Datacenter

No chance of survival for data centres offering co-location...

Co-location evolving from supplying rack space to providing services Organisations are increasingly relying on cloud-based enterprise IT solutions. As a result, data centres are increasingly becoming the engine that drives an organisation's business operations, with implications for the range of services they offer. Although...

date 2015/10/28

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Policy & Law

Net Neutrality: Recent eco Survey Sees Development Potential...

The German public considers Net Neutrality to be important A clear majority want to decide for themselves how to prioritize services eco supports the proposed European compromise The topic of Net Neutrality has arrived in the public sphere – just on time for the upcoming decisive debate in the European Parliament...

date 2015/10/21

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Domains

Review: yummy domains for digital marketers

BostonIvy, Donuts, Top Level Spectrum, Minds+Machines, .CLUB, Rightside & Sedo rock dmexco 2015 Sedo and their partners were having a joint booth at dmexco 2015 promoting several new top level domains to more than 42,000 visitors from online and digital marketing industry. There were lots of good discussions with...

date 2015/10/16

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Domains

Draft Data Retention Law on Trial

Technical and Legal Barriers to Implementation With the German Federal Government's decision to reintroduce Blanket Data Retention, questions have arisen as to the constitutionality of the law and the practicability of implementing it. eco explored the issues in a recent "Politikbrief" newsletter. Here, we look at a few...

date 2015/10/14

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Energieeinsparung durch innovative Rückkühlung

Domains

Safe Harbor: eco Calls for Swift and Practicable New Agreement

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has today declared the Safe-Harbor Agreement for the exchange of data between the USA and the EU to be invalid. The EU Commission, according to the ruling, does not have the competence to limit the powers of the national data protection supervisory authorities through the agreement. With...

date 2015/10/07

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Policy & Law

Safe Harbor: eco Calls for Swift and Practicable New Agreement

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has today declared the Safe-Harbor Agreement for the exchange of data between the USA and the EU to be invalid. The EU Commission, according to the ruling, does not have the competence to limit the powers of the national data protection supervisory authorities through the agreement. With...

date 2015/10/06

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Policy & Law

New eco Guidelines on Conditions for Successful European...

The European Union has been discussing and negotiating a new, contemporary and consistent data protection law for the European Union since 2012. eco welcomes this approach to modernizing the European data protection law. It provides the opportunity to eradicate the implementation and enforcement differences of the existing...

date 2015/09/29

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Domains

ICANN and UASG Announce Results of Universal Acceptance...

ICANN, in conjunction with the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) announced the availability of a new report: An Analysis of New gTLD Universal Acceptance. Universal Acceptance (UA) is the concept of removing all technical barriers that might hinder a user from accessing any name in any top-level domain (TLD) from...

date 2015/09/18

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Vorstellung: CISCO

Domains

New gTLD Registrations Surpass 7.3 Million Registrations

Analyzing growth rates & business models Nineteen months since new gTLDs were made available to the public, total registrations now exceed 7.3 million according to ntldstats.com while other registration stats tracking sites show 6.9 million. Why the 400,000 difference? Ntldstats.com uses the registration status of names...

date 2015/09/14

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Policy & Law

eco Summer Party: The Internet industry and Internet community...

The Who's Who of the Internet sector met at the eco Summer Party again this year, this time in the Berlin Kalkscheune on 27 August 2015. Around 300 guests from German Ministries, the Parliament, the Internet industry, journalists and the Internet community joined eco to celebrate the 20-year anniversary of the Internet...

date 2015/09/02

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