A new research paper by consulting firm BroadGroup proposes that data centres now represent a new asset class in their own right. The findings will be highlighted at the 4th Finance and Investment Forum for data centres which takes place in London 9th December.

Brocade has announced that CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research), one of the world's largest and most respected centres for scientific research, has selected Brocade MLXe Core Routers as part of a network infrastructure upgrade to support its high throughput computing requirements and a data environment that exceeds 15 petabytes (15 million gigabytes) per year. According to the website, Whatsabyte.com, a single petabyte is equivalent to "20 million 4-door filing cabinets full of text."

The report “Data Center Cabling Systems Market” provides detailed analysis of the cabling inside data centres. Cabling system architectures are described for three different data centre site sizes. New fibre and copper products, recently released, targeting the data centre cabling market are described, analysed and forecast, including new fibre plug n’ play products and new fibre MPO connectors..

Cisco has appointed of Rajesh Rege as Senior Vice President, Data Center, for India and Saarc. In this role, Rege will be responsible for driving and overseeing the company’s overall growth and expansion efforts in the data centre space.

Rege, an IT industry veteran with over 22 years of experience, worked with Alcatel Lucent as Vice President for Global Alliances managing a portfolio of India based partners on a global basis.

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A breakdown of the costs of BT’s £542 million National Programme for IT in the NHS contract for parts of the South of England lays bare the telecom giant’s prices. It also provides a yardstick for all local service provider contract prices. BT will be paid £36 million for each of the seven NHS trusts running Cerner Millennium that was installed by the South’s former local service provider, Fujitsu.

Ten-gigabit Ethernet helped to push up revenues in the Ethernet switch market during the third quarter of the year. According to figures from Dell'Oro Group, revenues were 33% higher between July and September than they were during the same period in 2009.

Manufacturers Cisco, Hewlett Packard and Juniper added the most in incremental revenue during the quarter.

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Unitrio Technology a local data centre provider, expects its business will grow by 30% over the next three years with revenue exceeding 1.1 billion baht. Stronger financial backup from UK-based Aureos Southeast Asia Fund LLC, which became a shareholder early this year, will help it expand further in the future, said managing director Metee Anivat.

A global oil and gas company in the US. had three operational data centres - in Houston, Oklahoma City and Calgary. With these data centres being located in leased towers, they had an increased risk from facilities-related issues. Natural disasters in these areas also affected the operation of the data centres. The data centres themselves were running out of space and power as the leased spaces were not built to formal data centre standards.

China is on track to be IBM’s biggest customer for big data centres, according to a senior official with the company. Matter of fact, the so-called “developing world” may soon outstrip the more advanced one.

“Forty percent of out business is now from ‘Growth Countries,’” said Steve Sams, IBM vice president for Global Site and Facilities Services. “This year China will probably be a bigger customer for (new data centres) than the US.” “We recently retrofitted one data centre in China with 1.2 million sq ft,” he said. “A telecom company with 20 million people there is small.

Fitch Ratings has assigned UK-based Global Switch Holdings Ltd (Global Switch) a Long-term Issuer Default Rating (IDR) of 'BBB' and a senior unsecured rating of 'BBB'.

The company's Short-term IDR has been assigned at 'F3'. The Outlook on the Long-term IDR is Stable. Global Switch is one of the world's largest owners and operators of wholesale data centres.

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We are looking to appoint an ambitious Senior Electrical Design Engineer for one of the UK’s leading Data Centre Design Consultancy based in London. With an impeccable reputation dating back over 50 years we have experience stable and steady growth over the last 5 years and have consistently maintained profit levels above 10% whilst maintaining less than 2% staff turnover.

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Facebook representatives on Tuesday described how to apply for work at the company’s US$450 million data centre now under construction here.

Facebook also announced that just three weeks into the project, the first of its local contractors are working on the data centre, which will eventually connect the more than 500 million people around the world who use the pioneering social networking service. The local hires include Tri City Concrete Company and GDS (Garbage Disposal Service) as well as electrical workers and others.

