Pivot3, Inc, a market leader in High-Definition Storage, has announced that its Pivot3 Serverless Computing won Best in Show, as well as the Product Achievement Award for Video Storage and Distribution at the New Product Showcase (NPS), held at ISC West 2009, and sponsored by the Security Industry Association (SIA) to recognise the best security product innovations.

Cogent Communications Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: CCOI), one of the largest Ethernet Internet service providers in the world, today announced that Dave Schaeffer, Cogent's chief executive officer, will present at America's Growth Capital's 5th Annual Information Security and West Coast Emerging Growth Conference at 8:30 a.m. PDT, April 20th. The conference is being held at The Westin San Francisco Market Street.

Stonemont Financial Group, a real estate practice formed in 2008 has developed a fund under management of USD 1 billion to invest in data centres which will be built by construction giant Skanska. Companies who wish to construct a data centre can access the funds to build energy efficient facilities and repay the capital at a fixed rate over lifetime of the facility under an operating lease structure.

Hosted Solutions, the East Coast's premier data center and managed services provider, has announced that the company is the official IT infrastructure host for the 143rd build for Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. The Emmy-award winning hit reality show on ABC Television is coming to the northeastern area of North Carolina to surprise a lucky and deserving family with an extreme home makeover.

Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: DLR), the world's largest wholesale datacenter provider, has announced that Michael Manos is joining the Company to serve as its Senior Vice President of Technical Services. Manos joins Digital Realty Trust from Microsoft where he was General Manager of Data Center Services and was responsible for datacenter architecture, construction, design, operations and research for all Microsoft datacenters around the world.

The Green Grid has announced the availability of a free online tool and maps designed to help North American data center and facilities managers easily determine how much outside air also known as free cooling is available for individual data centers. The use of free cooling can help data center managers lower energy consumption and related costs, and potentially can extend the life of data center facilities.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it has signed a 10-year information technology (IT) outsourcing agreement with Kurmanchal Nagar Sahakari Bank Ltd, one of the leading urban co-operative banks in the state of Uttarakhand in India. As part of the agreement, IBM will remotely host and manage the IT infrastructure, manage the disaster recovery site and provide the networking infrastructure for the bank. This will help the bank focus on its aggressive expansion plans while reducing its capital expenditure on IT by as much as 60%.

One month after the announcement of its groundbreaking Unified Computing System for virtualized data centers, Cisco executives will host a live Internet TV broadcast and Q&A session to disclose additional architectural and product details. The discussion will highlight new data on Cisco Unified Computing System, including:

- Implications for the virtualization and the data center market;

- Cisco Unified Computing System role supporting the company's Data Center 3.0 strategy;

Chloride, one of Europe's leading suppliers of Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) systems and services, has announced that colocation and managed hosting specialist Node4 has installed Chloride's 80-NET 200kVA UPS units within its new Wakefield DC3 data centre, in order to ensure maximum uptime and support for all its clients' hosted applications.

NextiraOne, has announced that it has achieved Cisco accreditation for Advanced Data Centre Networking Infrastructure Specialisation. The accreditation is the latest accolade to be received by NextiraOne that boasts over 20 years of excellence in its data centre practice, making it one of the leading providers of data centre solutions in Europe.

Cogent Communications Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: CCOI) will host a conference call with financial analysts at 8:30 a.m. (ET) on May 8, 2009 to discuss Cogent's operating results for the first quarter of 2009. Cogent will issue a press release announcing the operating results at 7 a.m. (ET) on May 8, 2009.

To participate, investors and other interested parties may access the earnings call as follows:

Dial-in Numbers: 1-877-857-6177 for U.S. callers or 1-719-325-4842 for international callers

Today Internet Service Providers welcomed the conviction of Pirate Bay operators on charges of assisting copyright infringement as a victory for the rule of law.

Terremark Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ:TMRK), a leading global provider of managed IT infrastructure services, has announced IDG's Computerworld has selected it as one of the top Green-IT Organizations for 2009. This honor is part of the IT media outlet's annual Top Green-IT Organizations feature, which was published in the April 20 issue of Computerworld and online at Computerworld.com.

TelecityGroup, a leading pan-European operator of network independent data centres, has announced that its new data centres in Milan and Stockholm are open for business on time and in-line with its capital expenditure forecast. These openings represent the latest stage in the Group's demand-driven, fully funded programme of expansion, which will lift power capacity for customer use from 33 megawatts (MW) in 2008 to some 60MW in 2011.

Texas Memory Systems, maker of the World's Fastest Storage Storage, has announced the RamSan-620, a complete, high-performance, reliable Flash system that delivers up to five terabytes of solid state storage in a single 2U chassis. The RamSan-620 offers superior price/performance/capacity value to comparable hard disk drive and Flash-form factor modules. Applications such as on-line transaction processing, data warehousing, high-performance data acquisition, batch processing, and video editing will benefit from the RamSan-620.

GoGrid, the cloud computing division of ServePath Managed Dedicated Hosting, and Tap In Systems, developers of a new cloud-based systems management service, have announced a partnership to implement Tap In's Cloud Management Service (CMS) into the GoGrid cloud infrastructure. Using Tap In Systems' technology within the GoGrid cloud allows customers to easily monitor their applications for critical alerts, system utilization and other important notifications.

Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: DLR), a wholesale datacentre provider, has completed a second Turn-Key DatacentreSM lease agreement with IBM for space at Digital Realty Trust's suburban Paris facility. Under this agreement, IBM will expand its datacentre accommodation capacity in the Digital Realty Trust facility to support growth in demand for its services. The prior agreement was announced in October 2008.

Terremark Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ: TMRK), a leading global provider of managed IT infrastructure services, has announced it was recognized by VMware with the VMware Service Provider of the Year Award during VMware Partner Exchange 2009. Following a thorough evaluation, VMware selected Terremark as its top service provider because of its innovative product offerings and the successful, cooperative relationship the two companies have forged.

Chloride, one of Europe's leading suppliers of Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) systems and services, has announced that it has completed the acquisition of Malcolm Power Systems, which further strengthens Chloride's presence in Scotland. Malcolm Power Systems has 20 years experience in supplying and maintaining UPS solutions across a variety of industries.

NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) celebrated the success of its UK partners at its third annual NetApp Partner Awards Dinner. The event, which took place in London's Bloombury Ballroom, brought together more than 200 guests for the awards ceremony and saw winners in eight categories recognised for outstanding achievements over the last twelve months. NetApp rewarded the success and commitment of both individuals and organisations as part of its ongoing commitment to its relationships with its partners and to the channel.