Phoenix NAP, a full service data centre, premier infrastructure-as-a-Service provider and primary network access point, has announced that Environmental Science Associates, an environmental science and planning firm, has selected the Phoenix NAP facility for its colocation hosting and IT infrastructure needs.

Data centre provider QTS has announced that it has been registered as SafeHarbor compliant. Enforced by the US Federal Trade Commission and Department of Transportation, SafeHarbor assures that QTS adheres to the highest levels of privacy protection set by the European Union.

Telehouse America, the United dedicated data centre and managed IT service provider, has announced that its public peering interconnection point, New York International Internet Exchange, has exceeded the 200Gbps (gigabits per second) max traffic volume threshold.

Rackspace Hosting seems close to finalizing its plans for a US$100 million data centre near Boardman in MorrowCounty, the latest in a rapid series of server farms into the state to take advantage of tax breaks and low power costs. The Texas-based company was scouting locations in eastern and central Oregon, and evidence now suggests that they have settled on the Port of Morrow.

Terremark has announced the completion of the expansion of its world-class data centre campus, the Network Access Point (NAP) West, located in Santa Clara, California. The newly expanded, state-of-the-art data centre campus now features a total of approximately 100,000 sq ft of raised floor space.

Peak 10, a managed services and cloud provider with world-class data centres, has announced it has broken ground on its second data centre facility in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The 11,000 sq ft addition will bring Peak 10 South Florida’s total footprint to 33,000 sq ft and will be the company’s 22nd data centre facility within its 10 US markets.

SoftLayer Technologies has announced that the company continued to experience strong operational and top-line growth in the third quarter of 2011, reaching US$85 million in revenues while achieving US$34 million in EBITDA. The company also appointed David Strohm, from Greylock Partners, to its board of directors to help guide and support the company’s continued market leadership and financial growth.

Digital Realty Trust​ has selected Integrated Design Group to provide architectural and engineering services for the second building to be fit out at Digital Realty's Datacenter Park, a Dallas facility located at 900 Quality Way in Richardson, TX.

Nirvanix has announced that DRFortress, Hawaii's premier managed colocation services provider, will deploy a Nirvanix Hybrid Cloud Storage solution and offer consumption-based data backup and archival services across the Pacific Rim. This pact expands Nirvanix's addressable market and positions DRFortress at the forefront of cloud storage service delivery not only in Hawaii but also across the entire Pacific Rim region.

DRFortress represents the ninth data centre now part of the global Nirvanix Cloud Storage Network.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is seeking help in building a virtual data centre that can pool IT resources from around the country. CMS wants to establish a group of geographically dispersed, world-class data centers owned and operated by a broad pool of industry partners but under the control of a single procurement vehicle, CMS officials said in a request for proposals issued Dec. 2, seeking contractors who can meet the agency’s requirements.

Switch has announced it will begin construction of the Switch Las Vegas-North Campus. The new location will have over 300,000+ sq ft of data centre space to be located roughly 15 miles north of the Las Vegas Digital Exchange Campus (LVDEC) near the intersection of Cheyenne and Buffalo.  SwitchMOD, a modular, component-oriented, rapid-deployment data centre model developed exclusively by Switch, will comprise the build-out.

Peak 10 has announced that it has signed an agreement with a local blood bank to provide disaster recovery and data centre services to the non-profit organization. The company is supplying hosting, power and network connectivity to The Blood Alliance from its Jacksonville location.

Clarkson University has launched plans for the North Country’s first green data centre using IBM technologies and renovations to the institution’s historic Old Main building in downtown Potsdam, which will house the data centre, as well as serve as research facilities for Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries, a subsidiary of Clarkson University.

GlassHouse Technologies, a global provider of cloud, virtualization, security and next generation data centre consulting and managed services, has announced that based on current market conditions, it has chosen not to proceed with its planned initial public offering at this time. The company intends to withdraw its registration statement on Form S-1 as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Just seven months to the day from its groundbreaking in April, Sabey Data Centers has announced the completion of its first building at the 520,000 sq ft Intergate.Quincy campus in Quincy, Washington. The 139,000 sq ft structure’s modular design provides efficiency and scalability for users of virtually any size. At US$.0225/kWh, energy costs are the lowest in the nation.

Sabey has welcomed its first tenant and completed its tenant improvements. Construction of tenant improvements is also underway to ready other space for immediate occupancy.

Sidera Networks, the premier provider of fibre optic-based network solutions, announces that Acetylon Pharmaceuticals, a research and developer of drugs to treat cancer, autoimmune and other diseases, has selected Sidera's Internet Access Service to power Acetylon's Boston headquarters, located in the developing Seaport district. .

