HCL Technologies, the global IT services provider, has announced results for the year and quarter ended June 30 2010. For the full year, HCL's global revenues increased by 24.1% to US$2.7 billion. During the quarter, HCL posted strong growth with global revenues increasing by 21.5% YoY to US$738 million.

TelecityGroup, Europe’s industry-leading provider of network independent data centres, has acquired Internet Facilitators Limited (‘IFL’), a carrier neutral data centre in Manchester, UK, for £21.1 million.

The IFL facility in Manchester will add 1,600 sqm (1.4 MW) of high quality capacity to the existing Group estate, and has the potential for significant further growth.

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Telecity Group, the provider of network independent data centres, has announced its results for the six months ended 30 June 2010. Revenue up 13.9% to £93.7 million with constant currency revenue growth of 14.7%, EBITDA up 29.0% to £37.9 million and adjusted profit after tax up 30.4% £17.6 million.

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TelePacific Communications, the largest CLEC providing integrated voice and data telecommunications services to the small and medium-sized business customer segment in California and Nevada, has announced a definitive agreement to acquire the SMB customer base and network of O1 Communications. TelePacific will also acquire a SAS 70 Type II certified data centre located in Sacramento, California.

Wholesale communications provider Entanet has launched its much anticipated Annex M service which provides customers with an increased broadband upload speed and resellers with new revenue opportunities.

RCN Metro Optical Networks, a division of RCN and a provider of fibre optic-based network solutions, has announced the expansion of its premier colocation facility located at 111 8th Avenue, the most telecom intensive location on the East Coast. RCN Metro added cabinet and power capacity in direct response to continued demand from its customers.

Brand-Rex has announced that it was the chosen supplier for the high speed copper and fibre infrastructure underpinning TelecityGroup’s new Paris data centre, Condorcet. Designed and built to be one of the most technically advanced and energy efficient data centres in Europe, Condorcet uses innovative design throughout to maximise energy efficiency.

Equinix, a provider of global data centre services, has announced the opening of the first phase of its third International Business Exchange data centre in Atlanta.

Many IT organizations don’t account for energy costs when formulating their IT budgets and have little visibility into the true costs. The quest for the ever-greener data centre has long focused on more energy-efficient hardware and software platforms, both to lower consumption for actual data processing and lessen the resulting heat load.

Capgemini has helped UK insurance firm esure to migrate its IT platform from an IT estate shared with Lloyds Banking Group, onto two Capgemini data centres as part of a contract worth £26 million. The contract will continue to run over the next five years and was struck as esure planned its management buyout from Lloyds banking group.

According to the company, business benefits for the online insurance company will include better service, energy cost savings owing to virtualisation and improved disaster recovery.

Source: Computing

Force10 Networks has announced that the Belgium National Internet eXchange (BNIX) has selected its ExaScale E-Series family of switch/routers for the scalable, cost-effective delivery of 10 Gigabit Ethernet peering services to its enterprise business and service provider customers. As an Internet exchange, BNIX provides high-performance interconnections between its members, which include more than 40 ISPs, content providers, research centres, government agencies and business users throughout Belgium.

DuPont Fabros Technology, has reported results for the quarter ended June 30, 2010. All per share results are reported on a fully diluted basis. The company said that it has executed eight new triple-net leases and renewed one triple-net lease totalling 17.66 megawatts, representing approximately US$337 million of total contract value over the respective lease terms.

Pent up global demand for massive cloud computing speed and capacity is powering the construction of colossal new data centres, but most are a year or more away from being operational. South Hill Business and Technology Centre, a project of The Benaroya Company along with its hand-picked team of gold-standard experts, is in the final stages of commissioning and will be fully operational and ready for occupancy in the next two weeks.

Data centre operator and colocation provider Continuum Data Centers has announced it has completed the second phase of its Lombard, Illinois data centre. The expansion, which was both physical and infrastructure in nature, adds an additional 14,000 sq ft of usable colocation space to its previous 20,000 sq ft.

Upon opening last August, the data centre signed fibre-optic connectivity provider AboveNet to provide its high-bandwidth transport backbone from its Oak Brook, Illinois POP.

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SIMSOL has announced its new primary colocation facility in partnership with tw telecom. SIMSOL selected tw telecom to house its data colocation site in the event the company's primary server site located in Orlando, Florida fails to provide service for any reason.

IT administrators need to identify and integrate moving market trends into their data centres to better manage costs and resources while avoiding hardware sprawl, according to a Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) executive.

