IT solutions provider, Trimax IT Infrastructure and Services plans to raise around Rs 250-crore through an initial public offering this year, a top company official said. The company hopes to file the draft red herring prospectus with market regulator Sebi over the next 6-months, the company said.

The Mumbai-based company, which operates in three verticals -- System Integration, Data centre services, and IT Infrastructure Management, would be using the proceeds for the firm's domestic as well as overseas expansion, mainly in Africa, he said.

Source: Economic Times

A significant new initiative in Malaysia as a location for data centres and cloud services, will be highlighted by the inaugural Data Centre Regional Summit to be held in Kuala Lumpur 26-27 January. In the first regional south east Asia summit Malaysia will showcase the benefits and opportunities it holds as an international centre for data centres.

Sri Lanka's E-Channelling, a listed dotcom that enables patients to make appointments with doctors over the internet, has struck a deal to enter the Maldives and a wider market with Qatar Telecom.

The deal is to provide software services to automate medical 'channelling' services in the Maldives and is E-Channelling's first international project. Iit will revamp a Wataniya Telecom data centre to provide hosted software services to the Maldivian medical industry.

Source: Lanka Business

The word ‘Government’ has virtually been a taboo subject within local cloud computing circles for the past decade, with most agreeing the public sector was too security-conscious to consider hosting data in what it has traditionally seen as risky environments. But all that may be about to change.

Sydney West Area Health Service is consulting with state planning officials on the possibility of housing a A$1.5 million data centre in a former convict women's prison. The move has drawn outrage from local historians who have created an action group and petition that has collected almost 600 signatures. The group demanded construction work on the site stop immediately and that its management is handed over to a different government department to preserve the site

Schneider Electric, the global specialist in energy management, has announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire a majority of the shares in India’s APW President Systems Ltd. The Indian firm designs and manufactures standard and customized racks and enclosure systems in the country, serving in particular information technology and telecom end-users.

APW President Systems Ltd has approximately 380 employees and generated sales of 1.08 billion Indian rupees (approx. €18 million) for the twelve months ending September 30, 2010.

Source: Invest in India

After demanding Canadian smartphone manufacturer and network operator Research in Motion to filter pornographic content currently available through its BlackBerry handsets, the government has asked the company to set up a data centre in Indonesia.

Jinan Yinquan Technology has announced that its alliance system integrators (the SI) have signed two virtualization agreements to implement an integrated virtualization solution at the customers' data centres of Weihai Municipal Bureau of Land and Resources and Jinan Shezhou Technology.

Mr. Kunwu Li, President and CEO of CIISI, is very pleased with the success of recent alliances. He said, "We are glad to see our turn-key solutions have helped our SIs to expand their businesses."

Source: Sun Herald

Chunghwa Telecom will roll out 50 Mbps fibre-optic service and make major inroads into the realms of smart households and cloud computing this year, in order to achieve the goal of NT$24.6 billion for its revenue from digital business, said Chen Hsiang-yi, president of the company's digital-business branch.

As a result, procurement of cloud-computing equipment, such as cloud-computing servers, will soar ten-fold in value this year, from the level of 2010, according to Chen. The procurement will benefit local suppliers, such as Quanta and Inventec.

Source: Cens

Local IT services group ASG has announced it had signed a SAP-related contract with CITIC Pacific Mining, in a win which the Perth-headquartered company hailed as its entrance into the local cloud computing race.

SAP services will be delivered from a data centre in Perth, which ASG said is soon to be completed. The company’s general manager for marketing and effectiveness, Steve Tull, said the deal would drive the company into the growing cloud computing market. “

Source: Delimiter

Infosys Technologies, India's No. 2 software services exporter, said quarterly profit rose 14%, lagging market forecast as a firmer rupee and higher wage costs weighed on rising demand.

Kicking off the earnings parade for the country's showpiece US$60 billion IT services sector, Infosys reported net profit for the fiscal third-quarter ended December rose to Rs 17.8 billion (US$396.4 million) from Rs 15.6 billion a year ago.

