GetLisa Information Services has announced a significant expansion of its data centre and NOC facility in Boulder, CO. In addition to upgrading its existing facilities, GetLisa has also signed a multi-year agreement with the most advanced data centre in Boulder to create an enterprise-level colocation facility.

Methode Data Solutions Group launched the U-Track RFID asset monitoring solution, which leverages near-field sensing technology to detect the presence, identity and location of rack mounted assets, such as those found in data centres.

The U-Track solution utilizes industry standards for high-frequency RFID and is ideal for new generation facility installations where smart racking and smart cabinets are being considered, as well as retrofit environments where smart upgrades are underway.

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Dell is unveiling new software to tie together disparate pieces of data centre hardware, making a pitch for an open system that runs counter to what some of its rivals are doing. Dell's updated Virtual Integrated System offers business customers software that can manage servers, storage and networking from other vendors, not just Dell. The company said VIS provides customers the ability to fuse older and newer technologies, extending the life of older hardware as companies use newer technology.

Peak 10, a managed services company with world-class data centres, has announced that it is hosting the core IT infrastructure of Curse, the largest MMO property in the U.S.

The Curse Network is responsible for 21 of the most unique, sought-after MMO websites on the planet and represents a wide array of notable games including Age of Conan and gaming sites like MMO Champion. Peak 10 is providing Curse and its associated titles with high-speed network interconnectivity, network management services, advanced DDOS protection and consultative infrastructure services.

The US Social Security Administration has selected Accenture as a prime contractor under the Information Technology Support Services Contract that will be used to acquire a wide range of IT systems development and modernisation services. Accenture said that the new IT services contract includes a one-year base period plus six additional one-year options with an aggregate ceiling valued at US$2.8 billion.

Technology giants EMC and Cisco Systems will together contribute US$5 million to an advanced computing centre in Holyoke that state officials hope will provide a spark for this long-struggling mill city and the broader Western Massachusetts economy.

Bell has announced its purchase of Hypertec Availability Services' hosting division, the leading top-tier data hosting provider in Québec. The acquisition provides Bell with more than 100,000 sq ft of hosting space in a state-of-the-art Montréal data centre, enhancing Bell's ability to provide co-location and managed data centre services for corporate and public sector clients.

2020 Company have announced that it has been awarded a multiple-award indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to provide technical and professional service offerings for the NOAALink program as well as other bureaus and offices of the Department of Commerce. The 10-year, multi-award IDIQ carries an estimated ceiling value of US$2.5 billion.

The NOAALink program will span 15 service areas within NOAA, including end-user services, data centres, application development, disaster recovery, and security.

When he was in Buffalo, looking for a data centre site, Scott Noteboom, vice president of global production operations, at Yahoo, said the first thing he wanted to see were old factory buildings. He wanted to learn how the factories used the cool air coming off the Great Lakes in an era before refrigeration.

How widespread is business use of cloud computing? The results of one survey just published suggest use of both public and private clouds has real momentum in the United States, with private cloud computing appearing to be more popular.

Hosting Metro has announced that it has reached an agreement with long-time Las Vegas web host company Bizwala Hosting. With the agreement in place, Hosting Metro will migrate their existing services and marketing to its own operations.

As part of the transition, Hosting Metro is also expanding its colocation capabilities by expanding its Western U.S. operations and giving their customers the ability to colocate in Dallas or Las Vegas.

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A panic seemed to hit the data centre sector on Wednesday, when a revenue warning from Equinix sparked a sharp selloff on shares across the group. Equinix trimmed its forecast, saying it lost more customers in North America than expected, as well as “greater than expected discounting” to close its contract renewals and disappointing revenue from a recent acquisition. The warning caused Equinix shares to plunge $34.75, or more than 33%, to close at $70.34 Wednesday.

Data centre operator Data Centers Canada has announced it has opened its Phase 3 data centre POD space at its Toronto North facility.

The Phase 3 POD has approximately 125 cabinets with single-cabinet, cabinet clusters and private cage configurations available to customers. Located 13 miles north of Toronto in Vaughan, the facility is in close proximity to Pearson International Airport and the downtown financial district. The 8,000 sq ft facility was built in 2004.

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Northrop Grumman has said it had landed a US$5 billion contract to provide information management and technology services to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “CDC”.

Data centre operator Online Tech has announced it has completed its latest SAS 70 Type II audit for the second year in a row. This year's report included a complete audit of Online Tech's managed data centre services including online backup and monitoring, and virtualization and firewall management services.

Independent auditing firm UHY conducted the SAS 70 audit of Online Tech's processes and controls of its data centres. The audit assures Online Tech's clients that its data centres and managed services consistently demonstrate a high standard of security and control.

County leaders foresee big news for a quiet park off Riverside Court. T5 Partners control more than 260 acres off US 74 near Ingles. For now, that land is empty. But soon, officials hope, there could be five or six data centres installed and operational.

