OnX Enterprise Solutions, a leading global provider of enterprise data centre solutions, has announced a new US$20 million investment in the company's cloud and data centre nfrastructure. With this investment, OnX becomes one of the first to market with a dual data centre cloud strategy in Canada. The new investment will help OnX expand its cloud offerings to
clients throughout North America in the enterprise market who are seeking a high-availability solution with multiple facility failover capacity.

Telekom Malaysia Bhd has launched its first regional data centre facility in Hong Kong.

Gen-i has announced a new NZ$10.5 million investment to build a new data centre in Christchurch. The investment forms part of Gen-i’s strategy to help clients take advantage of ICT pplications and services that leverage the rollout of UFB, and will expand its existing nationwide network of 14 data centres in cities and regional centres, linked by fibre, copper and mobile networks.

Cabinet Minister Francis Maude has confirmed that the estimated cost for the G-Cloud programme is around £4.93 million. The information was revealed when Michael Dugher, Labour MP for Barnsley East asked Maude how much the project cost. “The estimated cost for the G-Cloud programme (including the CloudStore) is £4.93 million,” replied Maude. “This is being met from the Cabinet Office SR10 settlement and is subject to the ERG spend and controls process. The savings it is expected the programme will deliver are estimated at £340 million.”

The Potawatomi Business Development Corp. said it will begin construction Monday on its US$36 million data centre in Milwaukee's Concordia neighbourhood. Called Data Holdings, the two-story, 45,000 sq ft data centre will be on an 11-acre site at the intersection of N. 33rd and W. State streets.

Integrated Device Technology and PLX Technology have announced that they have signed a definitive agreement pursuant to which IDT will acquire PLX for a total value of approximately US$330 million. IDT hopes to broaden its portfolio of data centre interconnects, which are gaining importance in the era of cloud computing, and will also get various switches, bridges, controllers and other products widely used across the industry.

Telecom testing company Spirent Communications posted a 17% rise in quarterly pre-tax profit yesterday as demand for testing wireless, data centre, high speed Ethernet and global positioning systems continued to be strong in Asia and the US.

A new data centre in Quebec is the key to the North American expansion effort of French Web hosting provider, OVH. OVH acquired real estate that was part of the industrial zone of mining group, Rio Tinto Alcan from the City of Beauharnois, Quebec in January before formalizing plans to construct a new data centre with a 360,000 server capacity.

QLogic a leading supplier of high performance network infrastructure solutions, today announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended April 1, 2012.

The presence of Nordic countries at Datacentres 2012 has increased substantially reflecting the increased regional opportunity occurring across the region. Seven large Norwegian data centre projects have recently teamed up in a joint marketing initiative and will be exhibiting at the DataCentres 2012 conference in Nice under the name ”Destination Norway”. 

Cloud storage service provider Nirvanix has said it has raised overUS$25 million in a new round of funding it plans to use to expand a new cloud research facility and double the number of data centres in which its storage cloud resides. The new funding, which includes a mix of investments from venture capital firms and from strategic investor Intel, brings the total investment in Nirvanix to US$70 million.

ViaWest, one of the largest privately-held data centre, cloud computing and managed services providers in North America, has announced the expansion of its Oregon data center facility, the Hillsboro Complex. This expansion will add 23,000 sq. ft. of usable raised floor. The additional space along with the existing facility will total over 50,000 sq. ft. of sellable space, making this SSAE 16 Type II certified facility the largest in the state of Oregon.

Brennan IT is looking to hire 50 new staff as it gears up to sign what the company describes as its biggest ever deal. Managing director Dave Stevens has said the company had already signed a US-based software provider for local hosting of its applications in Brennan IT's cloud, and was in negotiations with another which, if successful, would be Brennan's “biggest ever partnership”.

Inside an unmarked lab at Taiwan’s Inventec Corp, engineers test a rack of Servers with built-in liquid tubes that stream coolant and water through the hardware as it processes data. Unlike other data centres, the lab saves energy by not using air-conditioning. Yet the temperature inside is a bearable 28 degrees Celsius because the liquids carry most of the heat out of the servers.

Budapest will host the new data-processing center of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, from 2013. The facility will be established in the outskirts of Hungary’s capital and is set to have bigger broadband capacity than the rest of Hungary combined.

Telecity Group plc, Europe’s industry-leading provider of premium carrier-neutral data centres, has issued the following Interim Management Statement.

