Parts of a status message posted to Sony’s PlayStation blog (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Technology giant Sony said on Monday that a five-day outage affecting its PlayStation Network, the online service connected to the company’s PlayStation 3 video game console was the company’s own doing – a dramatic move in an attempt to protect user data, following the discovery of an intrusion.

A map of Voxel’s CDN span of geographic nodes (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- Cloud and managed hosting provider Voxel ( www.voxel.net ) announced last week that its VoxCAST On-Demand CDN platform ( www.voxel.net/voxcast-cdn ) is now available for free for all Perigee Global’s ( www.perigeeglobal.com ) hosting customers. The partnership announcement comes a month after Voxel completed a Series A $5.5 million capital raise led by Seaport Capital, providing the company with capital to support increased sales activities and accelerate the deployment of its solutions. Each hosting plan’s bandwidth allowance can be used flexibly and as-needed for both standard website traffic and CDN traffic.

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

An image from Symantec showing the geographic impact of Stuxnet (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — In a report published Monday by Iran’s Mehr News Agency, an Iranian general involved in investigating the Stuxnet worm, which targeted Iran’s nuclear infrastructure last year, said the country has been targeted by a second worm, called Stars . Quoted in the Mehr report, Brigadier General Gholam-Reza Jalali, director of Iran’s Passive Defense Organization says the country’s experts detected and are investigating the new worm, though little is known of it at this point. In the Mehr report, Jalali claims that “certain characteristics about the Stars worm have been identified, including that it is compatible with the (targeted) system and that the damage is very slight in the initial stage.” According to several reports, western security experts have been unable to confirm at this point whether Iran has identified a new attack, and if so, whether it is indeed one designed to specifically target Iran.

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

A Fibre Channel technology roadmap, published by the FCIA (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center cabling systems maker Data Center Systems ( www.datacentersys.com ) announced on Monday that its chairman and CTO Kevin Ehringer has joined the board of directors for the Fibre Channel Industry Association ( www.fibrechannel.org ), an international Fibre Channel industry association comprised of manufacturers, vendors and systems integrators.

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- Web hosting provider Dotster ( www.dotster.com ) announced last week it has launched website creator Instant Website ( www.dotster.com/hosting/instant-website.php ), which allows customers to build a one-page website that can be assigned to a domain name in just minutes. The product appears to be aimed at those users who have zero or limited website development knowledge, as it simplifies the sometimes lengthy process of buying a domain name and creating a website