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London, United Kingdom - (The Hosting News) - May 22, 2008 - Rackspace Managed Hosting, has begun installing equipment in its new green data center, designed to be powered by renewable energy sources, drawing power from a local combined heat and power plant.

Using wood chips, waste paper and fibre fuel to generate electricity, hot water and steam, the data center is located in in Slough, Berkshire.

Farmingdale, New York - (The Hosting News) - May 22, 2008 - A new guide from green datacenter resource management firm, AFCO Systems, is designed to assist IT managers in understanding and reacting to EPA recommendations for datacenter power efficiency.

Mountain View, California - (The Hosting News) - May 22, 2008 - Internet security and infrastructure company, VeriSign, Inc., has passed an online security milestone, with over one million active SSL certificates.

The deployed one million active Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Certificates, provide security for more than 93 percent of the Fortune 500 and the world's 40 largest banks.

Santa Clara, California - (The Hosting News) - May 22, 2008 - The 20 million Layer 3 Ethernet port shipment milestone, has been reached, according to research firm, The Dell'Oro Group, for Extreme Networks, Inc.