursday report by security blogger Brian Krebs, the US Justice Department and FBI were granted the power this week to seize the enormous Coreflood botnet , a decade-old web of infected PCs that reportedly included millions of machines, and is allegedly responsible for the theft of millions of dollars over that time. Most notable about the seizure is the fact that for the first time, the Justice Department sought and received permission to seize control of a botnet and send a signal to the millions of infected computers to disable the malicious software

Web Hosting – SAN JOSE, CA – Future Facilities has introduced 6SigmaDC release 6.1 of its popular data center design and operations software. The new release provides an enhanced toolset for the virtual modeling of electronic components, systems and data centers, enabling cooling challenges to be addressed right throughout the supply chain. Using 6SigmaDC, data center designers can construct a holistic and mathematically accurate 3D model of any facility at any point in its lifecycle

Don Klein spoke to the WHIR via email about Modius’s new monitoring tool (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — As data centers are increasingly pressured to improve their energy efficiency, operators and owners are required to provide comprehensive reports on power usage and the energy efficiency of their equipment. Data center monitoring solutions provider Modius ( www.modius.com ) recently developed a new data center monitoring system that addresses this need, giving data center operators the ability to enforce client bill back for energy expenses.

Hosting Toolbox – Singapore – Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel) and VMware today announced the launch of SingTel PowerON Compute enabled by VMware vCloud® Datacenter Services.