News Roundup

• Hosted Solutions, a provider of IT Infrastructure as a Service (Iaas), announces a $12 million green expansion of its Raleigh data center.

• Digital Realty Trust, a wholesale data center provider, has earned a LEED Gold rating for its Santa Clara data warehousing facility, a first in the city.

• Wyse Technology, a provider of thin clients and cloud computing, announces cloud-friendly versions of its Unix and Windows software.

• Plug and Play Tech Center, a community of 200 early-stage technology start-ups, will host its first annual CleanPlay conference to showcase clean-tech start-ups to venture capitalists and green-tech enthusiasts on June 25.

• In a ratherr dubious move to save the environment by going without for a day, HP announces it has signed up Microsoft and Intel for Power IT Down day on August 27, 2009. 123 people have signed up.

• Entuity announces a Green IT Calculator.