Digital Realty Trust Join Up With Tata

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 to [...]

Astute Receives Certificate of Registration

Astute Networks, Inc received a tremendous boost to its standing as a provider of bladed storage solutions today.
At a major press conference in San Diego, Robert Harling, vice president of operations at Astute, announced that an independent auditor, BSI Management Systems America, Inc., was awarding Astute with an official Certificate of Registration for its [...]

CoreXchange Opts for Force10 Switches

CoreXchange has said that it intends to include Force10 network switches into its data centre network infrastructure.
The hope is that it will give high-density scalability with the best of Ethernet connectivity.
Force10 will give the company 10 Gb Ethernet switching with high density Ethernet. They consider that this will make the system more secure and [...]

InTechnology Completes £3 million Refurb

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 generators. [...]

Internap Doubles its Data Needs In Europe

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 facility [...]

Interxion Secures £107 Million Line of Credit

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 across [...]

Verari’s New Storage Blades with Intel Solid-State Drive

Verari Systems has announced a new development in its chosen field of energy efficient data centre consolidation platforms.
They have introduced a new blade that makes use of Intel’s X-25M SATA solid state drives (SSDs) by incorporating them into their BladeRack 2 X-Series platforms.
Solid state drives make efficient use of flash memory for storing and [...]

DIY is Companies’ Choice To Make Data Centres Green

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 a [...]

Centre 7 Protects Data for Family First C.U.

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 protection [...]

Center 7 & Trusted Network Solutions Partner

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 [...]

UK businesses face ‘power crunch’

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 there [...]

PacketExchange starts services with New York Telx

PacketExchange, provider of private network services with internet economics, has announced the availability of its global network at Telx’s 60 Hudson Street Facility in New York City.
PacketExchange allows existing customers of the Telx facility to connect directly to their trading partners and access networks around the world.
It uses the PacketExchange private infrastructure, as [...]

ukeasily taken offline at Manchester data center

UK webhost ukeasily, a trading name for Port9 Ltd, has gone offline along with all of its customer accounts.
Company representatives of ukeasily/Port9 appear to be unreachable on their phone support number.
The company’s servers at the Greenheys datacenter went offline around 15:30 on Friday, taking down Port9’s own websites.
The Greenheys data center is operated by UK [...]

Wood chips power Rackspace ‘Green’ Data Centre

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 to [...]

RatePoint Adds Email Marketing Tools

After a series of new customer announcements, customer feedback management provider, RatePoint (ratepoint.com), has announced a revision to its offers, initiating a novel email marketing feature it says enables businesses to easily design and execute email campaigns within the RatePoint platform.
RatePoint declares the new email functionality will facilitate RatePoint members, for instance recent RatePoint partner [...]

.Org Domain Price to Climb 10 Percent

Consistent with reports released this week, Public Interest Registry (pir.org), the company that manages the .org domain, is planning to elevate prices for .org domains by 10 percent this year.
In a moderately succinct letter sent to ICANN (icann.org) earlier this month, PIR CEO Alexa Raad says the company proposes to raise its wholesale rates from [...]

Data Center Head Departing Cisco

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.
Ullal is [...]

Facebook Raises $100M for Servers

Facebook, the rapidly expanding social networking phenomenon, purportedly raised a supplementary $100 million in funding this week, that will be used to purchase additional hardware to support the service’s expansion.
The company has previously said the whole amount of the new money will be used to obtain servers, to assist in accommodating the rapidly mounting numbers [...]

Layered Tech Adds Hosting Packages

On-demand infrastructure hosting provider, Layered Technologies, detailed on Monday an additional range of new offerings to supplement its selection of dedicated server hosting plans.
The packages comprise new HP servers configured with Quad-Core AMD Opteron or Intel Xeon processors and the option to provision up to 12 hot swappable hard drives.
Layered Tech says the new [...]

Frontpages Extends Hosting Management

Dedicated and hosting provider, Frontpages, has expanded the list of options of management services it offers to provide its dedicated customers with a more managed solution, through the launch of a product it calls “Total Care Support.”
Total Care, says Frontpages, provides 24-hour hardware monitoring and alerting, and monthly reports on critical hardware thresholds, including disk [...]

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