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    Power Pinch in the Data Centre 18 May, 2007 12:50:46

    For John Rowell, chief technology officer (CTO) at OpSource, keeping a lid on data centre power costs is a make-or-break proposition. The US-based company hosts software-as-a-service offerings. As OpSource expanded its operations to meet customer demand between 2005 and 2006, its electricity costs spun out of control.
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    Seven Steps to a Green Data Centre 24 April, 2007 12:00:19

    How green is your data centre? If you don't care now, you will soon. Most data centre managers haven't noticed the steady rise in electricity costs, since they don't usually see those bills. But they do see the symptoms of surging power demands.
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    The Liquid Data Centre 23 April, 2007 14:52:04

    Liquid cooling is coming to your data centre. It's not a matter of whether you want it or not. A migration from air to direct liquid cooling is simply the only option that can address surging data centre energy costs and allow the power densities of servers to continue to increase into the next decade. It will be too expensive not to adopt it. And it's coming sooner than you might think.
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    Web 2.0 Users Open a Box of Security Risks 28 March, 2007 13:58:27

    Google Apps, ThinkFree Office and other hosted Microsoft Office alternatives are gaining in popularity as ad hoc collaboration tools. But such software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings have few, if any, service-level or security guarantees and can leave a trail of potentially sensitive data on publicly accessible servers on the Web.
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    Data breach: Only 16 per cent self-identified 08 February, 2012 13:26:00

    POS system attacks come of age in Australia.
    Only 16 per cent of organisations that faced a breach in 2011 detected it prior to a notification by a third party, according to an analysis of investigations conducted last year by Trustwave's SpiderLabs security team.
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    Symantec expects Anonymous to publish more stolen source code 08 February, 2012 06:12:00

    Confirms that BitTorrent file is pcAnywhere's source code after sting operation fails
    Symantec today confirmed that the pcAnywhere source code published on the Web Monday by hackers who tried to extort $50,000 from the company was legitimate.
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    Anonymous claims to have released source code of Symantec's pcAnywhere 07 February, 2012 18:17:00

    The hacker group had earlier released emails between a hacker and a person said to be a Symantec representative
    Hacker group Anonymous claimed late Monday that the source code of Symantec's pcAnywhere had been uploaded on The Pirate Bay site.
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    Kaspersky Lab CEO backs out of IPO plans 08 February, 2012 02:10:00

    Founder buys back 20 percent stake
    Kaspersky Lab founder Eugene Kaspersky has cancelled plans for the firm to go public, announcing his intention to buy back a 20 percent stake sold to a private equity investor a year ago.
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    Denial-of-service attacks are on the rise, anti-DDoS vendors report 08 February, 2012 01:34:49

    Japan named as primary source of DDoS attack traffic for Q4 2011
    Both the number and volume of distributed denial-of-service attacks are increasing, according to new reports from DDoS mitigation companies Prolexic and Arbor Networks.
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