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News Keysource scores high for service

17 May 2012

When it comes to client service and satisfaction, Keysource is amongst the best performing businesses within the UK according to the company’s latest Net Promoter Score (NPS). Keysource has been using the customer loyalty metric since 2006 to measure performance and has achieved an impressive average score of 73.02 per cent.

News Gigas Hosts Its Cloud Hosting Platform at Interxion Madrid

17 May 2012

INTERXION HOLDING NV, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, today announced that Gigas, a Spanish company specialised in providing cloud hosting services, has decided to host its cloud service platform in Interxion’s Madrid data centre, from where it offers its services to its clients.

News Equinix Agrees to Acquire ancotel; Significantly Increases Network Density in Europe

16 May 2012

Agreement will increase Equinix capacity in Frankfurt and provide access to more than 400 networks for customers expanding into Europe

Equinix, Inc., a provider of global data center services, today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire ancotel GmbH, a leading provider of carrier-neutral colocation and interconnection services in Europe. With the acquisition of ancotel, Equinix gains one data center in Frankfurt with 2,100 square meters of data center capacity and increases its European network density by adding more than 400 network customers, which includes 200 new networks and 6,000 cross connects.

News Leading industry analyst firm selects FireHost for ‘Cool Vendor’ report in cloud security

16 May 2012

FireHost, a global secure cloud hosting company has been named one of Gartner’s Cool Vendors in Security: Services and Cloud Security for 2012. The report issued in April set out to identify vendors that offer innovative and enhanced technologies in cloud security that CIOs, CISOs and IT executives should consider when choosing a provider.  Earlier this year, FireHost was named in two Gartner Magic Quadrants as “One to Watch;” 2012 Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, and 2012 Magic Quadrant for Managed Hosting.

News Daisy Group unveil £1m bomb proof data centre in Manchester

14 May 2012

Unified business communications provider Daisy Group has opened the 12 tonne bomb proof door to its Manchester data centre, the most powerful and secure data storage facility in central Manchester.

News Arup Group selects Vtesse for colocated data centre operations

10 May 2012

Colocated Hertfordshire facility will support global design firm’s 10,000 employees and 3,000 CAD users, enhancing resilience and efficiency

Leading business communications provider Vtesse today announced that its subsidiary, Vtesse Cirrus, has been selected by Arup to provide colocated data centre services based at its Tier III+ facility in Hertfordshire.  The global design engineering firm will migrate its existing operations, comprising more than 500 pieces of equipment, from Arup’s West London headquarters to Vtesse Cirrus’ Hoddesdon data centre over a three month period.

News NaviSite Launches NaviCloud Intelligent Storage

09 May 2012

Key Component for BCDR andManaging Big Data in the Cloud

NaviSite, Inc., a premier provider of enterprise-class hosting, managed application, managed messaging and managed cloud services, introduced NaviCloud Intelligent Storage (NCIS) that enables enterprises to store, manage, and protect distributed, unstructured content with a flexible and scalable solution. NCIS offers IT an easy to manage, secure and reliable managed cloud storage solution that complements existing storage and retention requirementswhile also addressing several new business needs around mobility and on-demand storage.

News Virtustream Announces Cloud Partnership with nWorX Technologies JLT

09 May 2012

Leading Cloud Solution Provider Expands Geographic Coverage with Middle Eastern Partnership

Virtustream, Inc., the leading enterprise-class cloud solution provider, has announced that it has signed a partnership with nWorX Technologies JLT, based in Dubai, UAE to develop and deliver innovative cloud solutions and services in the Middle East, Africa, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) regions.

News London businesses ‘stress test’ their Olympic preparedness – Vtesse warns not to neglect data centres

09 May 2012

Over the next two days, businesses across London will be participating in the Capital’s largest co-ordinated test of IT, telecommunications and transport, to test their preparedness for the Olympics.  Whilst this ‘stress test’ gives companies a chance to assess their contingency plans, it neglects one of the most significant areas for any organisation today, the data centre.

News Hiroshi Kobayashi appointed as new MD of Telehouse and KDDI Europe

09 May 2012

New MD shares vision at Frankfurt Data Centre Opening Ceremony

Telehouse, a leading provider of global data centres & managed ICT services and subsidiary of KDDI, has announced the appointment of Hiroshi Kobayashi as the new Managing Director of its European Division. Kobayashi-san succeeds Tokuji Mitsui and will be based in London, the European headquarters.

News Cloud services are now tailor-made for Syscom

09 May 2012

Syscom partners with Rise to offer customers hosted services

Rise, a provider of hosted services, has today announced that it will supply integrated business software solutions firm, Syscom, with a hosted services platform, in order to support its customers demand for a faster, more cost effective IT infrastructure

News Qbrick Consolidates Servers to Interxion

03 May 2012

Interxion HOLDING NV, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, today announced that Qbrick, a European provider of streaming media, has chosen Interxion to house a large part of their overall server capacity in the Nordic region.  Qbrick cited a greater end-user need for capacity combined with demand for increased quality behind its decision for consolidation.

Articles Node4 helps Provident Financial set up new home for data

03 May 2012

With Provident Financial growing and moving into new headquarters, Node4 helped them to outsource their data centre while maintaining control.

News UKFast Up For Data Centre Awards Double

03 May 2012

Manchester hosting and cloud specialist UKFast has been named as a finalist in two categories in this year’s Data Centre Solutions Awards, less than a year after opening their first wholly-owned data centre.

News Keysource makes board appointments

03 May 2012

As part of Keysource’s ongoing strategy of building on its continued success as a leading Data Centre design and build company, two long serving members of the senior team have joined the newly created main board.

News PEER 1 Hosting doubles colocation footprint in Portsmouth

01 May 2012

Demand for mission critical hosting infrastructure drives expansion

PEER 1 Hosting, the global online IT hosting provider, is today announcing that it has doubled its colocation space in its data centre in Portsmouth. The move is in response to demand from businesses in London and the South looking for a world-class data centre and network for their mission-critical hosting solutions to operate on.

News IT Europa European IT Excellence Awards, recognise Rise

01 May 2012

Hosted services provider shortlisted for Service Provider of the Year

Rise, a leading provider of hosted services, has today announced that it has been shortlisted in the IT Europa European IT Excellence Awards, in recognition of its commitment to supporting its channel partners in the delivery of hosted and Cloud based IT solutions.

News Aimes Grid Services and Keysource provide next generation cloud computing data centre infrastructure

30 Apr 2012

In partnership with Liverpool Innovation Park, AIMES Grid Services, a provider of Cloud services, has appointed Keysource to design and build a new data centre to support its next generation cloud computing infrastructure. The facility at Liverpool Innovation Park is the first phase of a new Cloud Computing Campus. The initial development will provide up to 10,000sq ft of net technical space and the capacity to develop a total of 35,000sq ft.

News Colt to build major new energy efficient data centre in the Netherlands

27 Apr 2012

Colt announces site for its 20th data centre to meet increasing demand for modular data centres

Colt, Europe’s leading information delivery platform, today announced its first Modular Data Centre deployment in the Netherlands on a 39,000m² site. Colt will initially deploy 2,000m² of data centre space at the site, before increasing its capacity to 20 halls over 10,000m². With a significant anchor tenant already secured, Colt expects to commence operations at the new carrier neutral data centre in early 2013.

News UK cloud computing company iomart Hosting sponsors youth football teams

27 Apr 2012

iomart Hosting announces the first winners of its Host Your Kit competition

iomart Hosting has announced the names of the first 10 youth football teams that will wear its sponsored kit next season.

News Cloud providers should lead by example when it comes to security, says Claranet

26 Apr 2012

Report issued at InfoSecurity 2012 highlights lack of security offered to businesses by third-party suppliers

Managed services provider Claranet has highlighted the need for cloud and IT service providers to think about security in light of a report issued by PwC at this year’s InfoSecurity event in London. The report highlights the growing number of organisations that have suffered data breaches as a result of poor internal and external supplier security.

News UKFast Recognised for VMware Expertise

26 Apr 2012

Manchester-based cloud and hosting specialist UKFast has been named as a VMware Enterprise Service Provider, reaffirming the firm’s position as one of the leading providers of VMware vCloud solutions.

News Equinix Selected for Global Roll-out of BT Radianz Venue Services

26 Apr 2012

Offering enables managed hosted solutions, lowest optimal latency and global connectivity to key financial communities and trading venues

Equinix, Inc., a provider of global data center services, today announced that BT, a leading provider of connectivity, hosting and managed services solutions, has selected Equinix data centers for the roll-out of BT Radianz Venue, a cloud-based high-performance suite of services designed to enhance BT’s proximity hosting capabilities and provide the lowest optimal latency and interconnectivity between trading venues throughout the world’s top financial markets.

News PEER 1 Hosting and Search Laboratory boost online ad spend

25 Apr 2012

Hosting and search marketing company show how to increase the impact of ad budgets

Findings from PEER 1 Hosting, the global online IT hosting provider, and its new search marketing partner Search Laboratory, are showing visitors to Internet World, how to boost ad budgets.

Articles Trace Solutions - Case Study

25 Apr 2012

Trace Solutions is one of the leading lights in the provision of automated property management software systems to the UK commercial property market. Driven by innovation, Trace Solutions produces software and systems specific to the needs of managing agents, investors and occupiers. The company operates out of offices in London serving 200 clients. Trace Solutions software is used to manage iconic buildings such as City Tower in Manchester and Fort Dunlop in the Midlands. Trace Solutions is part of the Trace Group, a leading provider of business IT solutions.

News 19 million cyber attacks blocked by FireHost in Q1 2012 - Web Application Attack Report

24 Apr 2012

Secure cloud hosting company, FireHost, has today revealed details about type and origin of web attacks that it has successfully blocked from causing harm to clients’ web applications and databases hosted at its secure US and European data centres during Q1 2012.

News iomart Hosting provides cloud support for UK commercial property management software

24 Apr 2012

Trace Solutions chooses iomart’s fully owned UK data centres

UK cloud computing and managed hosting provider iomart Hosting has enabled a leading property management software company to offer direct and affordable web access to its customers.

News Sentrum exceeds first quarter expectations

24 Apr 2012

Sentrum, a specialist in data centre solutions, today announced that several significant client wins were closed in the first quarter of 2012, including a deal with a leading global retailer and another with a major US bank, which equated to 50,000 sq ft of space being leased. In parallel, the company has also secured an industry ‘first’ accreditation; serving to strengthen its roadmap for the future.

News Keysource recognised by Uptime Institute's 2012 GEIT Awards

24 Apr 2012

Keysource and the University of Leicester have been recognised by the Uptime Institute’s Green Enterprise IT (GEIT) Awards. They were joint finalists in the Facility Retrofit category for the design and build of a high-efficiency data centre capable of supporting the high densities associated with High Performance Computing (HPC) to host specialist IT services for researchers.

News Volta announces the appointment of Colo-X as sole agent for new, ultra-low latency, Central London data centre

23 Apr 2012

Colo-X to help financial and media companies find colocation space in Great Sutton Street, EC1

Volta, the specialist provider of data centres to the financial, media and content industries, today announces it has appointed Colo-X, The Colocation Exchange, to act as sole agent for Volta’s new Great Sutton Street data centre. The data centre, based in the iconic former Reuters building on Great Sutton Street, EC1, is ideally suited for businesses utilising latency-sensitive services in the City as well as content, new media and cloud service providers in Soho or London’s Silicon Roundabout. The building has served the data centre needs of the City for over 25 years and, following a complete refurbishment, will take on a new lease of life as a state-of-the-art data centre facility built to the highest industry standards. 

News Entrepreneurial Talent - Use It or Lose It!

18 Apr 2012

Businesses that neglect to nurture entrepreneurial spirit within their teams risk losing their most talented employees.

News Leading hospitality chain De Vere Group chooses TelecityGroup to host its core IT infrastructure

17 Apr 2012

De Vere moves to innovative virtualisation technology to maximise efficiency of IT footprint

De Vere Group, the luxury hotel and hospitality chain, today announced that it has chosen to host its core IT infrastructure in one of TelecityGroup’s state-of-the-art data centres in Manchester. The move will enable De Vere Group to ensure the resilience of its centralised infrastructure, ensuring each of the company’s sixty-five locations across the UK has availability of business-critical systems at all times. 

News Deutsche Telekom Joins the Equinix Ethernet Exchange To Extend Its Customer Reach

17 Apr 2012

Europe’s largest telecommunications company’s wholesale arm ICSS gains access to thousands of potential customers, brings millions of international and German locations on-net

Equinix, Inc., a provider of global data center services, today announced that Deutsche Telekom International Carrier Sales & Solutions (ICSS), the wholesale arm of Deutsche Telekom AG, has joined the Equinix Ethernet Exchange in order to better serve the increasing demand for Ethernet traffic. Deutsche Telekom has now automatic access to Platform Equinix™ and a 4,000-strong global ecosystem of networks, enterprises, cloud and content service providers. This agreement also expands the depth and reach of carrier Ethernet services available through the Equinix Ethernet Exchange to connect to millions of locations within Deutsche Telekom’s strong on-net coverage in Western, Central and Eastern Europe (including Germany).

Videos Chico's Customer Testimonial

17 Apr 2012

Learn how Schneider Electric's modular data center solution is helping Chico's data center be more business-wise and future-driven.

News Flexiant to Join Oracle, HP Technical Consulting and Colt Technology Services to Discuss Data Centre Expansion Options

16 Apr 2012

Tony Lucas panellist for “Expansion Options: Comparing Modular/Cloud/Convert/New/Expand Old” at IMN European Data Centres Forum on April 24-25, 2012

Tony Lucas, Founder of Flexiant, a leading European provider of cloud orchestration software for on-demand, fully automated provisioning of cloud services, will join Colt Technology Services, Oracle and HP Technical Consulting to discuss data centre expansion options at IMN's upcomingEuropean Data Centres Forum on Financing, Investing & Real Estate Development on April 24-25, 2012 in London, UK.

News Interxion Installs Sleeping Pods to Keep London’s Data Moving During the Olympics

12 Apr 2012

Interxion, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, today announced that it is installing sleeping pods in the breakout area of its London data centre to ensure that its high service levels are continually met throughout the Olympic Games.

News Equinix Builds New Data Center in Zurich; Expands Geneva Facility

12 Apr 2012

Expansion in Switzerland meets customer demand for highly connected and secure data centers

Equinix, Inc., a provider of global data center services, today announced plans to build a fifth International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data center inZurich (ZH5), and expand GV2, one of its Geneva-based data centers. The investments are in response to sustained customer growth and increasing demand for network-dense, secure data centers in Switzerland. The expansion capital required for these projects is already reflected in the company’s 2012 guidance.

