Brocade has unveiled an infrastructure procurement model designed for cloud computing, along with additions to its new VDX data centre switch line.

Sovereign Business Integration, a leading provider of IT services, has announced the launch of Data CentrePLUS; an expansion of its existing data centre services. The business-focused data centre will allow Sovereign to further its delivery of colocation, hosting, managed IT and outsourced IT services, providing clients with security, reliability and flexibility.

In an increasingly energy conscious world, AdInfa has developed InSite, a technology solution that allows data centres to monitor their IT equipment energy consumption. This is crucial in providing a business case for optimising operational efficiencies and reducing energy bills and carbon footprint. The InSite system is enabled to send automated SMS alerts to companies when pre-determined or unpredicted critical events occur in the monitoring of their data centre infrastructure.

Fogo Data Centers is a private company headquartered in Carrollton, Georgia, is expanding its facility in New Orleans. The economic development agency Greater New Orleans Inc. said that Fogo will spend US$5 million and create 20 new jobs. The company currently has a staff of 17 in the city.

Fogo operates regional data centres designed for use by small and medium-sized businesses, educational institutions, health care providers and local governments.

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International IT giant Atos says it is building the world’s most eco-efficient data centre in Helsinki in cooperation with the Finnish company Academica Oy. Located in the waterfront Suvilahti district of Helsinki, the Tier 3 class data centre will use sea water for cooling. The heat produced by the new data centre can be used to provide heating for more than 2000 households, according to Atos.

There are reports that Microsoft, the Global Software and IT company, is planning to expand is Dublin data centre. The centre, located at Grange Castle in Dublin, opened two years and represented an investment of US$500 million. The reports suggest that the company now plans to increase the capacity of the centre by over 30% by building a 120,000 sq ft data centre alongside the existing 303,000 sq ft facility (pictured).

A power surge that recently shut down the state's internal network for several hours will end up costing the government $500,000, officials have said  The Department of General Administration estimates that it will cost about US$130,000 to purchase and install a new electrical vault switch. Other costs are for generator fuel, worker overtime and a new consultant who is assessing the situation.

The Long Port Group, a privately owned property development, regeneration and investment company based in St Peter Port, Guernsey have announced that is developing the Guernsey Data Park, a major data centre and business continuity scheme.

President Benigno Aquino III has ruled out the revival of the controversial national broadband project entered into by the Arroyo administration. Although Aquino recognized the need for such information technology infrastructure, the President is not keen to revive the deal with China's ZTE Corporation, which was said to be overpriced. In a separate report, two government officials said the proposed government broadband network - similar but cheaper than NBN - is not being rushed although the government is setting its sights on developing a robust but cheap IT infrastructure.

Carving out a space in the growing market for cloud computing, Hewlett-Packard has launched a beta Infrastructure-as-a-Service offering, called HP Cloud Services, the company has announced

The initial offerings, called HP Cloud Compute and HP Cloud Object Storage, will provide compute and storage resources from HP's own data centres. HP will use the OpenStack set of open-source cloud software tools to provide the foundation for these services. HP joined the OpenStack project in July.

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QTS, one of the nation's largest and fastest-growing providers of data centres and managed services, has announced that it has been selected by Global Payments, a leader in electronic payment processing services, for enterprise data centre services in QTS' Atlanta Metro Data Center -- the second largest data centre in the world.

The government is struggling to realise its IT strategy, according to an in-depth analysis by TechMarketView. While it has increased centralised control, simplified procurement and generally ended the creation of large IT projects, the government is having difficulty moving to the next phase of change, the analyst house said.

An Internet Service Provider has invested more than £100,000 in a new state-of-the-art data centre, the first of its kind in North Wales. Hosting UK, a St Asaph-based company with clients worldwide, will use the facility to reduce its reliance on expensive server space in Manchester and London while expanding its range of services.

Reliance Communications, India’s second largest Telecoms company, has signed a US$3030 million (Rs 1400-crore) deal with HDFC Bank, India’s third largest lender, to build and run a new a data centre, accruing to Reliance Globalcom president and chief executive officer Punit Garg.

Millions of Microsoft users were left unable to access some online services overnight because of a major service failure. Hotmail, Office 365 and Skydrive were among the services affected. Microsoft was still analysing the cause of the problem on Friday morning, but said it appeared to be related to the internet's DNS address system.

Windstream Hosted Solutions, a premier provider of enterprise-class managed hosting solutions, has announced that Plus Three has chosen to colocate the production infrastructure for its “always on” fundraising and member management systems at Windstream’s SAS-70, Type II data centre in Raleigh.

Colt, the information delivery platform for European business, has announced it has reached an agreement with BT Wholesale, the largest wholesale telecoms business in Europe, to allow customers to access content from Europe’s largest media market exchange at the BT Tower in London. Under the terms of the agreement, Colt customers will benefit from access to a wide range of high quality broadcast content including major sporting events.