Diversified industrial manufacturer Eaton has announced it has agreed to acquire Wright Line Holding, subject to regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Based in Worcester, Mass., Wright Line provides customized enclosures, rack systems, and air flow management systems to store, power, and secure mission-critical IT data centre electronics. Over the last 12 months the company had sales of approximately US$101 million and has more than 350 employees.

Dell has won a major storage solution deal with Ryanair in a three-way competition against HP and IBM Network Appliances. The deal is worth over €470k. The airline's Dublin-based IT headquarters serves over 7,000 employees at 32 bases in 26 countries, so constant access to e-mail and other critical applications is vital.

What's left of Lehman Brothers is asking a bankruptcy court judge for permission to pay US$2.5 million to get out of a 59,300 sq ft data centre lease with 85 Tenth Ave. that extends to the end of 2013. Lehman says without the approval it would pay US$300,000 per month or a total of US$12.485 million for the seventh-floor communications hub that it no longer uses.

Building owner Related has agreed to the early termination, but only if it gets a tenant to fill the space. A CB Richard Ellis team has it on the market and declined comment.

Critical power solutions provider Active Power has announced it has been chosen to protect mission critical systems by several organizations located in Italy. In a release, the company said it has shipped and delivered several of its high efficiency flywheel based CleanSource UPS systems this year and is reaping the benefits of its strategy to grow and develop business in this European market.

AboveNet, a provider of high-bandwidth connectivity solutions, has announced results for the second quarter and six months ended June 30, 2010.

PT Badak, a liquefied natural gas producer, has chosen IBM to produce an IT infrastructure to manage internal and external resources, including tangible assets, financial resources, materials and HR. PT Badak said that it selected IBM due to the high performance, availability and energy efficiency of IBM Power Systems.

Data Centres should stop squandering energy – that is the message from BNB Development’s Alex Arthur, whose Elean Data Centre in Cambridge has reduced energy consumption by 50% and reduced tenants’ energy bills by almost 30%.

By utilising combined heat & power and absorption chillers, Elean Data Centre has reduced energy consumption from 70 Mg to 34 Mg, a saving of 50%. Using this method we have reduced our tenants’ energy bills by almost 30%, producing a financial saving across the site of £12 million per annum.

Source: Quattro PR

Unified IP business communications provider Interactive Intelligence has formally launched a communications-as-a-service (CaaS) offer in Australia. The hosted offering was launched in the US 18 months ago and in Europe six months later. Brendan Maree, country manager for Australia and New Zealand at Interactive Intelligence, said the service was available in Australia "informally" for some time.

With a company as spread out as T.D. Williamson, getting a solid tech infrastructure in place is a challenge, says Rick Bennett, chief information officer at the pipeline integrity company. "We're an international company with 57 locations in 37 different countries," he said. "As such, it would be cost-prohibitive to have data centres hosting various applications in every location around the world."

techmesh, the IT & Telecom business network for Yorkshire and Humber, has announced the launch of a new IT & Telecom Exhibition and conference on 30th September 2010 at the Royal Armouries in Leeds, West Yorkshire.

The New York Stock Exchange will open its massive trading data centre in Mahwah, New Jersey before today's opening bell. The exchange group first announced it would be building the data centre last September. Parent company NYSE Euronext says it plans to start trading 19 stocks on servers "matching engines" housed inside the 400,000 sq ft data centre, located along Route 17.

tw telecom, a provider of managed voice, Internet and data networking solutions for business customers, has announced its second quarter 2010 financial results, including US$316.8 million of revenue, US$114.4 million in modified EBITDA, US$15.2 million in levered free cash flow and net income of US$242.3 million, which included the impact of a non-cash income tax benefit of US$227.3 million in the quarter.

Atlantic.Net, a privately held, high-performance managed hosting provider has announced a multi-year partnership agreement with Complete Healthcare Solutions, a medical software solutions company. Under the terms of the agreement, Atlantic.Net will power CHS’ medical software with turnkey managed hosting backed by SAS 70 certified infrastructure.

IPO registrant GlassHouse Technologies has outlined its plan to reach profitability in 2011 after years of accepting losses and incurring considerable debt to pursue a strategy that put growth ahead of earnings. The data centre consultant believes it will achieve net operating income and net income through a three-pronged strategy.

Rackspace Hosting, the hosting and cloud computing company, has announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2010. Net revenue for the second quarter of 2010 was US$187.3 million, up 4.8% from the previous quarter and up 23.2% from the second quarter of 2009. Net revenue for the second quarter of 2010 was negatively impacted by currency exchange rates when compared to the first quarter of 2010, but was favourably impacted when compared to the second quarter of 2009.

