TDS' Team showed off its new Fitchburg data centre to news media and business representatives. The 15,000 sq ft structure doubles the space available at the high-security facility at 5515 Nobel Drive and cost about US$15 million to build. Tri-North Builders was the general contractor.

A 40-acre facility surrounded by 8-foot walls topped with barbed wire could be coming soon to the woods south of Valley Road, just a few miles west of Two Harbors, according to I.T. Netcom President Shannon Kimball. After an extensive two-month feasibility study funded by Lake County and business development groups, Kimball says his team has located a “prime location” to build a data centre that could take advantage of the county’s high-speed fibre internet project and cool temperatures to keep storage costs down.

The delay in the completion of the data centre will have an adverse material impact on Teliti International's results for the full year 2012, the board warns in its Interim report. Despite the Company expecting overall growth for the full year 2012, and Teliti Solutions and Teliti Services on track to meet expectations, the pre-tax profits for the company will be less than half market expectations.

Google's primary infrastructure architect Urs Holzle on Thursday at the company's developers conference announced the Google Compute Engine, or infrastructure-as-a-service, a move that brings it into more direct competition with market leader Amazon Web Services. Until now, Google has not offered plain vanilla, cloud compute power as a service.

VMware, the global virtualisation and cloud infrastructure service provider, has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire DynamicOps, a provider of cloud automation solutions that enable provisioning and management of IT services across heterogeneous environments; VMware-based private and public clouds, physical infrastructures, multiple hypervisors and Amazon Web Services. Terms of the acquisition were not announced. The acquisition is scheduled to close in Q3 2012 subject to customary closing conditions.

Sovereign Data Connect (SDC), part of Sovereign Business Integration Group (Sovereign), has announced the opening of Metro Point, a new-build data centre that is currently undergoing review for its Tier III design accreditation with the Uptime Institute.

Following the recent announcement of its intentions, Equinix has now completed its acquisition of ancotel GmbH, the provider of carrier-neutral colocation and interconnection services in Europe.

PEER 1 Network Enterprises, a leading provider of IT infrastructure, has announced that it has completed the acquisition of all outstanding shares in the capital of NetBenefit (UK) Limited.

Vocus Communications has completed a A$14.9 million capital raising and is looking to raise another A$7.5 million. The telco placed 9.15 million shares on the market to institutional and sophisticated investors at A$1.63 per share, with the placement scheduled to occur 11 July 2012. Shares will be allocated 12 July.  Vocus also announced a share purchase plan for existing shareholders to raise A$7.5 million in additional capital.

IBM has signed a collaboration agreement with the Tanzanian Ministry of Communication, Science and Technology to help accelerate the adoption of technology as part of Tanzania's ongoing development and strategy to increase its competitiveness in East Africa. IBM will work with the Tanzanian Government to help achieve its vision of becoming a hub for trade in
the wider East Africa region and to enhance sustainable economic development as outlined in the Tanzania National ICT Policy.

Consulting firm BroadGroup believes that misjudgements of market conditions in Asia have influenced recent negative media commentary.  In a written commentary for Data Centre News, BroadGroup Consulting managing director, Steve Wallage cites two Malaysian data centre operators listed in London who have both seen recent sharp stock market falls. The price declines are linked to Teliti, for delays in opening a new data centre, and CSF, with trading results being hit by some one-off factors.

Equinix, a provider of global data centre services, has announced that it has entered into a US$750 million senior credit facility.The agreement consists of a US$550 million senior secured revolving credit facility and a US$200 million senior secured term loan facility. Both the revolving credit facility and the term loan facility have a five year maturity date extending to June 2017.

Swisscom is planning to build a new data centre in Berne, according to inside-it.ch. The new data centre will be built in the business park in Berne-Wankdorf and will replace older Swisscom data centres. 

With the new construction, the company wants to provide more managed housing and it-outsourcing services. Swisscom spokesman Olaf Schulze said that the company is still waiting for a building licence, and is planning to start the building work in August. The site will cover 4,000 sq m and will cost around CHF 100 million. 

