Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: DLR), a wholesale datacentre provider, has achieved five 9s of uptime in its Turn-Key DatacentresSM once again with another year of 99.999 percent availability across its portfolio of facilities in North America and Europe in 2008. These uptime metrics are based on a comprehensive evaluation of the company's Turn-Key DatacentreSM facilities in the US and Europe using standard industry methodology.

Confirmit has announced the highest number of completed interviews on its platform to date, with 118 million interviews taking place in 2008. This figure brings the total number of completed interviews on Confirmit to over 430 million in the past seven years.

The numbers represent an increase of 33% in completed interviews on Confirmit's On-Demand platform over the past year.

Level 3 Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: LVLT) will release its first quarter 2009 results on Tues., April 28, and will host a conference call at 10 a.m. EDT.

Chloride, one of Europe's leading suppliers of Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) systems and services, has announced that one of the UK's largest insurance companies, the BGL Group is utilising a variety of Chloride's three phase 80-NET and 70-NET UPS systems in its customer services department. Additionally, BGL Group is monitoring the performance and health of its UPS systems through Chloride's unique LIFE.net monitoring system.

CRYPTOCard , a leading vendor of two-factor authentication (2FA) solutions, has been voted Managed Services Provider of the Year 2009 by the readers of IT publication, Network Computing, for its CRYPTO-MAS service.

The award, which recognises the market leading position of CRYPTOCard's managed authentication service, CRYPTO-MAS, also highlights the increase in adoption of service-oriented IT strategies.

DediPower, a leading UK provider of managed hosting and data centre solutions, has been selected by Icom to provide their managed hosting requirements. Icom is an award winning, media and technology company creating innovative products for both the web and the mobile environment. DediPower will be hosting all of Icom's live environments and websites.

Half of IT Directors plan to switch from backup tapes to online back up within the next three years, according to new research published today by Connect Support Services. The research, conducted for Connect, found that 22% of companies were already using some kind of remote backup service, with a further 28% predicting they will change from traditional tapes over the next three years. The two biggest reservations about using an online back up solution were increased costs 19% and security concerns 14%.

APCON, a leading manufacturer of network switching solutions, has announced recipients for its 2008 Channel Partner Awards. Chosen from amongst APCON's 38 partner companies, winners of the annual awards are:

-Axial Systems (Berkshire, England) as the EMEA 2008 Channel Partner of the Year
-Shoshin (Tokyo, Japan) as the Asia-Pacific 2008 Channel Partner of the Year
-Universal Technologies (Boston, Massachusetts) as the 2008 North America Channel Partner of the Year

A quarter (26%) of IT directors in small and mid-sized companies are planning to increase their technology spend by in 2009, despite the recession, according to new research published by Connect Support Services, the IT support services and online backup company. This is nearly twice as many as last year. In 2008, just 14% of IT directors planned to increase their technology spend.

Sustainability, reduced running costs and increased long term building value are among the reasons that Digital Realty Trust, the world's largest wholesale datacentre provider, is adopting the newly announced BREEAM (Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method) Bespoke datacentre standards for the future construction of its datacentres.