WTS, the leader in application hosting, managed disaster recovery, and IT infrastructure services for Oracle’s JD Edwards applications, announced they have entered into a strategic partnership with CoreLink Data Centers, a lprovider of high quality, Tier 3 data centres, with colocation facilities in Chicago, Illinois, Phoenix, Arizona, Seattle, Washington and Las Vegas, Nevada.

CoreLink will provide data centre management services to WTS from the current WTS data centre in Tukwila, Washington.

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Azul Systems, a provider of server appliances for business critical Java applications, has announced record first quarter bookings and revenue for its fiscal year 2011 ending April 30, 2010, with revenue up 64% over the prior quarter. Customers purchasing Azul appliances and services in the quarter included Farmers Insurance, Success Factors, Saks.com, TD Securities, Juniper Networks, Global Collect and many other Global 2000 companies.

Savvis has announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Fusepoint, a portfolio company of M/C Venture Partners. Fusepoint is a leading independent provider of managed IT and colocation services to enterprises in Canada.Under the agreement, Savvis will acquire Fusepoint for US$124.5 million in cash, subject to a working capital adjustment. For the first quarter of 2010, Fusepoint's annualized revenue was US$47.4 million.

Hosted Solutions, an East Coast provider of enterprise-class managed hosting solutions, has announced it has completed a significant, multi-million dollar expansion of one of its SAS 70 Type II data centres in Charlotte, North Carolina.

The expansion includes 6,000 sq ft of additional space and incorporates advanced technology, making it one of the most robust facilities in the South-eastern United States.

Source: Host Review

Digital Realty Trust has announced that it entered into a definitive asset purchase agreement to acquire a five-property data centre portfolio located in California, Arizona and Virginia, referred to as the Rockwood Capital/365 Main Portfolio.

A connectivity loss and outage at a New Jersey data centre run by cloud services provider Hosting.com has been confirmed by the Apparent Networks Cloud Performance Center.

Lee Technologies, a provider of complete data centre solutions including designing, building, operating, monitoring and maintaining of business-critical facilities for some of the most data-reliant private- and public-sector organizations in the world, has announced it has been awarded a major contract by Harris Corporation to design and build the Harris Cyber Integration Center, a new Tier III, LEED Silver-certified facility in the mid-Atlantic region.

Lexent Metro Connect, a provider of dark fibre networks in the New York metropolitan area, has announced its plans to extend its dark fibre network into the Telx facility at 100 Delawanna Avenue in Clifton New Jersey.

As Lexent's sixth New Jersey colocation centre, 100 Delawanna will expand upon Lexent's growing latency sensitive fibre routes built between New York and the major colocation facilities hosting financial exchanges in Northern New Jersey.

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DuPont Fabros Technology, a real estate investment trust, has said y that its board of directors has raised its quarterly cash dividend by 50% to US$0.12 per share. "As a result of our continuing strong leasing and financial performance, we are increasing the quarterly common stock dividend in anticipation of increased REIT taxable income and distribution requirements for 2010," commented Mark L. Wetzel, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer.

The federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has selected Companion Data Services to provide data processing and hosting operations for a National Level Repository) that will track incentive payments to heath care providers that adopt electronic health records and modernize their computer systems.

A Somerville data centre has filed for protection under Chapter 11 of the bankruptcy code. 2Nb1 LLC listed assets of less than US$1 million and liabilities in the range of US$1 million to US$10 million.

In its filing, 2Nb1 listed its unsecured creditors holding the largest obligations as: Virgil Electric owed US$311,000; Paul Lohnes owed US$173,000; Farina owed US$134,000; Henry F. Owens owed US$115,000; Level3 Communications US$105,000; Richard Jannigan owed US$100,000.

Source: Boston Business Journal

Optimum Lightpath, an Ethernet-based communication solutions company for New York metropolitan area businesses, has announced that it has expanded service into Telx's Clifton, New Jersey colocation and interconnection facility to serve key financial hotspots in New York City and Northern New Jersey.

