Tulip Telecom, the Enterprise Data Services provider, has roped in IBM and SCHNABEL to help bring India's largest data centre in Bengaluru. Utilizing IBM's technology infrastructure services and SCHNABEL's data centre consultancy, Tulip hopes to create an infrastructure that will meet the rising demands of customers across the world.

Inside a white metal fence laced with barbed wire on the outskirts of Quincy, in central Washington state, a construction crew manoeuvres excavators that scoop up giant piles of earth. Just beyond the site, green shoots of wheat are beginning to sprout as rain drizzles overhead on a recent late-April morning.

Level 3 Communications’ first-quarter loss narrowed, though the results were better than expected as revenue and margins in the company's core communications business improved. Level 3 reported a first-quarter loss of US$205 million compared with a prior-year loss of US$238 million.

The network-services company last month agreed to acquire Global Crossing Ltd in an all-stock deal valued at about $1.9 billion in a bid aimed at expanding the combined companies' global reach and cutting costs through synergies.

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PEER 1 Hosting, the global online IT hosting provider, has announced the arrival of its IPv6 enabled 10GB backbone network, bringing future-ready network reach to customers ahead of the imminent IPv4 address exhaustion.

The IPv6 upgrade is the result of £7.5 million investment over the last three years by PEER 1 Hosting, and has included a beta phase, allowing colocation and transit customers to test the backbone through PEER 1’s network of data centres.

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Colt has announced it has agreed to acquire a majority stake in MarketPrizm, a leading provider of low latency market data and trading infrastructure services, from Instinet Incorporated. Under the terms of the agreement, there is no initial consideration payable by Colt on the basis that Colt has committed to fund the business through its next phase of growth.

German business telecommunication services provider QSC has entered into a purchase agreement with MZ Erste Vermögensverwaltungsgesellschaft to acquire 58.98% of German IT services provider Info AG for €14.35 per share.

Following the acquisition, the QSC Group, with a workforce of nearly 1,300 people, will be able to offer the full spectrum of ICT services, comprising complete voice-data communication, Housing, Hosting, IT Outsourcing as well as IT Consulting.

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NBN Co must build 10 of its own network exchange buildings in metropolitan areas, after reviewing Telstra's assets and accommodating a request from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

NBN Co's original plan was for a network with 14 exchanges, but in December the ACCC insisted that NBN Co build 121 exchanges. This was to protect the long-haul fibre services market, which carries customer data from exchanges to data centres.

Source: Sydney Morning Herald

BMC reported strong fiscal fourth-quarter results as the company's focus on managing data centres and cloud-computing deployments paid off. Separately, BMC announced a cloud computing partnership with Red Hat. The company reported fourth-quarter earnings of US$123 million on revenue of US$562 million, up 14% from a year ago..

Elsewhere, BMC and Red Hat expanded their partnership. Under the deal, BMC's Cloud Lifecycle Management software will be integrated with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Enterprise Virtualisation Manager.

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CoreSite Realty, a national provider of powerful, network-rich data centres, has announced financial results for the first quarter 2011. Highlights included reported revenue of US$40 million, representing an increase of US$1.6 million, or 4.2%, over the prior quarter and increased data centre occupancy by 310 basis points over Q4 2010

QLogic, a supplier of high performance network infrastructure solutions, has announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended April 3, 2011.

Net revenue for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2011, which included fourteen weeks, was US$152.3 million and increased 5% from US$145.7 million in the same quarter last year. Revenue from Host Products was US$109.1 million during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2011 and increased 5% from US$103.7 million in the same quarter last year.

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Enterprise Data Corporation has revealed it plans to spend A$350 million on expanding its Melbourne data centre and building a second Sydney facility in the city's north-west.

British data-centre firm Telecity Group reiterated a positive outlook for the full year on strong European demand, and said it saw opportunities for small acquisitions in the region. The group, which operates 24 data centres across major European cities, said on it got an additional £100 million of debt financing, taking its total credit facility to £300 million.

Cloud computing pioneer Salesforce.com is to build a data centre in Australia to support its local customer base.

Salesforce.com chief executive Marc Benioff said building a data centre to support the company's growing online enterprise software offerings was a given. "It's not an if for us, it's a when. We are currently evaluating when we are going to put a data centre in Australia," he said.

Source: The Australian

Environmental Technologies Fund ('ETF') has completed a £4.5m investment into 4energy Ltd, a leading technology company that significantly reduces the energy required to cool data centres and telecommunications networks. The investment is to be used to support the Company in its rapid international expansion.