News Fast moving cloud hosting company, Zunicore, signs 3700 cloud businesses in its first four months

04 Apr 2012

Zunicore, the public cloud division of global IT hosting company PEER 1 Hosting, announces today that it has registered 3700 businesses just four months after its official launch in November 2011.  Zunicore, a professional-grade cloud service, offers businesses an innovative public cloud with enterprise-level compute power and reliability, packaged for project-sized consumption.

News UK web hosting company Easyspace unveils upgraded custom dedicated server range

02 Apr 2012

Easyspace’s custom-built server range offers up to 300GB RAM and enhanced SLAs 

Leading UK web hosting and domain name company Easyspace has upgraded its range of dedicated servers to meet the enhanced needs of modern business.

News RapidSwitch offers 10GB of cloud backup free with every server ordered for World Backup Day

30 Mar 2012

Multi-site backup giveaway by European dedicated server leader 

RapidSwitch, a leading European supplier of self-managed dedicated server solutions, is celebrating World Backup Day by giving away 10GB of premium cloud backup space for FREE with every server ordered this weekend.

News virtualDCS successfully launch their Virtual Service Provider (VSP) offering

30 Mar 2012

On Wednesday 21^st March 2012, Cloud Computing experts’ virtualDCS officially launched their innovative new service, which enables users to create custom Cloud solutions.

News RapidSwitch reports 90+% customer satisfaction for its self-managed dedicated server solutions

21 Mar 2012

Customers praise cost effective and quality hosting provision in Maidenhead data centre

More than 90% of customers who use RapidSwitch, a leading European supplier of self-managed dedicated server solutions, have reported good to excellent satisfaction levels with the service they receive from the iomart Group plc-owned hosting company.

News The Only Way is Ethics: The Co-operative Bank funds new green data centres

21 Mar 2012

Leading green internet hosting company UKFast is seeing expansion and job creation with a £1.2m loan from the Manchester Corporate Banking Centre (CBC) of the Co-operative Bank.

News AMD Launches New Platform for Dedicated Web Hosting Providers

20 Mar 2012

New AMD Opteron™ 3200 Series Processor Family Changes Industry Economics for Single-Socket, Dedicated Hosting and Cloud customers

AMD today announced the latest solution as part of its ongoing Web/Cloud initiative with the launch of the newAMD Opteron™ 3200 Series processor. 

News The Bunker Partners with Expolink Europe to Deliver Secure Cloud-based Incident and Security Management Solution

20 Mar 2012

The Bunker, provider of ultra secure Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Colocation, and Outsourced IT services from within Europe’s most secure data centres, has announced a new partnership with Expolink Europe to deliver its Incident and Security Management system as a secure Software as a Service (SaaS) solution.

News Interxion Connects Hilversum’s Media Community to their Amsterdam Campus

20 Mar 2012

Interxion, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, today announced a new fibre connection between its Amsterdam campus and its Hilversum site, which is home to Technicolor and the Dutch Media Gateway.

News Vtesse eases Olympics disruption with short term data centre services

19 Mar 2012

Colocation provider unveils six month contracts & remote access to help UK businesses operate as normal during ‘lockdown London’ 

Vtesse, a leading UK business communications provider, today announced that its subsidiary, Vtesse Cirrus, is offering short term data centre service contracts at its Hertfordshire facility, specifically designed to reduce disruption for any businesses operating within the Olympic Route Network (ORN) or Paralympic Route Network (PRN) during London 2012.

Videos Vienna Internet eXchange

19 Mar 2012

Interxion interview Christian Panigl from Vienna Internet eXchange.

News BSO and Equinix develop a global sales partnership

19 Mar 2012

With this partnership BSO Network Solutions becomes one of the largest clients of Equinix France and will be capable of ensuring the delivery and availability of IT hosting space in the Greater Paris Region, at very competitive prices

In response to the continuing, growing demand for hosting, the saturation of the Datacenters and the new requirements for environmental protection, BSO Network Solutions recently added to its list of Paris area partners the Equinix sites at Pantin and Saint-Denis and has commenced marketing 1200 kW of operating power.

News Cloud security worries should focus on data location, says Claranet

19 Mar 2012

Fifth Annual State of the Network Global Study reveals 74% of respondents concerned about cloud security 

Cloud users say 'security' is their biggest concern according to a new survey, but the research does not provide detail on specific security worries. Managed services provider Claranet says that the most important security question that every cloud user needs to ask is: ‘Where is my data being hosted and how well integrated is a cloud service with network service?’

News TelecityGroup France recertified to ISO 27001, 9001, 14001 and OHSAS 18001 standards

16 Mar 2012

Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance audit demonstrates TelecityGroup’s industry-leadership in France

TelecityGroup, Europe's industry-leading provider of premium carrier-neutral data centres, announced today that all its data centres in France have been recertified with the ISO 27001, ISO 14001, ISO 9001, OHSAS 18001 accreditations. The globally recognised certifications - for information security, environmental management, quality management, and occupational health and safety – demonstrate TelecityGroup’s ongoing commitment to provide the optimum environment for its customers to house their telecoms, internet and IT infrastructure.

News FireHost launches secure cloud data centre in Phoenix, Arizona

15 Mar 2012

Offers greater flexibility and an ideal location for disaster recovery requirements

As part of FireHost’s global expansion, which saw the secure cloud host launch operations in Europe earlier this year, the company is now offering services at a state-of-the-art data centre in Phoenix, Arizona.  The Phoenix facility mirrors the innovative, secure cloud hosting environments FireHost has established in Dallas and London, and will allow customers an additional option in choosing where their servers reside.  This is another step in a line of offerings the company provides to ensure customers have the flexibility and control they want for their environments.  New and existing clients can now deploy secure cloud servers in any of the three locations directly through their MyFireHost customer portal.

News The Bunker achieves highest level of PCI DSS certification

13 Mar 2012

The Bunker, provider of Ultra Secure Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Colocation, and Outsourced IT services from within Europe’s most secure data centres, is pleased to announce that it has achieved certification on all 12 of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) requirements at both of its data centres. This makes it one of the few organisations able to offer a full end-to-end PCI DSS service based on pre-certified components.

News Phoenix NAP Selects Interxion for European Node Location

12 Mar 2012

Interxion, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, today announced that Phoenix NAP®, a full service data centre, premier infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider and primary network access point (NAP), has chosen Interxion to house Phoenix NAP’s new European node in Amsterdam. The node should be completed during the second quarter of 2012. Phoenix NAP cited the data centre’s geographical location, number of carriers and competitive pricing in its decision selecting Interxion.

News virtualDCS is to launch their exciting new service at the Yorkshire Mafia conference

12 Mar 2012

On Wednesday 21^st March 2012, Cloud Computing experts’ virtualDCS are set to premier their new innovative Cloud service at the exhibition

Yorkshire based company Virtual Data Centre Services (virtualDCS) provide innovative ways to host business systems for companies around the world. The team specialises in Cloud services such as: Infrastructure as a Service, Software as a Service, Recovery as a Service, Voice as a Service and Private Clouds.

News Olympics pose power conundrum for businesses

12 Mar 2012

Companies move away from London as concerns of a power squeeze loom

As the countdown to the Olympics draws ever nearer to the opening ceremony, businesses are moving with haste to safeguard their IT provisions to minimise disruption.

News Launch of Pulsant creates powerful new IT & hosting partner for the UK mid-market

08 Mar 2012

Market leading capability, nationwide network of datacentres and ‘personal touch’ will drive success

Today sees the launch of Pulsant, a powerful and leading supplier of Cloud and Managed Hosting services to the UK mid-market.  Formed by the combination and integration of Lumison, DediPower and Bluesquare Data, Pulsant is a £30 million turnover company which is poised for rapid growth fuelled by a £6 million 2012 investment plan that includes new staff, additional facilities and services as well as targeted sales initiatives.

News The Green Grid announces new material to advance data centre sustainability and productivity

08 Mar 2012

Research, Tools and Case Studies Provide Roadmap for Sustainability at 5^th Annual Members Meeting and Forum

As the global IT industry’s leading voice for advancing resource efficiency in the data centre and business computing ecosystems, The Green Grid introduced new materials today at its annual Member Meeting and Forum. Data centre, business and sustainability leaders from across the globe convened at the annual event to collaborate, network with peers and receive these new research papers, survey results and measurement tools. These tools will provide a roadmap towards increased resource efficiency and productivity in business computing.

Deleted The Green Grid announces new material to advance data centre sustainability and productivity

08 Mar 2012

Research, Tools and Case Studies Provide Roadmap for Sustainability at 5^th Annual Members Meeting and Forum

As the global IT industry’s leading voice for advancing resource efficiency in the data centre and business computing ecosystems, The Green Grid introduced new materials today at its annual Member Meeting and Forum. Data centre, business and sustainability leaders from across the globe convened at the annual event to collaborate, network with peers and receive these new research papers, survey results and measurement tools. These tools will provide a roadmap towards increased resource efficiency and productivity in business computing.

News European Data Centre Association (EUDCA) to launch at DataCentres 2012

06 Mar 2012

The newly formed EUDCA to exhibit at the leading conference for content relating to the data centre industry, where they will also be welcoming new members.

Data Centres 2012 (www.datacentres2012.com) to be held in Nice on the 23rd and 24th of May has been selected as the event to formally launch the new European Data Centre Associationbecause of its regional audience and because of its reputation as the leading conference for content relating to the data centre industry. The European Data Centre Association will exhibit at the event, and welcomes new members to meet there.

News The Bunker successfully renews IGSoC status

06 Mar 2012

The Bunker delivers Ultra Secure Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Colocation, and Outsourced IT services from within Europe’s most secure data centres, and has successfully completed the IGSoC (Information Government Statement of Compliance) approval process for a further 12 months.

News Claranet joins the Cloud Industry Forum

05 Mar 2012

Leading managed services provider becomes latest member of industry body

Claranet, the managed services provider, has today announced it has formally joined the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF), the industry body established to promote trust, security, and transparency within the cloud sector.

News AMS-IX to launch point-of-presence at TelecityGroup´s new Amsterdam data centre

05 Mar 2012

World’s largest internet hub AMS-IX and TelecityGroup cement relationship in new data centre location

TelecityGroup, the leading provider of premium carrier-neutral data centres, and Internet Exchange AMS-IX has announced that an AMS-IX point-of-presence will be built in TelecityGroup’s new Amsterdam data centre, AMS 5.  The extension of the partnership between TelecityGroup and AMS-IX into the new facility will enable both parties to continue to provide the highest levels of connectivity and peering options to organisations colocating in the Netherlands.

Videos Private Cloud with KDDI - Paul Green Arkessa

05 Mar 2012

Paul Green, Technical and Marketing Director of Arkessa speaks about private cloud architecture with Telehouse and KDDI. 

News Cloudgermany.de Opens Cloud Testlab at Interxion

01 Mar 2012

INTERXION, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, today announced that Cloudgermany.de will house its Cloud Testlab within Interxion’s Frankfurt data centre. This proof-of-concept test environment allows service providers and system integrators to test and develop cloud services at high speed and with best-in-class performance guarantees.

News Node4 launches cloud without the capital

01 Mar 2012

New n4Cloud will offer bespoke route to the cloud without huge upfront investment

Today, data centre and communications firm Node4 has launched n4Cloud, its new cloud infrastructure. n4Cloud is a high quality, high specification infrastructure that offers organisations flexibility by allowing them to build their own cloud-based solution using a ‘pick and mix’ approach.

News Hundred not out for Rise’s channel partner programme

01 Mar 2012

Rise, a leading Gloucester based provider of Cloud computing services, is building on its success, which has seen it recruit over 100 UK based partners in just over two years, by holding two partner recruitment events in Manchester and Reading during March.

News GoGrid Successfully Completes SOC 1 (SSAE 16) Type II Audit

01 Mar 2012

IaaS Leader Safeguards Its Customers’ Cloud Infrastructure with Comprehensive Protection 

GoGrid today announced that it is one of the first cloud infrastructure providers to successfully complete its SOC 1 Statement of Standards for Attestation Engagements No. 16 (SSAE 16) audit. SSAE 16 is the new auditing standard developed in 2011 by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) to replace SAS 70. This audit documents that GoGrid is financially reliable, and therefore is a safe partner for providing critical Internet hosting and data storage services. In other words, SSAE 16 defines a widely accepted, consistent way for organizations to disclose independently assessed information about the design and operation of internal controls related to the services they provide. 

News Timico agrees sale and leaseback on Newark Data Centre

29 Feb 2012

DTZ, part of UGL Services, has successfully completed a sale and leaseback deal on a multi-million pound Data Centre in Newark on Trent, Nottinghamshire on behalf ofcommunications service provider, Timico.

News PEER 1 Hosting simplifies the web for SMB’s

28 Feb 2012

Web management and server administration tools unveiled

PEER 1 Hosting, the global online IT hosting provider, is today announcing the launch of two managed hosting products aimed at simplifying the web for small to medium sized businesses. The upgraded portfolio includes cPanel/WHM and Fulcrum, and is designed to make it easy and quick for SMB’s to manage their servers and configure their websites and email accounts.

News Infinity Adds ‘Stockley Park’ Site to UK Data Centre Portfolio

28 Feb 2012

On the eve of Data Centre World at London’s Olympia, Infinity today announced the addition of a new premium West London facility to its growing portfolio of data centre locations. The new ‘Stockley Park’ data centre will be operational in Autumn 2012.

News iomart Hosting takes UK digital media agency into the cloud

28 Feb 2012

New Brand Vision Group migrates to highly available virtual platform

iomart Hosting has delivered a highly available cloud platform to support the work of UK digital media agency New Brand Vision Group.

News NaviSite Introduces Enterprise-Class Desktop-as-a-Service

28 Feb 2012

NaviSite, Inc., a premier provider of enterprise-class hosting, managed applications, managed messaging and managed cloud services, today introduced an enterprise-class, cloud-based Desktop-as-a-Services (DaaS) offering that enables IT organisations to deliver virtual desktop services to local and remote users from the cloud with an increased level of security and management and the same functionality as traditional desktops.

News The Cannon Technologies T4 Events Series Helps To Build Better Data Centres

27 Feb 2012

Because the data centre is at the heart of business operations, the roll call of stakeholders has grown, and now regularly includes C-level executives and Business Managers. To help organisations seeking to create, replace or improve their data centre infrastructure, Cannon Technologies is launching the Cannon T4 Event series at Data Centre World 2012. The series is firmly targeted at the growing diversity of disciplines involved in making critical data centre decisions, concerning amongst other things, cooling, power and security.

