Interxion, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, has announced its results for the three months and year ended 31 December 2011.

Interxion Chief Executive Officer, David Ruberg, stated, “In Interxion’s first year as a public company, we continued our track record of strong performance by consistently executing on our business strategy, achieving continued organic growth across all key metrics while positioning the company for continued growth in 2012 and beyond.

Data centre and communications firm Node4 has launched n4Cloud, its new cloud infrastructure. n4Cloud is a high quality, high specification infrastructure that offers organisations flexibility by allowing them to build their own cloud-based solution using a ‘pick and mix’ approach.

EasyVista has, opened four new data centres to add to its 6 existing facilities across Europe and North America.  Cédric Cibot–Voisin, Country Manager France at EasyVista  said "In the United States and Europe, we won the majority of our new contracts in 2011 in SaaS. In France, VINCI Energies, Taores (EIG Mutual General), the Auchan Group, or Ineo-GDF-Suez are among our recent new customers and the SaaS trend is confirmed in 2012.

Alder Hey Children's and Liverpool Women's NHS foundation trusts are planning what could be the first major IT outsourcing contract among health service trusts. The two trusts, which already share IT services and a chief information officer, have advertised for a supplier to provide ICT to support patient care, and provide technology for the new Children's Health Park hospital, due to open in 2014.

ING is offering its brokerage, cash management, custodian and other investor services, at least at first in Russia, via BT's Radianz Cloud community, which serves a variety of industries.

German data centres and colocation services provider IP Exchange will open a new data centre in Munich in March. In co-operation with German IT services provider and QSC subsidiary Info AG, this will be used to provide a full range of data centre services. The new data centre will offer 5,000 sq m of space.

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Growth in demand by Technology, Media and Telecoms (TMT) companies has led to the sector accounting for more than half (54% ) of all data centre take-up across Europe over the last 12 months, according to new research from global property adviser CBRE.

HP has announced that Swisscom AG, Switzerland's leading telecoms provider, has launched a managed service for hosted unified communications and collaboration based on an HP private cloud infrastructure.

Courier and parcel delivery company Hermes UK has moved to a new upgraded IT network, with its major applications now run from the Hermes Group data centre in Hamburg, Germany. The move away from using in-house mainframes to run its software applications to an open system should streamline the company’s IT operations.  It should also bring “significantly” improved cost per transaction rates, according to mainframe migration provider Clerity Solutions.

Telecommunications operator Dial Telecom, a leading Czech telecommunications service provider has put into operation new technical facilities located in the CE Colo data centre in Prague. CE Colo is one of the foremost data centre service providers in the Central and Eastern European region. Dial Telecom thus expands the space it uses at the CE Colo data centre by over 40 m2 and 60kW. Valuation of the facilities is in the range of several million crowns.

Construction group Bowmer & Kirkland has been appointed by Highbridge Business Park Ltd as contractor on the final two speculative data centres at Cobalt Data Centre Campus, near Newcastle. The two facilities, alongside DC1 which reached practical completion last year will form the greenest campus in the UK. Bowmer & Kirkland was responsible for construction of the earlier DC1 development.

Interxion, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, has announced that dedicated fibre infrastructure provider, Geo Networks Ltd has become part of the Content Hub community in Interxion's City of London data centre. A long-standing Interxion partner, Geo has expanded its footprint in Interxion’s data centre in order to better serve the needs of the digital media community.

TNK-BP is outsourcing its IT service functions with 17,500 jobs to the Optima Group of companies.

The services and products provided by Optima include uninterrupted and trouble-free operation of computer hardware and software, office equipment, and special equipment. TNK-BP is also outsourcing scheduled preventive maintenance and repair works. For three years, Optima will be providing IT support and maintenance services to company enterprises in Moscow, Ryazan, Saratov, Tyumen, Nizhnevartovsk, Raduzhnoe, Nyagan, Novosibirsk, Novy Urengoi, Orenburg and the Orenburg Region.

Content delivery network EdgeCast Networks has signed a two-year deal to use Geo Networks dark fibre to transfer media files to its ISP customers.  Geo will provide connectivity between EdgeCast data centres in London.

EdgeCast chief financial officer Mike Kleiman said the “digital content explosion” means web users are consuming an increasingly broad range of media, which is driving a significant demand for bandwidth for CDNs

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HCL Technologies has said it has received a US$300 million contract to provide technology infrastructure management services to Finland's UPM-Kymmene for the next five years.  HCL Technologies will provide data centres, network services and information technology services to the Finnish paper maker, the two companies said.

HCL Technologies will also absorb 250 employees of UPM Kymmene by August 2012, the company said.  The company will set up a data centre in Finland to service UPM Kymmene.

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iTRACS Corporation, the leading provider of enterprise-class data centre infrastructure management solutions that drive efficiency and business value in the data centre, and BJumper Solutions, a technology leader specializing in energy efficiency and data centre operations, recently introduced strategies for building “the smart data centre” to an exclusive gathering of European data centre owners and operators.

