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  • New Intel Xeon E5 Processors: ZT Systems, Dell, SGI

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    John Rath
    15 May 2012 | 10:00 am
    Intel (INTC) announced an expansion of its Xeon processor portfolio with new products designed to address a broad and emerging set of server requirements and provide IT managers with additional choice and flexibility. 28 processors announced Intel introduced 28 processors across three product families Monday to address a range of energy-efficient and affordable solutions for server and workstation customers. “To satisfy the increasing diversity of IT needs and workloads, Intel is excited to offer additional processor options to enterprises of all sizes with the Intel Xeon processor…

  • New DDR4 memory to boost tablet, server performance

    Data center news from Network World Fusion
    Lucas Mearian
    15 May 2012 | 5:18 am
    Although the standard for DDR4 memory won't be finalized until summer, several companies are already preparing to ship modules that will boost performance in data centers and on consumer devices

  • UK Web Hosting Company The Bunker Names Chief Technology Officer

    Green Data Center News
    Justin Lee
    15 May 2012 | 12:00 pm
    UK web hosting company and data center operator The Bunker announced on Tuesday it has named Philip Bindley the company’s chief technology officer. He will be responsible for leading The Bunker’s technical development as the company enters the next phase of its growth and evolution. The move comes a few months after The Bunker opened a significant new high-specification data hall at its Kent, UK data center, and upgraded its core network to 10GB bandwidth capacity. Bindley previously served as the CTO of IT service provider Blue Chip, where he was responsible for identifying new revenue…

  • Four into one goes

    Welcome to Data Centre Management
    15 May 2012 | 7:00 pm
    2BM has completed a project at Birkbeck College, as DCM found out

  • Four reasons why a speaker is presenting at a conference

    Green (Low Carbon) Data Center Blog
    Dave Ohara
    15 May 2012 | 11:16 am
    Now the following may sound obvious, but I don't think people lay this out as simply.  Why is this speaker presenting at this conference? #1 The person is selling you their company, product, or service. #2 The person is looking for a new job and getting their name out there and what they do gets them known in the industry. #3 The person is passionate about the topic and wants to tell the world. #4 The person has done a great job and as part of the reward gets to speak on the achievements made. In general as most industry conferences, I would say 80% of the talks out there are category #1.
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  • New Intel Xeon E5 Processors: ZT Systems, Dell, SGI

    John Rath
    15 May 2012 | 10:00 am
    Intel (INTC) announced an expansion of its Xeon processor portfolio with new products designed to address a broad and emerging set of server requirements and provide IT managers with additional choice and flexibility. 28 processors announced Intel introduced 28 processors across three product families Monday to address a range of energy-efficient and affordable solutions for server and workstation customers. “To satisfy the increasing diversity of IT needs and workloads, Intel is excited to offer additional processor options to enterprises of all sizes with the Intel Xeon processor…

  • Unum Leases Space in T5 Atlanta Facility

    Rich Miller
    15 May 2012 | 9:20 am
    The exterior of the T5 data center in Alpharetta, Georgia. Insurance provider Unum has leased space at the facility. (Photo: T5 Data Centers). Insurance provider Unum will lease wholesale data center space from T5 Data Centers at its T5@Atlanta wholesale data center located in Alpharetta, Ga. The new data center is part of Unum’s strategy to add redundancy and modernize its facilities. A Fortune 250 company, Unum is a market leader in disability, group life and voluntary benefits with 160 years of being in business. Unum is T5@Atlanta’s first tenant in the data center that has been open…

  • In Oregon, Mission West Looks to the East

    Rich Miller
    15 May 2012 | 9:00 am
    While western Oregon has been a hotbed of data center activity, developer Mission West Properties has decided to look east with a data center development in Ontario, Oregon, close to the border of Idaho. California developer Mission West Properties (NASDAQ: MSW) is working with Chris Hardin of CDH Consulting on the new data center capus in southeastern Oregon. The project reflects a growing focus on the data center sector for Mission West, the real estate investment trust headed by Carl Berg. The company has been a major player in the real estate scene in Silicon Valley, developing properties…

