For many organisations making energy usage cuts has become a top priority. However many are not taking these green issues seriously enough and are adopting a do-it-yourself approach, argues data centre consolidation specialists RichardsoNEyres. According to their research most energy conscious companies are using all kinds of ad-hoc approaches to their environmental policies and lack [...]
Family First Federal Credit Union is to utilise the services of Centre 7, Inc., at its new data centre. Center 7 will provide the company with hosting for various employee applications as well as giving the credit unions members access to their personal financial information. Center 7 aims to give the credit union increased data [...]
Center 7, Inc., who of course specialise in the hosted business solutions sector, have announced their latest partnership, which will incorporate Trusted Network Solutions (TNS) into its future business model. The newly announced partnership will allow both companies to up their game and offer additional products and services, and of course, with such big existing [...]
Rightmove, the UK’s most visited residential property portal, has contracted ControlCircle to provide comprehensive datacentre services, along with Intelligent BG[1]P Internet connectivity, to ensure systems availability and resilience. Rightmove.co.uk is the UK’s leading property website with 90% of estate agents in the country and all large new home developers listing and advertising their properties on [...]
As if British business didn’t have enough to deal with coping with the credit crunch, now there is the quickly looming prospect of a ‘power crunch’. As energy costs spiral and energy consumption increases, companies are starting to review how this is impacting their business, including IT strategies and usage. Over the last few weeks [...]
Rackspace Hosting, provider of IT hosting services, has announced that it has begun installing equipment in its new ‘green’ data centre, which will be powered by renewable energy sources. The data centre, in Slough, Berkshire, will draw power from a local combined heat and power plant that uses wood chips, waste paper and fibre fuel [...]
The world’s principal networking hardware builder, Cisco (cisco.net), reported on Monday that the leader of its data center division was leaving after 15 years with the company. Jayshree Ullal, who initially joined the company with its purchase of Crescendo Communications in 1993, said in a posting to the company’s blog that she would be leaving. [...]
Avid Technology is launching its high-performance, next-generation storage disk arrays. The Avid VideoRAID SR and the Avid® VideoRAID® ST systems, are intended to provide a combination of cost-effective Serial Advanced Technology Attachment, aka SATA, drive technology, and confidence boosting, fail-safe data protection to provide a viable back up against a disk drive failure, as well [...]
Hitachi Group announced on Thursday it is commemorating next week’s Earth Day by expanding its green data center in Yokohama, Japan. The new wing will present technological enhancements that are part of the company’s general CoolCenter50 project, which aims to decrease power consumption in Hitachi’s Yokohama and Okayama facility by 50 percent in five years. [...]
Web hosting provider PEER 1 Networks announced on Thursday that its customer service at its Atlanta, Georgia facility remained unaffected during last weekend’s tornado and severe storms. The company says it preserved its 100 percent uptime pledge to customers during the terrible Atlanta weather, as its data center staff put into practice the company’s strategic [...]
Colocation service provider Internet Facilitators Limited announced on Tuesday it has agreed a multi-year deal to host vital network infrastructure for Internet service provider Cogent Communications inside its IFL2 Manchester, UK data center. IFL is hosting Cogent’s equipment inside its most recent 15,000 square feet IFL2 data center, which comprises rack space within a protected [...]
Web hosting provider SoftLayer announced on Monday it has opened its second data center facility in Dallas, Texas. The company has furthermore upgraded its core networking infrastructure in Dallas, spending more than $5 million in renovations. The latest facility more than doubles the company’s server capacity in Dallas with 220 new racks. The facility features [...]
Web hosting provider ServInt announced on Monday it has added its new SuperVPS service. The cost-effective VPS service is intended for small and medium-sized businesses, providing increased redundancy at the same time as providing the equivalent computing performance of a traditional dedicated server, says the company. The new SuperVPS service allows companies to operate their [...]
Microsoft is thought to be building out two-dozen data centers, each spanning approximately 500,000 square feet, in an attempt to hasten its cloud computing program. According to business and IT blog RoughType, Microsoft is looking to forcefully speed up its investment in its data center network and the initial stage of the build out will [...]
Web hosting provider Host Department announced on Monday it has upgraded its entire Hurricane Electric data center switches to augment its overall network dependability. After the company established slight network performance disparity in five of the Hurricane Electric cabinets, it determined to change the previous DELL 5324 switches with two Cisco Catalyst 3550 Series counterparts. [...]
Managed hosting provider Frontpages Web Hosting Network announced on Friday it is offering dedicated server build starts in under 24 hours. The company tackled customer requirements for a rapid turnaround on their dedicated server by offering dedicated server builds within 24 hours of contract signing. Founded on new technologies and efficiencies, Frontpages is capable of [...]
UK managed hosting and carbon data center supplier Smartbunker announced on Wednesday that its facility has demonstrated itself to be earthquake proof, following an earthquake that hit the east coast of the UK on Wednesday morning. The earthquake, whose epicenter measured 5.3 on the Richter scale, struck in the early hours of Wednesday under 30 [...]
UK Web hosting provider WebFusion announced on Monday it is offering a new choice of advanced dedicated servers from £59.99 per month. The new dedicated server plans include the most up-to-date server hardware and processor specifications, continuous support and a service level agreement. WebFusion’s dedicated servers make use of the latest Intel Quad Core Xeon [...]
Data center operator Peak 10 announced on Monday it took on Web development and Internet consulting firm Innovative Hosting as a customer at its Atlanta data center. Innovative Hosting Solutions will be given world-class data center services out of Peak 10′s data center in Atlanta, Georgia. The company provides IT consulting, Web design and hosting [...]
Web hosting provider Aplus.Net announced on Thursday it has successfully transferred a major division of its dedicated server hardware to a new high-tech data center in Phoenix, Arizona. The data center is Aplus.Net’s second, along with its original San Diego-based facility. The migration involved the shipping of 2,600 servers including firewalls, load balancers, KVM switches [...]
