A national survey of over 100 senior IT professionals found that there are three factors driving demand in the UK data centre market sector – security, power and price. The survey, conducted by Telehouse, also showed that most organisations questioned were looking to expand their data centre requirements adding to the current capacity crunch and [...]
Rackspace (www.rackspace.co.uk), the world’s leader in the hosting and cloud computing industry today announces that it has been voted as the 30th best place to work and once again the highest ranking IT Services company, in the prestigious Sunday Times 100 Best Companies Awards. Commended for its continued focus on employee engagement, Rackspace has ranked [...]
Major industry leaders in the European data centre sector will meet at the sixth annual conference taking place April 22-23 at Sophia Antipolis near Nice, France. The high level content and debate will set the agenda on exploiting Green technologies over the coming year (www.datacentres.com/dce). A high calibre line up of top speakers and experts [...]
Interxion, a leading European operator of carrier-neutral data centres, today announced that FibreSpan, a network carrier specialising in dark fibre and ultra-high-bandwidth services, has successfully connected its network to Interxion’s London City data centre. The addition of FibreSpan’s dedicated dark fibre network to Interxion’s London City data centre brings its total portfolio of carriers to [...]
Interxion, a leading European operator of carrier-neutral data centres, today announced that Sage Software GmbH, a leading provider of business software solutions for German SMEs, has selected Interxion to host and centralise their expanding data centre infrastructure in the company’s Frankfurt data centre. The five-year colocation agreement will provide ample space, power and connectivity to [...]
3Com Corporation (NASDAQ: COMS) today announced four new products and solutions from its H3C and TippingPoint portfolios to extend the Secure Network Fabric to next-generation data centers and virtual networks. The Secure Network Fabric integrates 3Com’s industry-leading H3C® enterprise network and security solutions and TippingPoint® intrusion prevention system (IPS) technology to reduce network security risks, [...]
Interxion, a leading European operator of carrier-neutral data centres, has been selected by Nimbuzz, the mobile social VoIP and instant messaging application provider, to house its mission-critical application infrastructure. With over 20,000 users a day worldwide signing up to use their application, Nimbuzz had an urgent requirement for a best-in-class, highly connected facility which also [...]
After over a year in development, UKFast, the UK’s Best Hosting Provider, has unveiled its new DNS platform. Launched this month and superceding the original SafeDNS, this version represents a new phase in DNS management. Providing full administrative privileges to the user, the server control panel offers the freedom to control what web domains you [...]
A startling number of web professionals are using unlicensed or pirated software to create websites, according to research released today by Fasthosts Internet Ltd, (www.fasthosts.co.uk), a leading web hosting provider. The poll of 500 web designers(1) conducted with .NET magazine (www.netmag.co.uk) found that more than half of web designers and developers admit to having worked [...]
Interxion, a leading European operator of carrier-neutral data centres, today announced its sponsorship of the third TradeTech Architecture Conference, taking place from the 9th to 11th of February 2010 at the America Square Conference Centre in London. This year’s conference will bring Europe’s largest meeting of CIOs and CTOs from the capital markets together to [...]
The Green Grid, the IT industry’s leading voice for advancing energy efficiency in data centres and business computing ecosystems, today introduced new tools and announced new industry alliances at its Third Annual Green Grid Technical Forum and Members’ Meeting. Attendees of the Forum will learn first-hand how these new tools and alliances are designed to [...]
Interxion, a leading European operator of carrier-neutral data centres, today announced that ADACOR Hosting GmbH has installed a new online after-sales support system for Suzuki International Europe GmbH in one of Interxion’s highly secure data centres in Frankfurt. The newly developed online portal ensures the efficient management of European warranties for Suzuki dealers and distributors. [...]
The organizers and researchers of 6th Data Centres Europe 2010 (www.datacentres.com/dce) have announced today that Christian Belady, Principal Infrastructure Architect at Microsoft, will keynote at 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