The federal government is moving to dramatically reduce the number of data centres it relies on, in a move that promises to reshape the local information technology landscape.

Google is backing a plan to lay undersea cables to connect offshore windmills off the mid-Atlantic coast, a step the Internet giant hopes will boost wind power as an energy source. The US$5-billion offshore wind power transmission line will stretch 350 miles from New Jersey to Virginia and could supply enough wind energy to serve about 1.9 million households. But the ambitious project faces hurdles.

Juniper Networks has announced that PEER 1 Hosting a leading online IT hosting provider, has selected Juniper's "3-2-1" architecture for a comprehensive upgrade of its data centres and core network infrastructure that is designed to cost-effectively increase traffic capacity and scalability.

Science Applications International has announced it was awarded a new prime contract by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to provide technical services to help the agency modernize its information management systems. The multiple award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract has a two-year base period of performance, four two-year options, and a total ceiling value of US$3 billion for all awardees of the information management domain.

Telx, an interconnection and colocation provider in strategic North American markets, has announced that it has nearly doubled the footprint of its data centre at the 111 8th Avenue facility in New York City, considered the premier Financial Markets location in the NY Metro area.

The addition of 40,000 sq ft of capacity for financial institutions, telecommunications service providers, cloud providers and Software as a Service providers allows Telx to expand colocation and interconnection services and establishes them as the dominant provider in this key location.

Internap Network Services has announced that Doyenz, a cloud-based IT services platform provider, is leveraging Internap’s advanced data centre and IP network capabilities to ensure the integrity of its Shadowclou offering.

Internap’s colocation and Performance IP network solution will provide a scalable, secure environment with a 100% uptime service level agreement for Shadowcloud, enabling reliable, high-performance access to cloud-based, virtualised production environments for end users and uninterrupted revenue streams for Doyenz IT reseller partners.

Facebook broke ground last January on its Prineville Data Center, moving quickly toward completion; what future phases happen will turn largely on power supplies. As it turns out, Sen. Ron Wyden’s office also indicated Thursday that an already announced Phase 2 expansion of the facility next year is likely to be followed by a third big server building at the location - if the area’s power grid can be upgraded to handle the need in time. In a bid to make that happen, the Oregon Democrat called Bonneville Power and Pacific Power.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to open a new data centre that will bring about 100 full-time and 300 part-time jobs to the St. Louis area. The data collection and processing centre will aid the department's statistical research about trends in agriculture and the farming sector. USDA says the centre is intended to streamline its survey operations conducted around the country.

The centre is expected to open in late 2011 in the Charles Prevedel Federal Building at the site of a former Army records centre.

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Level 3 Communications, a provider of fibre-based communications services, has stated that Grooveshark, an on-demand music service company will be receiving high-speed Internet Protocol (HSIP) services from them to facilities in Denver and Jacksonville, Fla.

Iowa is beginning to consolidate its IT infrastructure according to a new executive order signed by Governor Culver on Friday. The order outlines the steps the state will take to streamline its IT operations and look for ways to cut costs. The Governor claims that the planned outlined in the order draws on best practices from other states that have already consolidated their technology infrastructure.

VMware reported another highly profitable financial quarter after the New York Stock Exchange bell Oct. 18, but because it wasn't quite what Wall Street was expecting, its stock price took a sharp 6.6 percent hit in after-hours trading.

Force 3, delivering the best in federal security, unified communications and data centre solutions, has announced that it has been awarded a US$9 million indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract by The Navy Exchange Service Command in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Under the contract, Force 3 will provide Cisco brand name products such as routers, switches, IP phones, VOIP servers, software, associated hardware and consumables, support/maintenance of Cisco products and professional services for NEXCOM's facilities in the United States and abroad

QTS one of the nation's largest and fastest-growing providers of data centre facilities and managed services, has announced that it has been chosen by Cross Country Home Services,, a home warranty, home service plan and homeowner emergency assistance program provider, for colocation space to house its primary production environment. Terms of the multi-year agreement were not disclosed.

A Tennessee Valley Authority economic development program has identified a dozen sites in the Southeast as prime locations for developing the region's growing data centre industry. The initial sites identified in the TVA survey are in: Athens, Tenn.; Bristol, Tenn.; Duffield, Va.; Fayetteville, Tenn.; Guntersville, Ala.; Hartselle, Ala.; Jackson, Tenn.; Lenoir City, Tenn.; Maryville, Tenn.; Murfreesboro, Tenn.; Olive Branch, Miss.; and Tullahoma, Tenn.

i/o Data Centers has announced that it has been awarded The Uptime Institute's Tier III Certification for Design Documents for the first phase of the Company's Phoenix data centre.

This data centre is the largest commercially available data centre in the United States to achieve Tier III design certification from the Uptime Institute.

