STT Communications has announced the sale of its entire holding of 10.2m shares in Equinix, a stake of about a third of the company on a fully diluted basis. About half the stock will be made available via a public offering with the balance sold through a forward contract arranged with CSFB.

The company has reported its quarterly results for the period ended September 30, 2005.Revenues were US$58.1 million for the third quarter, a 37% increase over the same quarter last year and an 11% increase over the previous quarter. Recurring revenues, consisting of colocation, interconnection and managed services, were US$54.3 million, a 36% increase over the same quarter last year and a 10% increase over the previous quarter.

A new state-of-the-art data centre in Midrand, South Africa hopes to attract foreign companies to store data in South Africa. To be built at a cost of R143-million, the new centre will comprise two buildings that are to be linked via two dark-fibre optic cables, to prevent any interruptions in information flow. Two sites were located that would allow the construction of two separate buildings in one business park. Built to international standards, the centres promise unscheduled downtime of less than 24 minutes a year and the twin data centres will allow instant mirroring of information.

Experian Ltd., the global information solutions company based in the UK, will use Raritan's remote management solutions to maintain servers in its new data centre. The new 700-server data centre to support its extensive European operations is expected to grow to 5,000 servers, replaced two processing centres - one of which became Experian's disaster recovery data centre.

Singapore-based Web hosting provider 8 to Infinity Pte Ltd celebrates their 9th year in the web hosting business on the 3 Nov 2005. A provider in Total IT Management, clustering, MMOG gaming servers and media streaming services, the company utilises data centres in Singapore, Hong Kong and USA directly connecting the Singapore One Backbone. Facilities include Uninterrupted Power Supply, Backup Generators, and FM200 Suppression Systems.

Global Net Access (GNAX) has acquired a new 75k sq.ft building to be managed by Colo Facilities Atlanta. According to the company, the building will survive tornado strength winds. It is 5 miles from their current location and situated on the way to the airport and on a major fibre ring owned by the local gas utility. GNAX has signed a lease for 25,000 sq.ft of space in the NAP and will begin operations in the new building in January 2006. The remaining 50,000 sq.ft will be available for rent immediately for data centre and colocation operations.

IXEurope has announced their fifth and most stunning acquisition to date of the former Digiplex Frankfurt data centre, a facility capable of offering 56, 600 sq m (over 600,000 sq feet) of space, though with an immediate capacity of 6000 sq m of fitted out space.

AT&T has won a US$9.5 million, three-year managed hosting contract from Microsoft Game Studios (MGS) to support various online experiences and the infrastructure for massively multiplayer online role-playing games. The online games include the latest for both Windows and the Xbox 360(TM) video game and entertainment system from Microsoft. Multiplayer online games, where tens of thousands of users play simultaneously from points around the globe, have emerged as one of the most sophisticated, bandwidth-intensive applications on the Internet.

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.

Globix Ltd. has been awarded a 3-year contract to provide managed web infrastructure and security services for the online services provided by Beazley Group plc. The agreement includes the company's corporate website, beazley.com, and beazleytrade.com, an innovative online e-trading platform for specialist insurance products. Beazley is a specialist underwriting business, which has been operating in the Lloyds market since 1986. The company focuses on writing specialty-risk insurance and reinsurance business in selected markets.

Global Voice Group Limited (GV), the Irish founded and Singapore listed owner and operator of fibre networks across Europe, has launched a new disaster recovery (DR) solution, Active DR - targeted at customers in its Irish, Dutch and German markets. Active DR will facilitate the immediate recovery of critical data in a disaster scenario, in addition to allowing businesses to harness the otherwise idle processing power of their DR sites.

The company has reported its results for the quarter ended September 30, 2005. Total revenues for the quarter ended September 30, 2005 were $14.0 million, representing an increase of 31% over the previous quarter.The percentage of data center revenue derived from Federal government customers during the quarter ended September 30, 2005 was 23%.Data center expenses were $8.7 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2005, representing an increase of $1.7 million over the previous quarter.

Cogent Communications Group, Inc. (AMEX: COI) today announced net service revenue of $33.8 million for the three months ended September 30, 2005, an increase of 55.4% over $21.7 million for the three months ended September 30, 2004. On-net revenue was $20.2 million for the three months ended September 30, 2005, an increase of 41.3% over $14.3 million for the three months ended September 30, 2004. On-net service is provided to customers located in buildings that are physically connected to Cogent's network by Cogent-owned facilities.

MaximumASP, LLC, one of the world's leading providers of Microsoft Windows based hosting services recently announced its move to a new data center and corporate offices. The new data center at 748 Barret Avenue, Louisville, KY, was built by Peak 10, a technology partner, to accommodate expansion needs. MaximumASP occupies 5,000 square feet of the newly developed 22,000 square foot data center with plans for future expansion. Corporate offices comprise an additional 11,000 square feet.

Peak 10, announced today that it has received an award for IT Support Services by the North Carolina Technology Association (NCTA) at its annual NCTA 21 Awards banquet last evening. The NCTA 21 Awards are the oldest and most prestigious technology awards in North Carolina and recognize outstanding contributions that information technology companies and individuals have made over the past year to the industry, community and state. Peak 10 delivers scalable and economical solutions for hosting and managing complex information technology infrastructure.

IBM has extended its leadership in outsourcing, according to just-released statistics from IDC's analysis of the top 100 outsourcing deals of 2004. According to IDC, IBM captured 21 of the biggest 100 contracts worldwide, 13 more than the nearest competitor, CSC. IBM led in the number of IT outsourcing contracts with 17 deals and co-led in Business Process Outsourcing contracts, with four deals, IDC said. The IDC report indicates that Business Process Outsourcing contracts represented 25 percent of the Top 100 deals in 2004, up from 15.2 percent in 2003.