Mountain Development wants to build a large data centre in Clifton, adding yet another server farm in North Jersey. The Clifton-based developer would construct a 212,748 sq ft, three-story data centre at 2 Peekay Drive, formerly the site of the chemical company Abrachem Group.

Mountain Development filed preliminary site plans in Clifton in late April; a hearing about a use variance before the city's Board of Adjustment is set for 7 p.m. Wednesday.

Source: North Jersey.com

Datapipe, a provider of enterprise ready, mission-critical IT services, has announced that it has secured US$176 million in combined equity and credit financing. In conjunction with receiving a significant equity investment from ABRY Partners, Datapipe secured a new Senior Secured Credit Facility from a syndicate of lenders led by TD Securities.

The facility substantially increases Datapipe's borrowing capacity and its ability to accelerate expansion plans.

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GTS Central Europe recorded the highest operating profit in the group's history in 2010. The company announced EBITDA of €91 million on revenues of €387 million.

The strong results were driven by the provision of more complex services to enterprise customers, based on its fibre infrastructure as well as data centres with a high margin. GTS added over 500 buildings to its fibre network last year.

Source: Telecom Paper

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NTT has revealed it would purchase 70% of Australian technology services firm Frontline Systems, in the Japanese technology consortium’s second major step into the Australian market, following the acquisition of tier two IT services player Dimension Data in mid-2010.

HSBC Holdings Plc, Europe's biggest bank, will cut jobs and close offices to reduce costs by about a tenth over the next two years as it expands in faster-growing economies and prepares for stricter capital rules.

HSBC said it would cut US$1.38 billion of costs by 2013 through measures including simplifying "regional structures," consolidating data centres, shifting operations to cheaper cost locations, and reducing paperwork and layers of management.

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

Kenyan ISP Access Kenya Group is investing US$60,000 into new data centre capacity for the country,

Access Kenya Group said it hopes that by investing in the storage facility, it will increase overall ICT investment in the region. The company is planning to roll out its network, which stretches from Nairobi to Mombasa

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Westplan Investors, an Atlanta, GA-based privately held boutique real estate firm, announced they are investing to redevelop their 55 Marietta St. telco facility. The redevelopment will position 55 Marietta to become the premier carrier hotel and colocation centre in the Southeast. 55 Marietta is home to almost 180,000 sq ft of technology companies and a significant Internet ecosystem including sixteen fibre carriers and several retail colocation and managed service providers.

PEER 1 Network Enterprises, a provider of online IT infrastructure, has announced its results for the three and nine months ended March 31, 2011: Revenue increased 14.6% to US$28.73 million from US$25.1 million and Gross profit increased 6.0% to $10.8 million from $10.2 million.

A funding deal worth £5 million has put Next Generation Data on a path towards further expansion of its already enormous facilities in south Wales. The Tier 3 data centre operator counts BT and a range of IT service providers among its clients and now plans to add four new data halls to its existing units in Newport.

Data centre operator Tata Communications will invest US$357 million in Singapore over the next four years to meet a fast-growing regional demand for data centre capacity. The company will spend that sum on expanding its data centre capacity, more infrastructure and additional staff, an executive has said. Two of the company's existing Singapore data centres cover a total of 72,500 sq ft. The company would not say how it expected its Singapore floor space to grow over the four years, saying it would depend on shifts in demand.

Tulip Telecom, a corporate data services provider, expects to sell 25% of its Bangalore data centre in 2-3 months, a top executive has said.

"We bought the (Bangalore) business for 230 crore (rupees). We definitely expect some premium over that. How much, we will know in 2 months," Chief Executive Sanjay Jain told Reuters. Tulip roped in the world's largest technology services company IBM last month to partner in its Bangalore data centre, and believes that data centre can generate revenue of about 10 billion rupees in the next 3-4 years, Jain said.

Source: Reuters

Sacramento, based data centre company RagingWire Enterprise Solutions  is planting its first East Coast flag in Loudoun County with a 140,000 sq ft lease, signed at an Ashburn data centre.

The new facility at 44664 Guilford Drive in Ashburn’s Beaumeade Business Park is owned by DBT-DATA Holdings.

Source: Washington Business Journal

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US Special Operations Command has awarded five-year US$83.6 million contract to General Dynamics Information Technology, to provide information technology enterprise network services.

As per the contract, General Dynamics is assigned to provide enterprise-wide network support services to manage USSOCOM's global enterprise IT infrastructure which includes data, voice and video communications networks for USSOCOM headquarters, the service component commands, the Theater Special Operation commands and subordinate organizations.

