A US$5 million data centre that would provide 25 full-time jobs may locate in Cheyenne. Denver-based Thought Equity Motion Inc. plans to open here in four to six months in the Jonah Financial Center on Pershing Boulevard.

Thought Equity Motion, which has 125 employees, already has a data centre in Laramie that opened in 2005. The Cheyenne data centre would be an expansion of the Laramie operation. On Monday, the Cheyenne City Council applied for a Wyoming Business Council grant of US$2,250,000 to assist the data centre with the costs of electric power and broadband Internet.

Ancor, a premier outsourcing provider of customized print and electronic document services, has recently partnered with Online Tech, a Midwest data centre operator for IT disaster recovery facilities and services.

Ancor is the parent company for two other service organizations, Utilitec and HealthLOGIX.

Source: Business Wire

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Visionary Integration Professionals, a global technology and managed services firm, has announced they have been selected as one of the prime contractors to provide IT services for the Internal Revenue Service under the TIPSS-4 ITS contract. These contracts are the primary procurement vehicles for technology-related services within the Internal Revenue Service and other Treasury bureaus.

Two more tenants and 20 more megawatts of Douglas County PUD power are coming to the Intergate.Columbia data centre complex near Pangborn Memorial Airport. John Ford, spokesman for the data centre’s Tukwila-based owner, Sabey, said two new tenants will join existing tenants T-Mobile and VMware. He declined to name the tenants, but said one was in the process of moving in and the other is about to make the move. The new tenants will nearly fill the complex’s first phase, which covers just over 28 acres.

Layered Technologies, a global provider of compliant hosting, managed dedicated hosting and on-demand virtualization/cloud computing services, is adding bandwidth at its wholly owned, 77,000-sq ft data centre in Kansas City, Mo., while also increasing connectivity between the Kansas City, Dallas and Chicago facilities.

Interactive Data Corporation has reported its financial results for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2010. Interactive Data’s fourth-quarter 2010 revenue was a record US$207.8 million, an increase of 7.1% over US$194.1 million for the same quarter of 2009.

Fourth-quarter 2010 revenue was reduced by US$1.3 million due to the amortization of acquisition-related deferred revenue. Excluding this adjustment, non-GAAP revenue was US$209.2 million in the fourth quarter of 2010, an increase of 7.8% over the same quarter last year.

Source: Business Wire

General Electric with the completion of the acquisition of the privately-held Lineage Power Holdings Inc. from The Gores Group, has broadened its expertise in telecommunication and data centre power. Lineage Power is a worldwide provider of high-efficiency power conversion infrastructure technology and provides services for the telecommunications and data centre industries.

Investment banking firm DH Capital has announced it has closed US$35 million financing for web hosting provider Data Based Systems International. DH Capital served as the exclusive financial advisor to DBSi on the transaction.

Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd has announced that a class action has been commenced on behalf of an institutional investor in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California on behalf of purchasers of Equinix common stock during the period between July 29, 2010 and October 5, 2010, inclusive (the “Class Period”).

The complaint charges Equinix and certain of its officers and directors with violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Equinix is a global network-neutral provider of data centres and Internet exchanges.

Source: Centre Daily

Data storage devices maker Western Digital has announced a definitive deal to acquire Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, a unit of Japanese electronics company Hitachi, for about US$4.3 billion in cash and stock. Western Digital expects the transaction to be immediately accretive to its adjusted earnings per share.

San Jose, California-based Hitachi GST develops advanced hard disk drives, enterprise-class solid state drives and external storage solutions and services used to store and manage data.

Source: RTT

Colocation and IT infrastructure provider C7 Data Centers, continues expansion of its newest data centre in Bluffdale, Utah. C7 opened the Bluffdale data centre in November 2010, by signing a multi-year agreement with a large anchor tenant. Since then, several new customers have contracted for cage and cabinet space necessitating an additional 12,000 sq ft build out.

Datapipe, a provider of managed services and infrastructure for IT and cloud computing, announced today that all of its US based data centres are now powered by 100 percent renewable energy. This makes Datapipe the only IT Company in NJ and one of thirteen nationwide to be a member of the EPA's Green Power Leadership Club.

As part of the company's sustainability strategy, Datapipe's California data centre, located in San Jose, has fully converted to running operations on renewably sourced electricity. Datapipe converted its other US-based data centres to renewable power in 2010.