Acetylon chose Sidera for its reliable and secure communications network and high quality Internet Access Service, attributes that are imperative for the research and development industry.

For most organizations, a successful cloud computing implementation requires connecting the cloud to existing computing environments.  Energy Plus Holdings, one of the nation's fastest-growing energy companies, is adopting a hybrid cloud model for running production applications that utilizes both SunGard's Enterprise Cloud Services and existing managed services the company employs from SunGard.

The University of Florida has broken ground for a new data centre on its East Campus today and marked the progress that has taken place at the site over the past six years.

The 15,000-sq ft building will provide a second site for Enterprise Systems, a unit of UF Information Technology, including human resources, finance, portal, student records and eLearning systems. The centre will include a new, dedicated, High Performance Computing Center, providing improved support for Academic Research Computing.

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IBM and DemandTec have announced that the two companies have entered into a definitive merger agreement for IBM to acquire DemandTec in an all cash transaction at a net price of approximately US$440 million, after adjusting for cash.

The acquisition of DemandTec will extend IBM’s Smarter Commerce initiative by adding cloud-based price, promotion and other merchandising and marketing analytics to help companies better define the best price points and product mix based on customer buying trends. 

The new agency created to modernize and manage the federal government’s aging information technology infrastructure will invest C$375 million over eight years to begin its ‘transformation’ of how departments operate, says its new chief operating officer.

Grant Westcott told MPs on a Commons committee Thursday the money will cover Shared Services Canada’s eight-year plan to consolidate the government’s 100 email systems into one, reduce 300 data centres across the country to 20, and undertake a “substantial” part of the work to consolidate the networks supporting those centres.

The Gores Group, a Los Angeles based private equity firm, has announced it has completed the acquisition of fibre network and data centre operator Alpheus Communications, one of the largest fibre network and data centre operators in Texas, from Genesis Park and El Paso corporation. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Force 3, delivering innovative data centre, collaboration and security solutions, has  announced an agreement with Righttime Medical Care to upgrade its wired and wireless networks as well as provide mission critical help desk support for its network operations.

Data centre operator Data Centers Canada has announced it has begun construction on expanding its Toronto North Data Center facility. Launched in February, the Phase 4 POD expansion will bring the Toronto North Facility to about 20,000 sq ft once it is completed.

Telx have announced that Justin.tv, the Web's biggest live video platform serving 31 million users a month, has selected Telx as its mission-critical infrastructure colocation provider for the launch of TwitchTV, a new and fast-growing online gaming community.

Philadelphia Technology Park and Sunesys have announced that Sunesys is installing its fibre optic connection to link Philadelphia Technology Park's customers with their network of over 3,000 route miles of fibre in South-eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

This relationship with Philadelphia Technology Park will provide current Sunesys customers with a new data centre in which to connect. It will also provide existing Philadelphia Technology Park customers with access to Sunesys' private network.

Fortune Data Centers, one of the nation's leading data centre innovators, is building the first wholesale data centre in Oregon located at the nexus of the termination points for three trans-Pacific cables. Latency, a measure of time delay, when calculated from the San Francisco Bay Area to Asia is currently 100-105 milliseconds round-trip (msRT).

Peak 10, the data centre solutions company, has announced that it is delivering cloud and managed services to Nashville-based iPractice Group. As a healthcare technology company that provides all-inclusive IT services for independent medical practices, iPractice Group will be utilizing Peak 10’s cloud solutions as well as managed services such as data storage and backup.

The Dublin City Council has approved a lease agreement and the installation of fiber-optic cable so the city can offer the kinds of services now available at the Dublin Entrepreneurial Center (DEC) to technology- and information-technology-focused businesses.

The city will lease 1,000 sq ft of space at 565 Metro Place South for the TechDEC, next to a new data centre owned by Metro Data Center. Deputy City Manager Dana McDaniel said Dublin will work with the data centre to provide more services at the TechDEC.

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Latisys, a leading national provider of IT outsourcing solutions from data centre colocation to cloud, has announced it has entered into a strategic partnership with Virima Technologies, Inc. that enables enterprise customers to seamlessly migrate IT infrastructure to Latisys’ data centre colocation facilities and cloud platform.

Computer Room Services Corporation has been awarded the role of Design Consultant and General Contractor for a new 30,000sq.ft. data centre for Primus Telecommunications Canada, to be located in Markham. "Our strategic design-build partnership with Primus has spanned more than a decade, with this Markham project representing the eighth data centre we have designed and built for them," comments Greg Eaton, Principal of CRSC.