Source: Times of India

Mainboard-listed Ban Joo & Company said it has acquired Hong Kong listed firm Star Light Telemedia DC for US$4.4 million. The acquisition is conditional upon Star Light entering into a joint venture agreement with Epsilon Global Communications to engage in telecommunications infrastructure and services in Indonesia.

Australian Cloud providers have been given a boost following warnings from a legal expert on the risks associated with hosting data offshore. Connie Carnabuci, a partner of law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer said data stored offshore remained subject to the laws of the country in which it is stored, requiring local customers to submit to a US court, for example, in the event of litigation.

Southeast Asian nations will set up their own Internet exchange by 2015. This is to facilitate greater Internet traffic within the ASEAN grouping, as well as to reduce costs. The move is part of ASEAN's Information and Communications Technology masterplan launched in Malaysia's Kuala Lumpur on Friday. Under the ICT masterplan, key strategies aim to promote social and economic integration of member countries and to improve the lives of some 600 million ASEAN residents.

PTCL have announced the opening of its data centre in Lahore. Following on form its’ first in Karachi, the Lahore’s data centre is going to be company’s second facility in Pakistan.

PTCL Lahore’s data centre is reportedly connected with PTCL’s global MPLS backbone to offer a rich portfolio of hosting solutions. With the availability of the Lahore centre, PTCL is now able to offer redundant solution for corporate and SME customers.

Source: Pro Pakistan

E3 Networks' primary Pegasus data centre will shift from Brisbane's CBD to Milton this week, a facility with double the floor space and power capacity. The company has been running the purpose-built Milton data centre as a back-up site for disaster recovery purposes for the past six weeks, but has now decided to make it the primary facility after running out of space in the CBD.

The Government is looking to overhaul its information and communication technology systems in a shake-up by tender worth NZ$2 billion. The change would also introduce a new model called the Infrastructure as a Service model (a type of cloud computing), where the oversight of a network and the storage of data is outsourced to a third party. Under this plan, rather than owning servers and managing the network itself, the Government would pay only for the services it uses and needs.

Tata Consultancy Services, India’s largest software exporter, reported third-quarter profit that beat analysts’ estimates after customers outsourced more information-technology contracts.

Net income rose 30% to 23.7 billion rupees (US$520 million) in the three months ended Dec. 31, from 18.2 billion rupees a year earlier, Tata Consultancy said. The earnings are based on Indian accounting standards.

Source: Bloomberg

Tulip Telecom Limited has, announced the acquisition of a data centre facility in Bengaluru by acquiring 100% shares of SADA IT Parks Private Limited at a value of Rs. 2.3bn. This is the Company’s fifth data centre and will have the total data centre space of approximately 10 lac sq. ft.

The Bengaluru facility will be owned and operated through a wholly owned subsidiary of Tulip named ‘Tulip Data Center Private Ltd (Subsidiary)’.

Source: IIFl

Australia's Department of Human Services plans to consolidate its seven data centres down to two in an effort to reel in operating costs and modernise its systems. The department, which alongside the Tax Office and Defence rates among the larger users of IT in Australia, runs data-intensive applications for Centrelink and Medicare and recently signed a deal to take over the IT needs of the Department of Veterans' Affairs.

Epsilon has launched a Global Hub in Jakarta to meet growing carrier demand for integrated co-location in Indonesia. Epsilon Global Hub (EGH) Jakarta is located in the MGK building and is a new, metro linked facility for a managed data centre service. The total area of the site is 170 sq metres, which is capable of housing 48 racks on the main shared customer area with an additional area of 750 sq metres being released mid-2011. The building is also connected on multiple cable systems with protected routes to Epsilon’s Singapore Hub.

HCL Technologies, a global IT services provider, has announced results for the 2nd quarter of FY 2010-11. HCL's global revenues increased by 7.5% sequentially and 32.6%YoY to US$864 million.