Telx, a leading interconnection and data centre provider in 15 strategic North American markets, has announced that Expereo, a leading global wholesale provider of last-mile connectivity services, has joined the award-winning Telx Ethernet Exchange to expand the reach of its own Ethernet service delivery footprint in the Metro New York City region.

IBM South Africa has announced the expansion of its cloud computing services for clients in Southern Africa with the addition of a new IBM Cloud Data Centre and Cloud Lab in Johannesburg.The new additions to the existing Business Continuity and Recovery Service Centre (BCRS), will serve to augment the company’s global cloud offering which features in over 50 countries with centres based in Singapore, Germany, Canada and the United States.

BT has revealed the latest locations of its ongoing fibre deployment, that will serve an extra 1 million homes. BT Openreach has revealed that an extra one million homes and businesses in the UK are to be connected to its ongoing fibre deployment across the country.

Intel has announced that its new generation of solid-state drives for enterprise data centres will use 25nm MLC flash chips. Although this type of memory is usually considered slower and less reliable than SLC, the switch to multi-level cells enables greater capacities at lower prices. Where the X25-E was available only in 32GB or 64GB capacities, the new 710 Series will be offered in 100GB, 200GB, and eventually 300GB models.

Dell plans to double the number of staff selling, marketing and developing the products of Force10 Networks, the networking company it acquired in August, an executive said. The increase in staff is geared towards integration of the Force10 products with other Dell products, and development of new products to meet increasing demand for data enter equipment, particularly as China and some other countries in Asia invest in data enters, Dario Zamarian, vice president and general manager of Dell Networking, said.

Rubicon Professional Services, a leading national provider of full-service construction management, energy management, consulting and engineering for mission-critical facilities, has announced the formation of its new Technical Services Group.

Deutsche Telekom's IT unit T-Systems is bullish about the cloud services opportunity, but does not want its customers' information being compromised by the U.S. government accessing their information. With security being top of mind for businesses considering cloud services, Reinhard Clemens, T-Systems' CEO, said in a recent conference in Bonn, Germany that it wants to be able to shield their German customers from U.S. government access that's allowed through the Patriot Act.

Telx, a leading interconnection and data centre provider in strategic North American markets, has announced the successful completion of its Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements (SSAE) No. 16 examination. The examination was conducted by Weaver and Tidwell, LLP (Weaver), a full service accounting firm providing SSAE 16 Type 1 and Type 2 reports that evaluated Telx's design and operating effectiveness of internal controls and processes.

Pittsburgh-based pair Networks is building an ultra-efficient data center in the desert near Las Vegas that the website-hosting company says will be one of the greenest facilities of its kind in the world. But pair Network's commitment to recycled building materials and solar panels isn't just about being Earth-friendly. The 15-year-old South Side firm also wants to set itself apart as a quality company committed to the future in an industry that's full of low-cost providers that sometimes leave their customers hanging.

Independent cellphone tower operator Eaton Towers has secured US$150 million in equity funding from Capital International Private Equity Funds (Cipef), a private equity investor that focuses on emerging markets. The funding will be used to acquire, build and develop telecommunications towers across Africa for both existing and new projects, Eaton says. Cipef joins existing Eaton shareholder African Development Partners I, a private equity fund advised by Development Partners International, in funding the business.

Interxion, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral data centre services, has announced that it has completed the first phase of a two-phased capacity expansion project in the Vienna metropolitan area bringing 600 sq m of equipped space to a rapidly-growing market. Once both phases of the project are complete, Interxion will house 4,700 sq m of available equipped space at its Vienna data centre. The two phased project represents a €12 million investment that secures Interxion's position as Austria's premier carrier-neutral colocation provider.

Primus Telecommunications Canada has announced that it has been awarded a multi-year contract with Alberta Investment Management Corporation to provide primary data centre Services in Edmonton.

SoftLayer Technologies, the innovation leader in Cloud, Dedicated, and Managed hosting, has announced the upcoming opening of the company’s new data centre in Singapore (SNG01 – with capacity for more than 16,000 servers ) and network Points of Presence (PoPs) in Singapore (pictured), Tokyo, and Hong Kong. Beginning Sept. 23, customers can pre-order services in the new data centre, to be deployed when the data center and PoPs officially “go live” on Oct. 3.

360networks, a facilities-based wholesale provider of Private Line Transport, Ethernet, IP, and VoIP services, today announced completion of a build out to the redIT data centre, 12270 World Trade Drive, San Diego, California. This new data center location provides customers with additional connectivity solutions in support of their cloud services and other end-user applications. With this new location 360networks now covers over 70 markets within its 22 state coverage area.

