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Data Centers Canada a data center provider which operates, develops and manages Canadian real estate to  provide turn-key data center solutions, today announced the availability of the IPv6 to its Toronto, Ontario Canada data centers. IPv6,  the next generation Internet protocol provides many benefits in comparison to the legacy IPv4 standard.   The key benefit of IPv6 is that it addresses the current need for additional IP space as the current IPv4 architecture is close to world wide depletion. IPv6 is built on a 128 bit architecture in comparison to the 32 bit IPv4 standard.   Advantages of the IPv6 architecture are significant and include: Simplified network management; End to end connective integrity; Unconstrained address abundance; Integrated interoperability and mobility.

It is time that IBM has released several models such as promised. The first model launched the new processor with eight cores (and each core has many 8MB of L3 cache) is called the Power 750 Express with a starting price of 34 thousand dollars, while the top Power 780 has up to 8 processors 3.8 GHz or 4.1 GHz (the latter with “only” four cores per processor) supports up to 2TB of RAM and up to 24 units of type SSD storage – all at a price not announced yet, probably because excessive number of zeros in the tail.

Storage as a Service is on demand storage solutions with which companies in Romania can get control of storage capacity, distribution and recovery, regardless of the location where they are. Available on-demand storage solutions enable customers to use the infrastructure available in the Data Center Star S. scalable depending on needs at a cost of 0.26 Euro / GB / month (storage solutions for large data, records at 7200 RPM ) or 0.70 Euro / GB / month (storage solutions for high performance disks to 15,000 RPM). In both storage space is available on SAN storage systems with high performance and availability of partners Star Storage, EMC and Hitachi Data Systems (HDS). Star S. storage solutions include hardware, software and management services, technical expertise and support 24 × 7×365, multiple levels of security, SLA-based services. “In current economic circumstances, procurement of hardware and software technologies needed to develop their own data storage infrastructure must pass the acid test of key financial indicators, ROI (Return On Investment) and TCO (Total Cost of Ownership). On the other hand, increasing the amount of data stored and while it should be maintained online, high costs of space and facilities necessary intrastructuri host an IT and compliant with regulations in force are just some of the engines of this new business model – “Storage as a Service.

The new Power Efficiency Estimator is designed to help data centre operators compare different scenarios of power topologies and technologies inside of their facility.  It takes factors such as workload, availability, and space constraints into consideration and generates a report that is designed to improve decision-making in a facility.  The Power Efficiency Estimator will be available by the end of the first quarter of 2010. The new PUE Calculator allows data centre operators to easily input their facility’s specific data at regular intervals to determine their PUE.  Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE), a metric created by The Green Grid, determines the amount of energy used by the facility and the IT gear inside of it.  The PUE Calculator will be available by the end of the first quarter of 2010. This new paper provides guidance on how data centre professionals can maximise power and cooling equipment electricity savings in a data centre environment that is using virtualisation to achieve its consolidation strategies.

Recently the market has introduced new network card and AT-2973SX AT-2973T, the first network cards from Allied Telesis portfolio dedicated servers running virtual machines. AT-2973 products improves network efficiency and increasing system performance by sharing the resources. The operating system required creating a virtual machine is a complex one, and while chipsets have seen a radical improvement in order to cope with this trend of virtualization, further creating a virtual machine is a real challenge. Queue mechanism significantly reduces the performance of virtual machines in terms of CPU solve that task sites of assembly and disassembly of incoming messages in one queue redirecting data to the correct virtual machine. To resolve this down, AT-2973 speeds of “throughput” of data received and the process of distribution, making it possible for each virtual machine to set its own queue. AT-2973SX has two fiber optic ports 1000SX, PCI and NIC virtualization four lines, AT-2973T has two 1000T copper ports, four PCI and NIC virtualization lines. Both network cards are capable of MSI-X (Message Signal Interrupt), providing an alternative method to interrupt the host’s CPU to manage multiple queues, one for each virtual machine – thereby increasing the usability and scalability. As customers migrate to virtualization technology, they could also use the computers as part of a storage solutions. AT-2973 also supports v1.0 iSCSI (Internet Small Computer System Interface) and impossible to ISER (iSCSI Extension for Remote Direct Memory Access) Host Bus Adapter (HBA), giving him the opportunity to be the main computer (initiator) or storage device (target device) to facilitate data transfers between virtual machines and manage storage over long distances.

He came the  turn to Italy to filter Internet addresses and monitor their servers. Corrado Calabro, head of the telecommunications regulatory authority in Italy, has criticized a draft government decree aimed at filtering or blocking of broadcasting of audiovisual content on the Internet or TV channels, according to international media. “There are issues to be reviewed because they are not in accordance with European directives, adopted in 2007,” said Calabro. The decree, which could be approved by the Government on February 5, could require satellite television channels to encode the contents pornography during the day, even those for which is paid subscription. Also, the new decree would require some online platforms like YouTube or Dailymotion to seek authorization from the Italian Ministry of Telecommunications in order to run different content.

