Microsoft has recently commissioned a new trial period of its new platform, with the option of hosting projects without any charge if a certain set of technologies from the software creator are utilized including: Microsoft Web Deployment Tool Release 1, ASP.NET Framework 4.0 Beta 1, and Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1. Joshi R Vishal a [...]
SAFI Technologies recently bought 24/7 Hosting, its fourth webhosting acquisition in just two years. Tim Johnson, the managing director of SAFI, stated that the client base of 24/7 Hosting is similar to SAFI Technologies making it easy for them to transfer clients into the current infrastructure. SAFI intends to comfortably support about 200 medium to [...]
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. [...]
NextiraOne has had a busy week of collecting industry “awards”, as both Cisco and Alcatel have given the European firm their in-house accolades. More acknowledgements of competency than genuine awards, both presentations recognise the contributions made by NextiraOne in the communications arena. The Cisco accreditation is titled Advanced Data Centre Networking Infrastructure Specialisation. Claiming to [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