Highlights: TelecityGroup has had a positive start to 2012 with good first quarter growth in revenue and profitability; New capacity has been brought on-line across the Group, adding 7MW of customer power and taking total available customer power up by over 10% since the year end to 75MW; Management confirm their positive outlook for the full year

Brinel, the Romanian IT services provider, is set to spend €1 million on its data centre, according to Marcel Borodi, Owner of the company cited in local media reports.

66% of Romanian organisations have allocated funds in 2012 to optimise their data centre activities, according to a recent study by Brinel.

100TB.com is recognized as an industry leader in providing dedicated, cloud, and CDN services to high bandwidth users world-wide. In a move to further solidify this reputation, and in partnership with SoftLayer, 100TB.com has expanded their robust network of data centres into Southeast Asia. The newest data centre is located in Singapore, which is known as one of the most business-friendly, innovative, and competitive economies in the world.

Fujitsu has been selected as one of three service providers announced as members of the panel for the provision of IT managed services by the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI - formerly the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry).

PEER 1 Network Enterprises, a leading provider of online IT infrastructure, has announced its results for the three and nine months ended March 31, 2012.  Selected Financial Highlights Comparing the Quarters Ended March 31, 2012 and 201: 

Revenue increased 19% to US$34.21 million from US$28.73 million;Gross profit increased 23% to US$13.24 million from US$10.73 million;Operating profit increased 395% to US$1.13 million from US$0.23 million and Net income was US$1.06 million compared to a net loss of US$0.27 million.

Zayo Group has announced results for the three and nine months ended March 31, 2012. The Company has experienced sequential quarterly revenue and Adjusted EBITDA growth since inception. Third quarter growth was a function of both acquisition related and organic growth.

Rio Networks, a locally owned and operated Managed Service Provider in Oregon, is nearing completion of their 12,500 sq ft data centre and colocation facility in Roseburg, Oregon. Scheduled to open its doors in October 2012, the data centre is part of a bigger initiative to support high tech start-up companies in Oregon by providing cloud based infrastructure and a business incubator within the same facility.

Interxion, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, has announced its results for the three months ended 31 March 2012.Highlights: Revenue for the quarter increased by 14% to €65.8 million (Q1 2011: €57.9 million) ; Adjusted EBITDA for the quarter increased by 23% to €27.3 million (Q1 2011: €22.2 million); Adjusted EBITDA margin for the quarter increased to 41.5% (Q1 2011: 38.4%); Net profit increased by 210% to €8.7 million (Q1 2011: €2.8 million)  and Capital expenditure, including intangible assets, was €61.1 million. 

Terremark, a Verizon Company, continues to invest in the fast-growing Latin American market with the latest expansion its Sao Paulo data centre, the Network Access Point do Brasil. Once completed, the cloud-enabled facility will have 70,000 sq ft of raised data centre floor space and will be able to house 150,000 servers in a connected, secure and redundant ecosystem.

BT Global Services has recorded a 40% improvement in its operating losses following major contract signings in its last quarter.  The company’s total order intake for Q4 2012 was £2 billion, an increase of eight percent year-on-year, and up from £1.6 billion Q3.

Business communications company Daisy Group has completed a £1m upgrade to its Manchester data centre and has unveiled plans to open a fifth UK site by the end of the year. Daisy has carried out a raft of improvements to boost capacity and efficiency at the underground Manchester complex, which sits behind a 12-tonne bomb-proof door in a former Bank of England vault in the city centre.

Fujitsu, a leading provider of ICT business solutions, has announced the official opening of a multimillion dollar upgrade to its Melbourne data centre. The Victorian Minister for Technology, The Hon. Gordon Rich-Phillips MP, has officially brought online the upgraded facility located at Noble Park, Victoria.

Savvis, a CenturyLink company and global leader in cloud infrastructure and hosted IT solutions for enterprises, has announced the availability of a new data centre in London Docklands. The new facility offers the opportunity for long-term expansion and will complement Savvis' existing European locations in the London area - Docklands, Slough and Reading - and Frankfurt, Germany.

Expedient have unveiled its newest data centre expansion in Cleveland, Ohio. The company has invested over US$4 million as part of this expansion project, which is its sixth expansion at the Garfield Heights data centre within the last four years. Upgrades consist of adding 7,000 sq. ft. of raised floor data centre space and an additional two additional 750 KW Caterpillar Generators, 240 tons of cooling, two additional Uninterrupted Power Supply units, and Expedient’s 4th generation of cloud and virtual hosting pods.