NTT Singapore has announced that it has successfully attained the status of Network Service Provider in collaboration with Singapore Exchange. Leveraging on the NSP, NTT Singapore will be able to offer customers collocated in SGX; access to other global / regional stock exchanges and their home markets using NTT Com Low-Latency Service.

T5 Data Centers, a leading data centre owner and operations firm focusing on enterprise and wholesale data centres, said it has expanded into California with the addition of a new partner, opening of a San Francisco office and conversion of a building into a wholesale data centre in Los Angeles. T5 hired data centre development expert Aaron Wangenheim as executive vice president and partner. He is responsible for business development and leading T5's expansion into the Western U.S.

Internet Solutions, a division of Dimension Data Middle East and Africa, has developed a new Tier3 data centre facility in Johannesburg, South Africa. The new data centre, scheduled for completion in the fourth quarter of 2011, is the first African facility to be designed and equipped with KyotoCooling technology, which provides a solution for efficient and reliable autonomous cooling for data centres.

Ground was broken Thursday for Involta’s US$10.5 million data centre in Duluth, but a second phase probably will follow. Already the planned data centre is one-third full with committed tenants, said Lonnie Bloomquist, the company’s chief technology officer. And when Involta’s centres are 80% full, planning starts on the next phase, he said.

City Zoning commissioners have given the owners of NordenPark the green light to build a two-story office building at 10 Norden Place that will house a data centre. Under the approved plan, a two-story office building with a footprint of 77,000 sq ft and a total square footage of 167,588 sq ft will rise in the parking lot on the eastern side of NordenPark. The ground floor would be occupied by data racks and associated electrical equipment support equipment. A 25-person staff would occupy the second floor.

A Resident Engineer is required by a large Data Centre operator to supervise and oversee the construction of a new facility in the Southeast.

The ideal candidate will have previous site experience having fulfilled similar roles. A Mechanical or Electrical design background would be beneficial due to the technical nature.

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The Escorts Group, one of India’s leading engineering conglomerates, is adopting IBM’s smarter computing approach to information technology. Through an agreement with IBM, Escorts Group will receive a workload-optimized hardware solution to replace the company’s existing ERP system infrastructure. The advanced systems will provide enhanced performance and compliment the company’s business growth goals of lowering overall IT operating costs. 

Global Crossing, a leading global IP solutions provider, has announced that VK, a leading Russian social networking site, has purchased IP Transit and Wavelength Services to accommodate its rapidly expanding social networking site.

With a recent upgrade to its Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS)-based IP network in the Nordic region of Europe, Global Crossing is providing VK with several 10 Gigabit per second (Gbps) IP Transit ports in Helsinki and Stockholm. In addition, Global Crossing is providing 10 Gbps Wavelength Services among VK's sites across Europe and in the US.

Colt, Europe's leading information delivery platform, has announced that Verne Global, a data centre developer and operator, has selected Colt's Modular Data Centre (pictured) for its dual-sourced renewable energy facility in Iceland. This is the world's first mission critical data centre with zero-emissions to be manufactured and constructed in less than four months.

Described as one Europe’s most advanced sub-sea cable networks, CeltixConnect has revealed that its €15m Ireland to UK fibre optic network will go live on 12 December. CeltixConnect’s parent company Sea Fibre Networks has signed a contract with NSQ and Global Marine Systems for cable manufacture and subsea cable-lay. Works are currently underway on the terrestrial routes in Holyhead and Dublin.

Sentrum a specialist in data centre solutions, has released findings from a new research report that highlight new pressures on data centre operators to further improve ongoing levels of service – with facilities management responsibilities in particular under the spotlight.  46% of IT managers in large UK-based companies, when questioned, thought it essential that a data centre operator should have the ability to add value in the long term, and 54% of the senior directors that took part in the survey agreed.  When it came to the issue of who maintains and manages the data centre infrastruc

Geo Networks Limited, a provider of dedicated fibre networks, has announced that it will deploy and manage a dedicated fibre network for global eGaming company bet365. The 10 year deal, which will see Geo take its first steps into the gaming sector, will enable bet365 to respond to increased network demands with a scalable, reliable and future-proofed solution. Dedicated fibre will result in improved latency and enable bet365 to continue to deliver a superior end-user experience, even during periods of rapid growth.

Ferrovial, through its construction subsidiary, Ferrovial Agroman and in consortium with Master Ingeniería, advised by Digital Realty Trust, has been chosen by Telefónica, the Spanish Private Telecommunications company headquartered in Madrid (pictured) -  to design, build and commission one of the world's four largest data centres, in Tecnoalcalá technology park in Alcalá de Henares.

Google is back in Pryor — and it’s ‘Google speed’ ahead. The company announced plans to build a US00 million data centre at Mid-America Industrial Park in 2007. The project was stalled for a time but has since resumed.