FiberLight has announced it is providing state-of-the-art network infrastructure to the Georgia Institute of Technology to connect the Georgia Tech Research Institute and Centennial Research building on the Georgia Tech campus in Atlanta with 56 Marietta, one of Atlanta’s key carrier interconnection points and Internet facilities.

FORTRUST, Colorado's leading high-availability data center services provider and colocation facility, has announced that it has been selected by SpotXchange to host a significant amount of infrastructure in order to satisfy a disaster recovery requirement. The DR infrastructure deployed at Fortrust will support all SpotXchanges mission critical systems in the event of a disaster.

FORTRUST will provide data center services, which are guaranteed with a 100% uptime Service Level Agreement, to ensure that SpotXchange's IT infrastructure is secure and available at all times.

QTS has announced that it will open its new, 1.3 million sq ft data centre campus approximately two months ahead of schedule in the first week of November.

Data centre operator Terremark Worldwide has announced it is planning on expanding its data centre space in four key markets to meet growing customer demand for colocation and cloud services. The company says it may turn to the debt markets to finance the construction of these data centres.

Cincinnati Bell has reported lower earnings for the third quarter after higher interest costs for its US$525 million CyrusOne acquisition in June.

Net income for the three months ended Sept. 30 was US$14.5 million compared with US$27.7 million, a year ago. The company said the decline in net income stemmed from US$21 million in higher interest expenses for the acquisition of the Texas-based data centre operator.

Source: Cincinnatti.com

DuPont has completed the first phase of its new data centre in New Jersey and the second phase of its ACC5 data centre development in Virginia. DuPont has launched both phases on November 1, bringing online 36.4MW of data centre capacity and expanding its portfolio by 30%.

Hossein Fateh, the CEO of DuPont) said that, “We strengthened our balance sheet by issuing preferred stock and using the proceeds to pay off a near-term debt maturity. Additionally, we continue to experience solid demand for our wholesale space from both Internet and enterprise companies.”

PAETEC Holding has announced third quarter 2010 financial and operating results. "The third quarter marked solid growth for PAETEC," said Arunas A. Chesonis, chairman and CEO. "In addition to sequential and year-over-year revenue growth, we opened two new data centres and announced the planned acquisition of Cavalier Telephone which will add over 17,000 new route miles of fibre to our network."

The US federal government has released draft plans for a programme to ensure cloud services meet federal cybersecurity guidelines. The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program is aimed at quelling government concerns about cloud security.

UND’s chief information officer unveiled a rendering of the proposed new data centre before an audience of state and local officials. Joshua Riedy was speaking to the State Board of Higher Education. The board has named the data centre the state university system’s top priority project.

American Realty Capital II LLC has acquired a 12-property portfolio including a Denver data centre, spanning four states.

Grubb & Ellis Co. brokers arranged the sales. Riki Hashimoto, senior vice president in Denver, represented the private seller of a 93,000 sq ft data centre at 11525 Main St. in Denver, leased to TIAA-CREF Individual & Institutional Services LLC.

Source: City Biz

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Data centre operator and colocation firm Telx has announced that the first phase of its 13,500 sq ft high-density expansion at its 350 E. Cermak facility in Chicago is now open for immediate occupancy. The newly expanded phase accommodates up to 6kW per cabinet, or 330 watts per square foot, which makes it the most power-dense colocation facility in the Chicago area.

The Gary City Council approved a confirmatory resolution to help an Illinois firm receive a tax exemption to locate an information technology data centre in the city. The resolution for DuSable Communications International LLC, of Chicago, paved the way for it to capture a personal property tax exemption as a part of Senate Enrolled Act 448.

Cisco bet big on its UCS products for data centres – and now it's going "all in" with a massive, resilient and green data centre built on that integrated blade architecture. In fact, the company as a whole is migrating to the year-old Unified Computing System – Cisco's bold entree into the world of computing -- as fast as possible. Plans call for 90% of Cisco's total IT load to be serviced by UCS within 12 to 18 months.

Rackspace Hosting, which has data centres in the US, the UK and Hong Kong, has announced its third-quarter profit and revenue increased compared with last year and the previous quarter. The report citing higher customer counts, new services and early returns on investments.