Source: TMCNet

Zayo group, a provider of bandwidth infrastructure and network-neutral colocation services, has reported net revenues of US$79.7 million for the For the quarter ended 31 March 2011, an increase of 35% compared to US$58.9 million for the same quarter of last year.

The company registered an operating loss of US$4.9 million, compared to an operating loss of US$1.8 million for the third quarter of fiscal 2010.

Source: CBR

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Cambridge software company Autonomy is to acquire selected assets of US information management business Iron Mountain in a US$380 million deal. It is to buy key assets from the company’s digital division – including archiving, eDiscovery and online back-up.

Force10 Networks, which develops broadband technology in Petaluma, has dropped its plan for a US$144 million stock sale, saying it will now seek US$100 million in an initial public offering. The date of the sale and share price haven't been set.

The company said it will use some of the proceeds to pay off a US$24 million loan. The rest would be used for working capital and other corporate purposes, including acquisitions, it said.

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SoftLayer Technologies has announced continued operational and financial growth in the first quarter of 2011. Along with other achievements, the company earned US$78 million in revenue for January 1 - March 31, 2011.

Key milestones for SoftLayer through the end of March this year have included: US$78 million revenue; US$33 million EBITDA; 26,000b customers across 140b countries; Over 81,000 servers under management and integration with the Planet complete

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Interxion Holdings, a European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, announced its results today for the three months ended 31 March 2011.

Revenue for the first quarter was €57.9 million, a 21% increase over the first quarter of 2010 and a 4.2% increase from the fourth quarter 2010. Recurring revenue was 94% of total revenue. Net profit was €2.8 million in the first quarter 2011.

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Strong sales to businesses continued to prop up Dell’s earnings in the first quarter despite a weak economy and still-sluggish demand from consumers.

For Dell, sales of servers, computers and storage devices to businesses continued to help it offset weaknesses that have plagued its consumer business the last few years. The company reported net income nearly tripled to US$945 million from US$341 million. Revenue rose 1% to US$15 billion.

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A Georgia-based data centre company has leased a vacant Plano commercial building for a new operation in North Texas. Internap Network Services is renting the former call centre building at 1221 Coit Road. The two-story, 125,030 sq ft building near State Highway 190 was previously rented to TeleVista. and has been vacant for three years.

Liberty Telecom Holding is allocating US$17.9 million or about P770 million for the rollout of wireless broadband services in Subic Special Economic Zone next year. The company will also establish a Domestic Transmission Network with an initial 2 PoP Nodes within the SSEZ and two hubs located in Subic Bay Free Port and in Hermosa, Bataan.

Investment firm DH Capital has announced that it has closed data centre operator DBT-DATA's purchase of a data centre in Ashburn, Virginia and the leasing of this property to Raging Wire.

RagingWire announced its expansion into Northern Virginia at the beginning of May, adding 140,000 sq ft to its data centre footprint that now touches both coasts. DH Capital was the exclusive financial advisor to DBT-DATA in this transaction, arranging the financing and negotiating the terms of the RagingWire lease.

Source: The WHIR

KDDI America has announced the upgrade of KDDI Group's and Rostelecom's existing cable route between Asia and Europe to enable it to provide 10G wavelength services over the shortest possible route between the two continents.

The Washington State Senate has passed a bill that proposes to extend the deadline for sales tax breaks regarding data centre construction. Members of the Senate unanimously voted in favour of the bill this week in a 41 to 1 count.

The bill will now advance to the house, and if approved, data centres operators will have until April 1, 2021, to apply for sales tax incentives. The extension adds on more than 10 years to the original deadline, which is set for July 1.

Source: The WHIR

Fibre-optic network infrastructure provider euNetworks Group has announced that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire German-based LambdaNet Communications Deutschland. euNetworks will purchase the company for US$36 million cash plus a payment of principal of about US$4 million on an existing company loan.

LambdaNet provides Ethernet, wavelength, colocation and IP-based data services to both carriers and enterprises. The company has 25 data centres across Germany, and has network and subsidiaries in the Czech Republic and Austria.

Source: The WHIR

The worldwide Ethernet switch market experienced a decline of 9.1% year-over-year in the first quarter of 2011, while the worldwide router market performed better with 6.9% year-over-year growth in 1Q11 in spite of a seasonal sequential decline, according to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Networks Tracker.

GTT, a network service integrator, has instantly expanded its international business by acquiring PacketExchange for US$20 million in cash and debt. The acquisition of PacketExchange is significant to GTT in that it's the first acquisition the service provider has made since it suspended its acquisition of Global Capacity.