Major clothing store American Eagle Outfitters suffered an outage late last month, which sources say can be attributed to outsourced managed hosting, despite reportedly well-laid recovery plans for just such a disaster. American Eagle’s online shops, ae.com, aerie.com and 77kids.com, crashed on July 19, and remained offline until July 23, when many of the pages became available, but sluggish, until the afternoon July 27, when the sites were restored to normal.

Unisys has announced that its Unisys China subsidiary has sold computer hardware, software and services to the company that operates the reservations systems for Chinese airlines in a deal worth US$43 million.

Telx, an interconnection and colocation provider in strategic North American markets,has announced that Carrier to Carrier Telecom (C2C), a full-service telecommunications provider based in The Netherlands, has established a Point of Presence (PoP) within Telx's 60 Hudson St. data centre facility.

Cisco posted quarterly sales of US$10.8 billion, net income on a generally accepted accounting principles basis of US$1.9 billion, and non-GAAP net income of US$2.5 billion. Net sales were up 27% year-over-year while net income rose 74% year over year. However, the figures were slightly below analyst expectations of $10.95 billion in sales and the company cited "mixed signals" for growth in the global economy.

Telstra may have slashed its IT spend by almost half over the last 12 months, but the troubled telco has still managed to rack up a sizable A$652 million in investments in the year to 30 June 2010. The spend, a 42% decline from a peak of A$1.127 billion in the year to 30 June 2009, reflects, according to Telstra, a reduction in “demand driven programs” and the completion of several major projects in 2009 and the general wind-down of its five year transformation.

Internet Initiative Japan has announced its consolidated financial results for the three months ended June 30, 2010. Highlights of First Quarter FY2010 Financial Results

Revenues were JPY15,813 million (US$179 million), down 0.1% YoY. While connectivity and outsourcing services steadily grew, systems integration decreased mainly affected by the scale-down of a contract from a certain large contract.

Source: DMN

The Environment Agency is reminding UK data centre operators that they have until 31 September to sign up to the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) Energy Efficiency Scheme. The legislation, which came into force on 1 April, requires firms to buy allowances for their annual carbon emissions. Charges are capped at £12 per tonne and the worst offenders will be “named and shamed” in an energy-efficiency league table.

Colocation and managed hosting firm Latisys has announced that it had refinanced its existing US$65 million senior credit facility with a new US$110 million facility through a consortium of eight lenders, led by RBC Capital Markets, TD Securities and Madison Capital Funding.

Texas will begin looking for new companies to finish the data centre consolidation work that IBM Corp. was hired to do almost four years ago, state officials have said. Though IBM's day-to-day obligations under the US$863 million contract have not changed, the state is now taking the lead on the project, said Thomas Johnson, spokesman for the state's Department of Information Resources. "DIR has taken full control over the contract and will proceed to rebid all of the services within the contract," Johnson said.

Data storage vendor NetApp has reported on its revenue for the first quarter of 2011, stating total product sales grew 51% when compared with the same quarter last year; and overall revenue was up 36%.

The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company reported US$1.14 billion in sales in the quarter, which ended July 30, compared with US$838 million during the same period last year. Net income for the quarter was almost triple last year's first quarter. The company reported US$142 million compared with US$52 million for Q1 2010.

Source: Computerworld

Intel, the chip maker, has turned into Intel, the security specialist. Making one of most eye-catching moves in its 42-year history, Intel announced Thursday that it planned to acquire McAfee for US$7.68 billion in cash. Under the terms of the deal, Intel will pay US$48 a share in cash, a 60% premium over McAfee’s Wednesday closing stock price of US$29.93.

The deal makes Intel a major player in the security software and services market. As such, Intel will shed some of its identity as a component supplier and climb higher up the technology food chain.

Computer giant Dell released its latest quarterly figures last night, announcing a 22% revenue increase year on year to US$15.53 billion, beating analyst predictions. The company put the results down to the worldwide increase in customer demand for Dell enterprise solutions, including servers and networking systems, storage and services.

AtHub, a group formed by the Shanghai government along with members of IBM, HP, EMC, Intel, and Cisco, has announced the opening of a new cloud computing data centre at Shanghai’s SHIBEI Hi-Tech Park.

Hibernia Atlantic, the diverse transAtlantic high bandwidth connectivity provider, has announced the opening of its office facility located at 55 Old Broad Street in London, UK. The new office is a result of Hibernia's strong growth in Europe and the increased customer demand for its robust network services platform globally.

Hewlett-Packard made a surprise counteroffer this morning to buy data-storage company 3Par of Fremont for US$1.6 billion, a price about a third higher than Dell had offered for the company last week. HP confirmed that it had made an earlier offer for 3Par, which makes high-end storage products, before Dell's US$1.15 billion offer for the Fremont company was announced last week.