Telx, a leading provider of global interconnectivity, cloud computing enablement services and data centre solutions, has started  construction on its new data centre facility at Two Peekay Drive in Clifton, New Jersey with a ceremony attended by  Telx CEO Eric Shepcaro, New Jersey Lt. Governor Kim Guadagno and Clifton Mayor Jim Anzaldi.

The Mid-Atlantic office of Rosendin Electric, one of the nation's largest private electrical contractors, has announced that the company has been awarded the second phase of a major data centre build-out in the Northern Virginia high-tech corridor. Rosendin Electric is subcontracting to DPR Construction to complete the data centre design and construction project for an unnamed data colocation service.

Cologix, a network neutral interconnection and colocation company, has announced the acquisition of Minnesota’s premier network neutral interconnection and colocation provider, The Minnesota Gateway, located in the carrier hotel at 511 11th Avenue South in Minneapolis. The acquisition adds the leading position in Minneapolis, the 16th largest metro market in the United States, to the Cologix platform.

Aquantia, the leading developer of High Speed Ethernet connectivity solutions for cloud computing and large scale data centre deployments,  has announced it has completed a Series F financing of US$35 million, with new investor RUSNANO leading the round, joined by current investors. RUSNANO will invest US$25 million, and current and new investors will contribute US$10 million to the financing round.

Level 3 Communications has announced it has expanded its data centre capacity in Latin America in response to significant growth in customer demand. New infrastructure capacity, dedicated customer equipment and shared services technology provide key enhancements for the expansion of Level 3's 14 data centres in the region, with substantial expansions in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador.

The Indian IT infrastructure market comprising servers, storage and networking equipment will reach US$2.05 billion in 2012, a 10.3% increase over 2011, according to Gartner. The market is expected to reach US$3.01 billion by 2016.

Revenue growth will be primarily driven by on-going data centre modernization, and new data centre build outs. Servers are the largest segment of the Indian IT infrastructure market, with revenue forecast to reach US$754.5 million in 2012, and grow to US$967.2 million in 2016.

Internet service provider Indra's Net has moved to expand its operations and has constructed a new data centre.

Boulder-based Indra's Net has moved from 4,000 sq ft of space at 2525 28th St., to 7,500 sq ft at 5435 Airport Blvd., also in Boulder. The new space allows the 17-year-old company to improve its levels of hosting and server colocation.

Source: Boulder County Business Report

LAMDA Hellix, the leading and award-winning provider of neutral world-class data centre services in South East Europe, announces its results for the twelve months ended 31 December2011: Highlights:  Revenues up 42% to €7.769.502; Adjusted EBITDA up 27% to €2.268.274; Profit after tax up 80% to €1.071.901 and Gearing down to 15% from 35%. 

VADS, a unit of Telekom Malaysia, expects data centre business to emerge as the biggest contributor to the company’s ICT operations moving forward, CEO Ahmad Azhar Yahya said that this was due to continuous growth in demand for data centres in Malaysia. The rising number of companies adopting cloud computing was given a s reason for this rise in demand for data
centres. 

CyrusOne, a preeminent enterprise data centre colocation solutions provider, has broken ground on the 57-acre parcel of land it purchased in Chandler, Arizona, last fall. The site will house a 1-million-square-foot Massively Modular data centre expected to deliver scale, power, efficiencies and amenities never-before-seen in a multi-tenant facilities market.

Equinix, a provider of global data centre services, has announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire ancotel GmbH, a leading provider of carrier-neutral colocation and interconnection services in Europe.

NextIO, the pioneer in I/O consolidation and next-generation networking solutions, has announced it has closed a Series F funding round of US$12.3 million. This round included investment by existing investors and an undisclosed strategic investor. NextIO, which demonstrated significant growth in 2011, will use the new funds to further expand sales and marketing efforts and to further expand NextIO’s family of I/O consolidation solutions.

A new Oregon law that goes into effect on June 4th is set to provide handsome tax breaks to data centres within the state, offering significant savings to Amazon, Google, and other companies that have already created facilities there. Under the law, Oregon's data centres will be taxed only on their local value, and not on intangible assets such as their national brand value. This exemption would therefore offer major breaks to tech companies with a large national presence, and, as the New York Times speculates, may even encourage Facebook to build a second complex within the state.

Mount Prospect trustees have approved annexation of nearly 14 acres of the United Airlines property at 1200 E. Algonquin Road, clearing the way for United to build a worldwide data centre in the village by the end of next year. Village staff negotiated with Chicago-based United to annex 13.6 acres on the western side of the company’s former headquarters site, presently in unincorporated in Cook County, said William Cooney, director of community development.

