Interxion has signed Fisher Technology Plc, a London based IT services provider to resell its backup and restore solution. Interxion's disk-based Secure Data Service (SDS) requires installation of only one agent, no matter how many servers are backed up. The growth in sales of the backup and restore services over the last two years reflects the fact that companies of all sizes are becoming increasingly concerned about disaster recovery and data backup management.

Bahrain's first data centre which will enable companies to outsource the backing up their databases for security purpose, has been launched by Lightspeed Communications. The iVault solution, driven by technology provided by Gulf Business Machines (GBM), is aimed at financial institutions and others to securely host their mission-critical systems. the company also plans to set up an overseas disaster recovery facility before the end of the year.

Telecity's results show progress with the key features of their 2004 results showing revenue growth of 10%, and the first net growth in 3 years. The company is experiencing an increasing level of value-added services sales. The company is Ebitda positive for the year but has reduced the retained loss of £6.8m (versus £9.5m in 2003). Dublin too is now ebitda positive following the sale of part of the site to ESAT and the Paris data centre is expanding by 5000 sq ft.

An offshore data backup company is promoting its services to UK and US companies to store their data in Iceland. SecurStore, which hosts the Icelandic arm of Vodafone (Og Vodafone), is attempting to attract customers to a storage "safe-haven" for firms. The company is building its services on the back of storage software company Asigra's technology. The service is intended to allow companies to backup and retrieve data in near-real time speeds. It claims that Iceland's optical fibre network could be a cheap option for European businesses.