CTERA Networks, the international storage solution vendor for value-added resellers and managed services providers, has honed in on the European storage market and locked-up a deal with Swisscom IT Services, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Swisscom AG, one of the largest telecom providers in all of Europe.

Local property agents, Jones Watts are selling a 1,317 sq m data centre in Guernsey which is let to 2e2 on a lease expiring in 2026.

The data centre CSL House, Pitronerie Road, St Peter Port is offered for a price in excess of £3.65 million

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Evans Randal, the privately held investment banking and private equity group specialising in alternative assets, has announced that it has acquired Sovereign House in London Docklands for £27 million on behalf of a holding company in which it has co-invested with private investor clients for Saudi Arabia. The building was purchased for a managed fund of AXA Real Estate and the deal reflects a net initial yield of 7.2%.

The UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office has revealed details of an upcoming IT managed services framework deal that is valued at up to £350 million.  The six year contract is likely to attract attention considering the government’s recent claims that it is moving away from large IT deals that tie it to a select few service integrators for many years.

Daimler has signed a major infrastructure services deal with HP that will support key systems at the luxury car maker. The deal aims to cut costs and will support Daimler's data centres and help manage the firm's financial services, sales and dealer organisations in Germany. The company is consolidating and standardising its global IT system with the goal of reducing the number of existing systems.

Switch Datacenters, a high-density carrier-neutral datacenter in Amsterdam’s South East business district, has announced that it will enter a cooperation with Custom Connect, a global carrier-neutral reseller of high-performance network solutions, to deliver ultra low-latency connectivity facilities to its clients. The cooperation is aimed at accommodating the increasing demand for data processing capacity in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

DataCentre Awards Europe, the top regional event covering the UK, EU and CEE for the datacentre and cloud sector, will take place in London, June 13. With some of the biggest movers and shakers in the industry in attendance last year, this year's event promises to recognise an even wider range of datacentres across the region.

Phoenix NAP has announced that it has chosen Interxion, Europe's leading data centre and colocation provider, for a new Phoenix NAP European node in Amsterdam. The node should be completed during the second quarter of 2012. Phoenix NAP cited the data centre’s geographical location, number of carriers and competitive pricing in its decision in selecting Interxion.

Leading European hosting provider LeaseWeb is one of the first hosting providers to invest in 100GE interfaces. The new 100 Gbps interfaces are being used in LeaseWeb’s Juniper Networks MX platform. Network integrator Infradata is making its contribution by ensuring delivery and support for the fast blades.

BT, one of the world’s leading providers of communications solutions and services, has announced a new data centre in Frankfurt am Main, which will be one of the most energy-efficient of its kind in Germany. With this move, BT will more than double its IT services capacity for corporate clients in Germany, responding to its customers’ requirements for increased hosted and managed IT services and cloud-based applications.

OpenRegistry, manager of the .sx extension and the new `top level' domain extensions, has chosen the LCL data centre, the Belgian Alliance Member of International Data Centre Group, for the management of these new domain names.  OpenRegistry has chosen the LCL data centre, because it is duly fitted with the necessary equipment and offers sufficient space for accommodating future extensions.

Interxion, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, has announced the results of an independent study by financial industry think-tank, JWG. The research is focused on the impact of anticipated regulation of the financial services industry on the ICT infrastructure requirements of banking and insurance firms across Europe.

Lloyds Banking Group is offshoring some 300 IT roles to its suppliers, and cutting a further 100 IT positions, prompting outrage from trade unions. The cuts are part of 1,600 UK redundancies planned across the company, and were announced as Royal Bank of Scotland said it was also cutting 460 jobs across its functions.

Lloyds said the 300 IT roles being offshored will be moved to its outsourcers in India. Other roles come from group operations, and its wholesale and insurance divisions. The RBS cuts mainly affect its Bristol, Farnborough and Wimbledon sites.

Schoolchildren in Northern Ireland are set to be the newest users of cloud services. The province is set to implement a new cloud-based managed service across 1,200 schools in the region, claiming that it to be the first cloud environment for education in Europe.

TelecityGroup, Europe's industry-leading provider of premium carrier-neutral data centres, announced today that all its data centres in France have been recertified with the ISO 27001, ISO 14001, ISO 9001, OHSAS 18001 accreditations. The globally recognised certifications - for information security, environmental management, quality management, and occupational health and safety - demonstrate TelecityGroup's ongoing commitment to provide the optimum environment for its customers to house their telecoms, internet and IT infrastructure.

Irish companies are ahead of their international counterparts in using, or considering, cloud computing, but often fail to come up to par in providing a secure enough environment for this shift to outsourced infrastructure and applications.

Interxion, a European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, has announced that after the closing of the NYSE on Wednesday 14 March, Chianna Investment N.V. requested that Interxion instruct its Transfer Agent, American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, to remove the restrictive legend on the 10,143,599 Interxion shares that Chianna Investment N.V. holds.

