Redbus Interhouse GmbH, the German division of the colocation and managed services provider, has been appointed by eurodata GmbH and Co. KG of Saarbrucken to provide colocation and associated services for eurodata and infoServe, its wholly owned subsidiary. Eurodata will use the Redbus Interhouse Frankfurt data centre as part of its expansion strategy to provide web applications and connectivity services. Eurodata has been a successful solution provider of business management applications for over 40 years, employing approximately 500 employees in 11 offices across 9 countries.

Equinix, Inc the provider of network-neutral data centres and Internet exchange services, and NeuStar a provider of clearinghouse services to the global communications industry have entered an agreement to jointly develop the first in a new generation of services to enhance the interconnection of networks providing advanced services under Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). Trials for the new service are currently underway, and are open to interested participants, with a planned product introduction in the first half of 2006.

Ericsson's push e-mail solution, Ericsson Mobile Organiser (EMO), has been chosen by MobileCom, a leading cellular operator in Jordan. EMO offers "push" access to Personal Information Management (PIM) applications. Under the 3-year contract, the service delivery of push e-mail and PIM will be secured through an Ericsson hosted service. Hosting is a part of Ericsson's managed services offering. The global trend towards managed services is accelerating as operators and vendors work in partnership to reduce costs and bring new services to market as quickly as possible.

Red Sky, Ireland's leading provider of digital marketing and internet applications solutions, today announced that it has awarded a EUR100K contract to Servecentric. The contract is for hosting its critical online servers at the Dublin based collocation and managed services facility. The deal also extends to value added services such as monitoring and data back-up and restore. The new service will allow Red Sky to concentrate on optimising its online marketing services to its growing customer base.