RedPrairie Corporation, a world leading consumer-driven optimization company, has announced plans to expand into two new US data centers to support continued growth in its software-as-a-service capabilities. RedPrairie is partnering with SAVVIS, Inc. (NASDAQ:SVVS), a global leader in IT infrastructure services for business applications, to support RedPrairie's hosting services business, which has grown to more than 6,000 hosted sites across the retail, hospitality, petroleum and distribution industries.

Galileo Connect, a global leader of the pre-designed modular data centres, has announced its plans for global expansion, releasing the details of confirmed data centre sites in the London, Paris, Singapore, Canberra and Sydney with further developments expected in Brussels, Mumbai and Delhi. The company has commenced construction on site 4no. data centres in separate financial index city locations. The fifth site to start construction is the recently acquired three acre site in Loughton, Essex.

Node 4, founded in 2003, has announced the development of a second, state-of-the-art Data Centre at its Headquarters in Derby. Holding a total of 250 racks, this second facility will offer the same high level of features as the first hugely popular Data Centre. 24/7 monitoring, automatic climate control, UPS, power generators, a security controlled access system and SAN back-up are a whole range of protection characteristics that create exactly the right environment to host any critical application.

Honolulu-based DR Fortress has completed a USD5 million renovation to its data centre at Honolulu International Airport. The co-location and Internet exchange provider has redesigned the facility for more power and cooling capabilities, as well as upgraded server and networking equipment. The 21,300-square-foot facility provides companies with local connections to major Internet service providers serving Hawaii, including Hawaiian Telcom and Pacific LightNet. The centre originally was built in 1999 by Honolulubased Pihana Pacific, which merged into Equinix Inc. of California in 2003.

RagingWire Enterprise Solutions, Inc, a data centre infrastructure and managed services provider, announced the addition of 46,000 square feet of highdensity floor space to its state-of-the-art, Class A Enterprise Data Center(SM) facility in Sacramento, California. The newly expanded high-density colocation space is available immediately. The new phase is engineered to provide 200 watts per square foot edge-to-edge and greater than 1,000 watts per square foot in isolated areas.

CRG West has opened a new Data Centre in Boston Massachusetts with 276,000 square feet of space. The company has an additional 30,000 square feet of office space available at the facility. CRG West also manages Data Centres based at Los Angeles, San Jose, Chicago, Washington DC and Miami.

Sun Microsystems has announced that it has opened its new show case 76,000 square feet Data Centre in Santa Clara, California. Using UltraSPARC T1 multicore processor servers (branded Niagara) it has reduced the number of servers installed from 2,177 to 1,240. The Data Centre space has been reduced from 200,000 square feet to 76,000 square feet. The reduction in size has contributed to a 30 per cent saving in energy costs and a reduction in annual electricity bills of USD1.1 million.

Internet Solutions (IS), a converged communications services provider, has launched its upgraded International Data Centre (IDC) in Cape Town. The 800m2 power room, installed by Dimension Data, provides increased capacity. Cape Town has experienced power outages over the past twelve months. The company has therefore installed Three 1 250KVA generators; Nine 400KVA Uniterrupted Power Supplies (UPS); Two 9 000 litre diesel tanks and Two cooling towers weighing 10 tons each.

Ortiva Wireless has redesigned its entire IT infrastructure by replacing its Dell rack servers with IBM BladeCenter servers, enabling a core component of its business to run up to 500 percent faster. The California-based company made its Mobile Content Delivery Network or Mobile-CDN available this year to its clients, which include mobile network operators, MVNOs, and content providers. Ortiva's purpose-built for mobile video streaming software sends video and audio content to cell phones and mobile devices by shaping streams in response to feedback from handsets.

US banking giant Citi is building a new green data centre in Frankfurt, Germany at a cost reported to be in the region of 170m. The installation is due to be completed in March 2008, and will provide IT services for Citi's operations in Europe. The new centre will save 25 per cent on electricity consumption compared with existing data facilities, cutting 16,000 megawatt hours a year. And up to 11,000 fewer tons of carbon dioxide will escape into the atmosphere than from a conventional data centre of the same size.

CacheLogic, provider of one of the world's leading Digital Asset Delivery Networks, a new generation CDN (Content Delivery Network) designed from the ground up to offer unparalleled on-line delivery performance, economics and control for owners of large digital assets including video, software download and video games, has announced further expansion with the opening of its London office in the UK. The new office is located within walking distance of London Victoria Station and provides a base for the company's rapidly expanding sales, marketing, operations and management team.