Venture Beat is reporting that Microsoft may acquire the semantic search company Powerset for about $100 million. Both companies are mum about the reports, but a Microsoft-Powerset deal could solve the primary roadblock to real-world deployment of... Data Center Knowledge »
Grubb & Ellis Company (GBE) has formed a new unit to focus on the data center sector, and has hired industry veteran Jim Kerrigan to direct the effort. Read more at our web site (posted on 4 Sep 2008 by Data Center Knowledge)
Submitted by Alex Vovk Password Expiration Notifier periodically checks all users in the specified Active Directory domain to detect  whose passwords are about to expire in a specified number of days, and then sends customizable notification e-mails to... (posted on 4 Sep 2008 by 4sysops - For Windows Administrators)
Pingdom looks at the major Internet service outages of 2008, and has categorized the incidents by type: cloud glitches, problems with service launches, data center issues and even sabotage. Read more at our web site (posted on 4 Sep 2008 by Data Center Knowledge)
At the Data Center Jobs Board, we have a new job listing from Digital Realty Trust, which is seeking a Data Center Engineer. The job duties will include the delivery of 24×365 operation, maintenance and repair of critical data center facilities, and... (posted on 4 Sep 2008 by Data Center Knowledge)
Following on from yesterdays progress "Server Room: Assembling the Rack Components" the light kit option is now installed in the rear of the rack. The installation was pretty painless, once I got hold of a big enough screwdriver. Having never installed a... (posted on 4 Sep 2008 by Jason Slater Weblog)
Network architecture has emerged as a key talking point in conversations between CDNs and prospects. But where is the "edge" anyway? Read more at our web site (posted on 4 Sep 2008 by Data Center Knowledge)

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