  • Emerson Launches Trellis DCIM Software

    Rich Miller
    15 May 2012 | 9:00 am
    This graphic from Emerson NEtwork Power provides an overview of the components of its Trellis solution for data center management. The first batch of Trellis applications were released today. Today Emerson Network Power released its Trellis software, the company’s big bet on data center infrastructure management (DCIM). The global availability of the first four software applications for Trellis culminates a two-year development period, during which DCIM has emerged as the industry’s hottest buzzwords. “We are excited to be able to show it instead of talking about it,” said Steve…

  • Video: SAIC’s Cloud Computing Centers

    Rich Miller
    15 May 2012 | 8:30 am
    Science Applications Corp. International (SAIC) is a Fortune 500 company providing cybersecurity and IT outsourcing services to enterprises and government agencies. In December 2011, SAIC recently put into operation a new cloud computing data center in a colocation facility. The data center is dedicated to enterprises clients processing massive amounts of information and operating private clouds. This video provides an overview of the new data center and SAIC’s approach to cloud computing and how it supports its customers. This video runs about 3 minutes. For additional video, check out…
 
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  • UK Web Hosting Company The Bunker Names Chief Technology Officer

    Justin Lee
    15 May 2012 | 12:00 pm
    UK web hosting company and data center operator The Bunker announced on Tuesday it has named Philip Bindley the company’s chief technology officer. He will be responsible for leading The Bunker’s technical development as the company enters the next phase of its growth and evolution. The move comes a few months after The Bunker opened a significant new high-specification data hall at its Kent, UK data center, and upgraded its core network to 10GB bandwidth capacity. Bindley previously served as the CTO of IT service provider Blue Chip, where he was responsible for identifying new revenue…

  • Greening The Data Center: Energy Efficiency Options And Strategies

    AOL Energy
    15 May 2012 | 10:54 am
    How much time do you spend on computers? Multiply that by the billions of other people on the planet and the volumes of data are mindblowing, no matter how fast or powerful your server. As more industries store their data in the cloud, as more ...

  • Google's Green Email Story: The Story of Send

    Dave Ohara
    15 May 2012 | 10:41 am
    Google has just released its environmentally sensitive post on the story of gmail. Follow an email’s journey with Story of Send5/15/12 | 8:08:00 AM Labels: Energy + Environment (cross-posted on the Official Google Blog)If you’re anything like me, you send and receive a lot of emails every day. But have you ever wondered where your message goes after you hit “send?” How does an email travel from your computer to your friend’s smartphone across the country or around the world?We’re answering those questions with Story of Send, a new site that gives you a behind-the-scenes look into…

  • Telecom Industry to Shift More Capital to Energy Efficiency

    Environmental Leader
    15 May 2012 | 9:30 am
    The telecom service industry will invest more than 61 percent of its capital expenditures into sustainable infrastructure by 2016, representing a $194 billion market, according to a Pike Research report. The forecast investment, 65 percent of which will go into mobile networks, has been driven by commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the falling cost [...]

  • Schneider Electric's Data Center Facility Module

    Relocate
    15 May 2012 | 9:14 am
    The Data Center Journal * Home * Articles + IT + Facilities + Design + Press Release + Case Studies * DCJ Expert Blogs * White Paper Library * Industry Links + Trade Organizations + Analysts + Conference Providers * Calendar * DCTV Schneider Electric’s Data Center Facility Module Rakesh Dogra May 15, 2012 No Comments » Schneider Electric has made its presence felt at the 2012 Uptime Institute Symposium with its Data Center Facility Module. The company is a global presence in the field of energy
 
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  • Four into one goes

    15 May 2012 | 7:00 pm
    2BM has completed a project at Birkbeck College, as DCM found out

  • Hitting the hub

    10 May 2012 | 7:00 pm
    Telehouse is now providing the financial exchange hub for QuantHouse as DCM found out

  • Financing data centre growth

    8 May 2012 | 5:39 am
    Sam Kemp, relationship director, Barclays Corporate looks at how to finance your data centre

  • 20 ways to compromise a cabling system

    2 May 2012 | 5:50 am
    Many of the everyday slips and shortcuts that occur onsite can unwittingly reduce the performance of a channel from category 6 to category 3. Data Centre Management visited Brand-Rex’s London City Office to meet field technical manager Chris Chandler to find out the top 20 culprits