News Rackspace Addresses UK Cloud Skills Market With Recruitment Drive

27 Feb 2012

Rackspace launches major recruitment drive Mission 350 to support the continued growth of cloud computing in the UK

Rackspace® Hosting, the service leader in cloud computing, has announced the start of a positive training and recruitment initiative Mission 350 designed to encourage skills development among university-level technology students and address job needs at its UK office locations in Hayes and Slough.

News Lack of understanding acting as main barrier to cloud adoption

27 Feb 2012

Perceived risks are causing delays to adoption, whilst fears over data sovereignty still reign

Perceived risks over service control and fears over data sovereignty are the key issues that are restricting UK organisations from implementing cloud services, according to recent research from Claranet, the managed services provider.

News UKFast is Only Hosting Provider in Sunday Times Top 100

27 Feb 2012

Team Focus Puts Employees on Cloud Nine

Manchester hosting firm UKFast is celebrating its place as the only hosting company in The Sunday Times 100 Best Small Companies to Work For.

Articles IT Services firm reduces client’s IT costs by 30 per cent with Cloud services - Case Study

27 Feb 2012

IT services provider Softwerx wanted to offer Cloud services to clients. The company worked with Rise, a firm that specializes in infrastructure-as-a-service, to develop its Cloud services. With the help of Rise, Softwerx reduces client’s IT costs and tailors services to their specific needs.

Videos iLand Video Testimonial

23 Feb 2012

iland, the global cloud infrastructure provider, delivers a range of infrastructure services that help enterprise organisations ensure on-demand IT is delivered cost-effectively and aligned with business objectives.

News Sprint chooses TelecityGroup’s new Manchester facility to meet growing business connectivity demands

22 Feb 2012

First US provider to have Point of Presence in new state-of-the-art Manchester facility

TelecityGroup has today announced that Sprint (NYSE: S) will have a presence in Joule House its new state-of-the-art Manchester data centre from launch. The expansion is expected to  help meet the added connectivity demands in Europe driven by the continued uptake of cloud services by enterprise clients, and enable TelecityGroup’s customers to enjoy the widest connectivity and peering options from the facility.

News Cloud Computing; user expectations maturing as security remains number one concern

22 Feb 2012

Cloud computing has now grown from being a promising business concept to one of the fastest growing segments of the IT industry. The prospect of drastically boosting infrastructure resources at a lower cost is appealing, but security and control over the infrastructure remain significant concerns. Games developer Zynga, for example, has announced a move away from Amazon Web Services towards a Private Cloud in order to maximise the reliability and performance of its network.

News Rackspace Eyes Government G-Cloud Contracts

20 Feb 2012

Rackspace advocates pay-as-you-go model for UK Government G-Cloud

Rackspace® Hosting, the service leader in cloud computing, has been selected as a vendor to the government’s £60m G-Cloud framework. Rackspace can now supply Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and higher level Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) technologies to UK Government departments. 

News PEER 1 Hosting smoothly migrates over 1,600 servers to new Portsmouth data centre

17 Feb 2012

PEER 1 Hosting, the global online IT hosting provider, has today revealed the successful migration of over 1,600 devices and over 120TB of SAN data, to its recently opened green data centre in Portsmouth.

News Rackspace Acquires SharePoint911 to Provide Industry Leading SharePoint Expertise

17 Feb 2012

Rackspace takes Fanatical Support into the application layer with world-class SharePoint experts

Rackspace^® Hosting, the service leader in cloud computing, today announced its acquisition of SharePoint911, an industry leader in SharePoint consulting, training, and "JumpStart" services within SharePoint. The unification of both companies provides capabilities to deliver unparalleled SharePoint hosting solutions along with expert services to the enterprise market.

News 45% of European IT Decision Makers View Security and SLAs as Leading Barriers to Cloud, According to New Cloud Computing Survey from Interxion

17 Feb 2012

Insight into cloud trends reveals tremendous opportunity for Service Providers and System Integrators to support companies’ transition to cloud

INTERXION HOLDING NV, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, today announced the results of its cloud computing survey, which found that 45% of European IT decision makers view a lack of security and service level agreements (SLAs) as  top concerns for  moving to the cloud. Created with service providers (SPs) and system integrators (SIs) in mind – two of the key groups supporting companies’ transition to the cloud – the survey results aim to provide a clear understanding of how organisations are using the cloud today and plan to be using the cloud tomorrow.

News Netplan’s Public Cloud Service Attains VMware vCloud® Powered Validation

16 Feb 2012

Netplan Internet Solutions Ltd has announced that its VMware public cloud service has achieved VMware vCloud Powered status, illustrating to customers that the company’s cloud  services are underpinned by VMware's leading virtualization and cloud computing technology, namely VMware vSphere® and VMware vCloud Director™.  A member of the VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP), Netplan provides its VMware vCloud Powered service as a set of cloud computing services across a common platform, supporting the largest set of existing applications and offering distinctive application mobility uniquely available from VMware.

News City Lifeline enables iMarket Communications to extend its network to the UK

14 Feb 2012

Housing its network operations centre (NOC) in Lifeline House offers the UK financial, banking and energy customers a reliable and cost-effective telecoms service

City Lifeline, the London-based independent carrier-neutral colocation data centre, today announced that iMarket Communications has purchased space within its data centre to support the company’s strategic move into the UK market. By housing its trader voice and data solutions within Lifeline House, iMarket will now offer the UK financial, banking and energy industries ahigh-performance telecom service in Central London.

News Long-term Price Visibility Helps CCP Games Select Verne Global's Icelandic Campus for Corporate Hosting

10 Feb 2012

Long-term Price Visibility Helps CCP Games Select Verne Global’s Icelandic Campus for Corporate Hosting

Producer of EVE Online, Dust514 and World of Darkness goes green with hosting programme at world’s only dual sourced, 100% renewable powered data centre

Verne Global, an innovative, UK-based developer of power conscious data centre campuses, has announced that CCP Games (CCP), one of the world’s leading independent game developers and the creator of EVE Online, is moving some of its corporate hosting to its data centre campus in Iceland.  After a careful study of alternatives to its primary hosting facility in London, CCP identified Verne Global as a very attractive hosting option; based on the site’s 100% dual sourced renewable power grid, long-term power price visibility and strategic location between its two primary markets.

News Verne Global Selects Veteran Systems Integrator Opin Kerfi as its IT Service Partner in Iceland

10 Feb 2012

Leading HP, Microsoft and Cisco System Integrator to provide remote and on-site support to Verne Global’s colocation and wholesale data centre customers

Verne Global, an innovative, UK-based developer of power conscious data centre campuses, has announced that Opin Kerfi has been selected as its preferred systems integrator for its dual sourced, 100% renewable-powered wholesale data centre campus in Keflavik, Iceland. Opin Kerfi has been a key part of the IT industry in Iceland and currently has over 115 trained IT professionals on staff and revenues of $40 million.  Since 1985, Opin Kerfi has served as the IT partner for leading Icelandic companies, financial institutions, governmental agencies, the healthcare and the educational industries. In addition to the professional services agreement, Opin Kerfi is also taking space in the data centre for its own hosting requirements to support its growing managed services programmes.

News iomart Hosting carries out group wide virtualisation for office2office

10 Feb 2012

UK Government supplier migrates to iomart Hosting’s London data centre

Cloud computing and managed hosting services provider iomart Hosting has announced that it has carried out a group-wide virtualisation for office2office (o2o), the sole provider of offices supplies and Closed Loop document recycling services for the UK government

News Colt to expand Pan-European network reach into Iceland

10 Feb 2012

Colt to provide Icelandic gateway to Europe for customers by connecting world's first dual-sourced 100 per cent renewably powered  data centre

Colt, Europe’s leading information delivery platform, has announced plans to extend its European network into Iceland with a new Point-of-Presence (PoP) located in Verne Global’s new dual-sourced 100 per cent renewably powered data centre campus in Keflavik. The new PoP will connect Colt’s extensive pan-European access and backbone network with the Verne’s data centre site, providing a gateway connection from mainland Europe into Iceland. 

Videos Interxion with iStreamPlanet

10 Feb 2012

Khurram Siddiqui, Vice President and GM Europe, iStreamPlanet and Jonothan Wood, Director of Digital Media Segment, Interxion, on why iStreamPlanet chose Interxion.

News Cogenta builds virtual data centre with a couple of clicks

06 Feb 2012

Price intelligence firm is among first customers for Claranet’s Virtual Data Centre service

Market intelligence firm Cogenta has migrated key elements of its IT infrastructure into a virtual data centre that it provisioned itself – with only a few clicks of a mouse.

Articles Datacentres set for growth in Central and Eastern Europe

06 Feb 2012

Datacentres have experienced tremendous growth rates over the past five years, and now represent the most critical component of the Internet economy. Without datacentres, the emerging Cloud opportunities for agility and IT efficiency and increased competitiveness would not be possible to realise.

Articles The Distance - Case Study

06 Feb 2012

UK creative and digital agency The Distance believes in just that – going the distance for its clients. Be it developing innovative new mobile applications for its customers, or designing and hosting ecommerce sites, The Distance is in it for the long haul, helping its clients not only create an online presence capable of meeting todayʼs demand, but also ensuring they can cope with whatever tomorrow throws at them.

News Interxion welcomes the European Commission's Cloud Partnership initiative

02 Feb 2012

Interxion, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, welcomes and supports the invitation from Neelie Kroes at the World Economic Forum in Davos to create a European Cloud Partnership.

News Key alliance shakes up ecommerce mid-market

02 Feb 2012

PEER 1 Hosting partners with e2x enabling world class, ATG based, online stores to be live in 14 weeks

PEER 1 Hosting, the global online IT hosting provider, is today announcing its partnership with e2x, one of the most experienced Oracle ATG partners in Europe, having successfully delivered international e-commerce solutions for over a decade. The partnership will offer businesses expanding their global online presence a cost effective, all-in-one e-commerce solution, including world-wide hosting services.

News Boox chooses The Bunker to provide secure cloud solution

02 Feb 2012

The Bunker, provider of  Ultra Secure Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Colocation, and Outsourced IT from within Europe’s most secure data centres, is pleased to announce that Boox, an entrepreneurial web-based accountancy solution provider for independent freelancers and contractors, has chosen The Bunker to provide an ultra secure cloud service.

News Data centre provider Node4 is the company to watch in 2012

01 Feb 2012

Ambitious plans and growing trends in cloud computing position Node4 as a company that will lead the pack this year

By 2014 more than 50% of global workloads will take place in the cloud, rising to 57% by 2015, predicts Cisco’s Global Cloud Index. For 2010, that number was just 21%. By 2015, one-third of data centre traffic will be cloud traffic. Cloud computing, and “meeting the big data challenge” are two of Gartner’s Top Ten strategic technology trends for 2012.

Articles Top Magazines Lower TCO - Case Study

31 Jan 2012

Condé Nast Digital Germany uses GoGrid to deliver content — securely, flexibly, and inexpensively

Condé Nast Digital Germany relies on GoGrid to distribute the high-quality content in several of Germany’s top print magazines over the web. When they visit the German-language sites for Glamour, GQ, and Vogue, readers find more than just the latest articles. Condé Nast Digital Germany provides them with archived content, communities, enhanced shopping, special microsites, and more. Reliant on advertising revenue, Condé Nast Digital Germany needs to keep its costs low while delivering an engaging experience to site visitors.

News Record Number of Exhibitors and Visitors for Data Centre World 2012

31 Jan 2012

Over 140 data centre vendors, resellers and equipment suppliers to showcase solutions between 29th February and 1st March 2012

A record number of exhibitors will attend the fifth annual Data Centre World exhibition and conference, taking place at London Olympia between 29th February and 1st March 2012. 

News NL-ix to Establish ‘Super-Core-Site’ in New Equinix AM3 Data Center

30 Jan 2012

100Gbit/s capacity node to be established in new 6,400 m² Equinix data center

Equinix, Inc., a provider of global data center services, today announced that NL-ix, one of the world’s leading Internet Exchanges, is to establish a ‘super-core-site’ with up to 100 Gbit/s port-capacity in the new 6,400 square metre AM3 facility, Equinix’s latest International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data center.

News Condé Nast Digital Germany Powers Secure, Flexible, Cost-Effective Content Delivery With GoGrid’s Cloud Infrastructure Services

30 Jan 2012

GoGrid’s Hybrid Architecture Helps Leading Global Publisher Meet Its High Standards for Data Security

GoGrid, a leading cloud infrastructure company, today announced that Condé Nast Digital Germany, publisher of top magazines including the German-language editions of Vogue and Glamour, relies on GoGrid cloud infrastructure services to distribute its content over the web. By taking advantage of GoGrid’s hybrid architecture, Condé Nast Digital Germany can control its costs and focus on innovation while providing a secure, high-performance experience to site visitors.

Articles Cloud service saves accountants 30 per cent on their IT costs - Case Study

27 Jan 2012

A case study for Rise and George Hay Chartered Accountants

Overview

Chartered accountant George Hay wanted to reduce its IT costs and implement an IT infrastructure that would grow with its business. The company worked with Softwerx, an IT services and software development firm, to deploy a Cloud infrastructure based on DataCenter on Demand technology. With the help of Softwerx, George Hay reduced its IT costs by 30 per cent and gained peace of mind from a new disaster-recovery service. 

News Infiniserv Launches, Providing Cloud Computing Without Limits

27 Jan 2012

Company Launches Three New Cloud Services To Grant Any Organisation The IT Infrastructure It Needs

Infiniserv, a C4L Company, has announced the launch of its three new cloud services, designed to give organisations the exact IT infrastructure they need under a price plan that suits them. Infiniserv provides virtual infrastructures ranging from single private servers to a whole data centre’s worth of machines, together with pricing plans ranging from per-minute to annual billing and in-house management of resources. This grants customers the flexibility to take on the precise service needed: from a single website server to an entire IT infrastructure to an elastic IT environment designed to deal with huge peaks in demand. As part of the C4L group, Infiniserv can also back up its services with total transparency, strict security policies, guaranteed CPU capacity and 100% guaranteed dedicated leased line connectivity.

News Infinity signs 15-Year Data Centre deal with Cable & Wireless Worldwide

24 Jan 2012

Infinity today announced that is has concluded an agreement with Cable & Wireless Worldwide (CWW) to provide a new 4.3MW data centre facility. This multi-million investment represents a 25 per cent expansion in CWW’s data hosting capacity.