HCL accelerated its growth in the European region reporting a revenue increase of 7.2% QoQ and 19.9% YoY during the 2nd quarter of FY 2010-11. In Calendar Year 2010, HCL recorded revenues in excess of US$ 3 billion of which US$ 809 million came from Europe.

Source: Trading Markets

Catalyst Repository Systems, the pioneer in providing cloud-based document repositories for e-discovery and other complex legal matters, today announced the opening of its Asia data centre. The full-featured, high-security data centre - housed in the Equinix facility in the Shinagawa ward of central Tokyo - is designed to provide a safe haven for data for clients in Japan and throughout the Asia-Pacific region.

Although Ethernet switch revenue grew 33% in 2010 and is touted to touch US$32 billion in 2014, India's contribution to this lot was very negligible. Currently, there are only a couple of Indian telcos, such as Tata Communications, Reliance Communication, Bharti Airtel etc., who have deployed Ethernet networks in the country.

Sify Technologies has announced financial results for its third quarter ended 31st December 2010.

Financial Highlights: Total operating revenues were at US$ 38.72 million in the third quarter 2010-11 and EBITDA is at US$ 2.13 million vis-a-vis US$ 1.21 million in the previous quarter. Previous year third quarter EBITDA was at US$ 1.17 million.

Source: PR Newswire

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CA Technologies has partnered with Fujitsu to offer its Clarity project and portfolio management software as a service from Australian soil. Under the deal, CA's Clarity PPM On Demand Suite will be hosted in Fujitsu's Tier III data centres in Homebush Bay and North Ryde, as well as existing facilities in New Jersey, California and Munich.

Leighton Contractors has upped the ante in the data centre market, committing more than A$500 million to an aggressive expansion plan aimed at capital cities. It has secured at least 80,000 sq m of land to develop data centre facilities that will rely on technology used by government cloud computing clients in Britain.

Jinan Yinquan Technology has announced that its alliance system integrator has signed a virtualization agreement with the Traffic Police Detachment of Binzhou Public Security Bureau in Shandong Province to launch its integrated data centre virtualization solution.

The SI showed Yinquan's successful case of Jinan Public Security Bureau and its public transportation branch to the Customer which encouraged it to adopt Yinquan's virtualization solutions.

Source: Trading Markets

It’S a A$300 million development that is hidden from view from most of us, but the transformation inside the walls of the former quarry at Greystanes will gather pace this year. The site took its first step towards looking like the giant industrial area it will become when its first business started trading late last year.

Government-backed researchers in Taiwan have developed the island's fastest supercomputer to be used from July for a range of scientific and academic projects including climate studies and biotechnology. The cluster that works at 170 trillion floating point calculations per second should rank between 50 and 55 on the TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful computers, National Center for High Performance Computing designer Wu Chou-ching said.

Pakistan Telecommunications Company has launched its data centre services in Karachi and Lahore to facilitate corporate sector. The data centres have also earned internationally recognized EPI certification as PTCL moves forward on way to improving its telecommunications operations in accordance with modern trends.

This was the first EPI certification for any data centre in Pakistan and shows PTCL’s commitment to providing modern services and products to public and private sector, said a press release issued here.

Source: Pakistan Observer

Pakistan Telecommunication has turned another milestone with the entry of Karachi Stock Exchange in its Tier 3 Certified Data Centre. KSE, the leading financial institution regarded as the hub of capital formation is hosting its critical applications at PTCL Tier 3 Certified Data Centre.

The KSE will also utilize PTCL’s data and internet connectivity for providing a fault resilient infrastructure to its users so that financial trading is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Source: Pakistan Observer

ControlCircle, a UK data centre and managed services provider, has announced the opening of its Asia-Pacific operations in Singapore. ControlCircle APAC will provide regional marketing, sales and support for ControlCircle’s growing portfolio of blue-chip clients expanding in the Asia Pacific region. Stephen Harrison, is appointed General Manager APAC and will spearhead ControlCircle’s expansion into one of the fastest growing markets in the world.