The New Threat Data Center Security: The Underground Economy

Enterprise IT Planet
Today, there is an underground economy fueled by stolen data and the pursuit of maximum criminal financial gain. Organizational leadership must understand the players and the conditions and act accordingly if they stand a chance at protecting the organization from theft or compromise.
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Data Center Expansion Set To Explode in Next 12-24 Months

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The study, conducted by Campos Research & Analysis on behalf of Digital Realty Trust, showed that companies are quickly eating up their existing data center capacity and are planning to build new facilities. The result is 83% of respondents to the study said they are planning data center expansions over the next two years.
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Data Centre Demand Continues To Grow In Asia

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The market for data centre co-location and managed hosting services in Asia Pacific has been strong for almost a decade, driven by the rise in business and internet subscribers. Frost & Sullivan analysts predict growth is likely to continue into the next few years with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of about 14.6%.
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Datacom Data Centre Flooded In Melbourne

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CRN Australia
Datacom suffered a major outage in its Melbourne co-location facility after heavy rain broke a ceiling panel and poured into customers’ equipment on Saturday afternoon.

People had racks full of equipment that was dead. Some techs in there were close to tears

- A national voice and data carrier who spoke on condition of anonymity

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New Datacenter Uses “Free” Cooling

Web Host Industry Review
Data center operator Corporate Colocation (www.corporatecolo.com) announced on Thursday it recently built a new green data center in Los Angeles that cuts energy consumption and reduces energy costs. Corporate Colocation hired engineers to design a free cooling system within the facility that would filter the cool Los Angeles air and use it to cool the data center.
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HP Offers New Datacentre Services For SMBs

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New support services for SMB’s include multivendor support, offering a single service agreement whereby HP will manage all supplier contracts and ensure SLA accountability. There is also a new around-the-clock remote monitoring service for all HP products, as well as some IBM and Dell servers, Sun Solaris on HP ProLiant servers and for Cisco IP telephony networks.
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Punked in the Data Center Video

Data Center Knowledge
The folks at Isilon Systems teamed with magician Scott Tokar to have some sport with Kiran Bhageshpur, Isilon’s director of engineering, who thinks he’s making a video promoting network attached storage. Watch this video for the drama and then check out the explanation of how the trick was executed.

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Yahoo Opens Nebraska Data Center, Call Center

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As for some more substantial details relating to development, the data center is located in 180,000-square foot building, and the building is located in a small city called La Vista.
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SunGard Expands Colocation and Managed Services Centers

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SunGard Availability Services is expanding its data centers in Midtown Atlanta and Smyrna, Ga. to meet increasing customer demand for colocation and managed services. SunGard’s investment in the facilities will help customers address business IT needs without incurring the capital and operating expenses of building and running their own data centers.
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Colocation Sometimes Proves Most Cost Effective Solution

DataCenter Dynamics
Colocation turned out to be the most cost effective of the three choices the client explored when looking for the best way to expand capacity, the other two being retrofitting an existing legacy data center and building a new one, according to a CyrusOne news release.
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Washington D.C. Data Center Launched by Qwest

DataCenter Dynamics
Large US network operator and data center provider Qwest announced opening of a new data center in the Washington, D.C., area on Monday. The new facility’s anchor client is a federal agency whose name or size of the data center floor leased Qwest declined to disclose.
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Largest Data Centre in Pakistan Launched

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Acknowledging its role as the only National Carrier of Pakistan and recognizing the large investments that enterprises are making to build and equip their own data centres, Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) has launched the largest data centre in Pakistan, the first of which will be located in Karachi.
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Cheap Electricity Draws Co-Location Facility to Iceland

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The Icelandic site offers access to geothermal and hydroelectric energy, free cooling every day of the year, and multi-terabit-per-second connectivity to America and Europe.
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Demand for Data Centre Services Continues To Grow

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Growth in the data centre co-location and managed hosting services market will continue in the double digits through to 2011, driven by strong demand and low supply, according to Frost & Sullivan. The analyst firm said growth in the ANZ region will continue at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 14.8 per cent through to 2011, with revenues exceeding $US587.6 million.
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Colocation Market In U.S. Set For Expansion

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“There’s a lot of money pouring into data center space. Not your traditional debt financing, but equity. It’s pouring in because there’s no other place to put it. There’s no (other) market segment in real estate to put equity in.”

- Ken Baudry of Grubb and Ellis
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