News KDDI and Telehouse launch Telecloud

24 Jan 2012

New portfolio of enterprise Cloud solutions deployed within Telehouse’ state-of-the-art data centres

Telehouse, a leading provider of global data centres and managed ICT services, together with parent company, Japanese telecommunications giant KDDI, has launched a portfolio of enterprise Cloud solutions deployed within its state-of-the-art, highly secure data centres.

News Justin.tv selects TelecityGroup Netherlands as gateway to European expansion

23 Jan 2012

TelecityGroup, Europe's industry-leading provider of carrier-neutral data centres, today announced that US-based Justin.tv, the world’s largest live video platform serving 31 million users a month, has selected TelecityGroup Netherlands as its colocation provider in Europe. The deal will enable Justin.tv to further expand its services in Europe and maximise European service levels for TwitchTV, the company’s new and fast-growing video game broadcasting and chat community. 

News iomart Hosting voted one of best web hosting companies

23 Jan 2012

UK managed hosting provider also recognised for cloud services

iomart Hosting is proud to announce that it has been voted one of the best web hosting companies and cloud service providers of 2011.

The UK cloud computing and managed hosting services provider was voted into third place, the highest placing of any European company,  in the prestigious HostReview Annual Web Hosting Awards, behind US companies Liquid Web and SoftLayer.

News Timico Launches £5 Million Data Centre in the Midlands

18 Jan 2012

Independent managed service provider Timico has today opened its new Data Centre in Newark-on-Trent. Ideally placed with excellent network connectivity, good transport links and a low potential for security risks, the £5 million hosting centre is a state-of-the-art construction, that will enable Timico to offer advanced IaaS, PaaS and SaaS cloud-based computing solutions for businesses across the UK.

News Taking security seriously; how many wake up calls do organisations need?

18 Jan 2012

Hacktivist group, TeaMp0isoN, has revealed it was able to exploit fundamental human errors and digital security failures in publishing the personal information of 80 T-Mobile employees online.

News Interxion Strengthens its Financial Community with Infront

17 Jan 2012

INTERXION HOLDING NV, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, today announced that Infront, a leading provider of real-time market data and electronic trading solutions, has chosen to house its solutions at Interxion’s Stockholm data centre and City of London data centre, in order to provide its financial customers with faster connectivity to exchanges and  key liquidity venues.

News TelecityGroup, IX Reach and AMS-IX enable direct UK connectivity to the Amsterdam Internet Exchange

17 Jan 2012

Exclusive agreement provides TelecityGroup customers in the UK with cost-effective high- performance connectivity into and across mainland Europe

TelecityGroup, Europe's industry-leading provider of premium carrier-neutral data centres, has today announced an agreement with IX Reach and AMS-IX to enable TelecityGroup customers in the UK to directly connect to the Amsterdam Internet Exchange, AMS-IX, in the only official AMS-IX enabled sites in the UK.

News ControlCircle urges organisations to plan ahead to avoid Olympic disruptions

17 Jan 2012

Offers 2012 service package to maximise uptime

Companies need to be proactive to avoid disruption during the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics, advises ControlCircle, a leading UK managed service provider.

News ElasticHosts Launches across North America with scalable, easy-to-use Cloud Servers

16 Jan 2012

LA and Toronto data center openings add to existing locations to provide continent wide IaaS

ElasticHosts, the cloud server provider, has today announced its launch into North America. The company will open two new data center locations in Los Angeles, USA and Toronto, Canada, adding to its existing locations in London, UK and San Antonio, Texas. With a central, east and west coast presence sitting alongside London, ElasticHosts will now be able to provide its elastic, easy-to-use, pay-as-you-go cloud hosting to customers across North America.

Articles A difficult diesel generator system

16 Jan 2012

The performance requirements for data centres and for colocation are increasing all the time. Ten years ago, the fact that a data centre had a backup generator and could generate mains power when the mains failed was enough. Today it isn’t. Customers demand more, and new data centres being built are at N+1 – that is they not only have a backup generator, but they have another backup generator in case the first one fails to start, or there is a mains failure when one is being serviced. The introduction of Tier Levels from US-based organisations mandates at least two generator sets for the facility to be at Tier 3 level, either of which can support the entire facility electronic load. Customers in the market want such levels of performance and are increasingly asking for them and asking technical questions about the level of redundancy and resilience that a facility has. Facilities which cannot provide and demonstrate the necessary levels lose credibility and business and get left behind by the market.

News iomart Group named as one of Scotland’s Top 500 companies

13 Jan 2012

Business Insider names cloud hosting leader in its Top 500

iomart Group plc (AIM:IOM), one of the UK’s leading providers of cloud computing and managed hosting services, is delighted to announce that it has been named as one of Scotland’s Top 500 companies by Business Insider magazine.

News Global internet landmark reached in TelecityGroup Amsterdam as Atrato goes live with world’s first single 100 Gigabit Ethernet connection into Amsterdam Internet Exchange

13 Jan 2012

Atrato IP Networks becomes the first service provider with an operational 100 Gigabit Ethernet connection into a public internet exchange marking the next phase of internet growth

On 10th January 2012 a global milestone was reached when service provider Atrato IP Networks became the first ever organisation to connect into a public internet exchange at a speed of 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GE).  Atrato’s connection into the Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX) node in TelecityGroup’s Amsterdam South-East data centre is the largest single connection onto any public internet exchange ever achieved globally, and is a significant development for the internet as a whole.

News FireHost Chooses Platform Equinix to Support European Expansion

13 Jan 2012

Equinix London and Amsterdam facilities selected to provide high-performance, secure cloud hosting services

FireHost, a secure cloud hosting company, today announced that it has selected Equinix, Inc., a provider of global data centre services, to support its imminent European cloud hosting service launch. Equinix’s state-of-the-art LD5 International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centre in London will become FireHost’s primary data centre in Europe, with Equinix’s AM2 IBX in Amsterdam providing disaster recovery capabilities for the region.

News Cable & Wireless Worldwide and Equinix collaborate to deliver enterprise cloud platform

13 Jan 2012

• Building on the success of its successful Flexible Computing platform in the UK, C&W Worldwide expands cloud offering to customers globally
• Global enterprises will have access to world class data centre services in multiple countries

Cable&Wireless Worldwide, a global provider of mission critical communications, is collaborating with Equinix Inc., a provider of global data centre services, to become a one-stop shop for global enterprises that require best-of-breed data centre services.

News TelecityGroup Supports Amazon Web Services AWS Direct Connect in Europe

12 Jan 2012

Dedicated network connection to Amazon Web Services (AWS) enables flexible cloud solutions with lower costs, improved performance and increased bandwidth throughput

TelecityGroup, one of Europe's industry-leading providers of premium carrier-neutral data centres, today announced that AWS Direct Connect is now available in its London Docklands data centres.

News Interxion Passes 50% Milestone for Provision of Data Centre Power from Renewable Energy Sources

12 Jan 2012

Interxion today announced that, as of this month, over half of the power it provides for customers in its data centres is from solar, wind, geothermic, tidal or hydro energy sources. Power from renewable energy sources is available to customers across the company’s 11-country European footprint, and Interxion’s operations in Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the UK are 100% powered by renewable energy sources.

News Node4 receives esteemed Cisco recognition

12 Jan 2012

Node4 has announced that it has achieved the Advanced Unified Computing Technology Specialisation from Cisco in the UK.

News New high specification data hall opens at The Bunker’s Kent data centre

11 Jan 2012

The Bunker, provider of ultra secure Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Colocation, and Outsourced IT from within Europe’s most secure data centres, is pleased to announce that it has successfully opened a significant new high specification data hall in Kent. 

Articles Don’t fear the outsourcer, let it free you

10 Jan 2012

Outsourcing is often seen as a threat by an internal IT department, but according to Michel Robert, managing director of Claranet, this anxiety is misplaced.

On any given day, an IT department’s schedule will include a rather hefty chunk of day-to-day ‘housekeeping’ – tasks that are fairly mundane but necessary, not to mention time-consuming. And lets not forget maintenance of existing infrastructure and systems usually represents at least 80% of an IT department’s workload.  In the meantime, most IT departments are also being asked to address new business requirements without any additional staff.

News RapidSwitch goes ‘Extreme’ for cloud hosting

10 Jan 2012

Dedicated host offers HP-branded processing boost for virtualization hypervisors

RapidSwitch, a leading European supplier of self-managed dedicated server solutions, has announced an HP-branded ‘Extreme’ package for customers who want more processing power from their self-managed servers.

Articles Rackspace Defines Five Cloud Trends For 2012 – The Year The Cloud “Got Real”

10 Jan 2012

Infrastructural awareness comes to the fore alongside importance of open source, mobile and services

Rackspace Hosting, the specialist in hosting and cloud computing, has determined five trends that will be fundamentally important market-driving factors across the cloud computing landscape in the year ahead. As we now look to more refined and attuned levels of cloud adoption and deployment across every industry vertical, Rackspace’s Chief Technology Officer, John Engates, shares his vision for the cloud in 2012 and beyond.

News Telehouse Launch New German Data Centre in Frankfurt

10 Jan 2012

Acquisition of major colocation facility in Germany’s key financial district

Telehouse Holdings Ltd, a leading provider of global data centres and subsidiary of $42 billion telecommunications giant KDDI Corporation announced today it has opened a new German data centre. The 100 per cent share acquisition of one of Germany’s largest colocation providers Databurg GmbH extends the number of Telehouse data centres to 43 in 23 cities across the world adding over 67,000m2 of floor space to its global footprint.

News Half of North West businesses will switch to cloud computing in 2012

06 Jan 2012

Businesses in the North West are planning to invest significantly in cloud computing in 2012, according to new research out today.

The survey of 1000 businesses – carried out by Manchester-based Melbourne Server Hosting – showed that half of all companies in the region plan to deploy the cloud over the next 12 months.

News Acision Cloud Services: on-demand, secure, scalable and globally connected Acision goes live with global data centre network to meet demand for mobile services from the cloud

05 Jan 2012

Acision, the global leader in mobile messaging, today announced the launch of an international network of cloud based data centres, enabling it to offer on-demand messaging services from within the Acision Cloud Service Store.

News Transatlantic Bunker Partnership Provides Ultra Secure Hosting to FTSE and Fortune 500 Companies

05 Jan 2012

The Bunker, provider of ultra secure Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Colocation, and Outsourced IT from within Europe’s most secure data centres is pleased to announce a new partnership with Montgomery Texas based Westland Bunker to provide UK and US nuclear bunker based data centres to large enterprises requiring distributed data centres with the highest levels of security and resilience.

News Cannon Technologies helps Wi-Manx become the host with the most

20 Dec 2011

Since it first began operating in 2004, Wi-Manx has become one of the Isle of Man’s leading network, voice and hosting solutions provider. In order to continue its growth, the company decided to establish a state-of-the-art co-location data centre at its Heywood House headquarters using cabinet, racking and cooling solutions from Cannon Technologies.

News ControlCircle offers 2012 IT Health check

15 Dec 2011

Businesses given chance to check infrastructure and resources are in optimal condition in run up to Olympics

UK businesses are able to check the operational running, scalability and efficiencies of their IT infrastructure, following the launch of a 2012 IT health check by ControlCircle, a UK managed service provider.

News Melbourne creates office space with a difference

15 Dec 2011

Independent server hosting provider, Melbourne has completed a major office move after investing over £150,000 in a head office with a difference.

News City Lifeline provides Planet Numbers with effective international call switching services

13 Dec 2011

City Lifeline, the London-based independent carrier-neutral colocation data centre, has today announced that Planet Numbers will be hosting its international telephone call switching capabilities within Lifeline House to deliver an effective, fast and consistent communication service.

News Joymax reaches the next level with Telehouse

12 Dec 2011

Korean gaming developer Joymax chooses Telehouse to provide European PoP

Telehouse, a leading provider of global data centres and managed ICT solutions, today announced an agreement with Korean online games developer and publisher, Joymax to provide a point-of-presence (PoP), within its Telehouse West data centre, located in London Docklands; this will enable the faster delivery of content to its online gaming customers. 

News Custom Connect Provides Carrier-Neutral Services to Interxion Clients

08 Dec 2011

Interxion, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, today announced that Custom Connect, a carrier-neutral reseller of network solutions, is to  provide bespoke carrier-neutral connectivity services from its London data centre to Interxion’s customers across Europe.

Videos ControlAltDelete explain why they use iomart Hosting

06 Dec 2011

Information Technology outsourcing specialists ControlAltDelete explain why iomart Hosting was selected to support their mission critical hosting infrastructure.

News Claranet Joins Prince’s Trust group to change young lives

06 Dec 2011

Three year relationship signed with the charity’s Internet and Media Leadership Group

Claranet, the managed service provider, has joined The Prince’s Trust Internet and Media Leadership Group (IMLG) which brings together broadcasting, publishing, internet and media firms who want to give disadvantaged young people a new start in life.

News Telehouse enhances green commitment with 100 per cent renewable energy

29 Nov 2011

Telehouse, a leading provider of global data centres and managed ICT solutions, today announced that it’s London Docklands data centre site, which houses the IT infrastructure of almost 500 major international organisations, now purchases 100 per cent renewable energy from UK provider SmartestEnergy.

News Cyber attack planning should extend to all business sectors

28 Nov 2011

All industries should follow the example of the finance sector by enhancing their IT business continuity plans, according to Andrew Gilbert, Managing Director of Node4

Businesses across all sectors should consider the measures they employ to protect their data and IT systems against cyber attacks and other risks, says Andrew Gilbert, Managing Director of data centre specialist Node4. His comments follow a large scale simulation that was carried out by the financial sector to test how systems would cope in the event of a malicious attack or disruption.

News Claranet appoints new UK Operations Director

28 Nov 2011

Key appointment for the company as it extends its product portfolio 

Claranet, the managed services provider, has appointed a new Operations Director for its UK business. With over 20 years’ experience in the Telecommunications and IT services, Wiebe Nauta has joined the UK management team, following an eight-year period at BT.

Blog Three quarters of firms may not fully recover computer systems after an IT faliure

24 Nov 2011

Following a report by IT group EMC which found that three quarters of firms and public sector organisations across nine European countries may not fully recover their computer systems or data after an IT failure. Roger Keenan, managing director of City Lifeline, says:  “It is astonishing how many smaller enterprises do not think about how reliant they are on their computers and their data.  Companies start small and grow.  They begin with a couple of PC’s, then buy a server or two and plug them into the nearest 13 amp socket. Then suddenly, the entire business ends up dependant on the contents of the server-cupboard-under-the-stairs.  This is fine until something happens – a fire, a break-in, or a power failure which crashes the server discs and loses all the information. 