A Texas-based company is looking to build a data centre in the Research Triangle Park where it can lease space to companies for storage of servers and other computing equipment. The company, Compass Datacenters, plans to provide a building with Internet connectivity and space for customers to lease the space for server and equipment storage, said Steve Flaig, vice president of marketing for the company.

Brazilian Telecommunications firm Telebrás has signed an agreement to build a new R$60m (approximately US$ 29.57m) datacentre facility in the north-eastern coastline city of Praia do Futuro, Fortaleza. It will be the first international facility using wind and solar resources for clean energy. It will also be linked by four of a planned five fibre optic submarine cables, connecting Brazil with the United States, Europe, Mercosur and sub-Saharan Africa.

A new datacentre investment forum in Finland sponsored by Invest in Kainuu, in collaboration with consulting firm BroadGroup, will take place in Kajaani in central Finland, 26 October.  The forum will explore for example why Northern Europe is attracting the likes of Google and Facebook to establish data centre facilities.

GM's new CIO Randy Mott plans to bring nearly all IT work in-house as one piece of a sweeping IT overhaul. It's a high-risk strategy that's similar to what Mott drove at Hewlett-Packard. As Randy Mott, the new CIO of General Motors, goes about his workday, he carries with him a well-worn calculator. It sits in front of him in the place of prominence that most people reserve for a smartphone. 

Equinix, a provider of global data centre services, has announced it has completed the acquisition of Hong Kong-based data centre provider Asia Tone in an all cash transaction valued at US$230.5 million. The acquisition of Asia Tone further strengthens Equinix’s position in Asia-Pacific—the company’s fastest growing region—and increases its presence in Shanghai to support growing demand from multinational customers looking to expand in China.

PEER 1 Hosting, the global online web hosting provider, has gained further ground in the UK hosting market, revealing that annualised EMEA revenues to the end of April 2012 now stand at £11.5million, securing nearly 100% growth since last year. The success sees the Southampton-based company gaining on leader Rackspace.

Data centre infrastructure investments will grow by 6% to reach US$128 billion by end-2012, and is expected to expand steadily for the next four years, aided by increased focus by companies in Asia-Pacific's emerging markets such as China and India on building resilient infrastructure to run their businesses.

A planned Pflugerville data centre location at New Meister and Schulz lanes sits undeveloped months after construction was scheduled to begin. An ambitious plan to erect a US$210 million data centre in Pflugerville is on hold for at least the near future as the site’s developer says it is considering alternative locations and cities.

M247, the UK data centre operator, has announced that it has bought the freehold of its head offices in Trafford Park, Manchester. The purchase from landlords Commercial Development Projects, for a sum in excess of £1 million, was financed by a mortgage arranged by HSBC and the solicitor acting for M247 was Bolton firm, Stephensons.

Catawba County is having so much success with data centres; it wants to have its own data-centre park. The Catawba Board of County Commissioners voted this week to apply for a US$4 million state loan to create a 159-acre data-centre park in Conover to be called the ncDataCampus.

Swisscom, Switzerland's leading telecoms provider, is set to begin work next month on a new data centre in Berne-Wankdorf. 

Worldwide bank IT spending continues to grow at a 5.2% compound annual growth rate, according to a new report from Framingham, Mass.-based IDC Financial Insights.

The Defense Department’s growing demand for data centre services could stagnate federal efforts to curb energy costs through data centre consolidation, according to a new report. The administration’s consolidation initiative could reduce energy use short term, but “in the face of what is likely to be continuously increasing demand for data centre services, gains from consolidation and improved efficiency are expected to plateau, with energy use resuming an upward trajectory,” according to a Congressional Research Service report about DoD data centre consolidation efforts.

Following last months announcement of its intention to do so, Digital Realty Trust, a leading global provider of data centre solutions, has now announced the completion of the acquisition of a three-property data centre portfolio located in the greater London area, referred to as the Sentrum Portfolio. 

The London Legacy Development Corporation is set to announce shortly that iCITY, one of two remaining bidders for the legacy of the site, has won the bid to turn the Olympics media centre into a data centre post the games.