The National Broadband Network Company would not confirm whether it will continue to roll out optic fibre around the nation while Australia's Parliament attempts to resolve whether the Coalition or Labour will form government.

NBN has been rolling out fibre to a number of early stage release sites around Australia, with some sites, such as Townsville, having received significant political attention during the campaign. However, the Coalition has pledged to cancel the NBN roll-out if it wins government.

Source: ZDNet

British IT firm Redstone is raising £8.5 million in a rescue deal brokered by new management team Ian Smith and Tony Weaver, which includes a settlement with its creditor Eckoh. The company, which supplies managed IT services to City banks, is raising about £7 million in a placing and subscription of shares, while it is also raising £1.5 million of new debt, which along with £3 million of existing debt will be converted into equity.

The UAE's integrated telecom service provider du and Injazat, the leading information communication & technology and business process managed services provider in the United Arab Emirates, have formally entered into a go-to-market partnership agreement to provide business customers with state-of-the-art networked IT services.

Hewlett-Packard is to create 700 new jobs at its plant in Erskine near Glasgow. The company is setting up an IT service hub at its Renfrewshire facility with the help of £7m in government funding. Last year HP announced it was cutting 700 manufacturing jobs at the plant and transferring the work to the Czech Republic. These jobs will be gone by October but the new posts should see the plant back to employing about 1,300 people.

iWeb Group, a provider of IT infrastructure and Internet hosting services to clients in 150 countries, announced its results for the third quarter of 2010. Financial highlights for 2010 third quarter include revenues increased to C$7.5million, from A$7.2million in Q3 2009 and C$2 million adjusted EBITDA, or 27% of revenue.

The National Security Agency has announced it is nearing its selection of a lead contractor for the agency's massive $1 billion data centre in Utah,. The NSA first announced its plans to build the 1-million sq ft data centre at Fort Williams in Utah back in July 2009. The agency finally arrived at a shortlist of five candidates with a final award expected to be announced in September.

Orange Business Services has announced its acquisition of French IT integrator Alsy for an undisclosed amount. Alsy is one of the country's leading Microsoft solutions integrators, turning over more than €14 million last year with a staff of 140. Its clients consist mainly of large French firms and branches of multinationals.

Segro posted a slight rise in the value of its properties, sending its shares lower on Thursday as the industrial property landlord aims to restart new developments amid returning interest from potential tenants. Segro, which has about two-thirds of its properties in the UK and the rest across continental Europe, said its portfolio value grew 1.4% in the first half, with a 2.5%t rise in the UK offsetting a 1.4% drop on the continent.

Hewlett-Packard swung back at Dell on Thursday afternoon by once again raising its bid to buy the data-storage company 3Par, offering $1.8 billion just hours after Dell announced that it had raised its own bid to $1.6 billion.

The latest counter-offer by Palo Alto-based HP puts the ball back in Dell's court, since it has the right to keep matching any counter-offers under the terms of its original agreement with 3Par. Dell said late Thursday that it would "assess the situation and act in the best interests of our customers and shareholders."

Origina, a Dublin-based business technology provider, is to invest €1.1 million in developing a cloud computing service, creating 10 new jobs. Part of the funding will be put towards collaborative research with universities to design the service.

The company also plans to seek up to €2 million in additional external funding over the next 12 months to support further infrastructure investments and a move into other markets, including the UK. The service is due to be launched later this year in Ireland, followed by the UK early in 2011.

Source: Irish Times

Web hosting provider BurstNET Technologies has announced it has expanded into the European hosting marketplace by launching its wholly-owned subsidiary, BurstNET Limited. To support its expansion into Europe, BurstNET has selected Manchester, UK for its European base of operations.

The new BurstNET European network provides its customers with access to fully redundant multi-10Gbps connectivity between BurstNET’s US and EU/UK network, as well as major Internet hubs in Manchester, London, and Amsterdam, for transit and European peering exchange access.

In a bid to expand its reach into regional Australia, Hostech reported that it had concluded its seventh acquisition in a trail of acquisitions the firm has undertaken in 2010. Hostech, the Australian data centre company, said it had bought the D2K client base in Townsville for an estimated A$90,000 and about 1.1 million Hostech shares besides the firm’s initial fiscal postings.

The Department of Defence’s peak technology strategy arm has started running the ruler over its technology suppliers as it considers establishing a new procurement panel for applications and systems integration services.

The Republic of Trinidad & Tobago has repurposed the Wallerfield Air Force Base a former United States World War II Air Force base located in north-eastern Trinidad, to satisfy the country's goal of transforming its booming energy-based economy to a knowledge-based one.