News

Data centre hosting services for Saudi market

28 May 2010

Cisco, VMware and EMC coalition helps to secure strategic data center win to enable STC to introduce Managed IT Services in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Forestar Group chooses Data Foundry

28 May 2010

Forestar Group, an Austin-based company focused on sustainability and growth solutions in real estate, mineral resources and fiber resources, will leverage Data Foundry’s colocation facility infrastructure for its mission-critical server needs, including redundant power, HVAC and network services.

Logicalis opens high density facility

28 May 2010

Logicalis has launched its 10,000sq.ft high density data centre (HDDC). The Tier 3+ facility, located on the M4 corridor, will provide customers with made-to-measure hosted and managed services to support hyper-virtualised computing, storage and networking technologies, as well as Logicalis’ suite of hybrid Cooperative Enterprise Cloud services.

e-shelter develops Zurich facility

27 May 2010

e-shelter is developing a large-scale data centre in Zurich to support the region’s demand for highly secure, efficient and available data storage space.

Universal ICE Cube

27 May 2010

SGI has introduced a new Universal class of ICE Cube, the company's award-winning modular data centre for extreme server and storage densities.

The death of DIY?

26 May 2010

Survey commissioned by Digital Realty Trust shows that a majority of companies that plan to increase their data centre space will do so with a third party.

IBM and Force10 extend agreement

26 May 2010

IBM certifies ExaScale to interoperate with its 'x iDataPlex' clustering solutions for dynamic data centre environments.

DCPM suite drives green data centre programme

26 May 2010

nlyte to help ACS maximise data centre efficiency and performance while driving down carbon emissions and energy consumption.

QuantHouse selects Interxion to complete its London based data centre coverage

25 May 2010

QuantHouse, an independent provider of low-latency trading solutions, is now delivering its services from Interxion’s Financial Hub in its City of London data centre.

IBM agrees to acquire Sterling Commerce

25 May 2010

IBM and AT& have entered into a definitive agreement for IBM to acquire Sterling Commerce from AT&T for approximately $1.4 billion in cash.

Server Technology and Modius Announce Alliance to Lower Data Center Operational Costs

25 May 2010

Server Technology announces participation in Modius Technical Alliance Program, furthering integration capabilities within the power ecosystem of data center management tools

Server Technology has announced a comprehensive integration of Sentry Power Manager (SPM), Sentry Smart and Switched Power Distribution Units (PDUs) with Modius OpenData®, the comprehensive management software solution for centralized data center monitoring and analysis.

Rackspace Expanding Cloud Services to the UK; Building on Cloud Growth

25 May 2010

Rackspace® Hosting has announced that it plans to bring public cloud services to the UK by the end of the year.

Solid State Drive technology taking off as enterprise users adopt the technology

24 May 2010

Solid State Drive technology taking off as enterprise users adopt the technology says Origin Storage

A report just released says that solid state drives (SSDs) are taking off in the enterprise server sector, largely as a result of the fact that high-performance SSDs can better meet the needs of enterprise and storage area network (SAN) users than magnetic hard drive units

Oracle Launches Sun Netra 6000

21 May 2010

Expanding the industry’s most comprehensive family of carrier-grade servers, Oracle has introduced the Sun Netra 6000 for the communications industry.

Optimising virtualized data center management capabilities

21 May 2010

Solution streamlines management of next-generation data center, including public and private cloud infrastructures.

UC4 Software Achieves IBM Advanced Business Partner Status

20 May 2010

UC4 Automation Engine to be Featured at IBM Forum in Vienna on June 8

UC4 Software, a leading provider of Intelligent Service Automation and IT process optimization solutions, has announced it has been certified as an IBM Advanced Business Partner.

Vizioncore Takes Mystery Out Of Virtual System Performance For New Movie Studio

20 May 2010

Vizioncore has announced that Australia-based Dr. D Studios has deployed Vizioncore vFoglight™ to monitor the performance of the company's VMware vSphere virtual server environment.

System Integrator MTI Launches Enterprise Backup as a Service

19 May 2010

New Cloud Backup Service Now Meets Businesses-Level Requirements

MTI has unveiled its Cloud Backup as a Service (BaaS) offering for businesses, one of four new service sets to be launched under the MTI Insight Services banner. The other three groups will be MTI Consult (Consultancy Services), MTI Create (Project Services) and MTI Care (Customer and Managed Services).

Active Power Receives More than $8 Million Order

19 May 2010

Active Power, manufacturer of critical backup power systems and continuous power solutions, received an order for more than $8 million for containerized infrastructure solutions from one of its strategic IT partners. The order represents the largest single order in Active Power’s history.