Terremark Worldwide, a global provider of managed IT infrastructure services, has announced the initial deployment of its Enterprise Cloud in Latin America. Terremark’s highly reliable cloud computing solutions will leverage Cisco’s Unified Computing System to provide customers highly agile and scalable cloud-based resources from its massively connected NAP Brasil in SãoPaolo.

Telx, an interconnection and colocation provider in the strategic markets of North America, recently collaborated with Neutral Tandem to develop Telx Ethernet Exchange. Neutral Tandem is a provider of tandem interconnection services to companies in the fields of wireless, wireline, cable and broadband telephony.

The computer disaster that a consultant warned Dallas County about two years ago arrived Tuesday when a break in a water main disabled its computer systems, crippling operations for almost the entire county government. The 2008 consultant's report warned the county that it needed a backup plan for its computer system in case of a disaster – an off-site location to keep county operations up and running. But no action was taken on that advice.

Stand-alone data centres and buildings that house large data centres now can earn the familiar aqua-and-white Energy Star label if they pass the agency's qualification requirements. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, charged with seeing that enterprise IT devices such as servers and storage arrays become more environmentally friendly by using less electrical power, has announced that it is extending its Energy Star program to include entire data centres.

Federal auditors have said the Internal Revenue Service could save more than US$3 million over four years by improving air cooling circulation at two data centres. However, IRS officials said that savings estimate may be inflated because it does not take into account the cost of implementing the improvements at the centres in Memphis and Martinsburg.

UnitedLayer, a privately held managed colocation services firm, has announced that it has been selected by Permuto, an online performance advertising company, to be its primary managed hosting partner. UnitedLayer provides colocation and data centre infrastructure services to businesses across the globe.

BendBroadband has announced plans to build and operate a private data centre in NE Bend. Company officials said the facility, known as the BendBroadband Vault, will offer collocation services using a fibre network and energy-efficient power systems.

The 30,000 sq ft facility will be built in three phases. St. Charles Health Systems will be an anchor tenant in the new facility.

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XO Communications has announced it has deployed 10 Gbps wavelength services for ACTIV Financial, a global provider of fully managed low latency market data solutions.

The XO solution connects ACTIV's data centres in Chicago and New York and provides the low latency, high-capacity network infrastructure necessary to facilitate the delivery of large volumes of market data to customers around the world.

Source: Market Watch

The Scott Data Center, located on 68th and Pine Streets, serves as a data housing facility for enterprise-level companies, as well as small and mid-sized companies. One of the largest multi-tenant data centre facilities in the Omaha area is about to wire up more space here in the Metro.

The Scott Data Center, located at the Scott Technology Center, has announced the addition of 4,500 sq ft of colocation space in order to meet the demands of technology-based companies. This space will include 150 more cabinets for data storage.

Source: Silicon Prairie

Castle Access, a Southern California provider of enterprise data centre colocation and managed services, announced today that its 88,000 sq ft flagship enterprise data centre on World Trade Drive in Rancho Bernardo, California, has once again successfully completed a full SAS 70 Type II audit.

Fixnetix has said it had placed servers in Chicago at the CME Group. The colocation move will allow Fixnetix customers to trade in U.S. futures contracts. This "expands our offerings and continues our quest to meet high frequency trading customer demands,” said Fixnetix chief executive Hugh Hughes.

Like the broader high-tech sector powering it, the wholesale and enterprise data centre property niche has been one of the few commercial real estate sectors to generate sizzle through the recession. Granted, like most other asset categories, data centre sales, leasing and development transactions slowed considerably in 2008 and 2009 as construction and acquisition financing dried up.

A major sale of property by Intel to a newly formed real estate trust means millions of dollars of investment in Silicon Valley’s surging data centre industry. Chris Sumter, who is handling sales and marketing for the buyer, said the new owners plan to construct 221,000 sq ft of data storage space on the Walsh Avenue site.

Quest Construction Engineering, a Miami based Florida Construction Company, has recently completed building a new ‘Business Continuity Wing’ for the ColoHouse Miami data centre.

