Links: Hosting.com, SaaS mergers, Google

Here are today’s quick links to news items in the data center industry:

• ComputerWorld looks at demand for secure data center space in Virginia, a market driven by the needs of the federal government. The report looks at the Terremark (TMRK) facility in Culpeper, among others.
• In the wake of rumors that Oracle (ORCL) and Salesforce.com (CRM) are talking, Bob Warfield from Smoothspan writes about the potential for consolidation in the software as a service (SaaS) market.
• Mark Fontecchio from SearchDataCenter looks at the prospect that data center energy efficiency could result in even greater energy use.
• Google Research has announced that this year’s Scalability Conference will be held June 14 in Seattle.
• Hosting.com has announced that its San Francisco data center is now climate neutral, and projects carbon savings equivalent to not burning 260,000 gallons of gasoline a year.

RELATED POSTS:

• SaaS Primed for Breakout in 2008?
• Google to Enhance Web Hosting Offering
• Rackspace Buys SaaS Customer Webmail
• Data Center CapEx and SaaS
• SalesForce Expands SaaS Hosting with Apex

About Rich Miller

Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.