Hibernia Atlantic, a TransAtlantic submarine transport cable provider, and Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), a leading global provider of network-neutral data centers and Internet exchange services, have announced that Hibernia will provide Ethernet transport services to the aggregation of companies operating within Equinix Internet Business Exchange (IBX) centers in the Chicago, Frankfurt, New York and Washington, D.C. area markets.

Terremark Federal Group, Inc., a subsidiary of Terremark Worldwide, Inc., a leading global provider of managed IT infrastructure services, has announced that the Company will be hosting the Library of Congress' new interactive Web site, myLOC.gov, the companion to the new onsite Library of Congress Experience that launches April 12. The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, maintaining over 138 million items on more than 650 miles of shelves.

Attenda Limited, the Always On Managed Services Company, has announced that it has signed a new five year contract with Smythson to host and manage their new SAP infrastructure. Established in 1887 and the proud holder of three Royal Warrants, Smythson is internationally renowned for its elegant range of leather goods, travel and writing accessories and bespoke stationery.

Data393, a leading provider of colocation, managed hosting, disaster recovery and IP network services, has announced an agreement to provide managed hosting for the Sentinels of Freedom Foundation's website. The Denver-based non-profit organization, which is in the process of moving its operations to San Ramon, Calif., provides four-year life scholarships to help military veterans with service-related injuries to once again become self-sufficient.

Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), a leading global service provider for accelerating content and applications online, has announced that Adobe has adopted Akamai's Stream OS solution to power its media management and distribution workflow for Adobe TV. Launching today, Adobe TV is an online video channel offering expert instruction and inspiration about Adobe products via informative and entertaining videos. Adobe TV is available online at http://tv.adobe.com.

Viglen, a leading British manufacturer and provider of IT solutions, has become the first UK-based company to be appointed to a national storage and servers framework suppliers contract. The National Server and Storage Framework Agreement (NSSA) has announced that the firm, chaired by Apprentice star Sir Alan Sugar, is among its list of companies which have been recommended to provide Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) with a range of server and storage products. Viglen was awarded two framework supply positions.

DediPower, one of the UK's fastest growing managed hosting providers, has announced that its Thames Valley Hosting Centre has been selected by Favorit to provide co-location services within its data centre to host an innovative blogging aggregation platform. With a global coverage in the blogoshere, Favorit required a data centre with solid network resilience and connectivity to house its critical IT infrastructure.

BPM, the public sector portfolio management specialist, has selected TelecityGroup to provide a hosting environment for the launch of its Software as a Service (SaaS) application, the National Portfolio Management Framework (NPMF). The NPMF provides public sector organisations with a common technology platform to enable large scale portfolio management of programmes and projects, in line with guidelines such as the 'Transformational Government Enabled by Technology'.

Indian Telephone Industries (ITI), the telecom manufacturing arm of the Government, is set to build the country's largest data centre through a public-private partnership model. The new facility will target companies requiring backup data recovery. Bids from private and public companies for a strategic partnership with ITI for this major project are being invited and several companies that have applied are currently under evaluation.

BT has received its first major data centre outsourcing contract in Hong Kong from CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets, an independent brokerage and investment group in Asia. BT has been contracted to design, build and manage the global data centre for CLSA. The contract includes the design for the High Power usage racks, supporting blade servers, upgrading the existing facility through the installation of new generators and the provision of new Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) and cooling systems.

BT Global Services has announced a 5 year deal worth GBP25 million to become the global network partner for international pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca. BT has provided network services to the company since 2003. BT is now to provide a single delivery platform with the existing BT-managed global IP-VPN MPLS-based network with the EMEA and Asia-Pacific network being extended to 33 new sites in the USA and Latin America. The new contract includes a total of 170 managed connections at 131 AstraZeneca sites in 60 countries worldwide.

German-based company Core Connection GmbH & Co. AG, a provider of customer care services for large companies, has chosen BT's Hosted Contact Centre service for inbound and outbound customer service projects. BT offers contact services over its own network on a pay per use model. Core Connection's headquarters in Berlin is connected to BT's IP network with 2 x 34Mbps access lines.

IT services company Atos Origin has signed a 5 year IT contract with Alcatel-Lucent Network Services (ALNS). Under the agreement, Atos Origin will operate the mobile phone network servers, which includes the management of some mobile phone network applications. Atos Origin will provide services from specific ALNS locations and its own Data Centre in Essen Germany. ALNS provides network services for the mobile phone sector.

IT services company Logica has announced a series of new outsourcing deals over the past month. The new agreements include: BAA (British Airports Authority) to outsource Application Management for 5- years: Logica will be responsible for transforming and managing most of BAA's current software applications. Outsourced support services will be delivered using a mix of onshore and offshore models using Logica's Shared Services Centre in Bangalore. Some 400 different applications will be managed including aircraft stand allocation and staff rostering.

euNetworks, owner and operator of one of Europe's highest capacity fibre networks and provider of mission critical infrastructure and services, has completed an agreement with NL-ix (Netherlands Internet Exchange) to provide host|nex, a mission critical integrated colocation and private fibre network solution to host and network one of the world's largest Internet Exchanges. NL-ix as one of the largest Internet Exchanges unites 169 International members looking to exchange IP traffic with one another.