News iomart buys Scottish hosting company EQSN

24 Nov 2011

UK cloud computing and managed hosting company iomart expands its premium customer base

iomart Group plc (AIM:IOM), the UK managed hosting and cloud computing services company, today (November 24 2011) announced that it has bought Scottish infrastructure service provider EQSN.

Videos Interxion and Equiduct

21 Nov 2011

Interview with Peter Randall, CEO of Equiduct

News TelecityGroup's commitment to environmental best practice recognised in CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme performance league table

21 Nov 2011

TelecityGroup is the highest ranked data centre provider, third place in the ICT sector and in the top 5% overall of over 2000 participant organisations.

TelecityGroup, Europe's industry-leading provider of premium carrier-neutral data centres, is the highest ranked data centre provider and has achieved third place in the ICT sector and 103rd place overall in the 2010/11 CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme performance league table published by the Environment Agency.

Articles Outlook for 2012 - Data centre predictions

21 Nov 2011

Chris Smith, sales and marketing director, on365, a specialist in the planning, installing, management and optimisation of infrastructure and utility services, has identified the following key trends in the data centre industry for 2012, including new data centre monitoring tools, next stage equipment guidelines and some potential game-changing innovations by manufacturers and IT vendors.

Articles Telehouse: Providing the financial exchange hub for QuantHouse

18 Nov 2011

Established initially in 2000, as a quant/ algo hedge fund, developing proprietary technology and infrastructure, QuauntHouse is now the global leader in end-to-end systematic trading solutions. Created by a group of managers, IT experts and quant traders coming from the hedge fund community, QuantHouse’s technology has been designed for electronic trading aimed at the buy-side customer. The company has over 90 employees spread out across three offices in London, Paris and New York.

The vision of the company is to help financial firms to take the lead by providing ready-to-use systematic trading solutions.

News 60 per cent of UK SMEs hit by IT failures

07 Nov 2011

A worrying 60 per cent of respondents surveyed[i] by City Lifeline at this year’s IP Expo have lost access to the company’s IT system following an unexpected incident. The resulting unplanned downtime lasted for more than six hours for 40 per cent of the firms surveyed, leaving employees struggling to access essential business data, run operations or communicate effectively with customers.

News Cost of the capital lures companies to consider alternatives

07 Nov 2011

Data centres based outside of London are taking advantage as businesses weigh up the costs of being based in the capital.

News Infinity Announces New Slough Data Centre

07 Nov 2011

Specialist data centre operator, Infinity announced another milestone in its rapidly expanding footprint with the acquisition of a new data centre in the heart of the Thames Valley.

News Telehouse West sprints ahead with sports broadcasting network

07 Nov 2011

Data centre selected to broadcast major London sports event

Telehouse, a leading provider of global data centres and managed ICT services, today announced it would house the broadcasting network for the Host Broadcaster of a major sports event in London next year. This will allow international media organisations based within the Telehouse data centre to connect to the signal and transmit unbiased live radio and television coverage to viewers across the globe. 

News Infinity Continues to Scale at Senior Level with New Operations Director

03 Nov 2011

Rapidly growing data centre operator creates additional role in service team to streamline the growth of corporate customer base

Specialist data centre operator, Infinity, today announced the appointment of Simon Blackburn as its Operations Director. The newly created role follows hot on the heels of other recent senior-level appointments, including Stuart Sutton as COO to whom Blackburn will report.

News Keysource gains Carbon Trust data centres strategic design advice (DCSDA) accreditation

31 Oct 2011

Keysource has been formally recognised by the Carbon Trust and awarded the Data Centres Strategic Design Advice (DCSDA) accreditation. This will enable the company to undertake work through the Carbon Trust to help data centre owners and operators to reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions as well as reduce energy costs.

News Interxion Launches Second Cloud Testlab at Its City of London Data Centre

28 Oct 2011

Interxion, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, today announced the deployment of its second Cloud Testlab, a turnkey cloud hosting test environment enabling service providers and system integrators to test and develop cloud services at high speed and with best-in-class performance guarantees.

News SoftLayer® Investing €55 million in New European Operation to Meet Growth Demands

26 Oct 2011

Company Extends Global Footprint with New European Headquarters and Data Centre in Amsterdam and Points of Presence (PoPs) in Amsterdam, London and Frankfurt

Expanding its global reach and IT hosting capabilities, SoftLayer^® Technologies today announced the opening of its new European headquarters and data centre in Amsterdam. Over the next two years the company will invest approximately €55 million in its European operations, which also includes new network PoPs in Amsterdam, London, and Frankfurt.

News Timico selects BT iNet to deliver UK-wide private cloud services

26 Oct 2011

Timico, the independent internet and managed service provider, has selected BT iNet as its strategic partner to develop a new £5 million data centre.

Articles Is the Data Centre facing extinction?

20 Oct 2011

An industry viewpoint from Roger Keenan, managing director at City Lifeline

Enterprise data centres, government data centres, commercial data centres and colocation houses have seen a massive expansion over the last ten years or so. Every organisation in the world uses more computing power today than it did five years ago and five years ago used more than it did ten years ago.  Even small children who can barely walk use more computing power.  Is there any end?  And how can the world cope with the space and electrical power that all this computing needs?

Videos 2011 IT Capabilities & Needs Survey Results

20 Oct 2011

Protiviti's 2011 IT Capabilities and Needs Survey identifies top areas of concern for CIOs and their teams. This video offers a snippet of some of the notable findings of this survey which include virtualization and cloud computing, social media, security and privacy, regulatory change, and data classification and management are among their highest priorities.

Articles 2011 Information Technology Capabilities and Needs Survey

20 Oct 2011

More than 200 respondents, including CIOs, chief technology officers, chief security officers, and IT vice presidents and directors, participated in the study. Respondents answered more than 100 questions in three general categories: Technical Knowledge, Process Capabilities and Organizational Capabilities.

News The Bunker adds Anderson Zaks to growing Financial Services customer roster

20 Oct 2011

Innovative international card payment provider moves to The Bunker for increased security, business continuity and PCI DSS compliance

The Bunker, providers of ultra secure Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Colocation, and Outsourced IT from within Europe’s most secure data centres, is pleased to announce that Anderson Zaks, one of the leading suppliers of international card payment processing software and services has moved its credit card transaction processing to The Bunker. Anderson Zaks has chosen The Bunker for increased security, business continuity and PCI DSS compliance.

News iomart Hosting unveils vCloud

20 Oct 2011

iomart Hosting’s Public Cloud Service Attains VMware vCloud® Powered Validation

iomart Hosting one of the UK’s leading providers of cloud computing and managed hosting, today announced that its iomart public cloud service has achieved VMware vCloud Powered status, illustrating to customers that the company’s cloud services are underpinned by VMware’s leading virtualization and cloud computing technology, namely VMware vSphere® and VMware vCloud® Director™.  A member of the VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP), iomart Hosting provides its VMware vCloud Powered service as a set of cloud computing services across a common platform, supporting the largest set of existing applications and offering distinctive application mobility uniquely available from VMware.

News PEER 1 Hosting opens doors to world-class data centre

17 Oct 2011

Company launches state-of-the-art green data centre in Portsmouth

PEER 1 Hosting, the global IT hosting provider, today opens its new 5,372m² green data centre in Portsmouth. The facility in Langstone Technology Park, Portsmouth offers businesses across London and the South East scalable managed hosting, dedicated hosting and colocation services in one of the greenest data centres in the country.

News Melbourne server hosting boosts round the clock support team

17 Oct 2011

Melbourne Server Hosting – the independent datacentre and server hosting provider – has strengthened its team with three new appointments that will enhance the 24/7 technical support it offers to customers.

Articles Data Centre Business Continuity

17 Oct 2011

How is the choice of data centre, and data centre connections, key to supporting mission-critical applications – and what should you look for when choosing? Bob Griffiths, MD of Next Connex explains.

According to research from the Business Continuity Institute, approximately 20% of companies suffer a major disaster or disruption every five years, including damage caused by natural disasters, fires, IT system failures and power cuts. Of these companies, over three-quarters don’t survive the disaster. Such disruptions cost UK firms almost £4bn each year, and studies show that the average business suffers up to 11 virus attacks on a daily basis.

News NextiraOne Europe Opens for Business in the Americas

17 Oct 2011

NXO Americas to meet global needs of NextiraOne’s international business customers and local U.S. market demands 

NextiraOne, Europe’s leading expert in communications services, has today announced its expansion into the Americas with the establishment of a new subsidiary, NXO Americas.

News Leading IT Infrastructure solutions provider C4L Commences Phase Two of Bournemouth data centre

13 Oct 2011

C4L, a UK-based IT infrastructure solutions provider, is pleased to announce it has commenced the build of phase two at its Bournemouth data centre. The facility is being built to a Tier 2+ specification, and once complete will be one of the largest data centres in the South West. The expansion of the Bournemouth data centre will provide an additional 120 racks / 3,000 square feet of space, increasing capacity by two-thirds.

News Equinix Carrier Ethernet Exchange Expands Reach in Europe and Scandinavia

12 Oct 2011

Colt Technology Services, GTS and Broadnet join Equinix’s Carrier Ethernet Exchange (ECEE)

Equinix has announced the addition of three new participants to its Equinix Carrier Ethernet Exchange (ECEE) platform, taking the total number of carriers and cloud service providers on ECEE to 55 at the time of this release.

News The Bunker and The ECA Group form Security and Business Assurance partnership

12 Oct 2011

The Bunker, providers of ultra secure Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Colocation, and Outsourced IT from within Europe’s most secure data centres, is pleased to announce a new partnership with The ECA Group, providing an unmatched level of advice and delivery for secure information management solutions.

News Green Grid to chair EMEA lectures on Energy Efficiency and maturity models within the Data Centre sector

06 Oct 2011

On Thursday 13th October The Green Grid will be hosting the last of its 2011 European technical forums between 9:00AM and 2:15PM at the Fujitsu Offices near Hayes in London.

News NextiraOne appoints Aman Khan to lead Data Centre Business in Europe

06 Oct 2011

Increased Focus on Virtualisation, Fabric Computing and Cloud

NextiraOne, Europe’s leading expert in communications services, has announced the appointment of Aman Khan to lead its Data Centre Business for the NextiraOne Group.  The announcement highlights the growing importance of the data centre market for NextiraOne and supports its strategy to further develop its international Data Centre business, focusing on Virtualisation, Fabric Computing and Cloud solutions. The company continues to build on significant customer wins and its growing relationships with key technology and ecosystem partners.

News Civica chooses TelecityGroup Manchester to support public sector IT transformations

06 Oct 2011

Civica provides the platforms - ranging from day to day management of IT systems and infrastructure to complete voice and data integration - to help its customers, including over 90 percent of local authorities and police forces in Great Britain, respond to the requirement to improve service delivery despite restricted budgets.

News Verne Global Opens World's First Dual-Sourced 100% Renewably Powered Data Centre

06 Oct 2011

Verne Global Opens World’s First Dual-Sourced 100% Renewably Powered Data Centre

Icelandic campus provides a renewable energy-based colocation and build-to-suit data centre option for US and European companies and provides well over 50% cost savings over traditional data centres in Europe or New York.

News Datapipe Partners with Verne Global to Deliver Green Cloud from Iceland

06 Oct 2011

Icelandic Data Centre will enhance Datapipe’s ongoing sustainability initiatives

Verne Global, an innovative, UK-based developer of power conscious data centre campuses, today announced that Datapipe, a leading provider of managed services and infrastructure for mission critical IT and cloud computing, plans to deliver carbon neutral managed IT solutions, including a green cloud and disaster recovery, upon completion of Verne Global’s purpose-built Icelandic data centre facility.

Articles Supercomputing – The Silver Lining to the cloud

06 Oct 2011

A topic that has been, and will be on the mind of any CIO or IT manager is budget cuts. With the economic downturn still looming, this is something that every company has had to deal with. So as IT spending has been forced to be re-evaluated, we have seen more companies looking to hosting providers for their IT needs. Moving to a hosting provider can save money in many ways; firstly there isn’t the need to purchase servers as they can be leased through a hosted service. This eliminates the need to provide storage for them, power them, cool them or even provide maintenance for them. This will free up valuable resources internally. So as we continue to see more businesses move towards outsourced environments, we are also seeing more complex services venture into the hosted industry.

News NL-ix and TelecityGroup Sign Contract for new Amsterdam data centre

04 Oct 2011

Internet expansion in the Netherlands guaranteed

TelecityGroup, a provider of premium carrier-neutral data centres, and NL-ix, one of the world’s leading Internet Exchanges, today signed a contract to expand NL-ix’s capacity in TelecityGroup’s existing data centres and to its new data centre, AMS 5, which is currently under construction.  In response to growing demand for connections and capacity, TelecityGroup is currently building a new 9MW, 9000 m2 data centre in Amsterdam Zuidoost. NL-ix will be offering its services through AMS 5 from its opening.

News Green Unbreakable Cloud Initiative enters expansion phase

04 Oct 2011

Looking for 40 talented individuals to help build Green IT technologies

The Green Unbreakable Cloud Initiative (GUCI), a group of interlinked technologies that offers a complete, end to end Green IT ecosystem, has launched a second phase of intense expansion.

News Over 70% of Market Participants Indicate Their Trading Strategies are Latency Dependent

04 Oct 2011

Interxion, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, today announced the first findings from the Interxion-sponsored 2011 Automated Trader Algorithmic Trading Survey, an annual survey of the trends and developments in the trading industry.

News UK Managed IT Services firm, Lumison, continues growth strategy with acquisition of DediPower Managed Hosting Ltd

04 Oct 2011

Acquisition brings Lumison’s combined turnover to £27 million, 320% growth since 2008 and EBITDA of £9m.

Lumison has today strengthened its position in the IT Managed Services sector by acquiring DediPower Managed Hosting Ltd, a Reading-based managed hosting and colocation provider. The acquisition brings Lumison’s combined turnover to £27.5million, and continues its business expansion strategy, which has seen the company’s revenues grow from £6.4m to £27.5m over the last three years.

Articles NGD Europe – As green as the Welsh Valleys

04 Oct 2011

A multi-million pound project in South Wales has transformed a former 750,000 sq ft semiconductor plant into Europe’s largest data centre. Opened last year NGD Europe offers multiple tenants scalable, custom built data halls with the power resources to match, all from one supersize environmentally-friendly tier 3+ facility. Drawing power from 100 per cent renewable energy sources, there has been from the outset a strong emphasis on energy efficiency and environmental credentials.

