C&W to invest US$4.5 million in Panama data centre
Cable & Wireless Panama will build a data centre in the Panama Pacific Special Economic Area, said Jose Quintero, CTO at C&W Panama.
The data centre will focus on information storage and will function as a server for business...
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08 Sep 2010
TeleHouse Vietnam opens data centre
The TeleHouse Vietnam data centre has opened to all data-related services for businesses involved in telecommunications, finance and banking. At a total cost of US$5 million, TeleHouse Vietnam is designed and equipped with systems in line with...
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08 Sep 2010
Gartner: 40% European cos to increase outsourcing in 2010
Fifty-three percent of organizations in Europe said they will outsource more in 2010, and 40 percent of organizations are planning to increase their external IT services spending, according to a recent survey from Gartner.
The survey found...
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08 Sep 2010
CMS expands its Manchester data centre operations
CMS Group, a Blackburn-based IT infrastructure specialist, is to create 10 jobs at its Manchester data centre after a string of contract wins worth £2.2 million. The group has secured contracts in the North West with Bury-based Trumeter...
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08 Sep 2010
Baltic Data Centre acquires a company from Martinson Trigon
Estonian investment company Martinson Trigon sold 100% of its Lithuania portfolio company Hostex to Baltic Data Centre, a subsidiary of Lithuanian telecom giant TEO.
Hostex is a leading data centre operator of Lithuania and provides web...
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07 Sep 2010
Australia: Symantec seeks data centre partner
Security specialist Symantec may seek to partner with a data centre or telco as it moves from software into cloud-based disaster recovery. Symantec chief technical officer Mark Bregman said he expected the launch of a new suite of enterprise data...
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07 Sep 2010
Increased broadband for north Antrim
The completion of another project through the £1.9 million Northern Ireland Broadband Fund is set to improve connectivity along the north Antrim coast. The Fund supports next generation broadband services and projects which aim to provide...
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07 Sep 2010
Emerson completes Chloride acquisition
Emerson has announced it completed its acquisition of Chloride Group, which now joins strong global product brands within Emerson Network Power. This acquisition helps drive Emerson's long-term global growth strategy for uninterruptible power supply...
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06 Sep 2010
Independent tower company launches in Cote D'Ivorie
Cote d'Ivoire's first independent tower company "SWAP Technologies and Telecomms, has gone live with its first cell sites built for colocation. SWAP commenced telecoms services operations in Abidjan in 2009 with the objectives of providing...
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06 Sep 2010
Infocrossing data centre targets Cleveland County
A New Jersey company has an agreement to buy a Kings Mountain-area building for a US$30 million project to convert it into a highly secure server farm, according to sources familiar with the deal. Infocrossing, a unit of Wipro Ltd., plans to buy a...
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06 Sep 2010
Intel invests heavily in Virtualization
Few companies have as large a technical infrastructure as Intel, so the high profile vendor's decision to invest heavily in virtualization is a major endorsement of this data centre technology. Chip giant Intel has detailed its efforts to rein in...
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06 Sep 2010
JRM Technology data centre now in phase two engineering
The second phase of engineering to support the electrical systems for a 315,000 sq ft data centre facility on Chicago's Near South Side has begun developer JRM Technology has announced. The design and construction team is now working with...
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06 Sep 2010
Easynet Global Services completes sale to LDC
Global provider of managed solutions and business connectivity services Easynet, has announced its sale from BSkyB (Sky) to Lloyds Development Capital, the private equity arm of Lloyds Banking Group for £100 million.
Further...
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03 Sep 2010
Sudlows in £2 million contract boost
Data centre firm Sudlows has announced contract wins worth more than £2 million and a new relationship with BT that it believes will see greater investment in the sector in the North West. Manchester-based Sudlows has won a £1.5m deal to...
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03 Sep 2010
Capgemini taps into Brazil IT market
Capgemini has placed a bet on Latin America, announcing a deal to buy a majority stake in CPM Braxis, Brazil’s largest information technology services group.
Europe’s largest IT services company is paying €233million for a...
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03 Sep 2010
Jersey Telecom create extra data capacity
Jersey Telecom is investing about £8 million in creating new data centre capacity to meet growing demand. The company is constructing a new site at Rue des Prés in Jersey and expanding its First Tower Lane building in Guernsey. Six...
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03 Sep 2010
Open Hosting opens data centre in Miami
Web hosting and cloud solutions provider Open Hosting has announced it has opened a new SAS70 compliant data centre in downtown Miami to meet the demand for its cloud hosting and continued penetration into the Latin America market.
The...
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03 Sep 2010