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Theplanet Hosting

Theplanet Servers — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 06:54:53 -0400

Theplanet.com Host serves more than 20,000 businesses worldwide and more than 15.7 million Web sites with 40 percent of customers located outside of North America. It has more than 48,500 servers under management with six wholly owned and managed SAS 70 Type II certified data centers (2 in Houston, 4 in Dallas) and one of the industry's fastest, most robust networks: 250+ gigabits/sec of transit network capacity to 7 Tier 1 backbone networks

Is Apple Shooting for the Cloud?

Kit Eaton — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:29:27 -0400

More information is trickling out about Apple's new data center in North Carolina--it seems it's going to be big. Amongst the biggest in the World, in fact. Are the folks at Cupertino shooting Apple into the cloud computing future?

Is Michael Jackson's Funeral Dangerous For the Web?

Kit Eaton — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:01:05 -0400

In case you're living in a lead-lined, radio wave-proof, soundproofed bunker, it's Michael Jackson's funeral today. But given that the event of his death nearly crashed the Web, will his funeral create even more problems online?

Google Reveals Data Center "Manhattan Project"

Ariel Schwartz — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:28:51 -0400

After years of secrecy, Google revealed the inner workings of its ultra-energy efficient data centers at yesterday's Data Center Efficiency Summit.

Each of Google's servers comes with its own 12-volt lead-acid battery as a back-up to the main power supply, and all of its data centers are made up of standard shipping containers. Individual centers each contain 1,160 servers and consume up to 250 kilowatts of power.

Who Cares About the Carbon Cost of a Google Search?

Chris Dannen — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:42:09 -0500

On Sunday, the UK's Times reported that performing two Google [GOOG] searches uses about as much energy as a kettle takes to boil. But Google says that estimate is inflated.

Security in an Age of Openness

Fast Security — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:48:21 -0400

The recent debut of T-Mobile’s G1, the Android smart phone, is both a blessing and a curse. Why? Because Android is arguably the most open mobile Operating System yet. Created by a partnership of Google, the Open Handset Alliance, and T-Mobile, Android hopes to grab coveted market share from RIM (Blackberry) and Apple (iPhone) by opting not to put regulations on third-party application development.

Email Security Lessons from Gov. Sarah Palin

Fast Security — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:35:34 -0400

After Sarah Palin's email account was breached, the McCain campaign promised swift retribution. The hammer of justice fell last week on David Kernell, the son of a Tennessee state lawmaker. The 20 year-old University of Tennessee student accessed Palin's email account by successfully guessing a number of password reset questions, the answers to which were easily found online ("Where did you meet your spouse?" was among them).

The Latest in Identity Theft

Fast Security — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:18:09 -0400

The Cloud Profiteers: Syncplicity and the New iPhone

Rip Empson — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:39:09 -0400

Over the last year, Web 2.0 became cloudy. Yes, once upon a time, Sergey and Larry defined their vision for Google as an effort “to organize the world’s information and to make it universally accessible.” As a result of this ambitious goal, “cloud computing” as the web savants call it, has become all the rage. Move over Doppler 5000. Today, “cloud computing” has become an integral part of the interwebs’ inexorable movement into sunny weather.