Voltaire has announced that it has been selected by Q-Layer as the fabric platform for Q-Layer's Virtual Private Data Centre solution. Voltaire provides grid backbone solutions for data centres. Q-Layer, which specializes in data centre and storage virtualization software, will be using its virtualization management software with VMware ESX and Voltaire's InfiniBand-based switching platform. This will provide optimum performance, scalability and efficiency for service providers.

Octavia Information Systems, a London-based IT Solutions company has announced a strategic alliance with virtualisation software manufacturer, VMWare. Octavia has been utilising virtualisation technologies for some time in the creation of virtualised development and test environments, leveraging virtualisation in business continuity and disaster recovery solutions and rationalisation of physical server hardware.

Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), the global consulting, systems integration and outsourcing services company, has selected TelecityGroup's new 'Amsterdam 4' data centre to offer professional strategic support for its outsourcing services in the Netherlands and will be the first customer to move into the data centre when it opens in April 2008. TelecityGroup worked in close collaboration with the Amsterdam City Council during the design and planning phase of the project to ensure the facility comfortably exceeds the environmental regulations set out for data centres in the Netherlands.

Infonet Nederland, supplier of high-quality international network and data center services to multinationals, has put 42 data center cabinets into use within EvoSwitch. The choice for the Dutch carrier-neutral data center, which operates climate-neutrally, is largely thanks to the available space and the electrical capacity within EvoSwitch. Infonet Nederland is an independent subsidiary of KPN and distributes the BT Infonet portfolio in the Dutch market.

Model N, Inc., a leader in Revenue Management solutions, has named Akamai Technologies, Inc., (NASDAQ: AKAM), a leader in powering rich media, dynamic transactions and enterprise applications online, a preferred technology partner. The result of the relationship for end-users of Model N's Revenue Management Solutions is the ability to leverage a Business Quality Internet that delivers global speed and performance improvements of up to 500%, enabling increased application adoption.

A European online gaming operator has selected NaviSite to provide colocation services representing more than USD10 million of total contract value over a 10-year period. The announcement follows NaviSite's planned U.K. expansion in a new state-of-the-art data centre located near London in Woking. The new data centre (out of a total of 18), will be the third such facility in London built to environmental standards for energy efficiency.

T-Systems has been selected to provide a 5-year global hosting and storage outsourcing deal for Royal Dutch Shell. The deal is worth 4.9 billion RM (or USD1.8 billion) over the contract term. Under the agreement T-Systems is to take over the infrastructure of five Shell Data Centres (3 in the Netherlands, and one each in the US and Malaysia). Some 900 IT employees of Shell will join the company as part of the deal. The Malaysian Data Centre will become the local Data Centre operating hub for the Asia-Pacific region.

ThermPhos, a Dutch chemical company, and Atos Origin, an international IT services company, has agreed at least a 3 year contract for the delivery of desktops, infrastructure and SAP supplication management services. The main aim of the contract is to provide for the flexible use of resources in line with ThermPhos' needs, and provide a balance between on-site and remote service provision.

BT Ireland has signed a 2.5m contract with CUSP Point Software to supply the electronic document management solutions provider with the platform for a SaaS (Software as a Service) delivery model. As a one-stop managed services provider, BT was selected for wide-ranging responsibilities, from application hosting to multi-vendor hardware procurement. The CUSP contract is one of BT Ireland's largest deals to date in this specific area.

AT&T US has won an extended contract with Paltak, a leading real-time video-based online community. AT&T will provide enterprise hosting and voice services to support the company's subscriber base. AT&T Enterprise Hosting Services will provide bandwidth and hosting to support interactive chat, video and audio applications. Hosting will be based in AT&T's US-based Internet Data Centres.

Peak 10, a leading independent data center operator and managed services provider, announced the renewal of its service agreement with Cedar Fair Entertainment Company, one of the largest regional amusement park operators in the world. Peak 10 will continue to provide Cedar Fair with dedicated infrastructure hosting and managed services out of its state-of-the-art data center in Charlotte, N.C. Cedar Fair, which acquired Paramount Parks in 2006, is a publicly traded partnership headquartered in Sandusky, Ohio.

Terremark Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ:TMRK), a leading global provider of IT infrastructure services, has announced that Blue Dasher Technologies, a technology leader in 360-degree street-level imaging, has selected Terremark to host its database of high-density geo-coded images of public streets of major metropolitan areas in North America. Blue Dasher's advanced solution for 360-degree, street-level image capture is part of the next wave of innovation in mapping and navigation.