The Web-hosting company reported net revenue of US$199.7 million, a 23% jump compared with the same period last year and a 6.6% increase from the second quarter of 2010. Profit grew 55.3 % year-over-year to US$11.8 million.

Source: My San Antonio

XO Communications has announced an expansion of its metro network coverage across Phoenix. The initiative demonstrates XO Communications' strategy to expand its presence in existing XO markets in order to serve more enterprise customers with its award-winning IP-based communications and managed network solutions and exceptional customer experience.

Internap, a provider of global IT infrastructure services, has announced the opening of a new data centre in the heart of Silicon Valley at 2151 Mission College Boulevard in Santa Clara, California.

Internap's new data centre includes 14,000 sq ft of net sellable space in Phase I, with plans for Phase II expansion to 27,000 sq ft. The data centre provides flexible space and high-density power options, as well as primary and redundant systems for power, cooling and fire protection.

Source: PR Newswire

AboveNet, a provider of high bandwidth connectivity solutions, recently announced it is expanding its network into the Baltimore Washington Corridor. Three new fibre optic loops will specifically serve enterprise and carrier customers in and between the Columbia Gateway, Annapolis Junction and Maryland's National Business Park.

NCI, a provider of IT, engineering, logistics, professional services, and solutions to U.S. Federal Government agencies, has announced that it has been awarded a task order under the NETCENTS contract with a value of approximately US$12.5 million to provide engineering and integration services for two data centres to support the U.S. Air Force Distributed Common Ground System enterprise.

Henry Ford Health System is expanding its Rochester Hills data centre by more than 20,000 sq ft – and bringing new jobs to the area.

The data centre and an additional building on the site are now completely leased by Henry Ford for a total of 86,000 sq ft. The centre has been leased by Henry Ford since 1987. The lease is extended through 2022.

Source: Examiner

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Online IT infrastructure provider PEER 1 Network Enterprises has announced its results for the three months ended September 30, 2010, reporting a 12.6% revenue increase to US$26.3 million from US$23.4 million compared to the same quarter last year, however, operating income, normalized EBITDA and net income decreased.

Compared to Q1 2010, however, operating income fell 51.3% to US$1.2 million from US$2.5 million, normalized EBITDA dropped US$6.5 million to US$6.02 million, and net income decreased to US$0.36 million from US$1.3 million.

Source: The WHIR

Data centre operator Atomic Data Centers has announced the acquisition of IT services firm 1543AD. They have merged to add Microsoft Software Services to their cloud computing and data management services. Minneapolis-based 1543AD provides IT management and software development.

Atomic Data Centers, which is also headquartered in Minneapolis, currently has seven facilities, including three in Minnesota, Arizona, Georgia, Spain and Hong Kong. The company says it will also open four new data centres in 2011 in California, Texas, New York and Ohio.

CoreSite Realty Corporation, a national provider of powerful, network-rich data centres, has announced results for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2010.

DuPont Fabros Technology has announced details of a lease agreement at its NJ1 data centre facility in Piscataway, New Jersey. Under this agreement, Net2EZ Managed Data Centers, a national provider of colocation, metro-connectivity and managed data centre services, has leased a total of 2.275 megawatts  of critical load.

Philadelphia Technology Park and Baltimore Technology Park have announced Legg Mason Capital Management is their newest investment firm, customer. LMCM will make Baltimore Technology park its primary data centre and will utilise Philadelphia Technology Park as its disaster recovery facility.

MeriTalk, the government IT network, has announced the results of the “Federal Data Center Addiction: The Road To Recovery” report, which examines agencies’ consolidation perceptions, status, and strategies toward meeting the goals put forth by the Office of Management and Budget’s Data Center Consolidation Directive.

Adhost Internet, one of the Seattle region's leading providers of server colocation, dedicated servers and cloud hosting, finished construction of its third data centre in downtown Seattle - just in time for the upcoming stormy winter forecasted for western Washington.

CyrusOne, the nation’s fifth largest colocation provider, has announced that it has entered an agreement with Texas-New Mexico Power to add 14 MW of power capacity to its North Dallas data centre by early 2012, bringing CyrusOne’s available power at the site to 22 MW of capacity, with further expansion capability available up to 62 MW as needed.

