A photo of Mark Monroe, executive director of The Green Grid (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The Green Grid ( www.thegreengrid.org ) announced on Wednesday that it has appointed Mark Monroe to executive director after Larry Vertal stepped down from the position.

A photo of Mark Monroe, executive director of The Green Grid (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The Green Grid ( www.thegreengrid.org ) announced on Wednesday that it has appointed Mark Monroe to executive director after Larry Vertal stepped down from the position. Vertal served on the board of director’s since the founding of the non-profit and was executive director since 2009.

Hosting News – Santa Clara, CA and Minneapolis – Power Assure®, Inc., a data center infrastructure management solutions provider, and Packet Power®, a producer of wireless power monitoring systems, today announced an integrated wireless power and temperature monitoring and optimization solution which is easy to deploy, highly flexible and cost-effective.  Unlike alternative products that require costly cabling and complex technical configuration, the combined solution provides joint customers with a simpler and less expensive alternative for power monitoring and data center optimization.

Web Hosting News – DENVER – CoreSite Realty Corporation (NYSE: COR), a national provider of powerful, network-rich data centers, today announced that the City of Santa Clara has approved CoreSite’s application for entitlements to increase the size of CoreSite’s data center campus at Coronado Drive and Stender Way in Santa Clara, California. The City’s action entitles CoreSite to increase the density of its campus from 229,600 square feet to 496,250 square feet. The development rights will enable CoreSite to construct three new buildings in addition to CoreSite’s existing 50,000 square-foot data center at 2901 Coronado Drive

An artist rendering of CoreSite’s planned 101,000 square-foot data center at 2972 Stender Way (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center operator CoreSite Realty ( www.coresite.com ) announced on Thursday that the City of Santa Clara, California has approved CoreSite’s application to expand its data center campus at Coronado Drive and Stender Way. The announcement follows CoreSite’s recent partnership with carrier Ethernet exchange provider CENX to allow CENX to offer its carrier Ethernet Exchange services in CoreSite data centers

Website Hosting News – Santa Clara, CA – Most CIOs and facilities managers today have only a high-level view of power consumption and energy efficiency in the data center.  That is all about to change, however, according to Gartner, which predicts that “power and cooling issues in servers, networking and storage devices will increase during the next five years. It will become the single-biggest issue in data center topology through 2014.”* “A considerable amount of power continues to be wasted in data centers, mostly by underutilized servers, and this growing demand threatens to exceed the total power available in many data centers, forcing costly expansion or infrastructure upgrades,” said Clemens Pfeiffer, founder and CTO of Power Assure.  “For these reasons, CIOs and facility managers are now paying very close attention to power consumption throughout their data centers.” Pfeiffer asserts that there are three levels of best practices for monitoring and managing power utilization in the data center.  These include: Establishing a Baseline Any experienced manager will tell you that you can’t manage what you don’t measure. Get started on the right track with the first step:  baseline measurements of power consumption end-to-end in the data center.   Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) solutions support both the industry standard and popular proprietary protocols used to measure power consumption, so no special agents to install or no extra wires to run to measure power at the building, circuit and device-level.  Some DCIM solutions also measure environmental conditions, such as temperature, humidity and airflow, throughout the data center.  The better DCIM solutions make the implementation even easier with advanced capabilities like auto-discovery, capacity planning, building energy management system integration, sophisticated dashboards, comprehensive reporting, and more.

Quality Tech’s data center in Santa Clara, California (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center operator Quality Technology Services ( www.qualitytech.com ) announced on Tuesday it will expand its Santa Clara, California data center by 55,000 square feet of data center space and 8MW of power. This will be the second expansion of QTS’ Santa Clara data center following its 70,000 square feet expansio n that was completed in May

Web Hosting News – ATLANTA – Internap Network Services Corporation (NASDAQ: INAP), a leading provider of global IT infrastructure services, today announced the opening of a new data center in the heart of Silicon Valley at 2151 Mission College Boulevard in Santa Clara, Calif. The new company-controlled facility enables Internap to offer enterprise customers access to its premium colocation and route-optimized network connectivity services delivering best-in-class performance, availability and support. Internap is meeting growing customer demand for premium data center infrastructure and high-performance connectivity, particularly from online media firms and companies selling software-as-a-service, where downtime and latency are business critical issues

Internap’s new data center at 2151 Mission College Boulevard in Santa Clara (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Colocation services provider Internap Network Services ( www.internap.com ) announced on Wednesday it has opened its new data center at 2151 Mission College Boulevard in Santa Clara, California. The company announced in March it would invest $23 million to build the 27,000 square foot data center space in Silicon Valley, where it operates four other data centers.

Inside SoftLayer’s DAL05 data center in the Dallas area (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Following its announcement that it has completed its merger with The Planet , Web hosting provider SoftLayer ( www.softlayer.com ) said it will significantly expand its data center footprint with two new facilities it is leasing from Digital Realty ( www.digitalrealtytrust.com ), according to a report by Data Center Knowledge . The newly combined company is set to move into international markets with a data center in Amsterdam, as well as expand on the West Coast with a new facility in Santa Clara, California.