Scandinavians are advanced, not only to Romania, but by other countries with claims greater than us. Recently, Scandinavians are competing in connection speeds to the Internet from your mobile phone. Company 3 Scandinavia together with Ericsson to bring about the fastest 3G network in the world. This should provide speeds (theoretical) up to 84 Mbps. The new network will be available throughout Norway and in four major cities in Sweden. The announcement comes shortly after TeliaSonera has developed the world’s first 4G network, with speeds up to 100 Mbps. This however is only available in Oslo and Stockholm. Currently there are phones that supports neither of the two networks.

A true electronic barricade was erected in Turkey. It has blocked 3700 sites for political reasons, this action is condemned by the OSCE representatives, who demand reform of legislation on freedom of expression, according to international media. Milos Haraszti, OSCE representative on freedom of expression issues, has asked the Turkish government blocking by several thousand sites “for political and arbitrary. He warned that Turkish law on the Internet do not protect freedom of expression in the country, for which should be changed. Some sites are blocked by the Turkish authorities YouTube, GeoCities and some Google pages. Haraszti said that Turkish law has failed to protect freedom of expression, journalists continuing to criminal penalties and liable to be sentenced to prison for their initiatives. The first alarm related to the infringement of press freedom in Turkey was shot when the Dogan Media Trust penalized with a fine of 3.3 billion dollars, to compel the company to submit to laws that limit the right of Turkish firms have foreign employers.

A dedicated hosting service is a kind of Internet hosting service in which a whole server or even a number of servers are leased by the client for e-commerce applications. This kind of hosting service is more expensive than shared hosting because the organization or company has complete control over the server or servers and can specify the kinds of hardware and operating system that are desired. In many cases, the provider takes care of server administration, including security issues. Providers of dedicating hosting services may offer various levels of support for server management. The first type of service leaves all management tasks to the client. Thus, the client will have to handle all upgrades, patches, maintenance and security tasks. This kind of service is best for clients who have their own IT staff who can take care of all of these things, including server security. Providers may also offer various levels of management, from simple monitoring and maintenance to the uppermost level where they take care of everything and the client need not be involved in server management. Naturally, the top level of service is the most convenient for the client but it is also the most expensive and making adjustments to the system is much more difficult. Nevertheless, it may be advisable to compare the costs of having your own staff as opposed to letting the provider manage everything at a higher service cost. Security Issues in Choosing Your Provider. In general, choosing your provider for dedicated hosting must also include the analysis of the kind of security services that are provided. Attacks against web servers for e-commerce have intensified and computer hackers are becoming more and more sophisticated in their techniques. They have even gone to the extent of setting up their own networks that have the sole purpose of stealing personal and financial information contained in web servers that could be sold to the highest bidder in the black market. Preventing Data Theft. One of the most serious security threats in web servers for e-commerce sites is the possibility of data theft. If the confidential information entrusted to you by your customers get stolen by hackers, you are likely to lose a substantial percentage of them. And because of the power of word-of-mouth advertising, your business may be severely affected for years to come. Therefore, a key security issue that should be considered when choosing your dedicated hosting provider is protection of the databases and other applications. Some of the malicious activities that should be prevented by the security system include: session hijacking; SQL injections; vulnerabilities in XML, HTTPS and others; computer worms; cross site scripting; zero day worms; form field tampering; denial of service; cookie poisoning; buffer overflow; malicious robots; remote file inclusion; illegal encoding; Google hacking; proxy vulnerabilities; OS attacks; OS command injection; forged cross-site requests; malicious encoding; brute force login; patient data disclosure; credit card exposure; phishing; corporate espionage; leakage of Social Security number; and damage to data. Conclusion. Security is a very complex issue in e-commerce hosting. Malicious attacks by hackers are becoming more and more sophisticated and security systems need to be improved correspondingly. Choosing the proper dedicated hosting provider and your IT security staff is a vital task

In the last half of 2009, Romania has climbed one place compared to early last year in the ranking of the best internet connections. Galati currently occupies 9th place in the top cities in Europe with the best web connection. World ranking is led by South Korea, which has an average of 14.6 Mbps connection. Japan and Hong Kong have an average speed of 7.9, 7.6 Mbps respectively, while Romania ranks fourth position with 6.2 Mbps. Global average Internet connection speed is 1.7 Mbps, shows the latest global report prepared by Akamai. These positions in ranking are occupied by European countries: Sweden (5.7 Mbps), Ireland (5.3), Netherlands (5.2), Switzerland (5), Denmark (4.8) and Czech (4.8 ). United States occupies only the 18th position with an average of 3.9 Mbps. Unfortunately Romania cute and ranking countries where they have their origin most attacks: 3.2% of all attacks launched worldwide originate in our country. Leaders in Russia are found (13% of all attacks), Brazil (8.6%) and USA (6.9%).