CRTC Approves BCE "Traffic Shaping" / Canada's communication regulation body has denied complaints about Bell Canada Enterprises' (www.bce.ca) "managing" or "shaping" of Internet traffic on the network space it leases to third-party providers, letting it essentially "throttle" bandwidth, according to opponents.
The Canadian Association of Independent Providers (www.cata.ca/Communities/caip/), a consortium of Internet service comp ...
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IBM Tests IDC Heating Homes / IBM's Zurich Research Laboratory (www.zurich.ibm.com) has announced details about a new project that will reduce its data centers' energy consumption by 50 percent through an innovative process that cools computers with water and reuses the dissipated energy to heat homes in the area, according to reports by IEEE Spectrum Online.
IBM engineers announced at this week's International Conferenc ...
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The Web Host Industry Week in Review / One of the issues that has been close to the fore in hosting pretty consistently over the last few months is the movement among hosting companies in general toward offering more cloud-based services, and the evolution of those offerings.
This week saw several announcements related to several of the larger dedicated hosts working on cloud-based offerings, and one of the largest players in the ...
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Maquarie Data Center PCI Certified / As Australian businesses face a looming Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards compliance deadline, Macquarie Telecom's (www.macquarietelecom.com) hosting division's Sydney data center, the Intellicentre, has been audited to perform to the highest level of PCI DSS specifications, making it the first of its kind to achieve PCI DSS accreditation.According to the company's announcement, Macqua ...
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AT&T Opens Super IDC in Singapore / Telecommunications provider AT&T (www.att.com) announced on Thursday it is opening its first Asian super Internet data center in Singapore.
The super IDC expands on the capabilties of its existing facilities, providing a regional gateway to the Internet and its network to deliver its utility computing services, AT&T Synaptic Hosting. The facilties deliver "consistent, highly scalable, enterpr ...
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