  • Cooling Optimisation

    26 Apr 2012 | 6:25 am
    Mike Field, operations director at Unidata Infrastructure, looks at the heating and cooling requirements of data centres and the ways to optimise efficiency in this area.
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    Green (Low Carbon) Data Center Blog

  • Four reasons why a speaker is presenting at a conference

    Dave Ohara
    15 May 2012 | 11:16 am
    Now the following may sound obvious, but I don't think people lay this out as simply.  Why is this speaker presenting at this conference? #1 The person is selling you their company, product, or service. #2 The person is looking for a new job and getting their name out there and what they do gets them known in the industry. #3 The person is passionate about the topic and wants to tell the world. #4 The person has done a great job and as part of the reward gets to speak on the achievements made. In general as most industry conferences, I would say 80% of the talks out there are category #1.

  • Google's Green Email Story: The Story of Send

    Dave Ohara
    15 May 2012 | 10:41 am
    Google has just released its environmentally sensitive post on the story of gmail. Follow an email’s journey with Story of Send 5/15/12 | 8:08:00 AM Labels: Energy + Environment (cross-posted on the Official Google Blog)If you’re anything like me, you send and receive a lot of emails every day. But have you ever wondered where your message goes after you hit “send?” How does an email travel from your computer to your friend’s smartphone across the country or around the world?We’re answering those questions with Story of Send, a new site that gives you a behind-the-scenes look…

  • Downtime Data Center Social for planned maintenance, connecting the Thought Leaders

    Dave Ohara
    15 May 2012 | 10:03 am
    I like working in the Data Center Industry because of the people.  Throughout my career I have worked in specialized knowledge areas like packaging engineering & logistics, OEM product development, fonts, publishing and many others.   Apple and Microsoft unified efforts to fight Adobe with TrueType in a font wars.  Which then led to the font groups in Microsoft, Apple, and Adobe fighting a war, but the industry was suffering.  Font wars are stupid as the end user simply wants something to work. So I spent time ending the font wars between Microsoft and Adobe creating OpenType. Thank…

  • AOL's Uptime Symposium presentation without Mike Manos

    Dave Ohara
    14 May 2012 | 4:29 pm
    Mike Manos posts on his AOL team attending Uptime. Uptime, Cowgirls, and Success in California May 14, 2012 by mmanos This week my teams have descended upon the Uptime Institute Symposium in Santa Clara.  The moment is extremely bittersweet for me as this is the first Symposium in quite sometime I have been unable to attend.  With my responsibilities expanding at AOL beginning this week there was simply too much going on for me to make the trip out.  It’s a down right shame too.  Why? My first Uptime Symposium I got to tag along with Mike and learned the ropes.  This was back when…

  • Data Center Innovators the guys who are willing to break the rules

    Dave Ohara
    11 May 2012 | 11:47 am
    I just had a great day at DataCenter Dynamics Seattle, and some of the best conversations were with the guys (sorry no offense to women, but there aren’t a whole of women in the data center design, construction, and operations) who break the rules.  Guys who don’t live in the safe zone of a risk adverse culture. Why is this important?  Well if you have plenty of money for CapEx and OpEx for your data center it is not a problem.  But, in these times this is a dying mindset.  The survivors are those who are willing to break the rules of convention.  The so called expertise in…
 
 
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  • Making Carbon Neutrality Everyone’s Responsibility at Microsoft

    msdcblog
    9 May 2012 | 6:54 pm
    Yesterday, Microsoft announced a significant step to reduce our environmental footprint by committing to achieve carbon neutrality by 2012.  As the team that operates our cloud infrastructure, Global Foundation Services (GFS) will be instrumental in achieving this goal. First, our continued effort to improve efficiency in our data center operations, using such measures as Power Utilization Effectiveness (PUE), and Carbon Utilization Effectiveness (CUE), will help reduce our overall carbon footprint.  Second, our detailed measurement and chargeback model allocates expense to business…