JSE Listed Securities Companies Look to the Cloud For Compliance Silver Bullet

19 May 2010

Johannesburg - The increasing pressure on financial companies to tighten up governance and compliance has created a rapid surge in the uptake of ‘Software as a Service’ (SaaS) technology solutions that quickly and effectively address this. Many JSE-listed stock-broking companies, including Kagiso Securities, Afrifocus, Cadiz Financial Services Group and Barnard Jacob Mallet (BJM), have all adopted the cloud-based email management solution, Mimecast.

Core Consultancy Wins "Specialist Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Company of the Year" at Business Continuity Awards 2010

19 May 2010

Innovative, High-Availability continuous data protection and remote recovery solution for small and medium businesses recognised at leading industry awards

Transforming data centre economics and experience

18 May 2010

Juniper Networks has unveiled new software, services, systems and partnerships that will help enterprise IT dramatically reduce the cost and complexity of data center networking while also improving application and business performance.

IBM opens Development Laboratory

18 May 2010

IBM has opened a new systems software development laboratory in Manchester. With a focus on IBM Power Systems, the engineers in the Lab develop optimisation, security, and virtualisation software to help clients manage emerging workloads designed to reduce data centre costs.

Raritan Wins Green Enterprise IT Award from the Uptime Institute

18 May 2010

Presented 'Outstanding IT Product' Award for Data Center Energy Efficiency Solution

Raritan today announced it was selected as a winner of the prestigious 2010 Green Enterprise IT (GEIT) Awards presented by the Uptime Institute. The GEITAwards showcase organizations that are pioneering energy-efficiency improvements in their IT and data center operations, or that provide technology that can significantly reduce energy consumption.

StrataScale Powers Public Cloud Services with Isilon IQ

18 May 2010

Provider of Next-Generation Hosting Solutions Deploys Isilon Scale-out NAS to Deliver New Virtual IT Offering, Driving Business Growth while Reducing Capital and Operating Costs

Energy efficient data center for Puma

18 May 2010

Company headquarters equipped with the latest Liebert MPX power management technology

Knürr AG recently equipped one of the world’s leading sport lifestyle companies, PUMA AG, with energy efficient data center solutions. Ultra-modern systems that meet all energy efficiency requirements will in future be used in the new company headquarters in Herzogenaurach

PMC-Sierra Introduces Industry's First Multi-Core, Multi-Threaded RAID Platform for x86 Servers

17 May 2010

PMC-Sierra, Inc. today announcedits maxRAID(TM) architecture and the first product in the family, the BR5225-80 RAID adapter designed for solid state disk (SSD) storage in x86 servers (see Figure 1). Based on PMC-Sierra's market-leading, multi-core SRC 8x6G RAID-on-Chip (RoC) controller and multi-threaded, performance-optimized RAID stack software, the maxRAID BR5225-80 connects PCI Express(R) (PCIe(R)) 2.0 to eight SAS/SATA ports at up to 6Gb/s and targets data- and transaction-intensive applications requiring highest IOPS and throughput.

SummerHaven Investment Management Selects SunGard for SaaS-based Commodity Trading and Risk Management

17 May 2010

SummerHaven Investment Management, LLC, an investment management company specializing in commodity futures based in Stamford, CT, has selected SunGard’s Kiodex Real Time trade capture, position-keeping, mark-to-market and risk management solution. SummerHaven will also use SunGard’s Kiodex business process outsourcing (BPO) services for middle-office operations.

Server sales put pressure on power, cooling and space

14 May 2010

A significant increase in server sales during the next two years will lead to a further acceleration of data center power, cooling and space problems, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner said that users need to quantify the effects of new deployments and take action without delay.

University of Lübeck Centralizes IT Operations With Isilon IQ

14 May 2010

Leading German University Deploys Isilon Scale-out NAS to Unify File-Based Applications, Accelerating Data Access while Reducing Operating Costs

Trunk Networks achieves London presence and greater connectivity

13 May 2010

Interxion has announced an agreement with Trunk Networks, a hosted-solutions provider, to deliver equipment housing and connectivity services in Interxion’s London City data centre.

F5’s Application Delivery Controllers Lead in Comparative Evaluation

13 May 2010

The industry’s most comprehensive, transparent, and repeatable testing shows F5’s BIG-IP solutions outperform products from Cisco and Citrix (see F5 performance report here)

Symantec Hosted Services Launches Symantec Hosted Endpoint Protection

13 May 2010

SaaS portfolio provides complete approach to hosted security for SMBs from the gateway to the endpoint-

Symantec today announced the launch of Symantec Hosted Endpoint Protection, a new cloud-based offering for small and medium sized organizations who wish to deploy comprehensive security for their computer systems without the need for additional hardware or management software. Customers will now be able to protect their Windows-based laptops, desktops, and file servers from the proliferation and growing sophistication of threats with the simplicity and convenience of a cloud-based service.

