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03 Feb 2011

Alpheus announces major acquisition from FiberLight

Alpheus Communications, the largest competitive fibre network operator in Texas, announced today that it has acquired valuable new fibre rings in east Dallas County and Downtown Fort Worth from FiberLight.

The transaction constitutes Alpheus’ fifth major fibre acquisition in the last five years. In addition to fibre purchases, the company also builds rings and laterals in order to serve the high growth corridors in Texas and operates hardened data centres at the edges of a carrier-grade optical network.

Source: Bradenton

03 Feb 2011

SunGard Availability Services launches Enterprise Cloud Services

SunGard Availability Services announced the general availability in North America of its Enterprise Cloud Services which will help customers tap into the efficiency and cost advantages of a fully managed cloud environment with enterprise-grade application availability and security.

An Infrastructure-as-a-Service solution, SunGard’s Enterprise Cloud Services are built on best-in-class Vblock technology from VMware, Cisco and EMC. The solution delivers managed compute, network, storage and security services that support customer production applications..

03 Feb 2011

Data centre for old downtown Verizon Tower?

New York real-estate investor, YoungWoo & Associates of Manhattan, and Seattle property developer, Sabey Corp., have reached a tentative deal to buy the former downtown Verizon tower for more than US$100 million. Currently the building is owned by M&T Bank

Despite a need for many renovations, the building is very appealing to Sabey due to it’s sturdy floors, high ceilings and electrical capacity, as the company is known for developing former telecom properties into spaces for data centres.

Source: NYC Convergence

03 Feb 2011

SAIC awarded contract by the U.S. Air Force to support network-centric operations

Science Applications International Corporation has announced it was awarded a prime contract by the U.S. Air Force to provide IT services in support of network-centric operations under the Network Centric Solutions-2 (NETCENTS-2) Enterprise Integration and Services Management contract. The multiple award contract has a three year base period of performance, two one-year options, and a total contract ceiling of US$460 million for all awardees, if all options are exercised.

03 Feb 2011

Jefferson County agrees to sell land for CHS data centre

Jefferson County officials have agreed to sell 4.5 acres to Community Health Systems for a US$25 million data centre in an industrial park on Lakeshore Parkway. The company plans to create up to 15 jobs at the centre in the Jefferson Metropolitan Park Lakeshore, or JeffMet Lakeshore as it is known. The Jefferson County Economic and Industrial Development Authority Board agreed to sell the property to Franklin, Tenn.-based CHS for US$360,000, or US$80,000 per acre.

03 Feb 2011

CEOs to feds: Consolidate data centres to cut IT spending

The heads of IBM and Dell have told President Obama and other White House officials that consolidating data centres is one of the easiest ways to trim federal information technology spending. "All we're talking about is putting things together and sharing them," IBM Chief Executive Officer Samuel J. Palmisano said at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

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