Green House Data has increased their purchase of Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) by 100% in 2011. Due to the company’s exceptional growth of cloud hosting and colocation services, paired with their voluntary commitment to 100% renewable energy, Green House Data has expanded their green power purchase to 1.8M kWh. This annual electricity purchase is equivalent to avoiding 1,303 tons of carbon dioxide emissions, or in other words, eliminating the green house gas emissions of approximately 250 cars each year.

Microsoft Dynamics AX hosting provider, OneNeck, has announced it has entered into a five-year hosting and managed services contract with a leading automotive aftermarket anufacturer in California. Under the terms of the contract, OneNeck will provide support for their Microsoft Dynamics AX implementation, providing them with application administration, database administration, operating system administration, network management, security management and infrastructure management.

In the Army, data centre consolidation is no longer just a topic for the technology community. The service's top leadership has taken an interest in the issue, and they're pushing IT leaders to get the Army's consolidations done ahead of schedule. Gen.

Latisys, a leading national provider of IT outsourcing solutions from data centre colocation to cloud, has announced a new US$155million credit facility. The new credit facility was versubscribed with commitments from several leading sector lenders – reflecting continued strong support for the company’s operational execution, growth prospects and platform of high density data centres and cloud services. 

Altair Engineering has announced the opening of an exceptionally high-powered data centre in Troy, Michigan, this month to house and manage its growing HyperWorks On-Demand cloud-based computer-aided engineering solution for customers who rely on high-performance computing.

IO, the leading provider of next-generation modular data canter technology and services, has announced that it has been awarded a contract from Avnet Technology Solutions, the global IT solutions distribution leader and operating group of Avnet, for the U.S. and Canada.

OVH, Europe’s second biggest Web-hosting services group, is expected to announce a data centre in Montreal as a base for its expansion into North America, industry sources have said. The 12-year-old privately held OVH, based in Roubaix in north-western France, operates 100,000 servers at its European data centres and is a leader in Web-management and cloud-computing technology. Its activities include server design and manufacture, and server ventilation and water-cooling systems – data centres are heavy users of electric power and create heat.

Congress has thrown a roadblock into the Defense Department's plans to consolidate many of its data centres into facilities operated by the Defense Information Systems Agency or the military services. 

Cologix, a network neutral interconnection and colocation company, has announced that it has expanded its customer relationship with Beanfield Metroconnect, a privately held, Canadian-owned company that owns and operates the largest private fibre-optic network throughout downtown Toronto. Beanfield is an existing Cologix customer in Toronto and is now deploying
network equipment within Cologix's 1250 Rene Levesque data centre and making its services available via Cologix's Meet-Me-Room.

Flowfinity Wireless, a proven provider of enterprise mobile apps for business process automation, has announced the opening of a new state-of-the-art data centre in Toronto, Canada. The data centre will support secure, scalable, on-demand hosting services for rapid enterprise mobile apps deployment.

Telx have announced that SunStream Networks, a provider of private cloud network services over a fibre optic infrastructure, is leveraging its secure, carrier-neutral C3 Cloud Connection Center in San Francisco to reduce application latency while boosting availability and uptime.

Skanska has secured a contract to provide construction management services for a new data and operations centre for US$ 63 million, about SEK 410 million, for a confidential client in Pennsylvania. The order will be included in the bookings for USA Building for the fourth quarter 2011.

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, a nationally renowned leader in pediatric medicine, professional education, and children's health research announced the selection of DBSi TekPark data centre facility for its most recent expansion. A customer since 2005, DBSi's engineering of the TekPark facility and their successful long term business relationship were significant factors in CHOP's decision.

Westcon Group, a value-added distributor of category-leading unified communications, network infrastructure, data centre, and security solutions with a global network of specialty esellers, has announced the company has completed the refinancing of its North American Credit Facility in the amount of US$250 million.

OnX Enterprise Solutions, a leading global provider of enterprise data centre solutions, has announced the formal opening of its new U.S. headquarters in New York City. The new office is located in Penn Central Station and will serve as the hub of the company’s U.S. operations and a bridge to its increasing international activities.

Akamai Technologies and Cotendo have announced that the two companies have signed a definitive agreement for Akamai to acquire Cotendo.  Helping to mitigate the challenges of operating in a hyperconnected world, Akamai provides a secure platform over which businesses can engage users across the Web, mobile, cloud, or a mix of public and private network environments.  Cotendo offers an integrated suite of Web and mobile acceleration services.  The combination of the two companies' technologies and teams is expected