Cisco Systems has bulked up its cloud computing and data centre infrastructure capabilities by acquiring privately held security software firm Virtuata for an undisclosed amount. Cisco has been pulling back a number of its wide-ranging initiatives to concentrate on core routing and switching products and the telecommunications market and online video.

Hitachi has announced its launch of data centre services in Korea mainly targeted to Japanese companies developing businesses in Korea.

Staffing services major ManpowerGroup has said it has bought out Kolkata-based Web Development Company to provide IT services and professional resourcing in India.

ManpowerGroup has acquired the remaining 26%  stake in WDC, and accordingly the Kolkata-based company has become a wholly-owned subsidiary of ManpowerGroup's Experis brand, the company said in a statement. The company, however, did not disclose the financial details of the transaction.

Following recent speculation, specialist data centre operator Infinity has confirmed that its subsidiary, iCITY, has been selected as Preferred Bidder by the London Legacy Development Corporation for the legacy uses of the Press and Broadcast Centres on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

Datum, the Business-Class data centre provider, has announced its first colocation data centre which will open in calendar Q4 2012. The data centre, currently under construction, is situated on the high-security QinetiQ Cody Technology Park in Farnborough. Built to provide colocation facilities for mid-sized to large enterprise Clients and IT service providers, Datum will deliver environmentally intelligent, secure and resilient data centres with first class Client service.

China's largest cloud computing industrial park is being erected in Suzhou, Anhui province, the local development and reform commission has announced, accoring to local media reports.

The facility will be home to a 100,000 sq m cloud computing data centre and an optical fibre cloud computing network linking Suzhou with other Chinese cities including Shanghai and Hangzhou, the commission said, adding that the industrial park is the largest of its kind in the country. Construction started on the cloud computing centre in April,

Reliance Communications has put on hold the US$ 1-1.5 billion initial public offering of its undersea cable unit Flag Telecom in Singapore, in the wake of adverse market conditions.The IPO was put on hold on a day when institutional book building was to close, sources said.

Fujitsu has unveiled Fujitsu DynamicFabric, a solution the company says enables the creation of flexible and optimised network infrastructures.

Following the news that its Greenwich View 7 data centre in London’s Docklands is now fully let, Eurohub has announced that it is to develop a second data centre facility at 1 Greenwich View Place.  This second data centre will provide a further 260.5 KWatt racks and will be available in the fourth quarter of 2012.

Mega-deal outsourcing deals--those contracts with a value of US$1 billion or more-picked up in the second quarter of 2012, according to the quarterly Global TPI Index. Five mega-deals were signed during the quarter compared with just one each in the second quarter of 2011 and the first quarter of 2012. All five were awarded outside of the mature U.S. and Western European markets-three of them in India and Brazil.

Wipro, the country’s No. 3 software exporter, reported a net profit that was in line estimates, but registered a sequential decline in revenue from the key IT services segment, sending the shares of the company down. It also gave a subdued guidance for the September quarter and listed scores of risks to meeting the projection.

Equinix, an operator of data centres for companies such as AT&T and Amazon.com, is the latest technology business to consider changing its corporate status to cut hundreds of millions of tax dollars.

VMware has made its largest deal ever, pushing deeper into the data-centre business by agreeing to acquire networking company Nicira Inc. in a deal valued at US$1.26 billion. The maker of so-called virtualization software that more efficiently uses computing power also reported its full second-quarter results and provided third-quarter revenue guidance in which the midpoint fell short of analysts’ views.

EMC second-quarter earnings rose 19% as the data-storage provider saw revenue rise amid growing use of cloud-based technology.

INOC, the Independent Network Operations Consortium, based in downtown Albany, has completed its US$1 million upgrade of its data center located at 80 State St. INOC provides Internet connections and data services as well as web hosting.

“We more than tripled our storage capacity,” said INOC President Jim Becker, referring to the upgrade of the 4,000-sq ftdata center. The upgrade included consolidating dozens of individual servers to a more advanced platform.

Royal Philips Electronics has signed new, multi-year outsourcing contracts with Indian IT services providers Cognizant and Wipro. Details of the deals are thin on the ground, but Philips says it is undergoing a "paradigm shift in our IT delivery model".

