Vendors push for common Blade server standards

Despite denials in the past year from leading vendors, discussions on a common format for blade servers have been proceeding for between 12 and 18 months, according to Fujitsu Siemens’ European Marketing manager Bernhard Brandwitte.
Although he was unable to elaborate on who FSC were in discussions with, he did confer that attempts to convince market […]

LINX reaches 200 Gigabits per second peak internet traffic

LINX has announced it has passed the major milestone of 200 Gigabits per second of peak Internet traffic. In addition, they have an all-time high of 280 members using 570 connected member ports (including a record of 80 ultra-fast 10GigE ports).
The increase in membership numbers in particular demonstrates the high level of confidence and trust […]

Cambridge academic wins LINX award

The London Internet Exchange is pleased to announce that its Conspicuous Contribution to LINX Award has been presented to Dr Richard Clayton.
An academic at Cambridge University, Richard is also a consultant for LINX member, THUS plc (incorporating founding LINX member, Demon Internet).
The presentation was made during the recent LINX member meeting at the Goodenough College […]

Rackspace mixes up customer emails

Got a strange email from Rackspace last week - an email addressed to me, posted to my email address, acknowledging my order for three servers.
Only, I didn’t order any. I’ve never hosted at Rackspace, and have no plans to.
Was this a fraud attempt on my credit card, or some kind of phishing attempt?
I contacted Rackspace […]

Take care with Spamassassin

Spamassassin is a popular anti-spam tool which comes installed on commonly used control panels such as Cpanel.
However, while Spamassassin may offer a useful tool for server admins and webmasters alike, it is a tool to take care with.
Recently, I was asked to provide outsource services to a major high street brand by a marketing company. […]

Fasthosts locks out customers

Fasthosts is reported to have locked out a large number of its customers, after resetting their login details for websites hosted with the company.
The company is now in the process of sending the updated login information - by post.
According to a statement sent to Fasthosts customers:

As a result, in order to totally protect all of […]

Twang.net to bring improved connections to the Thames Gateway

Twang.net has today announced the opening of a new regional data centre, which will bring hyper-fast broadband access and next-generation telecoms services to businesses in the Thames Gateway.
From a regional hub in Docklands, Twang.net’s new Metro Node Data Centre will transmit data at ultra-high speeds via a fat pipe, delivering high quality, locally […]