PureChoice, the makers of PureTrac software and the Nose Monitor, has introduced the 1UTR Nose Monitor, a new version of the environmental device and software alerting system designed to continuously monitor the temperature and relative humidity conditions in a data centre or rack cabinet; logging and reporting data through the company's easy-to-use PureTrac technology.

GetLisa Information Services has announced a significant expansion of its data centre and NOC facility in Boulder, CO. In addition to upgrading its existing facilities, GetLisa has also signed a multi-year agreement with the most advanced data centre in Boulder to create an enterprise-level colocation facility.

Anixter will launch its new infrastructure assurance program - Anixter ipAssured for Data Canters - during a special live event at the upcoming AFCOM Data Centre World trade show.

Anixter ipAssured is an infrastructure assurance program that includes the physical infrastructure products and best practices needed to support current and future data centre applications. The program will be unveiled at a customer reception that will take place from 7 to 9 p.m. on October 4 at The Mirage in Las Vegas.

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Following the recent success of three state-of-the-art data centres in Derby and Wakefield, Node4 has announced the opening of a new data centre Northampton during the early part of 2011.

.Node4's Managing Director Andrew Gilbert comments, “The new centre is designed to meet the needs of SME’s who are trying to keep to strict budgets for managing and implementing IT. The data centre will be around twice the size of our Wakefield site at approximately 41,000 sq ft making it our biggest facility to date with an impressive planned capacity of 720 racks.”

Verizon has applied for a property tax break in Niagara County for its proposed US$2 billion data centre on the shore of Lake Ontario.

Somerset Councilman Daniel M. Engert said that town officials have met with Verizon representatives who told them that the company wants to start construction next month. “They are on a very accelerated path,” Engert said. “The application to the IDA is a big step in that direction.”

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A data centre business set up by Royal Bank of Scotland at the height of the dotcom boom is doubling capacity under an £8 million investment plan that will see it take on a third more staff. Scolocate, set up in 1999, is already the largest of Scotland's "internet hotels", providing businesses and public sector bodies with remotely hosted computer services. Having survived the tech crash and a management shake-up in 2001, the firm booked turnover of £4.9 million last year. It remains majority owned by RBS.

Mawani, the new company that will manage Qatar’s ports and international marine port interests, has selected Qtel as its technology partner to provide a full data centre solution. Established in July 2009 by Royal Decree, Mawani will play a key role in the evolution of Qatar as a major logistic and planning hub, and will take on increasingly international responsibilities in the years ahead.

Syntigo and Siemens IT Solutions and Services have announced the establishment of a joint venture under Belgian law, AlphaCloud NV/SA, of which the registered offices will be in Muizen (Mechelen). The purpose of this new entity, in which each of the partners holds a 50 % stake, is to build and subsequently jointly operate a data centre that covers an area of 3000 m². The data centre will be erected in Muizen on an SNCB-Holding site and will meet the highest requirements in terms of energy efficiency.

i/o Data Centers received US$200 million in financing in two deals that will help the company expand over the next 12 months. The Phoenix-based data centre received US$130 million in a senior long-term credit facility from Wells Fargo Bank and Wells Fargo Securities along with US$70 million from Caterpillar Financial Services Corp., the company announced late Monday.

The move will allow the company to add about 35 megawatts of data centre capacity, considerably more than its Phoenix ONE centre, which currently has as one of the 10 largest data centres in the world.

County leaders foresee big news for a quiet park off Riverside Court. T5 Partners control more than 260 acres off US 74 near Ingles. For now, that land is empty. But soon, officials hope, there could be five or six data centres installed and operational.

Green isn't usually the first colour that comes to mind when one visits the hot, dry desert climate of Phoenix, where temperatures recently topped 109 degrees. But that's exactly where I/O Data Center has opened a 180,000 sq ft commercial data centre that couples an energy-efficient design with the use of innovative green technologies. Those range from an unusual setup for its air handlers to its server-rack design.

Telx, an interconnection and colocation provider in strategic North American markets, has announced that it has nearly doubled the footprint of its data centre at the 111 8th Avenue facility in New York City, considered the premier Financial Markets location in the NY Metro area.