Next generation data centres not only have to tick all the boxes on space, security, power and connectivity but also guarantee far superior environmental performance than their predecessors. With data centres forecast to consume globally almost 2 billion kilowatt hours of electricity by 2020 (Greenpeace) and in the face of an increasingly onerous regulatory landscape, operators are under pressure to deliver optimised energy environments to satisfy compliance as well as more demanding environmental expectations from customers.

Articles Taking a Bird’s Eye View of Energy in the Computer room and Data Centre

04 Oct 2011

Simon Terry, Chief Executive of Unite Technologies, provides food for thought on best practice in reducing and optimising data centre energy consumption

Energy and FM professionals are well aware that both legacy and new build computer room and data centre operations bring with them significant energy management challenges. Rising energy costs and limited supply means data centres are coming under increased pressure to become more energy efficient, especially in light of the introduction of the Government’s Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) Energy Efficiency Scheme. 

News Node4 brings total flexibility to businesses with new cloud computing service offering

03 Oct 2011

Data centre and communications firm Node4 will broaden its range of services by launching nCloud ˆ a brand new cloud-based infrastructure. nCloud is a high quality, high specification infrastructure that offers organisations ultimate IT flexibility by allowing them to build a bespoke solution that works hand in glove with business requirements.

News Telehouse Europe joins the Cloud Industry Forum

30 Sep 2011

Co-location provider commits to transparency in the Cloud

Telehouse, a leading provider of global data centres and managed ICT services,  has joined the Cloud Industry Forum, the body established to promote trust, security and transparency within the sector. In joining Telehouse becomes the latest organisation to commit to achieving a common standard of best practice within the IT industry.

Articles Making the case for a greener data centre

28 Sep 2011

Data centres are widely known for consuming a lot of energy. According to some estimates, almost two per cent of the nation’s electricity is used to power computers and telecoms equipment, most of it in specialised data centres. One data centre facility can use up to 50 times as much power as the equivalent in office spaceⁱ.However, operators have started driving up their efficiencies and driving down their costs and showing that they’re making their buildings more efficient and green.

iGovernment Energy Plans Could Prompt Data Centre Exodus – eWeek Europe, 3 August 2010

News C4L Named as One of Britain’s Fastest-Growing Technology Firms in the 2011 Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track 100

28 Sep 2011

C4L, a UK-based internet infrastructure solutions provider, today announced that it has been listed in The Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track 100 for the first time. C4L has been ranked alongside companies such as price comparison website Gocompare, and music recognition services provider Shazam.

News Colt manufactures and ships 500m2 data centre to Iceland

27 Sep 2011

Verne Global opens for business enabled by Colt’s Modular Data Centre

Colt, Europe’s leading information delivery platform, today announced that Verne Global, a data centre developer and operator, has selected Colt’s Modular Data Centre for its dual-sourced renewable energy facility in Iceland. This is the world's first mission critical data centre with zero-emissions to be manufactured and constructed in less than four months.

News Verizon Wholesale Cloud Services Speak Volumes With Communications Provider Global Gossip

27 Sep 2011

Computing-as-a-Service Provides Flexibility, Security and Reliability for the Australian-Based Company

Australia-based Global Gossip has turned to Verizon Global Wholesale for a robust cloud computing platform that supports the worldwide communications services provider’s 300 sites across Australia, Europe, Fiji, New Zealand, the UK, and the US.

News Cold War Facility Provides the Security; Brocade Provides the Path to IPv6

27 Sep 2011

Brocade MLX Series Routers deliver 10 Gigabit Ethernet performance and “dual stack” capabilities to help The Bunker make a seamless migration from IPv4 to IPv6

Customers who have hosted their data centre facilities at The Bunker are set to benefit from a major network upgrade to its existing Brocade (Nasdaq: BRCD) environment. The evolution of The Bunker’s Brocade^® MLX™ Series routers is designed to provide future-proofing for clients during the IPv4 to IPv6 transition, deliver 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) performance and enable the company to stay ahead of increasingly bandwidth-intense applications, such as high-definition streaming media.

News Interoute announces three year ICT infrastructure and hosting partnership with UEFA

27 Sep 2011

Europe’s largest private cloud services platform to support UEFA’s entire business operations and online presence for next three seasons

The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), the governing body of football in Europe, has selected Interoute’s pan-European cloud services to support all its business, football competitions and events over the next three seasons. Interoute will host all applications and systems used directly by UEFA including its Football Administration and Management Environment (FAME) and the UEFA.com website.

News TelecityGroup acquires UK Grid to fulfil growth requirements

23 Sep 2011

Acquisition enhances TelecityGroup’s growth platform in key UK digital and connectivity hub

TelecityGroup, Europe's industry-leading provider of premium carrier-neutral data centres, has today announced the acquisition of UK Grid, a leading UK data centre operator for £11.7m

Videos Open Data Center Alliance and Open Compute Project Announce Collaboration @ IDF2011

23 Sep 2011

The Open Data Center Alliance and Open Compute project announce collaborative efforts to accelerate the development and adoption of cloud computing standards at the Intel Developer Forum 2011.

News F5 Helps Latisys Offer Differentiated Private Cloud and Enhanced Managed Services

22 Sep 2011

Managed services provider relies on F5’s VIPRION Application Delivery Networking solution to ensure its cloud services infrastructure scales rapidly and reliably to meet customer demand

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced thatLatisys is implementing F5^® VIPRION^® Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) as a foundation of its private cloud and managed hosting solutions. Latisys provides IT outsourcing—such as data center colocation services, managed hosting, and cloud solutions—from its secure, high-density, Tier III data centers across the United States. The company is enhancing its high availability enterprise-grade managed services offering, which provides security, backup and recovery, storage, compute resources, and load balancing, to achieve service provider-grade performance levels. Through Latisys cloud services, customers will be able to expand their IT infrastructures dynamically to meet sudden increases in demand for computing resources while benefiting from a highly secure, fully redundant platform.

Videos PEER 1 Hosting and ExCool Partner

19 Sep 2011

Amanda Dunn speaks to Mark Collins, Sales director at Excool, about the new datacenter in Havant, UK.

News Interxion Achieves Pan-European ISO 27001 Recertification

15 Sep 2011

Recertification recognising Interxion’s continued commitment to delivering highly secure, reliable best-in-class data centres

INTERXION HOLDING NV (NYSE: INXN), a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, today announced that it has achieved recertification of the internationally recognised ISO 27001 (Information Security and Business Continuity) standard for all 11 of its European country operations.

News iomart Hosting takes the Great Run into the cloud

12 Sep 2011

iomart Hosting, one of the UK’s leading cloud computing and managed hosting companies, has taken Nova International, organiser of the world’s biggest half marathon the Great North Run, into the cloud.

News Dimension Data Launches Data Cetnre Networking Assessment Service

06 Sep 2011

Data centres are at the beginning of the most important transition since the move away from mainframes

Traditional network architectures and network technology will not deliver the performance and functionality needed to support the fully evolved and virtualised data centre.  That’s according to specialist IT services and solutions provider, Dimension Data which announced today the availability of its Data Centre Networking (DCN) Assessment service that helps organisations implement a future-state data centre architected to support their future IT strategy and business objectives.

Articles The seven deadly hosting sins

06 Sep 2011

Your internet is mission-critical, and your provider pledges to keep to SLAs, so you can relax. Or can you?

The team here has picked up just seven of the worst examples of ‘hosting sins’ for your entertainment - but also to act as a cautionary tale. Many of these ‘sins’ were the reason customers left their previous provider and came to Iconnyx. The stories are based on fact but the names have been changed to protect identity... 

News Interxion’s City of London Data Centre is Powered by 100% Renewable Energy

01 Sep 2011

Interxion today announced that its London data centre has taken another step forward in reducing its carbon footprint by signing up to 100% renewable energy from UK provider SmartestEnergy.

News UK hosting leader iomart Hosting helps internet consultancy reduce servers

25 Aug 2011

HBS internet goes virtual with iomart Hosting

Cloud computing and managed hosting leader iomart Hosting has helped UK consultancy HBS Internet to virtualise.

HBS Internet services 150 clients across the UK and Europe, ranging in size from multi-nationals and large organisations right down to the smallest of businesses, providing them with broadband, hosting, SEO services, web maintenance, web design, backup services as well as mail and file transfer management. It also helps clients with their IT and web infrastructure giving valuable commercial advice and support.

News Core Network Upgrade Supports The Bunker’s Continued Growth

22 Aug 2011

The Bunker, providers of Ultra Secure Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Colocation, and Outsourced IT from within Europe’s most secure data centres today announced its core network has been upgraded to 10Gb bandwidth capacity.

News Crytek Operates Online Media Platform at Interxion Frankfurt

12 Aug 2011

Interxion, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, today announced that Crytek GmbH has chosen Interxion’s Frankfurt data centre to host its online Media platforms.

News UKFast Helps You Access Apps in the Cloud

09 Aug 2011

As recent figures suggest that mobile working has tripled in the last twelve months, internet hosting specialist UKFast has launched the latest product in its cloud services range – CloudApps.  

News Rackspace Launches Critical Sites In Europe For Crucial Connectivity

08 Aug 2011

Rackspace Strengthens Enterprise Services for EMEA Customers with Launch of Critical Sites for Extreme Mission-Critical Deployments

Rackspace® Hosting has announced the European launch of its Critical Sites service. Designed to serve customers whose online presence is ‘extremely mission-critical’, Critical Sites delivers enterprise-level web hosting solutions and customer-facing applications and web services.

News TelecityGroup acquires leading Irish data centre operator Data Electronics

08 Aug 2011

TelecityGroup has today announced it has acquired Data Electronics Group Limited ("Data Electronics"), Ireland’s leading provider of highly connected carrier-neutral data centres, for a total consideration of £87.6 million in cash.

News Telehouse opens new floor with 1000m² of London data centre space

01 Aug 2011

Telehouse, a leading provider of global data centres and managed ICT services, has released an additional floor with almost 1000m² of colocation space at Telehouse West, its state-of-the-art flagship data centre facility in London’s East India Dock adjacent to its existing sites.

News ControlCircle earns ISO/IEC 20000:20005 certification

25 Jul 2011

ControlCircle, a leading managed services provider, today announced that it has attained International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO)/IEC 20000:20005 certification for its UK operations centre demonstrating its leadership in IT service management.

News Logicalis forms Joint Venture in Indonesia with Metrodata

21 Jul 2011

Logicalis Group, the international IT and Communications solutions integrator, has announced it is establishing a joint venture operation in Indonesia. Heads of terms have been agreed with leading Indonesian ICT Group, P.T. Metrodata Electronics, Tbk based in Jakarta.

News Leading ITC suppliers Westcoastcloud and Forensic Software partner to offer complete e-safety solution for schools

18 Jul 2011

Comprehensive cloud e-safety solution praised by childcare expert Professor Tanya Byron

Two of the UK’s leading suppliers of e-safety, Westcoastcloud and Forensic Software, have partnered up to offer the most comprehensive online child protection solution yet to the education sector.

News Core Consultancy completes datacenter upgrade, opens new office and appoints sales manager

18 Jul 2011

Award winning firm strengthens business platform and achieves ISO 27001 compliance to manage continued demand for business continuity service

Core Consultancy, a leading disaster recovery and business continuity specialist, has announced it has completed a 6 month programme to strengthen and expand its services following the award of 'Specialist Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Company of the Year’ at the Business Continuity Awards 2010.

News UKFast Helps You Access Apps in the Cloud

15 Jul 2011

As recent figures suggest that mobile working has tripled in the last twelve months, internet hosting specialist UKFast has launched the latest product in its cloud services range – CloudApps.  

News CONET Services Enhances Interxion’s Financial Hub

14 Jul 2011

INTERXION today announced that it is hosting the ICT systems of CONET Services AG, a provider specialising in the design, installation and operation of ICT systems and special applications for finance companies, at Interxion’s Frankfurt data centre campus. CONET Services provide solutions to financial organisations that require connectivity and technically advanced infrastructure to liquidity venues to enable optimum trading performance for any given solution.

News Node4 seeks the cream of the crop among the unemployed

14 Jul 2011

Despite high numbers of unemployed people, leading companies are still struggling to find the right calibre of staff.

Official statistics out today reveal unemployment at 2.45 million and people claiming unemployment benefits at a two year high of 1.52 million.  However, despite the large numbers of people seeking work across the country, many employers still find it tough to find the best personnel to complement their existing workforce.

News BATS Europe Joins Platform Equinix and Its Global Financial Ecosystem

14 Jul 2011

Pan-European Stock Market plans October relocation of its trading book and dark pool trading platform to Equinix’s LD4 data center in London

Equinix, Inc. today announced that BATS Europe, a global operator of securities and derivatives markets, has signed a long-term deal to relocate the BATS Europe trading platform to Equinix’s London LD4 International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data center. Scheduled for October 2011, the switchover will provide a secure, low-latency, high-performance trading environment for BATS Europe’s integrated and dark electronic trading books. 

News NetIQ enhances PlateSpin virtualisation and workload management solutions

13 Jul 2011

PlateSpin improvements help IT improve performance and simplify management of today’s mixed data centres

NetIQ today announced new enhancements to the PlateSpin virtualisation and workload management products – PlateSpin Forge, PlateSpin Protect and PlateSpin Migrate – that enable IT organisations to better respond to growing business demands and reduce risk across the data centre.

News Factonomy implements secure VDI to manage regulation concerns

13 Jul 2011

£85,698 worth of staff time re-deployed to concentrate on core business activities

Factonomy, a leading provider in Business Continuity Management Software has implemented a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) from Lumison, the Managed IT Services provider, to host its desktop applications in a controlled environment. The new system will allow Factonomy to meet stringent compliance requirements from customers including heavily regulated global investment banks. The VDI will enable users to run Windows 7 and execute the company’s applications from a range of consumer devices, such as iPads, increasing flexibility, negating the need for hardware standardisation, and reducing associated costs.

News Nouvelles Frontières moves to Interoute's flexible pan European hosting platform to support boom in online bookings

07 Jul 2011

Interoute provides virtualisation to maintain web performance for more than two million unique visitors per month

Interoute, owner operator of Europe’s largest next generation network, has today announced that tour operator Nouvelles Frontières is using its managed hosting to support growth of its web based business. Rather than relying on four hosting providers, Nouvelles Frontières has upgraded to one hosting platform from Interoute, utilising innovative virtualisation technologies to deliver flexibility.