Using the latest technology, the Florida-based construction company has built the new 3,000 sq ft Business Continuity Wing as a Category-5 hurricane protected facility: that can endure up to 155-mph sustained winds and 185-mph gusts.

Source: Continuity Central

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Cincinnati Bell has announced the completion of its acquisition of data centre operator CyrusOne from ABRY Partners in a cash transaction valued at approximately US$525 million. CyrusOne is the largest data centre colocation company in Texas.

Intellifiber Networks has announced it is activating a new low latency network between Chicago and Washington DC. This route offers Gigabit Ethernet 2.5 Gbps and 10 Gbps wavelength and Ethernet services with the fastest roundtrip speeds currently available. Several major financial institutions and service providers are already taking advantage of the service.

Q9 Networks has announced details of its sixth data centre in the Greater Toronto Area. Q9 will invest US$125 million in the new 6,500 cabinet equivalent, 240,000 sq ft facility. This announcement represents Q9's largest-ever investment in new data centre capacity serving the GTA. The first phase of capacity will be available to customers in January 2011.

Level 3 Communications has announced that it has signed an agreement with Tech Vault, a colocation data centre located in South Burlington, Vermont, to connect Level 3's fibre optic network directly to Tech Vault's data centre and provide Dedicated Internet Access services.

Under terms of the agreement, Level 3 is providing a ringed Synchronous Optical Networking diverse entrance to the new data Center. Additionally, Level 3 will begin offering 100 megabyte DIA service solutions starting in July.

Source: Market Watch

Steadfast Networks, a leading Chicago based dedicated server hosting provider, has announced the opening of its newest data centre in Manhattan, New York. With its recent acquisition of The New York NOC hosting company, Steadfast Networks is opening the Manhattan data centre to provide highly flexible and affordable colocation and dedicated server services to Manhattan and surrounding areas.

IT Authorities has formed a partnership with McIntyre Construction Services of Palm Harbor that will allow the Tampa information technologies company to offer service such as data centre consolidations, cabling, generators, raised flooring and data centre construction services.

Terms of the partnership were not released nor were any immediate plans to start building data centres.

Source: Tampa Bay Business Journal

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Computer hosting and network services provider Savvis has said it has completed its acquisition of Canadian tech company Fusepoint for US$121 million in cash.

Fusepoint, which counts venture-capital firm M/C Venture Partners among its investors, manages information technology and has three data centres in Canada and more than 330 customers.

Source: Business Week

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Clearview has announced it received its second round of funding from Rock Financial Partners. Clearview has also secured a US$1 million line of credit for general corporate purposes. The funding came as a result of Clearview's recent success with its existing data centres in Dallas and Waco, Texas. The company has completely sold out the space in both its Downtown Dallas facility and recently expanded North Dallas centre.

Behind the fence at Terremark, high-tech expansion continues in Culpeper in spite of the down economy. Since beginning operations two years ago, the Miami-based company says growth at the Culpeper campus, officially dubbed the NAP of the Capitol Region, has continued to exceed expectations.

Phoenix NAP, a next generation data centre and network access point, has announced it is open and operating. Construction initially began in June of 2009, and during the past year, the building has been developed into a premier Phoenix colocation facility.

8×8, provider of business communications solutions, has announced it acquired Central Host, a Los Gatos, California-based company providing managed hosting services and cloud-based computing solutions. The company’s cloud-based services support a wide variety of hosted applications and services via high-quality data centre space on the west and east coasts, 24×7 operations staff, server resources and systems management experts. They currently operate three data centres in Silicon Valley and one in New York City.

Colocation provider Telx has announced that it has completed a SAS 70 Type II report covering 12 of its data centres in New York, New Jersey, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Miami, Phoenix, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

The report was issued following a thorough independent audit of Telx's control processes in 12 facilities. It demonstrates the company's leadership in operational excellence and its commitment to providing efficient security and control processes for its customers.

