In an effort to help law enforcement officials investigate child pornography and other serious crimes, FBI Director Robert Mueller is calling on Internet service providers to keep records of customer browsing history and retain those logs for two years.
A bureau attorney said Mueller reaffirmed his support of the recording of Internet users' "origin and destination information," at a federal task force meeting on Thursday, according to a report from CNET news. As far back as a 2006, Mueller called for ISP data retention in a speech addressing the International Association of Chiefs of Police, and he presented his case before Congress two years later, calling for a law to make it mandatory.
A Fortune 100 financial services company is the first customer for Digital Realty Trust's POD Architecture Services, the company's new service to design and build data centers for enterprise clients.
VMware is going on the road to showcase its virtualization technology. And it’s bringing all its equipment with it in a rolling mobile data center packed with gear from Cisco Systems, NetApp, Dell Xsigo and parent EMC Corp.The VMware Express is making its debut at this week’s VMware Partner Exchange Event. The Express will be crossing the U.S. and Canada to bring VMware demos to customers, but the exact schedule of apeparances hasn’t yet been worked out.
The road show follows on the example of Sun Microsystems, which put its Blackbox data center container on a truck and stopped outside industry events and customer sites in the U.S. and Europe. The 2007 road trip helped familiarize many data center professionals with containerized data centers, and was good for a few photo ops along the way.