Latisys has announced a new data centre-as-a-service offering optimized specifically for large enterprises and service providers that have significant requirements for high-density data centre power, cooling and capacity.

This new data centre-as-a-service offering provides approximately 250 kilowatts to 2 megawatts of HD power as well as Nb1 cooling and the ability to scale to meet the growing needs of these enterprises in data centres built for the future.

Bank of America chief executive Brian Moynihan has laid out a post-financial crisis earnings goal for the nation's biggest bank, but acknowledged it may take two or three years to reach the target.At the Charlotte bank's first investor conference since 2007, Moynihan said the bank could one day make US$35 billion to US$40 billion in pre-tax income. That would be a big improvement over last year's US$1.3 billion pre-tax loss and higher than the $31 billion mark reached in 2006.

In the keynote address at the New Castle County Chamber of Commerce's annual dinner, M&T Bank Chairman and CEO Robert G. Wilmers made his case that M&T's takeover of Wilmington Trust offers the best possible chance of returning it to health and brings to Delaware a devoted community supporter with a history of stability and success.

Wilmers also announced that M&T has decided to invest between US$7 million and US$10 million to build a backup data centre in Delaware without disclosing possible employment levels. A location has yet to be determined.

It looks as though Facebook could be stuffing its huge, wholly-owned data centre in Prineville, Oregon, with ultra-fast flash memory technology. According to SEC filings from storage firm Fusion-io, which filed for an IPO on Wednesday, Facebook is currently the company's biggest customer and will continue to account for a "substantial portion of revenue" up until 31 March, "but that revenue from sales to Facebook and the other end-user will decline significantly for the three months ending June 30, 2011, as they complete their planned deployments."

A recent article in the Wall Street Journal confirms what Wyomingites have known for years: Wyoming's brisk climate and low energy costs make it an ideal location for data centres.

The Journal quoted EchoStar Broadcasting Vice President Jeff McSchooler, who said that in Wyoming ambient air can be used to cool servers nine months of the year. EchoStar selected Cheyenne as the location for their 77,000 sq ft data centre after examining more than 50 potential sites.

Source: Wyoming Business Report

While Telus has announced plans for a new C$750 million dollar headquarters to be built in Vancouver, there is still no word on where Telus will locate its planned data centre. It has now been two years since TELUS announced it would spend C$500 million to increase and improve wireless and wireline broadband infrastructure in B.C.

CoreSite Realty Corporation, a national provider of powerful, network-rich data centres, has announced financial results for the fourth quarter 2010.

The Canadian subsidiary of General Electric Co. is teaming up with the Ontario government to build a C$40 million innovation centre which could help large data centres by making smart grids and energy delivery more efficient.

GE Canada is building the 200,000 sq ft Grid IQ Innovation Centre, which is expected to open in July 2012, in Markham, Ont. The energy giant announced the construction plans and is being supported by a $7.9 million grant from the Government of Ontario.

Source: IT World Canada

Yahoo has revealed plans to invest US$500 million in expanding its data centre infrastructure. Yahoo says it plans to build in 2012 and beyond. The planned expansion includes existing data centres in Buffalo, Omaha and Washington state and new facilities in Singapore and Switzerland.

“We are in essence rewiring the entire infrastructure of Yahoo,” Scott Noteboom, the head of data centre operations at Yahoo said. “We’ve gained approval to invest half a billion dollars to build new data centres. We’ll be migrating the entire footprint of Yahoo to these more efficient facilities.”

South Bend city’s common council gave final approval to a resolution exempting data management equipment from personal property taxes. The initiative paves the way for the launch of Data Realty, the first private-sector firm planning to locate in the city’s new Ignition Park.

Cloudworks has announced the launch of two new data centres in Arizona and Maryland, through its recent partnership with Ongoing Operations, that provide cloud-based IT solutions aimed at the financial services industry. The data centres also provide expanded redundancy and disaster recovery for the company’s services in all industries.

Advanced Micro Devices is coming to Gwinnett County and will build a US$100 million data centre near Suwanee in 2012, giving a vote of confidence to Georgia’s Innovation Crescent region for other companies scouting data centre sites. Partnership Gwinnett and Gwinnett Chamber Vice President Nick Masino announced the news of AMD’s selection of Gwinnett. The Innovation Crescent Region has become one of the hottest markets in the US for data centres.

