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Netcraft says the number of web servers based in Ireland has soared since Amazon opened an EC2 data center in Dublin, illustrating how cloud computing is making it easier for companies to extend their reach internationally.

Amazon is acquiring more land in Oregon, according to local media, a move that lays the groundwork for future data center expansion in the state.

Reports of a huge Google data center in India, Linux now supports Tilera architecture, Cirrascale announces support for OpenStack, Petascale Computing facility receives construction award.

The commercial real estate news site Globe Street reports that Amazon has leased a 125,000 square foot building in northern Virginia that will eventually be used to expand its data center operations.

Eli Lilly remains a customer of Amazon Web Services, despite reports to the contrary.

Amazon (AMZN) announces the availabiliy of cluster compute instances for EC2, enabling HPC in the Amazon cloud. Also, VMware rolls out its vSphere 4.1 virtualization platform.

It was a busy week for technology mergers and acquisitions, as IBM, Dell, Google, Amazon and HP all announced deals.

Amazon (AMZN) CloudFront CDN adds New York node and HTTPS support, Rackspace (RAX) rolls out partnership with Ingram Micro, Level 3 (LVLT) adds switching options for Vyvx, Riverbed (RVBD) upgrades optimization software..

More than 365,000 web sites hosted on the Amazon EC2 cloud computing platform, and that number is growing fast, according to Netcraft. The data highlights EC2's emergence as a competitive threat to hosting companies.

Amazon Web Services says it is making changes in its data centers to address aseries of power outages last week that affected some users of its EC2 cloud computing service.