ViaWest has announced it has acquired Fortix, a Portland, Oregon-based managed service provider that serves the mid-size market. The acquisition offers Fortix customers access to ViaWest's enterprise suite of products and services including use of data centres in Utah and Colorado, which will provide data protection options for disaster recovery planning. Fortix provides a broad range of IT outsourcing solutions including hosted application services and business continuance systems.

IX Europe Plc (IXEurope AIM: IXE) has acquired a second datacentre in Paris (Paris2 IXDatacentre) to accommodate strong growth from enterprise, internet and telecoms customers. This expansion is in addition to IXEurope building out a further 1,500m2 at its existing site in Roissy (near Charles de Gaulle airport). Acquisition and capital expenditure costs for Paris2 will total £2.7m: estimated at £2.0m in 2006 and £0.7m in 2007. With approximately 1,700m2 of net space, the new IXDatacentre will provide further expansion for IXEurope in this growing market. Located in St.