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CoreLink Data Centers opened a new state-of-the art centre in Mount Prospect, months after moving its headquarters from Phoenix to Mount Prospect. Eager to show off its new facility at 800 E. Business Center Drive in hopes of building at least two to three more each year nationwide, CoreLink offered tours of its security systems with biometric scanners, fire protection and suppression systems, and other equipment.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is backing open source cloud computing with a long-term goal in mind: to get out of the data centre business. NASA CTO Chris Kemp said he believes that compute resources are fundamentally a utility, no different than electric power. And "we don't own power plants right now - we don't own other services that are provided as utilities," he said.

The federal government agencies have selected Verizon Business to provide secure on-demand cloud computing services. The service requires provision of server, network and storage capacity.

Washington-based DuPont Fabros will net US$179 million from its recent preferred stock offering and will use the money to pay down existing debt and fund construction of data centres. It will use proceeds, plus existing cash on hand, to pay off US$196.5 million in debt and will use remaining cash and borrowings under an existing credit facility to complete current projects under development.

The company is building data centres in California and Northern Virginia, including its fifth in Ashburn.

Source: Washington Business Journal

A site in Murfreesboro has favourable attributes to attract a data centre project according to a recent Deloitte Consulting study, an economic development study sponsored by the Tennessee Valley Authority. TVA and Chicago-based Deloitte Consulting assessed more than 50 sites across the TVA service area for their capacity to accommodate data centres — specially designed facilities that house computer systems and components for Internet search engine companies, financial transaction processors and other high-tech industries.

Lee Technologies, a provider of complete data centre solutions and resources to some of the most information-reliant corporations and government organizations in the world, introduced its latest advancement in critical-facility infrastructure design and construction — Flexible Solutions.

When it comes to green IT, Pacific Gas & Electric knows how to talk the talk. The California utility already promotes energy conservation to its customers through a variety of incentives targeting everyone from consumers to data centre operators.

It also launches internal initiatives, such as its recent "Think before you print" campaign. But the utility practices what it preaches by making green-IT best practices its gold standard. Users don't opt in -- they have to opt out.

Source: IDG

Fortune Data Centers' have announced the expansion of Phase 1 development at 2001 Fortune Drive in San Jose, Calif., which will add 1.4 megawatts of critical IT load to the existing 8 MW, bringing to 9.4 MW the total capacity of the facility, one of the largest data centres in Silicon Valley. The additional capacity is expected to be fully commissioned by year end and available in Q1 2011.

Fortune's expansion positions the company to help meet increasing demand in Silicon Valley for multi-tenant data centre space.

Source: PR Newswire

GlobeNet, a wholesale provider of submarine capacity, announced today that it is planning to add additional capacity to its submarine network connecting the North and South American continents.

The current network has a capacity of 360Gb/s. GlobeNet has awarded contracts to Alcatel-Lucent and to Xtera Communications which will see each contractor responsible for a 100Gb/s upgrade, taking the total capacity to 560Gb/s. The upgrades are expected to be completed during the first quarter of 2011.

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Verizon Communications was granted 25 megawatts of low-cost hydroelectric power Tuesday for its proposed data centre in Somerset, an enticement designed to help win the US$1 billion-plus project for the Buffalo Niagara region. The New York Power Authority board of trustees, meeting in the Power Vista at the Niagara Power Project, approved the deal unanimously.

How should agencies fund data centre consolidation initiatives? Try using the Department of Energy’s Energy Savings Performance Contracts, said Doug Bourgeois, vice president and chief cloud executive with VMware, speaking at a cloud computing conference. The contracts let agencies embark on energy-savings projects without upfront capital costs and without special Congressional appropriations. An ESPC is a partnership between the federal agency and an energy-service provider company.

The Washington State Department of Ecology (Ecology) has issued the final permit allowing Microsoft’s Columbia Data Center in Quincy to expand operations. The final permit, called a “notice of construction” order, follows a five-week public review and comment period that included a public hearing.

QTS, one of the nation's largest and fastest-growing providers of data centres and managed services, has announced the closing of a new, US$125 million revolving credit facility. The credit facility is secured by the QTS Atlanta Metro Data Center asset. The facility also provides for an accordion feature to increase the amount of the facility up to US$250 million.

A US$1 billion, state-of-the-art business park to house five to 10 corporate data centres is being proposed for Colorado Springs’ south side, where an on-site power plant could generate electricity for users from the burning of trash, wood and other materials.

While down in Phoenix for our WHIR networking event, we had the opportunity to tour the Phoenix NAP facility, which – after a long period spent in construction and a period spent courting connectivity providers – opened its doors to customers not so long ago, in the summer.

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Savvis Federal Systems, a subsidiary of Savvis, has been awarded a contract by the U.S. General Services Administration to provide cloud computing to federal, state, local and tribal government organisations. Savvis is one of just 11 vendors selected to provide on-demand Infrastructure-as-a-services (IaaS), including virtual machines and Web hosting, through the GSA's Cloud IT Services storefront at Apps.gov.