News Interxion Reduces CO2 Emissions by 94%

05 Jul 2011

Use of 100% renewable energy reduces Interxion's CO2 emissions from 3,000 tonnes a year to 170

INTERXION HOLDING NV, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, today announced that its Swiss data centre has taken another step forward in reducing its carbon footprint by signing up to 100% green energy.

News Logicalis strengthens presence in key U.S. geographies and services offering with acquisition of Netarx

04 Jul 2011

Logicalis Group, the international IT and Communications solutions integrator, has acquired Netarx, an Auburn Hills, Michigan-based solution provider, for a sum of up to $34 million.  Netarx provides IT professional services including managed services, data centre, collaboration, and infrastructure design solutions to customers throughout the Great Lakes and Arizona.

News The Bunker achieves ISO 27001 re-certification

30 Jun 2011

The Bunker delivers Ultra Secure Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Colocation, and Outsourced IT services from within Europe’s most secure data centres, and is proud to announce its re-certification to the ISO 27001 Information Security Management System standard for a further three years.

News Verizon to Bolster Epsilon’s Data Security With Innovative New Security Technologies

29 Jun 2011

When leading marketing services firm Epsilon wanted to further bolster the security of its global email platform, it tapped Verizon for an innovative cloud-based security solution that will help it stay a step ahead of cybercriminals.

Videos Scottish Digital Company of the Year 2011 - Iomart Hosting

29 Jun 2011

Iomart Hosting are awarded the 2011 Scottish Digital Technology Company of the Year.

News ControlCircle wins NetApp Service Provider of the Year Award 2011 - 27 June 2011

27 Jun 2011

ControlCircle today announced it had been awarded the NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) Service Provider award for 2011.  The NetApp UK & Ireland Partner Awards 2011 recognise the best-performing partners in the NetApp network and reward outstanding sales performance for design and implementation of NetApp storage and data management solutions.

Articles LawWare - Case Study

27 Jun 2011

LawWare has grown by 20% since working with hosted infrastructure expert Rise to launch LawCloud, a hosted version of its practice-management software.

News iomart named Scottish Digital IT Company of the Year

24 Jun 2011

Cloud computing and managed hosting leader wins top prize at ScotlandIS Digital Technology Awards

The Glasgow-based managed hosting and cloud computing services company, which was recently named as one of the top 25 cloud companies in the world, scooped top prize at the Digital Technology Awards 2011 hosted by ScotlandIS, the trade body for the information and communications technologies (ICT) industry.

News Krystal strengthens its commitment to The Bunker

23 Jun 2011

The Bunker Secure Hosting Ltd, provider of Ultra* Secure Colocation Services, Data Centres and Managed Services is pleased to announce an extension of the services provided to its existing client Krystal Hosting.

News iland Europe selects TelecityGroup for European cloud service launch

22 Jun 2011

Powergate facility to house iland’s vCloud ‘virtual data centre’ service

iland, the global cloud infrastructure provider, has chosen TelecityGroup, Europe's leading provider of premium network independent data centres, to launch its latest cloud offering in Europe. iland will use TelecityGroup’s state-of-the-art Powergate facility in London to launch its iland vCloud services, a VMware vCloud Powered solution, and increase its physical presence to meet the demand for high-availability cloud computing infrastructure services in the region

News Interxion Joins the Cloud Industry Forum

22 Jun 2011

First colocation data centre to join CIF and help drive best practice in the cloud

Interxion today announced that it has joined the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF), the body established to promote trust, security and transparency within the cloud sector. The partnership illustrates Interxion’s dedication to the cloud and support in achieving a common standard of best practice within the IT industry.

News NaviSite Launches New UK Cloud Node

21 Jun 2011

NaviSite’s Enterprise-Class Managed Cloud Services Now Available Through European Data Centre

NaviSite, Inc.has announced the launch of its first European cloud node, located in Woking, UK. NaviSite has already established a strong reputation as a leading provider of innovative cloud-based solutions for enterprise customers.  The new UK cloud infrastructure will provide European enterprises access to NaviSite’s Managed Cloud Services (MCS) – helping them comply with local regulations while eliminating network performance issues caused by long-distance broadband connections to offshore data centres.

News Altech Technology Concepts partners with Telehouse

20 Jun 2011

Altech Technology Concepts (ATC) has partnered with global data centre and ICT services company Telehouse

ATC recently built a new network to boost the reliability and performance of its services.  In a recent development ATC has partnered with Telehouse which will manage ATC’s data centres.

News TelecityGroup recertified for ISO 9001 and 27001 standards

20 Jun 2011

TelecityGroup has announced that it has been recertified with the ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 27001:2005 standards - the globally recognised certifications for information security and quality management.

News Interxion Awarded Colocation Provider of the Year by BroadGroup

20 Jun 2011

Interxion has been recognised as Colocation Provider of 2011 by the leading data centre consultancy, BroadGroup, at its annual Data Centres in Europe Awards.

Articles Opening for business: your new cloud?

20 Jun 2011

Transform your infrastructure into public or private cloud with ten tips for choosing a cloud management system

Cloud computing is high on the agenda for all UK businesses, particularly for companies with substantial IT infrastructure – hosting providers, and large enterprises.  

News Touchline Video selects The Bunker to provide secure hosting services

16 Jun 2011

The Bunker Secure Hosting Ltd, provider of Ultra* Secure Data Centres and Managed Services, today announced that Touchline Video Ltd., a UK-wide trade only value-added distributor to the audio, video and web conferencing industries has selected The Bunker to provide ultra secure colocation hosting and services.

Articles Thermal Optimisation in the Data Centre

16 Jun 2011

Best Practices for achieving optimal cooling performance and significant energy savings in your data centre

Data centres contribute significantly to world-wide energy consumption. Analysts from IDC and Gartner state that two percent of total energy consumed worldwide is caused by data centres. This share is expected to double within the next five years. The increase in CO₂ emissions will have a profound impact on the costs for companies, their data centres, and the ecological and environmental communities at large. 

News V-Private Moves Applications Infrastructure to Interxion

16 Jun 2011

Interxion today announced that V-Private, a leading operator of international MPLS (Multi Protocol Label Switching) network services, has moved a significant part of  its IT application services to Interxion’s Frankfurt data centre campus.

News Interxion Belgium Chooses 100% Green Energy

14 Jun 2011

Interxion today announced that its Belgian data centre has taken the strategic decision to be supplied 100% by green energy.

Working in partnership with its energy supplier, Interxion’s Belgium site now sources all of its energy from renewable sources such a solar, wind and hydroelectric power.

News GP Bullhound advises 4energy, the leading provider of low energy cooling solutions for base stations, equipment rooms and data centres

14 Jun 2011

GP Bullhound, the technology investment bank, has acted as the exclusive financial advisor to 4energy Ltd on the funding round by Environmental Technologies Fund (‘ETF’). 4energy's existing investors include Carbon Trust Investments Limited and Catapult Growth Fund. The investment is to be used to support the Company in its rapid international expansion.

News Verizon Upgrades Global Communications for Ariston Thermo Group to Help Company Achieve Its Business Goals

14 Jun 2011

Ariston Thermo Group’s ongoing global expansion left it with disparate platforms and technologies that were not aligned with the company’s goals of growth and integration. To resolve that issue Ariston Thermo has chosen an integrated Verizon communications and networking solution that will enable the manufacturing leader to drive more effective collaboration across its extensive operations and implement a range of advanced services.

News NextiraOne joins The Green Grid

13 Jun 2011

Membership adds value to Data Centre design and build solutions and services

NextiraOne, Europe’s leading expert in communications services, today announced its membership in The Green Grid Association. The Green Grid is a global consortium dedicated to advancing resource efficiency in Data Centres. NextiraOne will become a General Member of The Green Grid giving the company access to the organisation’s extensive technical resources and best practice information and sharing.

News The Bunker is ready for the transition from IPv4 to IPv6

13 Jun 2011

The Bunker Secure Hosting Ltd, providers of Ultra* Secure Data Centres and Managed Services is pleased to announce that is ready for the transition from IPv4 to IPv6.

The Bunker has completed extensive research and testing, including successful participation in the World IPv6 Day test on 8^th June, where its main website was made available via IPv6 for 24 hours.  With testing completed, The Bunker can now roll out IPv6 to its customers when IPv4 addresses have been exhausted. Transition processes have been established that allow The Bunker to help customers accommodate the new technology when they require it.

News Equinix To Build Third Data Center in Amsterdam

09 Jun 2011

Sustainable design meets growing local and global demand

Equinix, Inc. today announced plans to build a third International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data center in Amsterdam (AM3), just six months after the official opening of AM2, the second IBX in the same market, indicating strong demand for Equinix data center services. The first phase of AM3 is expected to be completed in the third quarter of 2012. The new IBX will be located in the Amsterdam Science Park, one of the most carrier-dense locations in Europe with more than 150 networks, and when completed will provide approximately 6,400 square meters of customer floor space.

News NextiraOne Customer Innovation Award Winners Announced

08 Jun 2011

Winners from banking, telecoms and business sectors across Europe demonstrate creative approaches to contact centre implementations

NextiraOne has announced the winners of its Contact Centre Customer Innovation Awards for 2011.  The awards, now in their fifth year, are presented in partnership with Alcatel-Lucent and Genesys at NextiraOne’s Annual VIP Dinner on the eve of the Genesys G-Force event. They present a unique opportunity for NextiraOne to recognise and highlight the creativity and innovation of many of the company’s customers across a wide range of business sectors.

News Interxion and CoreSite Announce Transatlantic Cloud Computing Data Centre Alliance

08 Jun 2011

Interxion has announced a cloud computing-focused data centre alliance with CoreSite (NYSE: COR), a U.S. provider of powerful, network-rich data centres. The alliance addresses dual-continent demand from cloud companies looking for data centre space in Europe and the U.S. as well as cloud customers of both companies looking to expand internationally. The transatlantic cloud data centre alliance reduces the risk and challenges involved with international data centre sourcing between Europe and the U.S. with Interxion and CoreSite providing a seamless sourcing process and similar cloud-optimised peering/network access and colocation environments.

News TeliaSonera International Carrier Leverages Platform Equinix to Offer IP Network and Managed Services Globally

08 Jun 2011

Equinix today announced that IP network and managed services provided by TeliaSonera International Carrier, a global provider of cross-border IP and managed services, are now available to customers in 25 of its International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.

News Clouded Views on Data Security

07 Jun 2011

Many businesses are uneducated on the security of cloud technology and are missing out on its potentially business-changing benefits as a result.

A panel of IT security experts gathered at a round table event, held by hosting specialist UKFast, to inform businesses of the different security issues associated with various cloud platforms. They warned business owners not to rule out a move to an internet-based IT infrastructure because of inaccurate generalisations about the safety of cloud that are hyped by the media.

News ControlCircle Partners with Check Point to Deliver High-end Managed UTM Services

07 Jun 2011

ControlCircle joins Check Point MSP program to deliver outsourced, centrally-managed security services to SMBs and Enterprises in the UK

ControlCircle has today announced a partnership with Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. to deliver fully-managed, outsourced Unified Threat Management (UTM) services to UK businesses. 

News NextiraOne’s new Unified Building Services Division completes its Comprehensive Data Centre Portfolio

07 Jun 2011

The Communications Experts become The Infrastructure Experts with Turnkey Data Centre Design and Build Solutions

NextiraOne has completed the transformation of its Data Centre business proposition in the UK with the launch of its Unified Building Services division. This brings together all the physical infrastructure aspects needed for the creation of powerful effective Data Centres for NextiraOne’s private and public sector customers in the UK. It represents the final step in NextiraOne’s Data Centre strategy of creating a comprehensive, end-to-end portfolio covering physical infrastructure, network architecture, storage and virtualisation.

News Andrew Gilbert, Managing Director of Node4, wins European Data Centre Entrepreneur of the Year Award

03 Jun 2011

Andrew Gilbert, Managing Director and founder of Britain’s fastest growing data centre company, Node4, was pronounced the winner of the European Data Centre Award for Entrepreneur of the Year 2011. The award is presented to the entrepreneur who has demonstrated exemplary world class success in the data centre sector, and recognises a proven track record of recent industry achievements representing marketing flair, commercial success and significant business growth, uniqueness in approach and industry leadership.

News Melbourne on course to "Double Figures"

02 Jun 2011

Melbourne, the independent server hosting provider, is celebrating its 10^th birthday this week after posting a set of financial results that are up 30 per cent on the previous year’s figures.

News Interxion, Microsoft, KPN International, NL-ix and HP Launch Cloud Testlab

01 Jun 2011

Interxion, together with,Microsoft, KPN International, NL-ix and HP today announced the launch of the Cloud Testlab, a turnkey cloud hosting test environment for service providers, combining industry-leading software, systems, connectivity and colocation capabilities. The collaboration is designed to enable hosting providers to develop cloud services and virtualised environments for their customers at high speed and with best-in-class performance guarantees.

News GBI and Interoute Announce Two European Agreements

31 May 2011

GBI and Interoute to offer seamless communications between the Gulf and Europe

Gulf Bridge International (GBI), the Middle East’s first privately owned submarine cable operator, and Interoute, owner operator of Europe's most advanced next-generation network, are pleased to announce two new agreements, which will be delivered on the network extension agreement that was signed in Nairobi last year.

News Interxion Completes Expansion and Upgrade of Its Düsseldorf Data Centre

26 May 2011

Interxion announced today that it has completed the upgrade and expansion of its DUS1 data centre. The expansion and upgrade of the facility is in response to consistently rising demand from customers in the digital media, carrier and enterprise sectors.

Videos New Trends in Data Center Cooling Technology

25 May 2011

Scott Good, world renowned data center construction expert from GkkWorks:http://www.gkkworks.com/ explains the benefits of using Elliptical Mobile Solutions' Micro-Modular Data Center (MMDC) offerings to dramatically reduce startup costs, operating expenses, space and electrical waste.

News Cloud Hype Giving Way to Adoption

20 May 2011

No business should ignore the opportunities that cloud technology presents the results from those that have dabbled are compelling!

This was the warning issued by a panel of business IT experts who gathered at a round table event held by hosting firm UKFast this month.

News Iconnyx helps SMBs with bank holiday overload

20 May 2011

 - creates a Web Hosting Hotline & Q&A for out-of-office peace of mind - 

Whist all of us are delighted to have an extra bank holiday to enjoy since the Royal Wedding event, the increase in office downtime has put extra pressure on website managers, according to Iconnyx, the managed IT services/hosting provider.

