BakBone Software (BKBO.PK), a leading provider of heterogeneous, integrated data protection solutions, has announced that Wolverhampton City Council has streamlined its data protection strategy by consolidating eight backup and recovery solutions into one with BakBone NetVault: Backup. As a result, the local authority significantly reduced the support, administration and maintenance costs of its data protection infrastructure. BakBone NetVault: Backup now protects 24TB of data for Wolverhampton City Council.
3PAR Inc. (NYSE Arca: PAR), a leading global provider of utility storage, today reported results for the fourth quarter and full year of fiscal year 2008 ended March 31, 2008. Revenue for the fourth fiscal quarter was $35.5 million, an increase of 204% compared to revenue of $11.7 million for the same period a year ago and an increase of 15% compared to $30.8 million in the prior quarter, which ended December 31, 2007.
VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), a global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter, has announced that its virtualization solutions are saving customers tons in costs and CO2 emissions. Using VMware virtualization, customers can consolidate 10 or more physical machines onto a single server and reduce power consumption and cost by 80-90 percent. VMware customers that have moved from a 1:1 application to server ratio to 60:1 or higher have achieved millions of dollars in capital and operational savings.
Data storage centre developer and owner, Technical Real Estate (TRE), has received development approval for its multi-million dollar next-generation data centre in Sydney's Norwest business park, which is expected to open for business in the first quarter of 2009.
Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: DLR), a leading owner and manager of corporate and Internet gateway datacenters, is reporting new research data that indicates a significant increase in the number of datacenter projects being planned by U.S. corporations during the coming 12 months. The findings are from a recently completed survey commissioned by Digital Realty Trust of senior decision makers who are either directly responsible for datacenters or influence significant decisions related to datacenter operations.
Cogent Communications Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: CCOI) has announced net service revenue of $52.1 million for the three months ended March 31, 2008, an increase of 19.5% over $43.6 million for the three months ended March 31, 2007. Onnet revenue was $42.8 million for the three months ended March 31, 2008, an increase of 29.1% over $33.2 million for the three months ended March 31, 2007. On-net service is provided to customers located in buildings that are physically connected to Cogent's network by Cogent facilities.
Peak 10, a leading independent data center operator and managed services provider, has announced it has amended and expanded its credit facility. RBC Capital Markets was the Lead Arranger and Sole Book Runner for the bank syndicate. GE Capital Corporation was the syndication agent and CIT participated in the bank syndicate as the documentation agent. The majority of the $60 million credit facility will be used for capital expenditures to fuel the company's organic growth and for general corporate purposes.
In a report to Congress last summer, the EPA highlighted the critical usage of energy by datacenters and made recommendations on how to alter the state of current and future datacenters to lessen a looming energy crunch.
Lawson Software (Nasdaq: LWSN) has announced it now offers Lawson Managed Hosting to its enterprise software customers in EMEA. Lawson Managed Hosting is designed to help customers get the most out of their Lawson ERP investment while reducing demands on their IT resources. IBM will be the official hosting provider for Lawson's on-demand and hosted offerings in the region.
Interxion, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral data centres, has announced that it has completed the expansion of its Brussels data centre, creating approximately 700m2 of additional equipped space. The new space, much of which has already been reserved, brings the total amount of equipped space available in the company's data centre in the Zaventem area of Brussels to approximately 2,500m2. Customer installations can take place immediately.
EDM Group, a UK leading document management solutions provider has announced that Nationwide Building Society has chosen EDM Group's Scan on Demand business solution for flexible access to archived customer data.
Due to significant growth in its members' Internet traffic, the London Internet Exchange, LINX, one of the world's largest Internet Exchange Points, is expanding its presence in two of TelecityGroup's data centres in London.
TelecityGroup, a leading pan-European operator of network independent data centres, has announced that it will build a new data centre in Paris. Ongoing customer demand and overall utilisation in TelecityGroup's existing facilities in Paris is high and the new data centre will ensure the Group continues to have growth capacity in one of Europe's largest data centre markets. The new facility will be the Group's 21st data centre in Europe and its third in the French capital.
GyPSii a leading geo-location and mobile social networking service provider headquartered in Amsterdam, has announced the opening of a China Data Centre, to offer localised content and an enhanced user experience to customers across China and the Asia Pacific region. The Shanghai-based centre will boost GyPSii's existing infrastructure in the area and provide users with specific local content and even faster download speeds.
