Archive for January, 2009
Last quarter, Google posted information about the efficiency of Google data centers and promised to update this information every quarter. They have now kept that promise and published the collected data for the fourth quarter of 2008 to sustainable computing website. Here are the rules: The data center has to have been Google designed (many are colocation [...]
The California Institute of Technology – also known as Caltech — is installing monitors and developing metrics to determine the efficiencies and savings of Hot Aisle Containment enclosures recently installed in one of their data centers. The partitions and dividers were designed and manufactured by Simplex Isolation Systems of Fontana, CA, to isolate hot [...]
Framingham, Mass., – (January 26, 2009) – GlassHouse Technologies, a global provider of independent IT infrastructure consulting services, today announced it has acquired Chicago-based security services consulting company CSSG. The acquisition extends GlassHouse’s offerings into data security services, including assessments, optimization and policy framework development. As a result, GlassHouse customers will benefit from deeper infrastructure management [...]
RBS WorldPay (formerly RBS Lynk), the U.S. payment processing arm of The Royal Bank of Scotland Group, announced on the 23rd December 2008 that its computer system had been improperly accessed by hackers with criminal intent. Approximately 1.5M accounts have been affected with potential exposure of 1.1M US Social Security numbers and other personally identifiable data.