Brocade Encryption Switch Garners Prestigious 2009 EMC Partner Solution Award for Best New Offering for RSA

13 May 2010

Brocade today announced that the Brocade Encryption Switch has won the 2009 EMC Partner Solution Award for Best New Offering for achieving the highest RSA platform utilization. The EMC Partner Solution Awards recognize top offerings from the EMC Solution Gallery and are based upon business impact, commitment to EMC technology, market presence and revenue contribution.

NetApp Crushes Exabyte Barrier with Powerful Storage Efficiency Technologies

12 May 2010

NetApp Leads the Primary Storage Deduplication Market with More Than 12,000 Customers and 87,000 Deduped Storage Systems Deployed

IPC extends global collaboration with Equinix

11 May 2010

Equinix to host core IPC networking infrastructure to ensure close proximity with venues and financial communities located at six key Equinix data centres for financial markets.

Leading colocation provider C4L signs £2m deal with TelecityGroup

11 May 2010

C4L, a leading UK colocation provider, has today announced an extended £2 million hosting contract with TelecityGroup. The deal ensures the continuation of C4L’s long-term partnership with the Group, and enables the company to expand its services at one of the UK’s key data centre locations.

Green IT Awards Go to Raritan's Intelligent Power Management Solutions

11 May 2010

Raritan has won the 2010 Green IT Award in the ‘Hardware Product of the Year’ category for its Dominion® PX intelligent power distribution unit (PDU), which helps data centers measure power usage accurately. In addition, the company's Power IQ™ energy management software received a runner-up award in the 'Minister of Energy' category.

Compellent moves to 6Gbit/s SAS interfaces

11 May 2010

Compellent is going to give its storage array controllers more power, update its software and move to faster SAS drives.

Fortify Software Joins Cloud Security Alliance

11 May 2010

Leader in Software Security Assurance Offers Guidance & Expertise for Organizations to
Produce “Cloud-Ready” Software

Core Consultancy Launches enhanced version of Award winning DataSafe backup and recovery solution

10 May 2010

DataSafe High-Availability offers new onsite virtualisation, continuous data protection and remote recovery technologies to provide a comprehensive disaster recovery service for small and medium businesses across the UK

European market optimistic

07 May 2010

CB Richard Ellis, a leading real estate advisor, has announced that the total take-up for 2009 in the European Data Centre market was 48,660 sq m across the five tier 1 markets. This was a significant reduction on the 2008 total of 147,380 sq m. The most notable decline came in corporate activity, which accounted for 59 per cent of total take up in 2008 but just 18 per cent in 2009.

New York expansion for Equinix

06 May 2010

Equinix has announced the expansion of its NY4 International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre. The $80 million third phase provides approximately 1,250 cabinet equivalents, enabling Equinix to better service the largest metropolitan area in the United States — a region that includes leading financial firms and some of the largest media and enterprise companies in the world.

Verizon Business completes SAS 70 Type II examinations of global data centers

06 May 2010

Hosting centers support services that underpin company’s everything-as-a-service delivery model.

Cisco and VMware to accelerate data center virtualization opportunities

06 May 2010

Initiative provides new program benefits for partners delivering Cisco Unified Computing System and VMware vSphere.

Gartner says worldwide IT Services revenue declined 5.3 percent in 2009

06 May 2010

Worldwide IT services revenue totaled $763 billion in 2009, a 5.3 percent decline from 2008 revenue of $805 billion, according to Gartner, Inc.

Bull expands colocation Footprint

06 May 2010

Bull has expanded its equipment housing requirements with Interxion, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centres.

Equinix opens fourth data centre in Zurich

05 May 2010

New Equinix ZH4 International Business Exchange data centre to provide 2,300 gross square metres of additional capacity in Switzerland

Centrix Software Announces Release of WorkSpace iQ™

05 May 2010

New solution allows organizations to monitor and meter application delivery and consumption across virtual and physical data center resources; supports IT charge-back policies

Equinix completes Switch and Data acquisition

04 May 2010

Acquisition provides customers broader access to 35 global data centre metropolitan areas throughout North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific regions for extended market reach and interconnected business ecosystems.

New NetScaler Solutions Bring Cloud Economics and Elasticity to the Virtual Datacenter

04 May 2010

Citrix Systems unveiled its new Citrix® NetScaler® 9.2 release along with three powerful new NetScaler MPX™ hardware appliances and a new high-performance NetScaler VPX™ virtual appliance.