Source: The WHIR

Active Power, manufacturer of critical backup power systems and continuous power solutions, received a follow on multimillion dollar order from one of the world's largest Internet search engine providers for its CleanSource UPS systems, totalling nearly 13 megawatts of total rated UPS capacity.

Intelligent Decisions, has announced that it has successfully completed an end-to-end data centre relocation project for the Patient Advocate Foundation. This relocation effort included the complete de-installation and re-installation of all IT infrastructure components from the Newport News, Virginia data centre to the new Hampton, Virginia headquarters location.

The commonwealth of Massachusetts is about to break ground on what it says is the data centre of the future: a model of green efficiency, featuring virtualized servers and a disaster recovery plan that -- truth be told -- wasn't there before. The undertaking comes at a time when industry analysts say organizations are spiralling out of virtual control because they lack the automation tools required to achieve the intended cost savings of data centre virtualisation.

Web hosting provider Savvis recently completed its acquisition of Canadian managed hosting provider Fusepoint marking its entry into the Canadian market.

In this interview, Savvis CEO Jim Ousley discusses the details of the Fusepoint acquisition and its focus on the Canadian market.

Source: The WHIR

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Colo5, a leading independent data centre operator headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, announced it will provide comprehensive colocation and network services to Acosta Sales & Marketing.

Headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, Acosta is the US and Canada's leading sales, service, and marketing agency to consumer product goods companies. Acosta will be relocating its entire core network infrastructure from its current headquarters location to Colo5's main Jacksonville data centre, which will serve as Acosta's primary network services hub.

Savvis has announced the completion of the NJ2X expansion to its premier financial services data centre complex in Weehawken, New Jersey. The combined facilities allow Savvis to accommodate growing client demand for proximity hosting, Internet infrastructure services and connectivity to global financial exchanges in the New York-New Jersey financial hub.

Waterbury software and tech company RezZiliant’s hosting division and its two data centres in Waterbury and Hartford have been acquired by Access Northeast, a Marlborough, Mass., data centre operator and managed services provider, the companies have announced.

With the acquisition, Access Northeast now leases and operates four data centres throughout New England, totalling more than 40,000 sq ft. Deal price was not disclosed.

Source: Hartford Business

Web hosting provider Rebel Networks has announced it has added a new data centre in Dallas. The new facility will provide a range of services, including shared hosting, semi- and fully- managed dedicated hosting, colocation and virtual servers. Rebel Networks says the new data centre is part of its cloud computing strategy that has been in the works for sometimes.

State officials say Microsoft plans to “immediately” begin construction of a new data centre in West Des Moines, although the project has been scaled down from initial plans. Governor Culver says the company promises to employ 25 people at the facility when it’s up and running next spring and those workers will be be paid more than US$30 an hour on average.

Las Vegas casinos are normally tight-lipped about their IT systems, citing security concerns and competitive advantage. iTnews got a rare glimpse into casino technology with a tour of one of the data centres for twin casinos The Venetian and The Palazzo, which collectively boast 11,000 rooms.

The casino's chief technology officer Steve Vollmer showed us through the two-year old Palazzo data centre, which acts as a disaster recovery site for the main Venetian centre, which has been running for 13 years.

Source: IT News

Power company Duke Energy said that it has taken on a partner to help expand its fibre optic network in the Southeast. Duke, based in Charlotte, said an affiliate of Alinda Capital Partners, an independent private investment firm, will buy a 50% ownership of DukeNet Communications for US$137 million. Duke will continue to own the other half.

DukeNet controls about 5,300 miles of fibre optic network. It offers services including data centre connectivity, cellular backhaul bandwidth and Ethernet services.

Source: Canadian Business

Demand for data centre storage is now doubling every 24 months in the United States placing strain on the nation's information storage capabilities. While the number of data centres in the United States has grown from 400 a decade ago to more than 1,100 recently, it has not kept pace with demand. One reason is that many data centre builds and retrofits were put on hold during the recession. Now that is beginning to change.

