E-Oasis Alerts

Dick Pacific, one of the largest contractors in Hawaii, announced that it won the Navy award for the construction of the Hawaii Regional Security Operations Center (HRSOC) at the Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station in Wahiawa. Of note is the two-story Operations and Data Center. Scheduled for completion in 2010, the [...]

DataCenterKnowledge poses an interesting question about data centers - Should Power Usage Be a Secret? The argument by data center operators is that information about their power and water usage could damage them competitively. It is true that knowing how much power is used is a crude measure of the current capacity of the data [...]

Rich Miller did a great piece on the trend of small towns getting in the data center business. Wheatland, Wyoming is no stranger to a very large construction project. Benefiting from significant improvements in schools, roads, and services the Town swelled during the 1977 to 1980 construction of the $1.6 Billion Laramie River Station (LRS) [...]

I’ve been getting reports about Comcast slowness in this area for several weeks. Taking a closer look,a quick speed test confirmed that performance is awful. A look at the cable modem revealed that quite a bit of traffic was inbound without anything else plugged into the modem. A sniffer trace revealed that nothing was attacking [...]

The Denver ISSA chapter has a one day security conference on April 5th in Denver. Have a look at the agenda for topics of interest. The conference seems to focus on C-Level and executive security topics.