The fully redundant, onsite substation delivers 22 MW of power on diverse paths to maintain CyrusOne’s zero, single-point-of-failure design.

Source: PR Safe

Yomura Holdings has announced a US$5 million strategic investment in a Chicago Data centre Yomura Holdings will add its third wholly-owned US data centre in the West Wacker area of Chicago, Illinois. The new facility is expected to house up to 500 racks of equipment and provide room for growth over the next three years.

The U.S. Coast Guard selected Perot Systems Government Services, a unit of Dell Services and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dell, to provide IT field support services for critical mission and rescue systems. This contract is an expansion of the work the company has been providing to the USCG through its PSGS subsidiary for the past decade.

Enterprise-wide support services for the entire USCG will be provided by Dell Services, as part of the new five-year, US$92 million Standard Workstation and Communication Infrastructure Support Blanket Purchase Agreement contract.

AboveNet a leading provider of high bandwidth connectivity solutions, has announced it is expanding its data network in the Chicago metro area with new fibre optic "express routes" that will offer some of the lowest latency fibre routes between downtown Chicago and the western suburbs. The routes are also expected to provide the shortest data paths available between the urban centre and suburban business hubs.

The new network routes bypass more than 23 miles of the existing fibre footprint surrounding the Chicago suburban areas.

Source: PR Newswire

Engineering and construction firm IDC Architects has announced that data centre operator Quality Technology Services will expand its Santa Clara, California data centre by 55,000 sq ft of data centre space and 8MW of power. QTS originally announced the 70,000 sq ft expansion in May, which comprises of 55,000 sq ft of data centre space and 15,000 sq ft of office space.

The company says the newly expanded data centre space will open late in the second quarter of 2011.

Source: The WHIR

Unisys has announced that it has received an extension of its contract to provide IT outsourcing services to the City of Minneapolis. The services benefit all departments of the city government – including the mayor's office, city council, fire and police departments and the public works department – enabling them to deliver services to residents more efficiently and cost-effectively.

FiberLight, a Georgia-based fibre-optic network provider, has said it will soon unveil a network that can connect commercial customers in downtown Baltimore and several southern suburbs to points in Washington and Northern Virginia.

FiberLight is spending US$20 million to build the network, which will run 104 miles from downtown and western parts of Baltimore south through Columbia, Laurel and Greenbelt, where it ties into the company's existing Washington and Northern Virginia telecommunication networks.

Source: Baltimore Sun

Science Applications International Corporation has announced that it has been awarded a task order by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to provide hosting services to the agency's National Computer Center.

Phoenix NAP, a next-generation data centre and network access point, announced today that Highwinds, a leader in content delivery, network, and IP services, has established a point-of-presence within the Phoenix NAP facility.

“As a data centre operator, it is critical that we are able to provide an array of connectivity solutions to meet client needs. The addition of a Highwinds PoP to our meet-me room is significant as it enables any Phoenix NAP customer to choose the quality transit/transport solutions Highwinds offers,” said Ian McClarty, president of Phoenix NAP.

Worldwide IP and Ethernet services provider Global Crossing has expanded its services contract with Deutsche Telekom's corporate systems division T-Systems. Global Crossing has been providing Private LAN Services, Private IP and Clear Channels to T-Systems since 2003.

Global Crossing will enhance T-Systems' business continuity plan by providing capacity of 34Gbps via Global Crossing's DWDM network linking T-Systems' three data centres in Sao Bernardo do Campo, Sao Paulo and Barueri.

Source: Telecom Paper

IT outsourcing company, OneNeck, has announced it has entered into a two-year IT managed hosting contract with Fender Musical Instruments Corporation.

Under the terms of the contract, OneNeck will provide all backup and data transport infrastructure as well as off-site data archive storage for a number of Fender's servers. OneNeck will also provide monitoring and remote Oracle and SQL database management including patch management, system support and performance tuning with 24x7 help desk support.

Source: PR USA

The White House, which earlier this summer vowed to change how the federal government buys and uses IT, last week disclosed plans to cut by 40% its number of data centres and directed agencies to opt for cloud-based technologies.

NetWitness, a network security company that provides real-time network forensics and automated threat analysis solutions, has signed a 30,000 sq ft lease at Parkridge Center Four in Reston, VA.