CentriLogic, a provider of cloud computing, managed hosting, and data centre solutions, recently announced that Cookie Jar Entertainment, one of the world's leading creators, producers and marketers of animated and live-action programming, is the first customer to "go live" on its newly launched US-based infrastructure-as-a-service cloud. Cookie Jar Entertainment recently successfully completed an initial pilot with CentriLogic, and is now in the process of making the final transition for its consumer websites to the on-demand cloud service.

The Planet, the global hosting company, has introduced its new Server Cloud, leveraging the power of virtualisation and backed by a rich technology platform. With fast and easy provisioning, Server Cloud combines the simplicity and security of dedicated servers with the elasticity of a cloud platform.

The Crossroads of America Council Boy Scouts of America has retained n|Frame, one of the state’s largest data centres and technology infrastructure service providers, for the fourth consecutive year to provide technology and business continuity services. This includes off-site data server storage (also known as data server co-location) and commercial Internet connectivity among other services. The renewed contract and added services coincide with Crossroads’ recent move to a new headquarters in Indianapolis.

NYI, a SAS 70 type II-certified, mission-critical data solutions provider, has launched NYI X-Connect, a new platform that allows NYI customers immediate, customizable access to more than 20 top markets, including New York, New Jersey, Frankfurt, Singapore, Hong Kong, Chicago and Toronto.

Steadfast Networks, a Chicago based data centre and dedicated server hosting provider, has announced the opening of its new Chicago data centre, located at 725 S. Wells St.

The new Steadfast Networks data centre will accommodate the expanding demand for Chicago colocation services and Chicago web hosting services in a state-of-the-art data facility. The initial phase includes 6,000 sq. ft. of raised floor data centre space and 750kW of power and is the first phase of a 4.5MW build-out at the location.

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CGI Group, a provider of IT and business process services, has entered into an agreement with Atlantic Lottery Corporation for a seven-year IT managed services contract valued at approximately US$125 million. Headquartered in Moncton, New Brunswick, Atlantic Lottery is a government-owned organization that operates lottery games throughout Atlantic Canada.

AboveNet, a provider of high bandwidth connectivity solutions, announced that it has linked its network to the Northern Virginia data centre of Power Loft, a leader in an energy-efficient "green" design.

Located at Innovation Park in Manassas, Virginia, the "Power Loft @ Innovation" data centre serves the fast-growing Prince William County technology and business corridor. Power Loft customers now can use AboveNet's high bandwidth connectivity solutions for all critical business data applications.

Source: Market Watch

The Missouri House of Representatives passed a bill that gives tax incentives for new data centres. The state is trying to lure large corporations to Missouri by giving them tax breaks for new data centres. Proponents say Columbia is a potential target for some companies.

"There's a couple of different data companies looking a build a new structure and they're looking at Missouri, particularly Columbia," Rep. Stephen Webber D-Columbia said. If a new facility is built in Columbia, it will most likely be at Ewing Industrial Park.

Source: KOMU

onShore Networks have announced it has completed construction of its new data centre facility in downtown Chicago. The data centre is centrally located at 216 W. Jackson Boulevard. The new facility greatly expands onShore Networks' footprint for colocation space. The facility measures 3,000 sq ft and was built with all the amenities onShore Networks' colocation customers require.

Zayo Group, a provider of bandwidth infrastructure and network-neutral colocation services, has announced that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Rochester, NY, based American Fiber Systems Holding Corporation, a provider of metropolitan fibre network and telecom services. The acquisition will both augment and expand Zayo's fibre network presence in nine tier 1 and tier 2 metropolitan markets across the US.

Level 3 Communications has announced that it has signed an agreement with Chickasaw Long Distance/BrightNet , a wholesale carrier based in Oklahoma, to provide high-speed Internet protocol and transport services.

Under the terms of the three-year agreement, Level 3 will provide CLD with HSIP services over a Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) connection. The agreement will enable CLD to resell Level 3's next-generation IP solutions and gain access to potential customers in Oklahoma City, expanding their regional influence.

Source: Market Watch