BT's IT services arm suffered the most as the telco giant saw sales decline in its first fiscal quarter, but the company's core retail operations ensured profitability continued to increase. For the three months to the end of June, BT saw total group sales decline six per cent annually to £4. 5 billion. But EBITDA was up two per cent on the corresponding period last year and stood
at almost £1.5 billion. 

Equinix, a provider of global data centre services, has reported quarterly results for the quarter ended June 30, 2012. The Company uses certain non-GAAP financial measures, which are described further below and reconciled to the most comparable GAAP financial measures after the presentation of our GAAP financial statements.

Brisbane-based data centre owner and operator NextDC is set to launch Australia’s first listed data centre property fund. 

The New York Genome Center and Edward J. Minskoff Equities have announced the execution of a 20-year lease for 170,000 sq ft to be located on seven floors at 101 Avenue of the Americas office building. The facility build-out, expected to be completed by mid-2013, will include sequencing, bioinformatics, and research labs, an Innovation Center to advance new technologies, and computing infrastructure to handle the processing and storage of massive amounts of new data.

Equinix, a provider of global data centre services, has announced that ALOG Data Centers of Brazil S.A., a Platform Equinix Company, plans to build a new International Business Exchange data centre in Rio de Janeiro. Targeted to open in the first quarter of 2013, the first phase is expected to cost US$20 million in expansion capital and will have space for 320 cabinets with a total capacity of 1,170 cabinets once all future phases are completed. 

To provide stable power to around 10 data centres that will come up in the Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate, CLP Power will develop Hong Kong's first substation dedicated to powering the facilities. The substation will provide uninterrupted electricity supply, thanks to its two independent power sources, which will come on automatically should one of them fail. It will be commissioned in mid-2014.

CITIC Telecom International believes its existing cloud data centres in China give it an advantage in the infrastructure-as-a-service space, as it kicks off its expansion plans into Southeast Asia with its first regional data center in Singapore.

Its SmartCLOUDcentre launched here Friday is CITIC Telecom CPC's sixth data canter worldwide. The company's other cloud data centres are based in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Taiwan, and two in Hong Kong.

French IT services company Atos SA has confirmed its guidance for 2012 as it reported a 2% rise in net profit for the first half of the year compared to the first half of 201. 

- Net profit stood at €102 million  ($125.34 million) compared to €100 million in the first half 2011, which had included a one-off result before tax on pensions new indexation in the UK for €32 million. 

Radware a global leader of application delivery and application security solutions for virtual and cloud data centres, has reported quarterly revenues of US$46.8 million for the second quarter of 2012.This represents an increase of 14% compared with revenues of US$41.1 million for the second quarter of 2011.

Net income on a GAAP basis for the second quarter of 2012 was US$7.6 million or, compared with net income of US$4.9 million for the second quarter of 2011. 

Internap Network Services Corporation, a provider of intelligent IT Infrastructure services, has announced financial results for the second quarter of 2012. 

Lightower Fiber Networks, the premier metro fibre and bandwidth provider in the Northeast, and Net Access Corporation, an industry leading supplier of data centre and cloud services,  has announced that Lightower has completed a diverse build into the Net Access data centre in Cedar Knolls, New Jersey. The build will provide Lightower and Net Access customers with diverse
points-of-entry as well as diverse routing options. 

This report updates market developments in Germany since the publication of BroadGroup's German Data Centre Market report in October 2011.

British Columbia-based telecom company Navigata is planning to open a data centre in Bend. The facility will host server space for small to mid-size businesses.  

The European IT services group Steria has reported group revenue of € 926.2 million for first half 2012, compared to €865.1 million a year earlier, with operating income of €34.5 million, down from €.6 million.

Data Centers Canada has announced that it has partnered with Cisco Systems in implementing the Cisco’s ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services platform at its Toronto North Data Center Facility. Cisco’s 9000 Series Platform represents world class Carrier Ethernet transport with exceptional scalability, carrier-class reliability, environmentally conscious design and flexibility.