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Shares in construction support and property services specialist Mountfield Group rose in response to news it won a repair and maintenance contract from Cable & Wireless and that trading is picking up. The telecoms services provider has appointed Mountfield to repair the fabric of its estate of approximately 600 commercial buildings in the southern half of the UK.

CoreLink Data Centers CEO Geoff Hampson Resigns and the company has appointed Charles Picasso Executive Chairman and Interim CEO.

As the founding CEO, Geoff Hampson has played a strategic role in helping CoreLink achieve its business objectives over the past several years," said Picasso. "It is a small group of people who can take a company from concept to market leadership like Geoff has at CoreLink."

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SAIC, a scientific, engineering, and technology applications company, today announced financial results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2011, which ended October 31, 2010.

Revenues for the quarter were US$2.87 billion, up 4% from US$2.77 billion in the third quarter of fiscal year 2010.

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NaviSite, a premier provider of enterprise-class hosting, managed application, managed messaging and managed cloud services, has reported financial results for the first quarter fiscal year 2011, ended October 31, 2010.

Total revenue for the quarter ended October 31, 2010, was US$33.4 million, representing a year-over-year increase of 9% and a sequential increase of 2%. And recurring hosting revenue was US$32.9 million for the first quarter, representing a year-over-year increase of 11% and a sequential increase of 2%.

Source: Business Wire

Salary: £60k - £70k b Benefits
Company: LJB and Co

As lead mechanical engineer you are responsible for the mechanical design of data center projects. In this position, you frequently liaise with the client to define design requirements during project start, develop the mechanical concepts, direct a team of mechanical support engineers and specialists, and are responsible for the mechanical design throughout the project to formal project handover.

GE Intelligent Platforms has announced that Vantage Data Centers, a new wholesale data centre operator, has chosen the company’s high availability mission critical solution to enable Vantage to deliver energy-efficient, scalable, data centre solutions to enterprise customers.

Vantage Data Centers, which is focused on the ownership, development and operation of highly efficient and scalable wholesale data centres, will leverage GE Intelligent Platforms’ hardware and software solutions for its 37 MW Santa Clara Data Center campus.

Source: Automation World

A British IT hosting company claims to be a carbon neutral first and there are signs that more data centres could follow suit

One of the largest sources of IT carbon emissions are data centres, so it's good to hear that Manchester-based IT hosting company, UKFast, is carbon neutral in its data centres and offices. The claim is based on achieving the PAS 2060 (Publicly Available Specification 2060) certification of carbon neutrality published by the British Standards Institution and the company claims to be the first certified 100% carbon neutral hosting company in the UK.

National Australia Bank is likely to sell its main data centre in Melbourne to International Business Machines as part of a five-year contract to be signed between the two companies, the Australian Financial Review reported, without saying where it got the information.

As part of the contract, worth several hundred million dollars, IBM will take over management of the bank’s computing infrastructure, according to the report. The deal will also renew IBM’s A$100 million contract to provide desktop services to NAB, signed in 2007, the newspaper said.

Source: Bloomberg

Veolia Water has confirmed that Indian outsourcing provider Tata Consultancy Services will manage and provide IT services to the firm.

The water company said that it had been reviewing its IT support services as part of an ongoing transformation programme, and it was speculated at the time that an outsourcing deal with TCS was under consideration. “Following a company-wide review of our IT provision, we will appoint an IT business partner to deliver the knowledge and expertise we require to meet our future IT needs,” said Buddy Willard, chief information officer at Veolia Water.

Wipro Technologies has announced the opening of a new development centre in Budapest, Hungary.

The Wipro centre was set up to primarily service the transformational program of Magyar Telekom, which will enable the latter to improve efficiency in customer experience and increase market agility. Earlier this year, Wipro had signed a multi-year transformational deal with Magyar Telekom (a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom), the largest telecom service provider in Hungary.

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Oracle has announced that the Oracle Cloud Computing Solution Center has been established in Beijing. This facility will showcase the latest innovations and provide a complete solution to support the entire cloud computing technology stack including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS).

