Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Boston – June 17, 2010 Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: QTS Secures $25M in Funding, Expands Santa Clara Data Center News: DDoS Attack Causes Two Hour Service Disruption for Web Host Media Temple News: CoreLink Adds Second Data Center in Seattle News: New Varonis Release Provides Greater Visibility into Unstructured Data Access and Usage Blogs: Thanks for Making our Toronto WHIR Event a Big Success (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Los Angeles-based Web host Media Temple ( www.mediatemple.net ) was struck Tuesday afternoon by the largest distributed denial-of-service attack against its nameservers in the company’s history. According to the company’s reports , the attack, which started around 3:50pm PDT, was the first of its kind to affect Media Temple services, resulting in an interruption of service spanning two hours and five minutes, and affecting such big name clients as Adobe, ABC, Sony, NBC, Time, Volkswagen, and Starbucks