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 [...]
Interxion, a leading European operator of carrier-neutral data centres, has announced its support for France-IX, a new, independent, Internet exchange initiative. The first core switches for the exchange have been installed in Interxion’s recently opened data centre, PAR 5, with interconnects to switches in Interxion’s PAR 1 and PAR 2 data centres. The Force 10 [...]
Interxion, a leading European operator of carrier-neutral data centres, today announced that StructureTone has been appointed and has commenced the construction of Interxion’s new €12 million data centre in Dublin. Employing 90 construction workers over the initial construction phase, the data centre is due for completion and will be ready for customer installations in early [...]
University of California San Diego students and professors have developed software that may allow data centres to function as a single network with a two layer data centre network fabric instead of the typical three layer fabric system. The new software is titled Portland and will work with any hardware that is currently in existence [...]
Attenda Limited announced that it will open a third UK Data Centre today, to meet the increasing client demand that continues to grow despite the effects that other businesses have felt due to the recession. During the second quarter of this year, Attenda already showed that the company was performing better than its counterparts in [...]
Cisco is now targeting customers that have high data security concerns and requirements, with its new encryption solution: The TrustSec Fibre Channel Link Encryption, which is hardware based. Cisco announced the introduction of the solution on Monday as one of four enhancements that it plans to launch when it deploys open system SANs and IBM [...]
FatCow, a webhosting provider, announced yesterday that it has bought wind generated energy certificates from Community Energy to help reduce the amount of electricity that it currently needs to run data centres and offices. The company plans to purchase 4,412,000KWHS of wind generated RECs each year with a volume that is equitable to the output [...]
Interxion announced yesterday that it has completed the building of its latest project, the London City data centre expansion. At the close of the project the 1,250m² data centre of equipped space was extended by approximately another 400m². The new facility also has a 2N configuration cooling infrastructure and a 13megawatt redundant power supply making [...]
Hosting.com is currently moving its headquarters from Kentucky into the metro area of Denver, after it was purchased by the Denver hosting company HostMySite.com. The newly merged companies will operate out of 900 S Broadway in Denver, which is a building that is being redeveloped by the Lionstone Group of Houston. Previously the office building [...]
Due to a loss in power in the afternoon yesterday, many Rackspace Hosting hosted websites went down for approximately 45 minutes. Rackspace reported that it was having an electrical issue at its Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) data centre at 4:30 Eastern time. Although power was back in place by 5pm, it took the company time to [...]
Digital Realty Trust has entered into a new lease agreement for Turn-Key DatacentreSM with Capgemini outsourcing, consulting, and technology company. As part of the agreement Capgemini will open a new datacentre in France on a Digital Realty Trust property this summer. Senior Vice President of International Operations of Digital Realty Trust, Bernard Geoghegan, said that [...]
In the face of IBM breaking ground for a 6,000 square foot, energy-efficient data centre near Syracuse University in Syracuse, NY, valued at $12.4 million, a new data centre was announced by IBM’s competitors. Reports from industry insiders bring news that Cisco, MIT, the University of Massachusetts, and EMC are considering partnering to build a [...]
After reporting a 45% increase in revenue from datacentres, LOMAT, a webhosting service based in Glasgow that focuses on remote hosting and online information for businesses, issued a statement that predicts the economy from online businesses will continue to grow despite the recession. LOMAT sold its business directory unit to BT last, allowing it to [...]
The world’s largest datacenter, Digital Reality Trust, has just announced the completion of a lease agreement for ServeCentric in Ireland to use its Turn-Key Datacentre. This will allow ServeCentric to make use of the Digital Reality Trust property in Dublin thus allowing for its expansion. According to the Vice President of Digital Reality Trust, the [...]
Interxion, which operates carrier-neutral data centres in Europe, will soon be expanding its centre in Copenhagen in order to provide a high level of collocation infrastructure which customers are now demanding. Managing Director Peder Bank of the Exion Denmark said that the company has decided to expand its capacity in order to focus on service [...]
Digital Realty Trust has just announced plans to lease a second Turn-Key Datacentre to IBM for additional space purposes at Digital Realty Trust’s facility in Paris. News of the expansion comes at a time when Digital Realty Trust itself reports that most datacenters across the UK are fearful of expansion given new ‘green’ government regulations. [...]
Tata Communications, the telecommunications branch of India’s largest business corporation, the $62.5 billion Tata Group, has contracted data centre wholesaler, Digital Realty Trust Inc, to provide a lease for a new walk-in data facility in Britain, as part of its world-wide IT communications network. The new UK datacentre offers a turn-key facility that allows Tata [...]
InTechnology has announced that it has now finished a refurbishment at its data centre in the Yorkshire town of Harrogate, which cost £3 million upgrading its entire current infrastructure. The company which deals in data management, hosting, network and voice services, spent the entire year implementing the upgrade which included installation of three new 1,000Kw [...]
US end-to-end internet business solutions provider, Internap, has doubled its footprint at both of Interxion’s data centres, one in London, the other in Amsterdam. This new take up comes less than 12 months after Internap took up European residence. Internap say they need the virtual real estate to keep up with customer demand. Interxion’s UK [...]
Provider of carrier-neutral data centres in Europe, Interxion, has managed to secure itself a credit line totalling Euro 135 million (£107 million) in the form of a revolving credit facility. The company needed the cash injection in order to follow its plans for expansion. The expansion will include a widening of its data centre facilities [...]
