Rodney Payne

Now that HostingCon 2010 is said and done, we are starting to see what innovative ideas and hot topical discussions were had at this place where the brightest and best minds of the web hosting industry have come to gather.  Unfortunately nobody has uploaded videos of that, so instead I give you professional wrestling!

Not sure who these indy wrestling stars are, so if you know – please drop in a mention via the comments.

Yeah, I am a little offended nobody asked the web hosting industry’s media rock star to do the play by play of the action – but it does look like it was a lot of fun.

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Cloud computing is widely acknowledged as the major force driving IT into the future. International Data Corporation (IDC) has predicted that spending on cloud services is set to increase from $16.2 billion in 2008 to $42 billion by 2012. (1) But as the cloud revolution continues, companies need to consider how they’re going to update their IT infrastructures to prepare for this growth.
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Santa Clara, Calif. continues to be one of the hottest data center markets, as end users are leasing entire buildings almost as soon as they are available. Digital Realty Trust said this week that it has already signed leases for more than 65,000 square feet of data center in two Santa Clara properties it acquired in May.

Digital Realty said Friday that it has leased all of a 40,000 square foot building at 1725 Comstock in Santa Clara to a new customer it identified only as an “Internet enterprise customer.” The data center REIT acquired the building in May for $14.1 million.
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Its Flexible Data Center, announced Tuesday, consists of four large data center halls, or quadrants, that are built around an operations building in the center. It's constructed from prefabricated sheet metal parts, and the quadrants, each about 6,000 square feet, can be added one at a time as a company's capacity needs increase.
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Savvis is looking to expand its data center network to emerging global financial centers, including locations in Brazil, Mumbai and Sydney, Australia, the managed hosting and cloud computing specialist said Monday. The strategy is being driven by interest from Savvis’ base of financial services customers, especially Thomson Reuters, which hosts a global low-latency trading network with Savvis. As electronic trading becomes more ubiquitous, Thomson Reuters is interested in offering services in growing financial business hubs across the globe.
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HP Flexible DC is based on a “butterfly” design featuring four prefabricated quadrants, or modules, that stem off a central administrative section. The offering uses industrial components to improve cost efficiencies as well as a streamlined building process with a variety of options for power and cooling distribution.
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How should you handle somebody else out there stealing content from your website?  This happens a lot with blogs, because the content is so easily ripped from one source so it can be reproduced somewhere else.  Most of the time, it is best to content the copyright thief first before going to the web host of the thief.  So here is a better way to stop copyright theft of your website’s content.

The first thing you will want to do is find some contact information for the person who is stealing your content.  This can often be done by looking at their about page, the contact page, in the footer of the website, or even in the meta tags or source code.  Once you have a name or e-mail address, you can take the next step.

Note: A Whois search on their domain name could be used to,  but it is not recommended since it could be privatized or providing false details about the person.

Now, you are ready to contact the thief.  Remember, your main goal is to inform them of the theft, open discussions about it, gather information and save everything you do – just in case you need to turn the conversation over to the webhost of the thief.  Also, keep the conversation professional and to the point.  Do not go out of your way to be mean or rude, because then chance are you will be even less likely to get a response.

Remember, you want to:

• Ask them to remove the plagiarized material as soon as possible (give them a 4 to 5 day window of time to get this done)
• Show them the source of their copyright theft, and your proof it came from you and it is your content
• Maybe let them keep the content up if they link back to you or by some other deal you could negotiate between the two of you

Now if this route does not work, and you do not hear anything back in a week or two it might be time to move into sending a cease and desist and also contacting the web host for the offending website to start discussing the DMCA violations at play in your situation.

For more information, I would suggest checking out this great guide that Lorelle on WordPress has put together.

This should at least help you get started (and take care of about 75% of the content theft you deal with) when it comes to protecting your unique content online.

Want More? – Check out the rest of the DMCA conversation in Podcast 210!

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"Data as a raw resource is of limited use. Organizations need an IT infrastructure that can transform data into usable information. Technologies rooted in virtualization and cloud computing are a strategic and cost-effective way to consolidate resources and build simple, flexible and sustainable infrastructures. The result is a transformed, virtual data center that offers tangible benefits including efficiency, ease of management and cost savings," said Claus Mikkelsen, chief scientist, Hitachi Data Systems.
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Twitter on July 21 said it is building a data centre in Salt Lake City to load up on servers and other gear that will help it eliminate the notorious outages that have plagued the microblog.
The company, racked by service availability issues since the website became popular in 2008, is in the process of moving its technical operations infrastructure into the custom data centre.
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Unisys is creating a managed cloud computing lineup based on its ClearPath line of mainframes.
Unisys officials introduced the first offering on 22 July, the ClearPath Cloud Development and Test Solution, aimed at businesses looking to develop and test applications for ClearPath systems.
The goal of the ClearPath Cloud Solutions initiative is to give businesses access to the mainframe’s computing capacity without them having to invest in new systems or worry about managing them, according to Bill Maclean, vice president of ClearPath portfolio management for Unisys.
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