Companies want to pay US$600 or more per sq ft to locate their gear close to high-priority data centres in New Jersey that host the Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange, a rate four times the cost of square footage across the river in Manhattan, according to the New York Times. The story shows that, like in all real estate, finding a home for your servers is all about location, location, location. In this case, proximity to data. There are benefits to locating auxiliary data and services in close proximity to big repositories of financial data.

Harris Corporation, an international communications and information technology company, has been awarded a US$45 million contract to support Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Immigration and Customs Enforcement tactical communications networks.