  • Microsoft Recognized by EPA as Leading Green Power Purchaser

    msdcblog
    27 Apr 2012 | 9:27 pm
    This week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a list of the Top 50 Green Power Partnership organizations, listing Microsoft as the third largest purchaser of green power. The EPA evaluates organizations voluntarily using clean, renewable electricity from resources such as solar, wind, and low-impact hydropower. As Robert Bernard, Microsoft’s Chief Environmental Strategist, details in his environmental sustainability blog post, ‘Microsoft earned this recognition by purchasing more than 1.1 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of green power annually. This is…

  • Thinking Off the Grid: Independence for today’s Data Centers via Data Plants?

    msdcblog
    18 Apr 2012 | 9:00 am
    By Christian Belady, General Manager of Data Center Services Question. Why do data centers need to be connected to a dirty, expensive, unreliable electrical grid? Answer. They don’t and they don’t want to be either. Integrating a data center directly into the power plant -- what we are calling our Data Plant program -- will allow a data center to pick its sustainable fuel source and shield itself from grid volatility. As customer demand for more and more cloud services continues to grow, Microsoft, as well as many other IT companies, will need to aggressively plan for how we can…

  • Visit our New Blog and Web Site now hosted on Windows Azure!

    msdcblog
    17 Apr 2012 | 11:54 am
    We are pleased to announce our web site and blog are now located on one site that is hosted on our Windows Azure platform! You can find the latest insights, customer priorities and news about Global Foundation Services. Don't forget to re-subscribe to the RSS feed on our new blog site for all the latest news and posts.  More about the site is outined below. The Site's content includes: Customer Priorities Pages that dive deep into infrastructure architecture, operations, reliability, security and compliance, and the sustainability strategies for our…

  • Operational Excellence is Essential for a Reliable Cloud Infrastructure

    msdcblog
    16 Apr 2012 | 12:47 pm
    Attributed to:  Christian Belady, General Manager of Data Center Services & Vijay Gill, Senior Director of  Network Engineering When Microsoft delivered its first online service back in 1994, the cloud was still a relatively undefined, evolving space. Today, Microsoft's cloud supports more than 1 billion customers and 20 million businesses in 76 countries and it's still growing. To support the increasing array of enterprise-level online services, Microsoft is investing heavily in a global cloud infrastructure that delivers security, reliability, scalability,…
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  • Cloud: What's a Service? Who Are SPs?

    14 May 2012 | 10:10 am
    My perspective of Cloud Computing has been rocked a bit.Simplistically, I assumed I knew what IaaS, PaaS and SaaS meant, and I thought I knew who the logical public providers of these services would be.However, there have been a number of interesting new services - and providers - that show signs of breaking the stereotypes.BTW, when I speak of services, I'm specifically meaning Component Services. Think of that as a mapping service;  a brokering service; a credit card clearing service; a datamart. And in an increasing number of cases, I am seeing these services  being sourced from…

  • Will The "Stack Wars" Impact the Hybrid Cloud?

    24 Apr 2012 | 12:18 am
    It's been a busy few weeks in cloud O/S land, first with the Amazon/Eucalyptus announcement and then with Citrix/CloudStack announcement, then last week's OpenStack show in San Francisco.The market may be starting to shake-out in terms of dominant cloud APIs, major efforts to manage/govern cloud infrastructures, and who will (or will not) influence/direct these efforts. But the end-game is far from clear.From the cloud API perspective, there are a few likely contenders/winners here:The Amazon Web Services (AWS) approach: arguably dominating the market at the moment, explicitly supported by…

  • Meeting IRL: Why The Valley's So Cool

    6 Mar 2012 | 11:25 pm
    IRL is a reference you see on twitter -  it means "In Real Life."Sometimes we underestimate the value of meeting in real life. It's more convenient to email than to pick up the phone. And more easy to call than to arrange to have lunch. And for those of us addicted to Twitter, we feel as if we have our own community of followers and frequent commentators at our fingertips. The value of meeting in real life struck a chord a few weeks ago while in Santa Clara at the Cloud Connect conference.  Many of the speakers, start-up stars, consultants, bloggers and tweeps were all known to each…