Data Foundry, a leading provider of data centre outsourcing and colocation services, announces that its master-planned Texas 1 facility, opening June 2011, will fully support High Performance Computing (HPC) requirements. This next-generation data centre includes the design, staff and facility infrastructure to meet the complex needs of HPC customers.
 

Fibernet, a provider of customizable colocation and managed dedicated hosting since 1994, has announced it extended its services to thousands of customers of Heritage Web Solutions (HIT Web Design), a reseller of Fibernet’s hosting services. The services were extended because HIT Web Design had gone out of business.

American Internet Services (AIS) a provider of enterprise-class data centre and connectivity services in the western United States, has launched its Disaster Recovery Quick Start Package.

AIS sources said that the DR QSP is an affordable solution that will help companies to deploy a remote site for mission-critical data and applications in Phoenix, Ariz., an area of the US considered to be safe with respect to natural disasters.

Source: TMCNet

Verizon has pulled out of a possible multi-billion dollar communications data centre in the Town of Somerset, citing delays in a court challenge to the project which would cost the utility this construction season.

The project was pushed hard by the Niagara County Industrial Development Agency.
Chairman Henry Sloma attacked project opponents who have delayed the construction and a possible 200 jobs. "It's tragic," Sloma told WNED. "It happens once in a lifetime that we get a company to invest US$4.5 billion in Western New York. It's an absolute economic tragedy."

FiberMedia, a leading New Jersey and New York data centre operator announces the unveiling of two state-of-the-art data centre facilities; Secaucus, NJ and Chappaqua, NY. The significant enhancements to these facilities bring FiberMedia’s total data centre footprint in the New York Metro area to over 130,000 sq ft across five strategically placed facilities.

QTS, provider of data centres and managed services, has announced an expansion plan to upgrade the power, raised-floor space and the connectivity to QTS's Jersey City Data Center.

With the first phase available in late Q2 2011, the new upgrade will result in over 5.0 MW of power and over 50,000 sq ft of raised floor available to customers in the facility. This expansion creates a significant increase in both raised floor space and power density in the data centre, where QTS offers all three of its core products; custom data centre, colocation and cloud services.

DataChambers has announced it has been chosen to host the operating systems used by Clinical Ink, a pioneering provider of electronic source records for clinical trials, to deliver seamless service to clients around the globe.

DataChambers will host the systems, virtual servers and databases Clinical Ink uses to deliver the service – protecting them in a highly secure data centre housed in a blast-resistant, underground bunker. Experts in the DataChambers Network Operations Centre will monitor and manage the infrastructure around the clock.

Source: PR Web

Telx, an interconnection and colocation provider in strategic North American markets, has announced that US Signal, a leader in fibre optic network services in the Midwestern region of the United States, has joined the award-winning Telx Ethernet Exchange.

A top IT overseer for the US military has gotten behind cloud deployment as suited for improving technology offered to the country's armed services, recommending that storage and applications could be hosted and delivered online, possibly in a bid to lower the overhead for the world's most influential fighting force.

His department searched for the best practices to "help secure the Defense Department’s networks, given the vast typology of those networks. It was our opinion that the best way to go was to a thin, cloud, virtual cloud environment," he said.

Source: Rackspace

Performance Food Group (PFG), a parent company of a family of food service distributors has formed an information technology partnership with HCL Technologies, a global IT services provider.

PEG will be able to mitigate data centre risk for the critical business systems and allow the company to accelerate IT projects to meet its business priorities. However, 47 IT positions within Performance Food Group will be eliminated and PFG will offer outplacement services and severance packages for these associates.

Source: TMCNet

Telx, an interconnection and colocation provider in strategic North American markets, has announced that Pinpoint Network Solutions, a national provider of fibre optic and microwave transport, has joined the award-winning Telx Ethernet Exchange. Deployed within Telx’s downtown Chicago data centre, Pinpoint plans to leverage the Ethernet Exchange to cost-effectively enhance its Carrier Ethernet offerings and extend it global reach through a single, one-to-many network connection.

CoreXchange, a provider of the most comprehensive suite of data centre and network-layer managed services, has announced it has received equity capital funding from ORIX Corporate Capital.

Red Barn Investments, an existing investor in CoreXchange, also provided additional funding alongside ORIX. CoreXchange will use the proceeds of the funding to expand its data centre infrastructure and fuel continued growth of its expanding colocation service offerings. The terms of the financing have not been disclosed.