Because two mega data centres are actively considering locating in Wyoming, Gov. Dave Freudenthal wants to spend US$14.5 million to attract these “highly sought-after projects.” In a letter to the Joint Appropriations Committee, Freudenthal formally recommended using leftover money set aside at the end of the last biennium to deal with costs of flooding in Fremont County and elsewhere.

Global Crossing has announced third quarter results for its subsidiary, Global Crossing (UK) Telecommunications Limited (GCUK).

For the third quarter of 2010, GCUK generated revenue of £75 million and Operating Income before Depreciation and Amortization (OIBDA) of £16 million. The company also reported net cash provided by operations of £10 million.

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Ambitious Cisco Gold partner ONI is aiming to more than double its turnover to £50m. In its 2009 fiscal year, the Luton-based firm posted sales of £10.8 million. For the 12 months to the end of March 2010, revenue rose to £12.8 million.

Wholesale data centre provider Digital Realty Trust has been on a buying spree this year, having spent more than 10 times what it shelled out in all of 2009. In total, the company has spent US$1.3 billion for acquired properties. The majority has come on just two transactions: Sentinel Data Centers and Rockwood Capital’s 365 Main portfolio. Although the deals are starting to pay off, we don’t expect that the firm will write such big checks in 2011.

Sentrum, a specialist in data centre solutions, has announced the appointment of Scott Goodwin as Group Energy Officer. The role is an industry first and was created after Sentrum’s own market research identified a compelling need for increased communications with customers on carbon tax policies, site searches and implementation of new energy supplies or upgrading existing agreements.

Capgemini, one of the foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, has announced the acquisition of the German IT-Services company CS Consulting GmbH from LRPC, a fund managed by Süd Beteiligungen (a subsidiary of Landesbank Baden-Württemberg), founder Berndt Blumenthal and Dr. Kurt Rommel.

Along with attempting to downsize its budget and pension obligations, the city is looking to downsize its real estate. "We have 1 million sq ft too much," Deputy Mayor Stephen Goldsmith told the executives of the Real Estate Board of New York at the group's holiday lunch at the Waldorf Astoria.

DediPower, the UK's fastest growing private hosting company, is broadening and expanding its management team to enable the company to build on the rapid growth it has been experiencing and to accelerate is global expansion.

Craig Martin, co-founder and currently CEO of DediPower is to become MD of DediPower Asia. The role of CEO in the UK will be taken up by Chris Miller who joins DediPower from CA where he was UK and Ireland Country Manager

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Twitter is considering expanding into Sacramento with a new server centre, according to reports. The micro-blogging website currently stores much of its data on servers through New York-based NTT America, which has cited Twitter's growth as a driver of its own expansion.

Unnamed sources have said that Twitter is scouting out locations in Sacramento to house a data centre of its own to help handle its rapid growth -- the social media site has been adding up to 300,000 users a day this year, the report said.

Source: Los Angeles Times

Technology firm ANS Group today posted a 38% rise in half-year profits and said its order book is at a record level. ANS Group, based at Manchester Science Parks, announced pre-tax profits of £680,000 for the six months to September 30, with revenues up 63% from £5.5 million to £8.98 million.

The company, which is listed on the PLUS market for smaller firms and provides and installs data centres, networks, servers and email systems for public sector bodies and private companies, announced an increase in its interim dividend from 1.25p to 1.5p.

Telephone and Data Systems has purchased TEAM Technologies, a privately owned data centre provider, for US$47 million. TEAM has data centres in Fitchburg, and in Des Moines and Cedar Falls, Iowa, and will be managed by TDS. TEAM, currently based in Cedar Falls, has a total of 20 employees, eight of them in Fitchburg. All will keep their jobs, TDS spokeswoman DeAnne Boegli said.

Salary: £75k - 85k per year b Benefits

One of Europe’s leading technology solutions providers has an outstanding opportunity to join their expanding Data Centre Infrastructure division, working as a client sided Project Manager. The company provide a combination of network and IT infrastructure solutions, along wide expertise within IT managed services across major organisations, medium sized business and wholesale customers.

