• LASCON 2013 Report – First Afternoon

  We move into the afternoon of LASCON. The vendor room was all abuzz, complete with lockpicking village. Stupid Webappsec Tricks Zane Lackey, Security Engineer Manager from Etsy (@zanelackey) XSS Data driven security – look at your data instead of using your presuppositions about how attacks work.…

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• Quanta Launches Open Compute Solutions, Including Open Rack

  For years, Quanta Computer has been building servers for Facebook and Rackspace based on design concepts advanced by the Open Compute Project (OCP). Today Quanta launched a line of hardware products making those Open Compute designs available to a broader pool of customers.

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• ViaWest to Build Tier IV Data Center in Denver

  ViaWest announced it is building a 210,000 gross square foot data center in the southeast of Denver, which will be designed to achieve Uptime Institute Design Certification for Tier IV status.

• Netflix Picks Teradata Cloud for Analytics

  Teradata (TDC) held its annual Partners Conference this week in Dallas, where it announced Netflix usage of the Teradata Cloud, a new data backup and recovery Data Stream architecture, and several other customer wins for the Teradata platform.

• AFCOM Symposium Cincinnati Set for the Great American Ballpark

  The first AFCOM Symposium Cincinnati, a regional educational and networking event for data center professionals, will be held on Tuesday, November 12.