The addition of 40,000 sq ft of capacity for financial institutions, telecommunications service providers, cloud providers and Software as a Service providers allows Telx to expand colocation and interconnection services and establishes them as the dominant provider in this key location.

The project delivery team at Virtus has completed a faultless and highly successful Factory Acceptance Test for UPS and Transformers for phase 1 fit out of their Enfield data centre. The highly efficient Eaton 9395 UPS modules arrive for installation onsite on the 15th November 2010 and the Mardix Transformers and LV switchgear arrive on the 19th October 2010.

The facility is scheduled to go-live in March 201.

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APC by Schneider Electric, a provider of integrated critical power and cooling services, has announced it will establish its in-country office in Lebanon, which marks the beginning of its services in the country. Although the company already has an extensive presence in the region through its certified partners, the new move is aimed at strengthening its direct presence in Lebanon.

Shoe Zone Group, which includes nearly 800 Shoe Zone and Stead & Simpson store locations throughout the UK and Ireland has announced that C24, the hosting and application delivery specialist, has won its account to host and manage its internet retail presence and website disaster recovery.

The solution provided by C24 will be delivered from a tier 4 data centre and includes website hosting, back-up, disaster recovery and 24 hour support. Shoe Zone found in C24 a partner with the experience and ethos to manage their web presence successfully with maximum uptime.

Google has announced that it is resuming work on its data centre at Mid-America Industrial Park in Pryor, a US$600 million project that has been on hold since 2008. The company expects the facility to be fully operational late next year. Eventually, it will employ 100 people, officials said.

Hardware giant Bunnings Group today announced that it has chosen IBM to power its data centre IT needs in Australia and New Zealand. The two IBM Power 780 servers will sit in Bunnings' Perth-based data centre, and support the hardware retailer's 281 locations.

According to IBM, the servers Bunnings selected are designed to load balance between each other to ensure that the IT environment can operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week - a necessity for Bunnings - according to John Olszewski, the company's IT infrastructure and architecture manager.

CommScope, a leader in infrastructure solutions for communications networks, has provided critical technology for Brocade's new world-class data centre and corporate campus in San Jose, California, including technology from CommScope's portfolio of structured fibre and copper cabling as well as in-building wireless solutions to provide a reliable, high-performance backbone for bandwidth-intensive network communications.

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Vocus Communications has announced that it has entered into a binding agreement to acquire the Sydney and Melbourne data centre businesses from E3 Networks. The transaction is for a total consideration of A$5.9 million, to be paid as A$4.9 million in cash and A$1 million in Vocus shares.

A site in Murfreesboro has favourable attributes to attract a data centre project according to a recent Deloitte Consulting study, an economic development study sponsored by the Tennessee Valley Authority. TVA and Chicago-based Deloitte Consulting assessed more than 50 sites across the TVA service area for their capacity to accommodate data centres — specially designed facilities that house computer systems and components for Internet search engine companies, financial transaction processors and other high-tech industries.

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This client is a fast track M&E fit out company based in London with an excellent record of exciting projects, blue chip clients and a turn over exceeding £100 million. This new year has a lot in store and they are looking to again increase their turn over as they have secured £70 million of mechanical work alone.

When it comes to green IT, Pacific Gas & Electric knows how to talk the talk. The California utility already promotes energy conservation to its customers through a variety of incentives targeting everyone from consumers to data centre operators.

It also launches internal initiatives, such as its recent "Think before you print" campaign. But the utility practices what it preaches by making green-IT best practices its gold standard. Users don't opt in -- they have to opt out.

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The Washington State Department of Ecology (Ecology) has issued the final permit allowing Microsoft’s Columbia Data Center in Quincy to expand operations. The final permit, called a “notice of construction” order, follows a five-week public review and comment period that included a public hearing.

ScoLocate has teamed up with Keysource to double the size of Scotland’s largest purpose-built colocation facility as part of an £8 million investment. Under the agreement, the data centre solutions provider has been tasked with designing and building the latest phase of development at the South Gyle site in Edinburgh, which will create one of the most energy efficient facilities of its kind in the UK.