The Hyderabad-based company (formerly Northgate BPO Services Ltd) an online advertising and real-time communication services provider, has announced that is has raised US$10 million finance from investors to set up a data centre in London. The centre plans to install 80 servers and will handle ten million real-time communication sessions. Physical infrastructure alone will represent around US$4.5 million. In Hyderabad, Northgate will employ around 40 people to support the data centre in London. The company reportedly selected London as the venue because of cheaper bandwidth prices.

AT&T is to open 2 additional Internet Data Centers (IDCs): in San Jose California and in Shanghai, China, both planned during November. The company is also upgrading its existing presence in the New York City centre. AT&T will provide managed hosting services from 28 IDCs worldwide (14 of which are located in the US).

As part of its continuing expansion, C I Host has enlarged its Dallas-area, 38,000 square-foot data centre. This follows on from the launch of a new facility in Newark last month. The company say that construction is also beginning on the ninth and final expansion of the 1851 Central Drive location in Bedford. A new Dallas state-of-the-art data centre is scheduled to open in Spring or Summer of 2006. C I Host also has data centres in Chicago and Los Angeles and plans to open a facility in London.

Unistal Systems Pvt. Ltd., a provider of data recovery products and services has opened a data recovery centre in Mumbai. At present, the company has its data recovery centres in Delhi and Bangalore and about 75 data recovery franchisee centres across the country. The company has a presence in New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Kolkata, with partners in 23 Indian cities and about 100 data recovery labs across the country, in addition to the Middle East and Europe.

The exchange and neutral colocation provider has extended its presence in carrier hotels at 60 Hudson and 111 8th Avenue in New York City. It will provide interconnection to more than 330 distinct networks - making it the largest neutral marketplace for networks in New York City. Switch and Data provide Layer 1 and Layer 2 connectivity between the carrier hotels on the East Coast, 60 Hudson Street and 111 8th Avenue.

Cisco Systems is working with the Emirates Group to implement a new 10 Gigabit Ethernet data centre network at its operations headquarters in Dubai. With the first phase of the project, Cisco is collaborating with local Cisco Gold Certified Partner GBM/UCMC to deliver an intelligent data centre networking infrastructure as part of Emirates' plans to consolidate and virtualise existing server farms. The new deployment will help Emirates to reduce the complexity of its existing ATM-based networks, simplify the overall network infrastructure and build a resilient data centre core network.

Equinix has announced an agreement to acquire its flagship Washington, D.C. area data center campus in Ashburn, Virginia for $53.0 million. The company also announced that it expects to close the sale-leaseback of its newly- acquired Los Angeles area data center within 30 days, ahead of its previously announced target of year-end. Equinix's flagship Internet Business Exchange (IBX) center in Ashburn is part of a 32.6 acre campus that totals 461,700 square feet located in the Dulles Corridor that is home to many of the region's technology companies.

Peer 1 Network Enterprises, Inc. (TSX-V:PIX), a worldwide IP network infrastructure provider, announced today the company has established a 25,000-square-foot data center in Los Angeles, California to better serve the city's thriving online entertainment and gaming industries. Digital Realty Trust (www.digitalrealtytrust.com) owns and manages the building in which the data center is housed.