Nearly half IT administrators said they consider cloud disaster recovery services a viable option for disaster recovery, although security remains the chief concern, according to a survey of 1,473 small- to medium-sized enterprise and enterprise IT professionals in the United States.

i/o Data Centers has announced the opening of the world's largest modular data centre in Edison, New Jersey, which will be called "i/o NEW JERSEY". Several enterprise customers have already purchased Data Center as a Service capacity at i/o NEW JERSEY and additional capacity is available for delivery.

GlobeNet, an international wholesale provider of submarine capacity, and a wholly owned subsidiary of Oi, has announced it has completed the 200 Gbps upgrade of its submarine fibre optic cable system, increasing its total lit capacity to 560 Gbps.

Delivering the lowest latency capacity connecting North America and South America, the GlobeNet network expansion will support increased bandwidth demands in the region due to the widespread adoption of advanced technologies and telecommunications services.

Source: TMCNet

SAIC which provides engineering and technology services to government agencies, said Wednesday that its fourth-quarter net income rose more than 7%, thanks in part to a lower tax rate.

SAIC said its net income for the quarter that ended Jan. 31 was US$132 million, that’s compared with US$123 million, a year earlier. The recent per-share figures were helped by the company's share repurchases, which meant it had 7% fewer shares outstanding than a year earlier.

Source: Business Week

Securenet Systems, a web hosting and streaming services provider located in Deerfield Beach, Florida, announced a new data centre location in Freemont, California, which is in Silicon Valley near the lower end of the San Francisco Bay Area.

The new datacenter is at 48233 Warm Springs Blvd, Fremont, CA 94539. The latest deployment is in response to demand from the tremendous growth of its online radio streaming services division.

Source: American Banking News

Yes the Death Star is real. Luckily it looks nothing like the floating space station of the Star Wars movies. It also no longer runs. But you can find it inside the data centre at Lucasfilm's Industrial Light and Magic.

Source: Market Watch

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The New York City government is eyeing sites in New Jersey to potentially house a data centre, in another sign of continued demand for "server farms" this side of the Hudson River.

When John Campbell, associate vice president of academic technologies at Purdue University, talks about his school's soon-to-be implemented modular data centre, he can hardly hide his enthusiasm. "From a business position, on keeping costs down [and] trying to get as efficient a solution as possible, this is a very, very viable solution," he says.

New York State has scrapped plans to build a US$100 million data centre in the Capital Region. Instead, the money earmarked for the project will help fund Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s economic development initiatives. Most of that money will come from funds originally budgeted to build a new state data centre in Utica--consolidating four smaller data centres in Albany County in the process.

Quality Technology Services, one of the nation's largest and fastest-growing providers of data centres and managed services, has announced that investments from ING Capital and Caterpillar Financial Services have increased the capacity of the company's revolving credit by US$45 million. Established in September 2010, the revolving credit facility, now totalling US$170 million, is secured by the QTS Atlanta Metro Data Center asset, which is the second largest data centre in the world.

The Kenmar Group, a Rye Brook-based US$1.5 billion global alternative investment firm, has selected GlobeOp Financial Services to provide an extensive range of fund administration, risk and data centre-related services.

Kenmar invests in managed accounts and funds across a wide variety of trading strategies. The firm’s CLariTy Managed Account & Analyt ics Platform is comprised of 40 separately managed accounts. GlobeOp’s managed account, risk and technology expertise were key elements in the selection decision.

Phoenix will become home to the world's largest health-care data centre, which Mayor Phil Gordon said could attract thousands of biomedical jobs to the Valley. Gordon, in his final State of the City address announced that the non-profit Institute for Advanced Health will open in downtown Phoenix.

TradeStation, the broker-dealer and futures commission merchant has announced the opening of a new TradeStation data centre within Equinix's New York facilities. Through this proximity to the New York financial markets, the speed and quality of market data and order execution at those markets for TradeStation's customers are expected to improve.

The new facility will replace the company's Richardson, Texas data centre, and TradeStation will now have its two data centres in the NY and Chicago metropolitan areas..

Source: TradersHuddle

HP has announced the opening of a state-of-the-art research facility in Fort Collins, Colo., in which the company will advance sustainable data centre technologies.

businesses in Texas and throughout the US, has announced that top-tier data centre operator Core NAP has selected it to provide last-mile Ethernet services that will allow the company to greatly expand its reach in Austin.

Core NAP is a leading provider of colocation, network, managed services, disaster recovery, and now cloud server solutions for small to large businesses.

Source: TardersHuddle