A new state-of-the-art data centre in Midrand, South Africa hopes to attract foreign companies to store data in South Africa. To be built at a cost of R143-million, the new centre will comprise two buildings that are to be linked via two dark-fibre optic cables, to prevent any interruptions in information flow. Two sites were located that would allow the construction of two separate buildings in one business park. Built to international standards, the centres promise unscheduled downtime of less than 24 minutes a year and the twin data centres will allow instant mirroring of information.

Experian Ltd., the global information solutions company based in the UK, will use Raritan's remote management solutions to maintain servers in its new data centre. The new 700-server data centre to support its extensive European operations is expected to grow to 5,000 servers, replaced two processing centres - one of which became Experian's disaster recovery data centre.

GoDaddy.com, the world's No. 1 registrar both in terms of new domain names and domains under management has announced its latest asset - a newly owned data centre located in the heart of Phoenix's 'Opportunity Corridor'. GoDaddy.com recently purchased the 270,000 square foot facility for $9.5 million. It is located near Sky Harbor Airport and will house some of the GoDaddy.com computer hardware used to keep its global operation up and running 24/7.