Quality Technology Services (QualityTech), one of the US largest privately held providers of data center facilities and managed services, has announced the acquisition of a 960,000 square foot facility in the downtown Atlanta area. The facility is located at 1033 Jefferson Street in Atlanta, Georgia and was purchased from MetroNexus. The acquisition is in line with the company's strategy to grow its national footprint of data centers to meet the growing demand for data center space from corporate customers and is the seventh data center owned by QualityTech.

ISP and telecoms provider Pipex has announced their financial results for the half year to the end of June 2006. Group turnover for the period rose by 88% to £119.2 million, and the pre-tax loss increased by 12% to -£4.4 million. At the end of June Pipex hosted 316,000 customers and provided 1.5 million domain names. It also announced that it was continuing to increase its Data Centre space. In Germany it had acquired a freehold property to develop 24,000 square feet of space and in the UK Pipex acquired an extra 15,000 square feet of Data Centre space.

Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), a leading provider of network-neutral data centers and Internet exchange services, has reported quarterly results for the period ended September 30, 2006.

Wellington IT services firm Revera has private equity to open virtual data centres in Melbourne and Victoria in Australia. Auckland's Zeus Capital has taken a 12 per cent stake in the company. Australian customers are currently supported from its datacentres in Auckland and Tawa, but rising demand and expectations of network speeds means paying for trans-Tasman fibre connections is no longer cost-effective for the company. The company signed an agreement last year to use five Australian datacentres belonging to Australian firm Nextgen.

PEER 1 Network Enterprises, Inc. (TSX-V: PIX), a leading provider of Internet infrastructure solutions and related managed services, today released the company's financial results for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2006, recording more than three times the revenue of fiscal 2005. All figures are in US dollars.