July 29, 2011 — Research group Tier1 Research recently released the second iteration of its North American Multi-Tenant Data Center Supply: Emerging Major Markets report for 2011. The study finds that the 14 major North American markets have a utilization rate of approximately 79 percent.

July 22, 2011 — Web hosting provider Datapipe announced on Wednesday its revenue growth in the second quarter of 2011 was equal to the total growth the company experienced in all of 2009. Supporting this growth, Datapipe is currently working on expansions of its data centers worldwide.

Internet Explorer Drops Below 60% Market Share Microsoft’s share of the web browser market fell for the second consecutive month in September, despite 6 million downloads of Internet Explorer 9 beta. All versions of Microsoft’s IE accounted for 59.65% of the browsers used to access websites last month, compared to 60.4% in August, according to figures released Friday by Net Applications.

Number Of Malware-Infected Websites Tops 1 Million Mark If you’re wrestling with malware infections on your website, then you have company. Lots and lots of company. According to a new report published in a blog today by researchers at security firm Dasient, the number of websites infected by malware in the second quarter of 2010 spiked to more than 1.3 million — the first time that figure has ever topped 1 million

Intel opens app store, unveils Atom chips Intel kicked off the second day of its developers conference by officially launching its app store and rolling out new Atom processors. The chip maker’s AppUp center, which went into beta early this year, went live today, Renee James, an Intel senior vice president and general manager of the Software and Services Group, said during the morning’s first keynote at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco today. …

Gartner Lowers PC Sales Forecast Analyst firm Gartner has lowered its global forecast for PC market growth in the second half of the year, due to the uncertainty in the U.S. and European economies.

HP’s $2 billion bid leads 3PAR to terminate agreement with Dell Two weeks ago, Dell announced it would be acquiring virtualized storage company 3PAR for $1.5 billion. Dell’s announcement, however, represented only a preliminary agreement between the companies, and HP wanted to acquire 3PAR as well