Giffgaff was hit by a big problem on Friday, as the MVNO (which piggybacks on the O2 network) went down. The major service outage was caused by a power failure at one of GiffGaff's data centres, the failure in turn being caused by a burst water pipe. On its blog page, the MVNO explained that the water damage to the computer network took nearly eight hours to rectify. By the end of Friday evening, however, all phone services were restored.

TelecityGroup, a provider of premium carrier-neutral data centres, and Internet Exchange AMS-IX have announced that AMS-IX has chosen AMS5 in Amsterdam-Southeast, the new TelecityGroup data centre, as the site for a new core PoP. AMS-IX is adding a core PoP to its Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) as part of its expansion commitment.

Capgemini UK will provide information technology support services to Rolls-Royce under a three-year contract. The consulting and technology firm announced that the contract could extend for up to five years. The company’s infrastructure services and application services teams will support Rolls-Royce’s operations from the US, UK, India and Poland for a five year period.

Internet hosting company UKFast has bought three new buildings as part of its £8 million expansion announced at the end of last year. The move to buy the sites, in Trafford Park, has been supported by a £1.2 million loan from the Manchester-based corporate banking division of The Co-operative Bank.

Ireland is set to become the global leader in cloud computing, according to the country’s Prime Minister, Enda Kenny. Kenny made the comments at the New York Stock Exchange ahead of ringing the opening bell.  The NYSE was celebrating Ireland Day as part of wider St Patrick’s Day celebrations in the city.

Interxion, a provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, has announced a new fibre connection between its Amsterdam campus and its Hilversum site, which is home to Technicolor and the Dutch Media Gateway.

Colt, Europe’s leading information delivery platform, has announced that luxury car manufacturer, Jaguar Land Rover has selected Colt’s data centre for its Solihull advanced manufacturing plant in the UK. Jaguar Land Rover will migrate its existing on-site IT facilities to a new purpose-built data centre at the plant, featuring a data centre from Colt.

SunGard Availability Services has revealed that for the second year running that office disruptions such as power and communication failures are the main cause for invoking business continuity plans, with incidents rising by 6% in 2011. The biggest single cause of business disruption was once again power failure, which rose by 33% in the past year.

Following many months of negotiation Green Mountain Data Centre have signed a hosting agreement with a major Nordic IT Company. The 21000 sq m colocation data centre is now being fitted out in multimillion dollar investment in a former high security underground NATO facility. Investment is privately funded by the Smedvig family.

Motor insurance business RAC suffered a day-long outage after a fault in its data centre in Bristol on Friday. According to an RAC spokesperson, the centre was still down in the late afternoon, although the cause was unknown. The RAC website is working but services involving sales and member accounts have been affected by the downtime.

Cumbria county council has decided not to outsource its ICT to Computacenter after the two organisations failed to finalise the terms of a proposed services contract. The deal would have delivered a data centre, service management and integration services, plus a managed enterprise network service for Cumbria and wholesale broadband services, which would be sold to business and residential consumers, as well as other public sector organisations.

EUDAT is a pan-European data project, bringing together a unique consortium of research communities and national data and high performance computing centres, aiming to contribute to the production of a collaborative data infrastructure (CDI) to support Europe’s scientific and research data requirements.

Renaissance Capital, the emerging markets investment bank, has chosen Fixnetix, the global managed services provider, for ultra-low latency trading, market data, and exchange collocation for London. This trading solution allows Renaissance Capital’s clients ultra-low latency access to LSE market from colocation and proximity hosting.

Global telecoms giant BT is expanding its Dublin data centre as part of a multi-million euro investment that will see the addition of 5,500 sq ft of data centre, including 300 new racks and one megawatt of power. The investment aims to meet growing demand by organisations in Ireland for traditional data centre services such as colocation as well as fully managed physical, virtualised and cloud based services.

Magirus, a European IT solutions provider, has announced today that it has become a specialist distributor of Dell's data centre solutions in the UK. The deal gives Magirus' UK business partners access to Dell's full range of enterprise server, storage and connectivity portfolio. This builds on Magirus' partnership with Dell in continental Europe announced in January 2011.

Sudlows, have been awarded the contract to design and build an extension to the existing data centre for primary care software provider Egton Medical Information Systems Ltd (EMIS).

Oxford University has opened a dedicated cybersecurity research centre to work with the industry on fixing the types of security problems that companies deal with. The Cyber Research Centre will support research into anticipating, deterring, detecting, resisting and tolerating cybersecurity attacks, along with predicting cyber risks and to help people, companies, governments recover from attacks.

One of the first medical imaging data archiving and sharing projects in France using Carestream's Vue Cloud PACS and Vue Cloud Archive is now operational. Data is hosted at the Roanne NumeriParc secure data centre in the Loire Region (south-east of France), and built around the Axione high-speed telecommunications network.