Matt Pacinelli, Penzance's director of leasing, spearheaded the leasing effort that brought Virginia-based NetWitness to the Reston property said "What attracted them to the building for their worldwide headquarters was our ability to deliver a high-end data centre along with very attractive, unique office space featuring high ceilings, skylights and six private terraces,"

Allied Fiber has announced that the Company has entered into financing arrangements with financial partners, including affiliates of Falcon Investment Advisors, LLC and ABRY Partners, LLC, to complete funding for phase one of its new, network-neutral, high-count dark fibre, colocation and wireless tower integrated system.

Construction of the first phase linking New York City, Chicago and Ashburn, VA is already underway and is expected to be complete by May 2011.

Source: Market Wire

Web hosting provide Midphase has announced that it will be migrating all of its shared hosting servers over to the C7 Building V colocation data centre in Lindon, Utah.

Midphase says it is currently in the planning stages of the project and will provide more information about the upcoming move in the next 2 to 4 weeks. C7's Tier-3 data center is located close to Midphase's corporate offices and in a designated disaster-safe zone as outlined by FEMA's National Emergency Management Information System.

Source: The WHIR

TEAM Companies, a data services provider in the Upper Midwest, has announced that RSM McGladrey, a provider of tax and consulting services, has signed a five-year contract extension to their existing contract, along with a new five-year contract for disaster recovery space in the TEAM Companies Des Moines facility.

Cincinnati Bell has said that John Burns, president of CBTS, its colocation and information technology service unit, has resigned from the company. Ted Torbeck, president and general manager of Cincinnati Bell Communications, will assume responsibility for the operations of CBTS.

Radiant Communications, a Canadian supplier of Broadband Solutions for Business, has announced its financial results for its third quarter and the nine months ended September 30, 2010. Revenue of Can$7.8 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2010 increased by 1.9% compared to revenue of Can$7.7 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2009;

In the third quarter Radiant built out a second cloud data centre in Toronto in order to offer geographically redundant, fully Canadian based cloud services to new and existing customers.

Source: American Chronicle

Emcor Group has been awarded a contract to install energy efficient air handling systems at AT&T's data centre in California. The firm's subsidiary Emcor Services Mesa Energy Systems will fit an air-cooled chilled water system within the facility.

This system will help to maximise energy use while boosting the data centre's response capability. Emcor will replace eight 300-tonne chillers already on the site with its new, greener models.

Source: Comms Express

A new US$4 million data centre at Licking Memorial Hospital will help protect patient information and ensure it is available even during severe weather.

Construction on the new data centre began earlier this year and is expected to be complete before the end of the year. Sallie Arnett, vice president of information systems at Licking Memorial Health Systems, said the new data centre will have better redundancy for electrical and mechanical systems. The old centre, for instance, had about 240 servers on site. This centre will have the capacity for 640 servers.

Data centre operator and Web hosting provider 1102 GRAND has announced that TeliaSonera International Carrier has established a point of presence at its facility.

TeliaSonera delivers customized IP, capacity and voice services to media, education and online gaming companies and organizations. The company owns and operates more than 27,000 miles of fibre network, which covers more than 100 points of presence in 35 countries across Europe, the US and Asia.

Source: The WHIR

Data centre equipment firm Mellanox Technologies has announced it will acquire fellow networking technology provider Voltaire for about US$218 million. Mellanox will eventually end up paying US$176 million after taking into account the cash on Voltaire's books. The terms of the transaction have been unanimously approved by the boards of directors of the companies.

Expected to close in the first quarter of 2011, the acquisition will strengthen Mellanox's position as an end-to-end connectivity solutions provider for the growing worldwide data centre server and storage markets.

Red Sea Group, a global real estate investment and development company with over a billion dollars in investment and construction experience, has launched Server Farm Realty , a data centre development company. Spearheading the company as president and chief executive officer is Avner Papouchado, who brings nearly 20 years of real estate development experience as RSG’s North American chief executive officer.

BT subsidiary Vicom, has signed two contracts with Caixa Economica Federal, one of the government-owned financial institutions in Latin America, to connect its data centres with its banking correspondents and lottery outlets in Brazil.