Global Voice Group Limited (GV) the Irish founded and Singapore listed owner and operator of fibre networks across Europe, has concluded deals totalling in excess of 2.3m, with an average contract length of 2.5 years. The deals represent significant revenue growth across both GV's Data Services and Infrastructure Provision business units. The deals announced are: A multi-year deal with Dresdner Bank AG subsidiary Visionapp GmbH. Visionapp will utilise GV's German data centres and network capabilities for the high-availability operations of its ASP and hosting offerings.

Interxion's Zurich data centre has been selected by Postini, Inc. to host its Integrated Message Management (IMM) services in Switzerland. Interxion already hosts Postini's IMM platform in Amsterdam. Postini is expanding its integrated message management activities in Europe and offers a suite of corporate e-mail and instant messaging services.

HCL Technologies Ltd. (HCL) has signed a five-year agreement with Autodesk to provide offshore application and data centre services. The deal is reported to be worth around US$50 million. Autodesk, of San Rafael, California, sells software and services for the manufacturing, building, infrastructure, wireless data services, and media and entertainment markets. HCL, an Indian outsourcing company in Noida, near Delhi, will provide Autodesk with application and data centre services for business applications from vendors such as SAP, Informatica, and Siebel Systems.

A new managed end-to-end digital video surveillance service has been launched by Singapore Telecommunications. As an extension to the traditional close-circuit TV system, it allows users to conduct continuous video recording and view real-time images of their surveillance recordings from anywhere within or outside of Singapore using broadband or IP connections. Customers can store and retrieve video images up to 30 days from the centrally-hosted video library at SingTel EXPAN, the company's managed hosting solution.

Servecentric has launched Emailcentric, a fully managed, outsourced email service, aimed primarily at SMEs. Emailcentric facilitates business continuity and removes the financial and time-consuming strain of mail server downtime and lost emails. A key feature of the service is the strict spam and virus filter, which affords protection from unwanted email. Emailcentric utilises a double layer backup system to ensure that emails are stored in accordance with the latest Irish and EU legislation on the retention of electronic data. The service costs EUR10 per user, per month.

SAVVIS has won a 3-year contract from Pfizer Health Solutions Inc for comprehensive managed hosting services worth a reported £1.76 million. Under terms of contract, Pfizer Health Solutions will deploy SAVVIS' fully resilient IT infrastructure solution in Europe. This includes managed network services, servers, storage, and disaster recovery services. As part of the solution, SAVVIS is also delivering managed security services that utilise virtualised firewall, load balancing and intrusion detection for hosted infrastructure, and in-network firewalling for the wide area network.