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Green House Data, the rocky mountain regions first 100% green data centre, has announced their plans to open another green data centre facility in 2011 that is focused on cloud hosting and colocation services. This new property will be in addition to their existing data centre located in Cheyenne, WY.

The Wired Real Estate Group has been tapped to lead the data centre real estate search in conformity with the sustainable practices of Green House.

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AXA Real Estate announces that it has signed 112 leases representing 285,000 sq m of space across its French portfolio this year. Of this total, 64, representing 199,000 sq m, were new leases, while the remaining 48, accounting for 86,000 sq m of space, were lease renewals.

Other major lettings in the French office portfolio since the start of the year have included the company Green Data Center leased 1,346 sq m at 24-26 Avenue du Général de Gaulle in Suresnes.

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GCF International and CEO Max Stiegemeier have announced it has acquired Division 5 Technology, a privately-held company based in New York, whose software helps companies manage their data storage in the cloud infrastructure.

GCF will integrate Division 5 Technology, a leading provider of website hosting and data centres, into its corporate VPN sector. The deal was acquired with US $1.2 billion in equity funding and 1.5 million shares of stock to Mr. Stiegemeier.

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The largest and most reliable data centre infrastructure in Baltics is available in DEAC data centres, located in Latvia. For global IT projects realization in Europe DEAC has to offer: more than 600 racks with megawatts of energy, cloud computing solutions, highly developed IT infrastructure and carrier-neutral fast secure telecommunications.

iWeb, a global provider of Internet hosting services and IT infrastructure today released its financial results for the year ended September 30, 2010.

Fourth-quarter highlight included revenues of to US$7.7 million for the quarter, compared to US$6.3million in 2009; EBITDA reaches US$1.8 million (24% of revenues), nearly double the US$1.0million (16% of revenues) reported for Q4 2009 and net income of US$56 000 for the quarter

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Blogging services company Tumblr Inc. has raised US$30 million in a new round of funding. The company, which gained initial financing last spring, now has raised US$40 million in venture capital underwriting.

The company said it plans to dramatically enlarge its engineering team and open another data centre to increase capacity. The company currently hosts 11 million blogs, more than double the total when it raised US$10 million in initial funding last April.

Source: BtoB

Nearly two years ago, a high-tech company supposedly was on the verge of moving a data processing centre to Pendleton's industrial park, lured by cheap energy and the city's large fibre-optic capacity. However, "Project Cowbell" and its promise of 35 well-paying jobs never materialized because Pendleton does not have the power capacity to support such a centre.

Sentrigo, the innovator in database security and provider of data protection solutions for the data centre and the cloud has announced that it has secured US$6 million in a Series C funding round.

The financing will allow Sentrigo to increase global sales and marketing activities in support of its rapid revenue growth rate, as well as to continue expanding its database security and data integrity solutions for the cloud.

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Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced financial results for its fiscal year 2011 third quarter ended November 30, 2010. Total revenue for the quarter was US$235.6 million, an increase of 21% from the year ago quarter. Subscription revenue for the quarter was US$198.8 million, up 21% year-over-year.

"Strong market demand and sales execution, combined with a compelling value proposition, led to organic billings growth of over 20%, or $262 million." stated Jim Whitehurst, President and Chief Executive Officer of Red Hat. "

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Mid-tier data centre in Atlanta, as managed by Unisys, was recently certified as one of the first U.S. federal government data centres compliant with the ISO/IEC 20000 standard for best practices related to delivering managed services that meet business and customer requirements.

With this certification, the CDC data centre stands as one of only 33 organizations in the United States to achieve compliance with the standard.

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Norland Managed Services are looking for a Data centre manager/Account manager for our Critical Services/ Data Centre division.

Candidates must have the following: Data Centre or critical environment experience;
Contract Management experience; Good technical knowledge of building services systems and plant; Knowledge of BMS systems; Knowledge and understanding of Data Centres; Chiller and CRAC Unit knowledge; Knowledge of Generators and UPS and Financial accounting