  • IT-as-a-Service: Resources and Pointers

    22 Feb 2012 | 1:30 am
    IT-as-a-Service. Possibly another buzzword that may reach the peak of hype and then fade away in a millisecond. But even if so, this new concept will persist by some other name.Unlike IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, etc. ITaaS isn't a technology model. It's a new mind-set and approach to delivering enterprise IT services - where IT operates and competes for "business" as-would a service provider.And, like a commercial SP entity, it actually tries to encourage service consumption, rather than discourage it.This is in contrast to the stereotypical IT department that runs a bottleneck help-desk, issues…

  • My IT is Ready. My People Are Not.

    13 Feb 2012 | 3:40 pm
    By now you may know that I buy into the enterprise approach where cloud computing and its operational model are enablers for something bigger: The transformation to IT-as-a-Service. That's when internal IT acts, operates and competes like an internal SP.But I've come to realize that such transformation is more of a skills and operational model shift than a technology shift (although technology is clearly an enabler). As was often mentioned at a recent CIO event I attended, "My technology is ready. My people are not"  This topic of talent, training and organization appears to be…
 
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  • Keep ePHI on Secure Networks, Not Mobile Devices, Recommends OCR

    15 May 2012 | 7:06 am
    Of the 425 reported breach events to the OCR (Office of Civil Rights), two-thirds of all large breach cases involved loss or theft of information and more than half of these large breaches involved electronic devices.

  • How's business?

    13 May 2012 | 12:57 am
    Since 2008, the world seems to have lurched its way from one financial crisis to the next. In the UK they’re talking about double dip recession. In Spain, things look difficult. And in Greece, things look impossible! So how are the big mainframe companies weathering the storm? Are we looking at an extinction-level event? Are the big players (the metaphorically dominant dinosaurs) going to be replaced by smaller companies (the metaphorical mammals)?

  • Healthcare Organizations: Seeking a Cloud Provider? BAAs Required

    10 May 2012 | 4:29 am
    If you use a cloud service, it should be your business associate. If they refuse to sign a business associate agreement, don’t use the cloud service.

  • If it's May it must be Madness

    6 May 2012 | 12:54 am
    For the fourth year in a row, CA Technologies is hosting its free virtual trade show. As always, there are educational presentations to help mainframe users get more value from their existing products, and improve their technical skills. You can find out more and register by going to ca.com/mainframe/may. Last year’s event drew 5,000 registrants from 59 countries; and connected partners, industry experts, and colleagues via virtual booths and online chats.

  • Big Data: What It Means for Science, Healthcare and Social Media

    4 May 2012 | 4:04 am
    It is just what it sounds like – an immense amount of data. From social networks to genomics to medical records, big data is everywhere and rapidly growing. Technology must adapt and advance in the management of big data – otherwise these large data sets would be rendered useless without the capability to efficiently analyze and produce results. Federal agencies have announced $200 million in research and development investments that will allow them to mine, process and store big data.
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  • Five Predictive Imperatives for Maximizing Customer Value

    15 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    With predictive analytics, you can meet your customers' evolving needs with forward-looking insights that anticipate changes in customer attitudes, preferences, and actions. This white paper from IBM describes how a set of five predictive imperatives can help ensure that your company maximizes the value of its customer relationships and sustains higher levels of revenues and profits.Request Free!

  • Seven Reasons You Need Predictive Analytics Today

    15 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    Read this white paper to uncover why predictive analytics is becoming a necessity for companies to gain and maintain advantage: Why predictive analytics has emerged as a proven way to gain competitive advantage; how you can use your company's accumulated information to predict effective ways to increase sales, enhance customer relationships, address consumer needs, and more; and how predictive analytics enables people all across your business to gain more insight, make better decisions and take more decisive actions when they matter most.Request Free!

