Business Internet Service Provider, Timico, has announced a move that will further strengthen its position as a provider of next generation internet and communications services to the UK business community - the acquisition of data centre and IT service provider, NewNet.

President Barack Obama's 2011 budget proposal flattens federal IT spending and orders federal departments to consolidate and centralise IT operations. This budget is unsparing in its criticisms and says federal IT departments have a history of not delivering productivity and performance gains "that are found when IT is deployed effectively in the private sector."

Digital Realty Trust has announced the results of its leasing activity for both the fourth quarter and full year 2009. For the full year 2009, lease signings represent over US$472 million in total cash contract value.

Aegis Data Store has announced the launch of a new £45 million data centre facility in Godalming. The facility offers bespoked enterprise class hosting employing the latest thinking on energy and carbon efficiency enabling 30% reductions in energy consumption over that of a conventional data centre. The Godalming facility has been developed on the site of a former metal finishing works, providing for an ample supply of power and an ideal transformation of a former industrial site into a world class data centre.

US technology services provider Computer Sciences Corp reported a quarterly profit ahead of analysts' projections as it benefited from demand in outsourcing amid signs that technology spending was rebounding with the improving economy.

The company, which provides technology and outsourcing services to companies and government agencies, reaffirmed its outlook for fiscal year 2010. Net income for the third quarter ended Jan. 1 rose to US$216 million, from US$163 million, a year earlier. Revenue was flat at US$3.95 billion.

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Pinewood Studios Group, a major provider of studio services to the worldwide film and TV industries, has built an on-site data centre to offer tailor-made hosting services.

Qwest Communications has announced the opening of its 17th data centre nationwide and third centre in the Washington, D.C., metro area, in response to continued customer demand for hosting and cloud-based infrastructure services. The new Qwest-owned and operated CyberCenter currently is supporting one federal government customer.

CoreLink Data Centers, a provider of high quality, Tier 3 Data Centres, with colocation facilities in Phoenix, Seattle and Las Vegas, has announced, that it has added a Chicago data centre location in the suburb of Mt. Prospect. CoreLink has entered into a long term lease for an 81,600 sq ft stand-alone building which is currently configured with 10,000 sq ft of raised floor.

Boosted by gains in its managed hosting and cloud computing business, Rackspace Hosting said that profits for the fourth quarter surged 32% - from US$6.8 million to US$9 million - as the company topped Wall Street estimates.

NetApp issued earnings forecasts ahead of Wall Street expectations and delivered better-than-expected quarterly results, as the economic recovery boosted demand for data storage equipment. The company reported a profit, excluding items, of 40 cents per share in its fiscal third quarter that ended Jan. 29. That beat the average Wall Street forecast of 38 cents, according to Thomson Reuters.

Revenue rose to US$1.01 billion from US$746 million a year earlier, beating the average analyst forecast of US$955 million.

The Financial Services Authority has put several contracts out to tender for new IT services worth at least £80 million. The regulator has issued seven two-year contracts for IT services under its technology strategic outsourcing framework agreement, which could see a maximum spend of £160 million.

The tender includes contracts for software applications, maintenance, advice, testing, web design, infrastructure and business process outsourcing.

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Mission West Properties, Inc. and CDH Consulting have announced a new data centre property in Oregon that is now available for development. Located in Ontario, Oregon, the site will support a single mission-critical data centre facility up to 300,000 square feet, or can allow for three or four smaller data centre projects. The site features substantial economic development incentives and some of the lowest power costs in the country. The Ontario property boasts some of the lowest power costs in the US at 3.03 cents per kWh with an estimated PUE of 1.4 or lower.

Telecity Group plc announced its audited results for the year ended 31 December 2009.Retained profit for the year was GBP34.72 million, compared to GBP25.33 million a year ago. Earnings per share were 17.6 pence, up from last year's 12.6 pence. Profit before taxation rose to GBP38.12 million from GBP20.02 million in the previous year.

If Ireland were to develop data centres to support “cloud computing”, it could attract up to 20,000 small and medium-sized firms specialising in data treatment within three years, according to the vice-president of EU affairs at Microsoft, John Vassallo. Mr Vassallo said Ireland could be at the forefront of “enabling technologies” which would attract investment into the State and could help to reduce energy consumption.

A data centre that will house sensitive information for government and corporate clients has asked the City of Kamloops to sign non-disclosure documents about its operations. That request limits what planners can say publicly about the building, now under construction off McGill Road. “There’s limited things we can talk about,” said City development and engineering services director David Trawin.

Telvent, the IT company for a sustainable and secure world, has announced its unaudited consolidated financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2009.

Fiscal Year 2009 highlights included revenues for the fiscal year 2009 were 764.8 million euro, an increase of 9.4%, compared to 698.8 million euro reported for fiscal year 2008.

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Sentrum, specialists in the design, build and management of bespoke data centre solutions, have announced the opening of the company’s sixth data centre in the UK - Sentrum Hayes. The recently acquired facility will host the new Sentrum Solutions service which offers organisations of any size a state of the art colocation and disaster recovery centre.

NaviSite, the cloud-enabled, enterprise-class hosting, managed applications and services company, has announced the sale of its Lawson / Kronos Application Services business to Velocity Technology Solutions for US$56 million in cash. All current NaviSite Lawson / Kronos customers will be transferred to Velocity as part of the transaction. Velocity will also assume NaviSite’s lease of the Minneapolis data centre where the services are hosted, managed, and supported. The transaction is effective immediately.

San Diego-based Castle Access, a provider of enterprise data centre services, has said that it has received a multi-million dollar, strategic equity financing. The amount of the investment was not disclosed. The firm said the equity funding will go to increase its investments in its data centre services, and for infrastructure expansion.

Castle Access said it would provide additional information on the funding in the next 60 days. The firm says it has a 88,000 sq ft SAS 70 Type II audited facility in San Diego.

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Digital Realty Trust has announced financial results for its fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2009. Net income for the fourth quarter was US$24.9 million, compared to US$23.9 million for the third quarter of 2009 and US$25.1 million for the fourth quarter of 2008. Net income available to common stockholders in the fourth quarter was US$14.3 million compared to US$12.4 million in the third quarter of 2009.

COLT Telecom Group has said its 2009 pre-tax profit after exceptional items improved to  94.7 million euro from 71.9 million euro a year ago.

Profit before tax and exceptional items amounted to 85.0 million euro compared with  54.9 million euro last year. Profit for the period grew to 121.6 million euro from 71.9 million euro and profit before exceptional items climbed to 111.9 million euro from 54.9 million euro in the earlier year period.

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