Level 3 Communications' Content Markets Group has announced that it has been selected by Crackle, Inc., a Sony Pictures Entertainment Company, to support that company's high-quality video delivery service. Under the terms of the multi-year agreement, Level 3 will provide Crackle underlying network solutions including High Speed Internet Access via multiple 10 Gigabits per second (GigE) ports and colocation services to enable Crackle's continued growth and provide a better experience for Crackle's customers through improved speed and reliability.

3PAR (NYSE Arca: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage, announced today that Alert Logic, Inc., the industry's leading provider of on-demand IT compliance and security solutions, has chosen 3PAR Utility Storage to consolidate and scale its mission-critical hosted software-as-a-service (SaaS) environment. Alert Logic selected two 3PAR InServ S800 Storage Servers for their high availability, seamless scalability, and ease of use.

COLT Telecom has won a 3 year IP VPN and Data Centre contract from the Borsa Italia (Italian Stock Exchange). COLT will provide both national and international connectivity using an MPLS based IP-VPN network using Ethernet connectivity in the Milan hub site. It will provide connectivity to the customer's 100 international trading partners in Italy and overseas. Back up ISDN services are also provided to ensure a high degree of resilience. The customer is also using COLT to host its hardware platforms at its Data Centre in Turin.

Verizon Business has won a contract with Deltek, a provider of enterprise applications software for project-focused companies, to provide a range of contact centre; equipment and network services. Under the agreement Verizon Business will supply Managed Private IP, Managed IP PBX, Web Center, voice service and audio and video conferencing to Deltek in order to provide a single converged IP network. Deltek will connect 1,200 employees across 14 locations in the US, Europe; Australia and the Philippines.

Attenda, a UK-based hosting operator, has signed a new 3 year contract to host and manage Miomi.com. Miomi.com provides a website that allows users to view and share content through the construction of a personal history (including photos, video and audio) which can then be linked into a timeline to tell a story. Content is provided from Microsoft Encarta, Wikipedia and other news sources as well. Attenda is providing the infrastructure and is using Microsoft technologies with an architecture designed to be scalable according to site usage.

Spanish IT services and Data Centre company Telvent has won a contract to host the web services of Spain's Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia (UNED), Spain's major online University with over 160,000 students. UNED will now migrate its servers from its own facility to Telvent's Data Centres and Telvent will be responsible for providing 24 hour per day 365 days a year web services. It will have to also provide web access to UNED. The web service is estimated to provide 5 million page views to around 200,000 users.

Norwegian international oil company Aibel International has outsourced its IT infrastructure to BT Global Services and HP in a deal worth an initial NOK 335 million over 5 years. Under the deal BT will be the lead contractor and will provide a converged IP network; helpdesk and messaging platform. HP will manage Aibel's existing Data Centres and provide local help desk support. Some 29 Aibel employees will transfer to either BT or HP under the deal.