  • Customer Analytics Pay Off: Driving Top-line Growth by Bringing Science to the Art of Marketing

    15 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    Read this Executive Report to learn how an effective customer analytics strategy can help drive top-line growth, avoid unnecessary costs and increase customer satisfaction. Understand where your organization is in its pursuit to gain deeper customer insights with four stages of organizational capabilities and associated customer analytics strategies: gain insight from the information explosion; share information internally and across value chain; move from reaction to prediction; and adapt business models that enable faster creation of value.Request Free!

  • Cloud for Dummies, IBM Midsize Company Limited Edition

    10 May 2012 | 4:50 pm
    This eBook gives mid-sized companies insights on what it means to create flexible pools of computing resources that break down silos in your company so you can perform in a smarter & proactive manner.Request Free!

  • High Performance Organizations Empower Employees with Real-Time Mobile Analytics

    1 May 2012 | 4:50 pm
    Based on a 2010 study by the Aberdeen Group, many organizations are still in the early stages of adopting mobile business intelligence (BI). Initially focusing on senior executives with mobile access to management information, companies are now deploying mobile BI throughout the organizations to empower their front-line workers.This Aberdeen Analyst Insight highlights the challenges to come, and brings focus to issues that organizations need to consider in order to successfully deploy mobile analytics to their front line.Request Free!
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  • Wi-Fi Blocking Wallpaper? Why Not Just Secure Your Wi-Fi Connections!

    11 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    What do you get when you have an open, unsecured Wi-Fi signal? A sluggish connection and a threatening letter from NBC about the illegal downloading of its hit TV show 30 Rock. That is what happens when your neighbors discover that your Wi-Fi is not secure. They connect to it through their laptops, degrading the connectivity of your cable Internet access, and download heaps of movies or TV shows that will inevitably be traced back to your IP. What can one do to prevent this? Securing your wireless router is boring. We want a fancier solution! Ahlstrom, a Finnish materials company, has…

  • Happy Mother's Day: Giving Love to our LA Mommy Bloggers

    11 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    Happy Mother’s Day, Moms! On behalf of all the kids in the world, I say thank you! Thank you for supporting us. From cleaning up our poop to finding us jobs, you have been there for us through the thick and thin. Our moments together – may they have been happy or sad accompanied by laughing or crying – have made us the kids and adults we are today. To say thank you and to celebrate a few Mommies in the world, here is a list of Los Angeles Mommy Bloggers and Blogs who are making a difference. Since their creation, these blogs have been supplying helpful tips and hints for…

  • Comparing Dedicated Server Hosting with VPS and the Cloud

    10 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    It is a prevalent fact that individuals devote time and effort gathering data and then discovering methods to keep it. As an example of this fact, we begin on the simplest degree of computing. Say for example you happen to be downloading and saving files like videos, new music and images. You would keep these files inside your hard disk. But, if you find that there are no longer space for new files and you simply do not wish to get rid of one of your older data files, what now? You pay for a hard drive with more space for activities, naturally. The more files you accumulate, the more room you…

  • The FEDS are trying to Spy on our Skype and Social Networks

    4 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    There is nothing like starting off your day with a little privacy panic. Recent news suggests that the FBI is asking major Internet companies such as Microsoft (who owns Skype), Facebook, Google, and Yahoo, to not oppose a law that will require them to build backdoors for government surveillance. The FBI general counsel’s office has drafted a proposed law that will make social networking sites, providers of VoIP services, instant messaging and email services to alter their code to ensure that they are 'wiretap-friendly.' This is not a new law by any means. The proposal will be an…

  • The Worst Data Breaches of the Past 5 Years: Part 2

    3 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    Continuing on our series of the Worst Data Breaches in the Past 5 Years, here is part 2. If you missed part 1 of our series you can view it here. Part 2 will detail the security breaches of RSA Security, Heartland Payment Systems, Epsilon, and Hotmail. To better encrypt your data and secure your dedicated servers from being breach by hacktivists, talk with a colocation provider about hosting your servers inside a secure data center. RSA RSA Security, a corporate security service, was hacked in March 2011 and a huge 40 million records were stolen. These records included everything from home…
 
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