UK-based PacketExchange, a provider of Ethernet-based Internet exchange services, currently serves about 500 wholesale carrier and enterprise customers with 65 points of presence in Europe, Asia and North America.

Source: Fierce Telecom

Leighton Contractors' data centre subsidiary, Metronode has commenced construction of the first two data centres, in Deer Park in Melbourne and Shenton Park in Perth, under its A$100 million data centre expansion program announced in January. They will offer respectively 7000 and 1140 sq m of technical space.

Baltic Data Center, a leader in data centre and information systems management in the Baltic States, is expanding one of its centres in Vilnius. This data centre, which applies KyotoCooling, a modern server cooling technology, is amongst Europe’s most ecological data centres and will be used for the development of cloud computing services.

TEO Group is going to invest LTL 2.2 million in this expansion, which uses up to 8 times less electricity for cooling than conventional data centres.

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The city will provide Wal-Mart and Agilent Technologies a combined US$2.3 million in incentives to build new data centres in Colorado Springs under a pair of economic development agreements the City Council unanimously approved Tuesday. Wal-Mart, which holds the No. 1 spot on the list of Fortune 500 companies, is considering building a 163,000 sq ft data centre with a “planned expansion” to about 208,000 sq ft in five years. The incentive package for Agilent, a spinoff of the Hewlett-Packard Co., is valued at $626,000.

Data centre software provider NextIO has sold mixed securities including shares for US$8.85 million toward its US$12.3 million goal.

NextIO, which provides rack-level input-output consolidation and virtualization solutions for data centres, previously raised at least US$36.05 million from sales of preferred shares.

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Salesforce.com, the enterprise cloud computing company, has announced its latest strategic investments in Japan. The goal of these investments is to drive the continued growth of Japan’s Cloud 2 industry and accelerate the availability of locally developed social, mobile, and open cloud computing services.

Amongst the announcements, Salesforce.com has said it will invest in a Tokyo data centre scheduled to open in November of this year.

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Data Electronics, a completely Irish-owned IT services and data centre provider, has completed a €15 million expansion of its North Dublin data centre. This comes three years after the company opened a €25 million phase of the same data centre.

This expansion will add another 21,000 sq ft of colocation space to the facility, bringing the total data centre space in operation to 28,000 sq feet. With an overall data centre footprint of 94,000 sq feet, it is anticipated that the data centre will be fully operational within five years.

Source: Silicon Republic

Google has invested $55 million in a wind energy farm in southern California that will generate up to 1,550 megawatts of power - bringing the search giant’s total investments in clean energy up to $400 million.

The farm is located in Tehachapi, California. The deal does not involve a power purchase agreement - meaning Google is only investing money in the project because it believes it will generate some kind of financial return. The first several projects in the Alta Wind Energy Center are already complete and the wind farm is generating 720 megawatts of power.

Computer Sciences Corp said it expects federal budget cuts and uncertainty regarding a government contract in the UK along with an accounting probe to hurt 2012 profitability, sending its shares down 7% in extended trading.

CSC, which gets almost 40% of its revenue from US government contracts, saw fourth-quarter preliminary profit falling 34% to us$171 million, including discontinued operations. Revenue came in at us$4.20 billion.

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IBM has opened an NZ$80 million (US$61.2 million) data centre on the outskirts of Auckland, hoping to close down older facilities in New Zealand and attract customers before the likes of NextDC and Vocus open their own Kiwi facilities.

Today Akron, tomorrow Duluth. That’s the expansion plans of Iowa-based Involta, a rapidly growing information data storage company that is building a US$20 million facility in Akron, Ohio. But even before ground was broken in downtown Akron last year, Involta already was looking for its next site. After considering “dozens and dozens” of small- and medium-size cities, company officials said Duluth’s the one.

EQT Expansion Capital II has agreed to invest in Coromatic Group, the leading Nordic data centre builder, focused on advanced design, installation and services. The investment consists of a combination of equity and loans and is made together with current management who will stay invested and will become the majority shareholder in the Company.

Coromatic’s core business is the design and installation of high-end turn-key data centers with a special competence in ensuring uninterrupted operations, security solutions and cost efficient cooling.

Source: Cisionwire

Dell has said it is exploring acquisitions to bolster its data centre business, as the company aims to widen its lead in supplying computer servers that run the Web services of clients such as Google and Baidu Inc.

“We want to continue to bring innovation through acquisitions,” Amit Midha, head of Dell’s operations in the China and South Asia regions, said at a briefing in Hong Kong . Dell is interested in buying “everything around data centres,” an area of business that is contributing half the company’s profit, he said.

Source: Bloomberg