Archive for January, 2010

The Bunker raises £1m for further upgrade and expansion

The Bunker Secure Hosting Ltd, the Ultra Secure Data Centre and Managed Services provider announces the successful completion of its fourth round of financing. The £1m of new funds was once again raised entirely from existing shareholders at double the value of the last issue. The funds will be used to continue the company’s infrastructure [...]

January 29, 2010 | 0 Comments More

PEER 1 Hosting’s Data Centre Opens

PEER 1 Hosting, Inc. (TSX:PIX), a global online IT hosting provider, today announced the opening of its US$40 million data centre, located in Toronto, Ontario. At more than 40,000 square feet, this new data centre is more than twice the size of a professional hockey rink and marks the first time PEER 1 Hosting is [...]

January 28, 2010 | 0 Comments More

Nuovi Investimenti colocates trading platform at Interxion’s London hub

Interxion, a leading European operator of carrier-neutral data centres, today announced an agreement with leading Italian brokerage and trading firm Nuovi Investimenti to colocate its trading platform at Interxion’s City of London data centre. The agreement, which follows the migration of the Borsa Italiana matching engines from Milan to London earlier in 2009, enables Nuovi [...]

January 21, 2010 | 0 Comments More

APC by Schneider Electric to be Patron Of 6th Data Centres Europe 2010

The organizers and researchers of 6th Data Centres Europe 2010 (www.datacentres.com/dce) have announced today that APC by Schneider Electric is Patron of the event. Data Centres Europe is the premier regional networking hub for service companies engaged in the sector, and enterprise IT leadership. The event will take place at the Espaces Antipolis, near Nice, [...]

January 19, 2010 | 0 Comments More

FioranoMQ 9.1.1 server released

Fiorano Software, (www.fiorano.com) a leading provider of enterprise class business process integration and messaging infrastructure technology, today released FioranoMQ 9.1.1, the newest version of its high performance enterprise communication backbone and the world’s fastest standalone standards-based messaging server. The newly released FioranoMQ 9.1.1 implements several new performance-enhancements: Optimizations in the client-runtime and at the server [...]

January 15, 2010 | 0 Comments More

Data Centres Europe Awards: Nominations Open

Nominations for ten Awards categories for the 6th Data Centres Europe 2010 (www.datacentres.com/dce) have been released today. The final shortlist and Awards winners will be announced at the official ceremony and Gala Dinner which will take place at the Espaces Antipolis near Nice, in France on the evening of 22nd April 2010. The Awards categories [...]

January 14, 2010 | 0 Comments More

Interoute Fast Trade service certified by Nasdaq

Interoute, owner operator of Europe’s largest next-generation network, has been approved as a direct connectivity supplier to the pan-European multilateral trading facility, NASDAQ OMX Europe (NEURO). By taking the most direct routes between 25 countries in Europe, Interoute’s high quality bandwidth service, Fast Trade, provides financial institutions with the fastest data speeds available between European [...]

January 13, 2010 | 0 Comments More

Interxion hosts Fortis Bank Global Clearing’s market access platforms

Interxion, a leading European operator of carrier-neutral data centres, today announced an agreement with Fortis Bank Global Clearing N.V., one of the largest independent third-party clearers in Europe, Asia/Pacific and the US, to house their Market Access platforms and provide client hosting services, as well as providing colocation for specific markets at Interxion’s City of [...]

January 13, 2010 | 0 Comments More

Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 recognises UKFast

Manchester-based UKFast has completed another award-winning year with a place on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 EMEA Ranking. Reporting a 690 per cent growth over the last five years, the UK’s leading hosting provider has followed its success in the Deloitte Fast 50 with a top half finish in their prestigious industry rankings for Europe, the [...]

January 12, 2010 | 0 Comments More

Simply Mail Solutions Connects Directly to Internet Backbone

Simply Mail Solution has announced that it has upgraded its network and has now its own Autonomous System Number (ASN) with its own set of IP addresses to ensure provision of the high quality hosted solutions. Commented Keith Pritchard, CTO of SMS: “The AS number allows us to connect directly to the Internet backbone and [...]

January 6, 2010 | 0 Comments More

NextiraOne wins James Paget NHS Trust contract

NextiraOne, Europe’s leading expert in communications services, has won a second major contract with the James Paget NHS Trust to build additional dedicated Data Centre facilities and provide a resilient communications platform. The new contract will help the Trust to achieve its objectives of delivering better patient services and of reducing its power consumption and [...]

January 6, 2010 | 0 Comments More

SaaS and Cloud Computing Driving Data Centre Use

UK businesses are primarily concerned with SaaS and cloud computing with 31 per cent saying it is driving increased use of data centre capacity, according to a national survey commissioned by Telehouse of over 100 senior IT professionals. With Gartner forecasting that the cloud computing market could reach a global value of $150 billion by [...]

January 5, 2010 | 0 Comments More