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In the late 1800s, many Kansas settlers who were farming lost their corps to the harsh climate of the prairie. The weather hasn’t changed, so how’s it possible to safely operate a data center in the same area? Cavern Technologies’ Kansas City colocation facility is located 125 feet underground, in a 3 million-square-foot limestone bunker — solid protection from natural disasters. We develop, lease and operate enterprise-class data centers, in a secure, environmentally-friendly facility, and focus on, not only operational excellence, but also transparency. Our customers — in the financial, healthcare, insurance and technology industries — say they get as much, if not more, visibility in their walled, private suites here, than they would running their own on-premises data centers. We’re responsible for clean power and cooling up into the rack, and we enable our customers to have full transparency into what’s going on in the facility. Data Center Visibility Underground This visibility...

New Hampshire Court: First Amendment Protects Criticism of “Patent Troll” A New Hampshire state court has dismissed a defamation suit filed by a patent owner unhappy that it had been called a “patent troll.” The court ruled [ PDF ] that the phrase “patent troll” and other rhetorical characterizations are not the type of factual statements that can be the basis of a defamation claim. While this is a fairly routine application of defamation law and the First Amendment, it is an important reminder that patent assertion entities – or “trolls” – are not shielded from criticism. Regardless of your view about the patent system, this is a victory for freedom of expression. The case began back in December 2016 when patent assertion entity Automated Transactions, LLC (“ATL”) and inventor David Barcelou filed a complaint [ PDF ] in New Hampshire Superior Court against 13 defendants, including banking associations, banks, law firms, lawyers, and a publisher. ATL and Barcelou claimed that all ...

Day of Action: Help California Pass a Gold Standard Net Neutrality Bill In December of 2017, contrary to the will of millions of Americans , the FCC made the decision to abandon net neutrality protections . On the first day of business in the California state legislature, State Sen. Scott Wiener introduced a bill that would bring back those protections and more for Californians. S.B. 822 would make getting state money or using state resources contingent on the ISP adhering to net neutrality principles. This includes the practices the FCC banned in the 2015 Open Internet Order—blocking, throttling, and paid prioritization—and picks up where the FCC left off by also tackling the practice of zero rating . This bill is a gold standard of net neutrality legislation and its passage would give California the strongest protections in the country. Naturally, big ISPs like Comcast, AT&T, and Spectrum (née Time Warner Cable) don’t want to see this pass. That’s why we’re rallying in su...

In addition to what I’m sure will be some terrific skiing, skating and snowboarding, the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang promises to showcase a heavy dose of technology, much of it driven by cloud resources. But to make it all work as promised, I suspect there will be significant local compute and power resources as well – call it the hybrid games. Olympic Forecast: Very Cloudy The lead systems integrator for the games, Atos, promised in 2014 that systems crucial to the functioning of the games would all be in the cloud by 2018, and it has since confirmed it will be making good on that promise, according to  ComputerWeekly.com . It makes sense when you consider that the Olympics essentially requires building a temporary data center that’s used only for a relatively short time. As ComputerWeekly  reports : “Traditionally, Atos would build new systems for each Olympic event, but it wanted to be able to build systems once and then deliver them from the cloud.” The Atos s...

House Fails to Protect Americans from Unconstitutional NSA Surveillance The House of Representatives cast a deeply disappointing vote today to extend NSA spying powers for the next six years by a 256-164 margin. In a related vote, the House also failed to adopt meaningful reforms on how the government sweeps up large swaths of data that predictably include Americans’ communications.                                                                  Because of these votes, broad NSA surveillance of the Internet will likely continue, and the government will still have access to Americans’ emails, chat logs, and browsing history without a warrant. Because of these vot...

EFF to Court: Don’t Let Trolls Get Away With Asserting Stupid Software Patents If trolls don’t face consequences for asserting invalid software patents, then they will continue to shake down productive companies. That is why EFF has filed an amicus brief [ PDF ] urging the court to uphold fee awards against patent trolls (and their lawyers) when they assert software patents that are clearly invalid under the Supreme Court’s decision in Alice v. CLS Bank (which held that an abstract idea is not eligible for a patent simply because it has been implemented on a generic computer). Our brief explains that the most abusive patent trolling tends to come from trolls that own abstract software patents. This case began when a patent troll called AlphaCap Ventures sued Gust , a company that connects startups with investors around the world. Claiming its patent covered various forms of online equity financing, AlphaCap Ventures filed suit against ten different crowdfunding platforms. Most ...