The data centre spend in Australia is expected to grow from A$2 billion in 2010 to $3 billion this year, according to DPSA national datacentre architect, Jason Rylands who was speaking at a recent DPSA event held in Sydney.

Privately held IP Ventures Inc. has started the voluntary tender offer to minority stockholders of subsidiary IP Converge Data Center Inc. at P4.20 per share, or the same price at which the data center operator went public less than two years ago. Based on its tender offer filing on Monday, IP Ventures plans to buy out public owners still holding 9%t of IP Converge, or 20 million common shares, from May 21 until June 18. At present, IP Ventures owns about 74% of IP Converge.

TCC Technology, Thailand's leading carrier neutral data centre services provider has  announced that they have appointed IBM to develop their future data centre strategies and data centre model.

Six Degrees Group has announced that it has expanded its UK network capabilities with the acquisition of Datahop, an international datacentre interconnection business with 200 customers. Datahop’s network consists of a resilient, high-speed fibre ring that connects 21 points of presence in London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Paris. 

Telx has announced that it has added approximately 20,000 sq ft of industry–leading, high-power density, space to its San Francisco data centre. Telx’s colocation facility at 200 Paul Ave. has expanded, allowing for power densities in excess of 200 Watts per sq ft, in one of San Francisco’s most connected buildings..

Hewlett Packard has warned of cuts in its UK operation in a global purge that will see it axe 27,000 workers. The US technology company plans to make the cuts, which amount to 8% of its global workforce of almost 350,000 people, as it struggles for sales in a marketplace increasingly dominated by smartphones and tablet computers.

ServInt, a pioneering provider of managed cloud hosting for enterprises worldwide, announced it has begun taking advance orders for hosting services in its newly constructed European data centre in Amsterdam. 

The announcement for Arsalon Technologies to open phase two of their Lenexa data centre comes on the heels of regional business' increasing demand for cloud hosting solutions and IT outsourcing. The Arsalon hosting facility expansion will be available for clients by the third quarter of this year and create up to 25 new positions.

Metronode,  a subsidiary of Leighton Contractors Pty Limited has signed a A$182million contract with theNew South Wales Government under the Data Centre Reform project for the provision of two managed data centres in NSW, thus confirming earlier speculation.

Ya-Qin Zhang, senior global VP of Microsoft, revealed at the 4th Annual China Cloud Computing Conference in Beijing recently that Microsoft is currently applying for government permission to construct cloud data centres in China.

Zhang added that there is a large gap between China and the United States in terms of cloud computing, partly because China does not have any large-scale cloud services like Amazon's, stating "Microsoft will soon have substantial cloud data centre resources in China."

A company with plans to construct warehouses and fill them with computer servers and data storage devices is guiding its application through city hall in the hopes of breaking ground later this year. Compass Datacenters is a new business out of Dallas attempting to provide turn-key storage facilities in the country’s smaller markets. Here in Franklin, the firm is proposing to build up to 105,000 sq ft of warehouse space that would be leased to businesses in need of data storage.

Gyron has announced that it would be opening an additional data centre in Slough, in the South East of England. When open for customer occupation in Q1 2013, the new Ajax facility will complement the existing Gyron owned and operated Maylands (pictured) and Centro facilities located in Hemel Hempstead, and bring Gyron's total announced power capacity to 19MW.

iomart Group, the UK cloud computing and managed hosting services provider, has announced strong annual results for the year ended 31March 2012, with profits up by 68% to £11.2 million (2011: £6.6 million). Revenue grew by 33% to £33.5 million (2011: £25.3 million), while pre-tax profits grew by 91% to £6.9 million (2011: £3.6 million) – all ahead of the record amounts achieved in the last financial year. 

IBM has announced it has completed the acquisition of Vivisimo, a leading provider of federated discovery and navigation software that helps organizations access and analyze big data. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Lockheed Martin has been selected to prime the Enterprise Standard Architecture (ESA) IV contract supplying managed information technology services and secure technology solutions to the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the U.S. Marshals Service. Awarded under the General Services Administration Alliant government wide acquisition contract vehicle, the ESA IV contract is for seven years and has the potential to expand into other agencies within the contracting vehicle.

The Australian division of NEChas announced it would acquire the Technology Solutions arm of locally listed company CSG for an amount up to A$260 million, in a move which will make the Japanese technology giant a significant player in Australia’s IT services market.

GTS Central Europe, a provider of integrated telecommunications and data centres, has announced the completion of a major financing agreement. The new senior debt facility provides the company with significant liquidity to fund new both acquisitions and network investment.