News Fasthosts Standardises on ScienceLogic Cloud Management and IT Operations Platform

16 May 2011

ScienceLogic Provides Centralised Management of Dynamic, Hosted Resources and Speeds Delivery of New Service Offerings 

To enhance and optimise service delivery across its large managed hosting infrastructure as well as offer new virtualisation and cloud monitoring services to its customers, Fasthosts Internet Ltd has chosen the ScienceLogic^™ Inc. IT operations and cloud management platform. Using ScienceLogic EM7^™, Fasthosts’ internal IT staff, channel partners and end customers now have access to personalised views into performance and availability across the shared resources that support the Fasthosts Web hosting business, the largest in the UK, as well as its Rise subsidiary, which provides Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing services exclusively through its partner network.

News announced the implementation of cloudgermany.de’s cloud computing infrastructure at Interxion’s data centre campus in Frankfurt.

12 May 2011

Interxion has announced the implementation of cloudgermany.de’s cloud computing infrastructure at Interxion’s data centre campus in Frankfurt.

Videos SGI ICE Cube® Air Modular Data Center

12 May 2011

SGI® ICE® Cube Air offers a complete solution, starting at $99,000 and operational in hours. The new ICE Cube Air MDC expands in standard increments out to 80 racks/97,920 cores/143.36 PB. With highly efficient fans, along with an innovative three-stage evaporative cooling system, ICE Cube Air runs with air and evaporative cooling, achieving a power usage effectiveness (PUE) ratio of less than 1.06. Supplemental direct expansion (DX), or chilled water cooling coils, provides an optional cooling system for customers deploying in extreme environments. Using one percent of the water needed by standard water-chilled containers and requiring a water flow of only two gallons per minute, ICE Cube Air can get its water from almost any clean source, including a garden hose. www.sgi.com/icecubeair.

News HMSHost Locates Mission-Critical Infrastructure with Interxion

12 May 2011

Interxion today announced that it has been selected by the EMEA division of HMSHost, a world leader in travel dining and shopping, to provide data centre colocation for the company’s mission-critical infrastructure. HMSHost now runs data and application infrastructure for its EMEA operations in Interxion’s AMS3 data centre.

News UKFast Breaks Through the Cloud

12 May 2011

Hosting solutions specialist, UKFast, has addressed the concerns of growing internet businesses with its new innovation: MyCloudStack. The flexible solution breaks down the elements of dedicated cloud hosting and makes it simple for businesses to advance into private cloud computing.

News QiComm Opens Doors to New London City Data Centre, Tutis Point

11 May 2011

QiComm, the UK-based provider of carrier-class voice, data services and managed services has officially opened the doors at its new data centre.  The new centre is located in Docklands London, and showcases cutting-edge technologies implemented to deliver enhanced energy efficiency. 

News London Metal Exchange Opens Access Point at Interxion

09 May 2011

Interxion has announced that London Metal Exchange (LME), the world’s premier non-ferrous metals market, is opening an access point to their electronic trading platform, LMEselect, at Interxion’s City of London data centre. The access point will also allow access to LMElive, the exchange’s real-time price and data application.

News Titan Internet wins double gold

05 May 2011

Titan Internet gains Microsoft Gold Hosting and Server Platform Competency in the Microsoft Partner Network

Cloud hosting specialist Titan Internet has today announced that it has achieved not one but two Gold Competencies for its technological expertise from global software giant Microsoft. 

News PEER 1 Hosting brings IPv6 enabled network online

03 May 2011

Customers assured of worldwide reach over new protocol following £7.5m network investment

PEER 1 Hosting today announced the arrival of its IPv6 enabled 10GB backbone network, bringing future-ready network reach to customers ahead of the imminent IPv4 address exhaustion. 

News SFW Ltd partners with The Bunker to provide dedicated dual site hosting services

03 May 2011

The Bunker Secure Hosting Ltd has announced that SFW Ltd has chosen The Bunker as its data centre partner of choice for its dedicated, dual-site hosting requirements.

News The Danish Internet Exchange Establishes Presence at Interxion

28 Apr 2011

Interxion today announced that it has signed an agreement with the Danish Internet Exchange (DIX) to establish DIX’s second national Internet Exchange at Interxion’s data centre in Copenhagen.

News Green Unbreakable Cloud Initiative launches recruitment drive

28 Apr 2011

Growth in demand for energy efficient and highly scalable cloud computing needs talented individuals

The Green Unbreakable Cloud Initiative (GUCI), a group of interlinked technology vendors striving to help organisations build innovative new datacenters, has launched a major recruitment drive to attract visionaries  to build the next generation of cloud architectures.

News Interxion Selects Sipartech to Implement Fibre Optic Infrastructure between Its Six Paris Data Centres

26 Apr 2011

80 KM of Optical Fibre on Two Different Architectures

Interxion has chosen Sipartech, a neutral, dark-fibre-optic infrastructure operator in Paris and its surrounding region, to interconnect its data centres.

News Metadigm IT Security Services Selects Interxion to Host Its Network and End Point Security Solutions

19 Apr 2011

Interxion today announced that Metadigm, the network and end point security specialist, has chosen to deploy its hosted security service in Interxion’s Cloud Hub Community at its City of London data centre.

News Melbourne Server Hosting unveils ambitious growth plans

14 Apr 2011

Melbourne Server Hosting is set to strengthen its offering by increasing its number of employees by 50 per cent.

News New hi-tech security hub to protect UK businesses opens

14 Apr 2011

MITIE creates 38 jobs with multimillion pound investment in Northern Ireland

The UK’s newest hi-tech security hub, designed to protect some of the world’s largest companies, has opened today in Craigavon, Northern Ireland.

News DE-CIX expands to Interxion Düsseldorf

14 Apr 2011

Interxion has announced that it has signed an agreement with DE-CIX, the world’s largest Internet Exchange operator to establish a DE-CIX regional Internet Exchange at Interxion’s Düsseldorf data centre.

News IT Infrastructure Unprepared for Future

14 Apr 2011

The UK's existing IT infrastructure isn't prepared to meet the demands of an "always-on" and environmentally-aware society, according to a panel of sustainable IT gurus.

News nlyte partners with RFID Global to simplify data centre asset management

12 Apr 2011

nlyte Software integrates RFID technology into data centre infrastructure management solution for real time, end-to-end planning

nlyte Software today announced its partnership with RFID Global Solution, Inc., a real-time asset visibility software provider, which will enable organisations to deploy an integrated RFID solution to track and manage assets within the data centre.  Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology enables the physical and theoretical infrastructure of a data centre to be completely in sync, giving organisations extensive control throughout their data centre environment.

News Equinix adds three companies to Carrier Ethernet Exchange, expanding service in Japan and Europe

12 Apr 2011

Equinix and the European Advanced Networking Test Centre Partner for Global Interconnect Demonstration at Light Reading Ethernet Europe

Equinix today announced the addition of three new members to its Equinix Carrier Ethernet Exchange, a global, network-neutral service that improves quality and removes the cost and complexity of facilitating commercial transactions between Layer 2 Ethernet networks. The new participants, Broadnet.no, KDDI and Teragate, will also have access to the Equinix Marketplace(SM) for discovering new partners and locations where they can extend the reach of revenue-generating Ethernet services to a wider audience.

News Geo Networks and Next Connex seal deal to provide diverse fibre connectivity to Europe’s largest Tier 3 data centre, in South Wales

12 Apr 2011

New network set to close latency gap between London to South Wales to under 2 milliseconds

Geo Networks today announced that it has agreed a deal with Next Connex, the specialist data centre VNO, to provide over 780kms of backhaul fibre network from London to Newport, South Wales, via the Midlands and the M4 corridor.

News Interxion Sees Growing Demand for Connectivity to Quote MTF

11 Apr 2011

Interxion today announced that it is receiving increasing interest from market participants wanting to connect to pan-European, lit trading venue, Quote MTF.

Videos Suwanee Data Center - Physical Space

07 Apr 2011

Take a tour of this next-generation HP data center in Suwanee, Georgia. It features multiple levels of security and delivers flexible hosting services to support HP clients' critical business.

News Green Grid Endorses European Data Centre Sustainability Award

05 Apr 2011

The Green Grid has given its endorsement to the Green Award for Sustainability in Data Centres, to be presented at the annual Data Centres in Europe Awards which takes place on June 2^nd in London

Videos Hu Yoshida of Hitachi discusses more efficient data centers in Sky News Business Tech Report

04 Apr 2011

As data demand escalates, so does the need for greener, more efficient technology.

Articles WordPress.com - Case Study

31 Mar 2011

From its roots in 2003 as a simple piece of code for enhancing the typography of everyday writing, WordPress, the open source blogging software, has grown to become the world's most popular blogging tool. As of November 2010 there are over 30 million WordPress publishers worldwide. WordPress powers the sites of high profile media brands like CNN, the BBC, and Time Inc. and is firmly established as the most used platform in Technorati's ranking of the Top 100 blogs. A thriving global community of developers, designers, and publishers collaborates on the ongoing development of the WordPress open source software project.

Videos Intel Cloud Builders: Cisco Cloud Computing

30 Mar 2011

Lew Tucker, VP and CTO of Cloud Computing, Cisco Systems, talks about interoperability amongst cloud computing solutions and the participation of Cisco in the Intel Cloud Builders program. Lew also discusses how Cisco brings together compute, storage, and networking, combining the flexibility of software and performance of hardware to bring out the optimal solutions to its customers.

News The Bunker to present at FST Live Conference for Financial Sector IT Professionals

29 Mar 2011

The Bunker Secure Hosting Ltd is pleased to announce that it will be presenting its views on Virtualisation and Cloud Computing at the FST Expo 2011, the only event focused on technology for the financial sector in the UK.

News Burgundy Goes Live at Interxion’s Stockholm Data Centre

28 Mar 2011

Interxion today announced that Burgundy, a trading platform for Nordic securities, has gone live at Interxion’s Nordic Financial Hub in Stockholm.

News Budget boosts broadband as Government’s ‘Plan for Growth’ fuels business in the West Country

25 Mar 2011

Rise welcomes promise of ‘superfast broadband’ to drive business growth

Following the Budget announced by the Chancellor on 23 March 2011, Rise, a leading Gloucester based cloud computing solutions company, has welcomed the promise of public investment in superfast broadband.

News Level 3 expands Scandinavian connectivity with TelecityGroup

24 Mar 2011

New point of presence supports increasing data demands in one of Europe’s most connected regions

Telecity today announced that Level 3 Communications Inc. (NYSE:  LVLT), a leading international provider of fibre-based communications services, has expanded its core networking infrastructure from TelecityGroup’s Stockholm I site to its new state-of-the-art Stockholm II data centre via a new point of presence (PoP). The expansion builds on the existing relationship with TelecityGroup across Europe, and is enabling Level 3 to extend its European network to support increasing business demand for data services across Scandinavia.

News OnApp’s $25 million “Cloud-In-A-Box” giveaway to dispel cloud hosting cost and complexity myth

22 Mar 2011

Free software and services offer launched at WHD 2011

OnApp has revealed a unique offer for hosting providers at the WorldHostingDays 2011 exhibition today – dispelling myths about the cost and complexity of setting up a cloud hosting operation. OnApp will give away 500 “Cloud-In-A-Box” packages that give recipients the opportunity to get cloud hosting software and services, worth well over $50,000, free of charge. There are 500 boxes available to WHD 2011 attendees on a first come, first served basis. OnApp is a Diamond Sponsor at WHD 2011, and the total value of OnApp’s Cloud-In-A-Box offer is in excess of $25 million.

News TelecityGroup customers gain access to Interoute’s Fast Trade financial trading platform

22 Mar 2011

Interoute, the owner operator of Europe’s largest next-generation network, has installed a fibre-based connection between TelecityGroup’s two data centres in Milan providing additional resilient and redundant links between the two facilities.

News Wall Street Journal names WAN optimisation specialist Silver Peak 'Next Big Thing'

17 Mar 2011

WAN Optimisation leader makes second annual list of venture-backed companies with greatest promise to succeed

For the second consecutive year, Silver Peak Systems, the leader in data centre class wide area network (WAN) optimisation, has been named on the Wall Street Journal’s Next Big Thing list, which ranks the top venture-backed companies across all industries.  Silver Peak is one of only 14 returning companies to the list of 5,740 potential candidates evaluated.

News Utilyx selects Adapt to deliver centralised hosting and MPLS network

17 Mar 2011

Energy and climate change specialist selects Adapt’s managed services to support rapid growth and business continuity

Utilyx, a leading energy risk management firm, has selected Adapt to host and manage an MPLS network that will streamline activity between Utilyx’s two offices in the UK and boost its disaster recovery capabilities. Under this agreement, Adapt will provide a flexible VPN service to enable Utilyx to centrally host its critical IT infrastructure at a secure data centre whilst enhancing connectivity between its offices in London and Northampton.

News Cloud Company iomart Hosting sponsors the 2011 UK Green IT Awards

17 Mar 2011

Major Tech Companies set to be honoured for outstanding environmental performance at UK’s leading Green IT Awards Event

iomart Hosting, one of the UK’s leading managed hosting and cloud computing companies, is proud to announce that it will be involved with this year’s 2011 UK Green IT Awards as a headline sponsor.

News ControlCircle launches Rapid-Deployment Managed Cyber Threat Services

17 Mar 2011

Scalable BotNet infiltration protection and DDoS mitigation services available to SMEs and global organisations

ControlCircle today introduced a rapid deployment Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) mitigation service for both SMEs and global organisations.  ControlCircle offers a scalable, fully-managed and integrated DDoS service to protect organisations of all sizes and profiles from malicious cyber-attacks that are designed disrupt or disable Internet-facing services.

Articles VW goes VoIP - Case Study

16 Mar 2011

Formed in 1999, with locations in Derby and Leicester and annual sales of around 4,500 new and used cars, VW Parkway prides itself on delivering excellent customer service and strives to maximise on all opportunities.

News Racktivity Announces EnergySwitch ES1008 Next Generation Power Distribution Unit for Data Centers

16 Mar 2011

Enables market’s most advanced real-time metering, switching and analysis capabilities

Racktivity has announced the availability of its new next generation EnergySwitch^TM ES1008 Power Distribution Unit (PDU) solution for energy and environmental management within data centers. Racktivity’s ES1008 gives data center professionals real-time, true RMS measurement capability, predictive analysis and individual power-port level switching capability, all at the industry’s lowest energy consumption available in a PDU device.

News Interxion Switzerland Launches Carbon Offsetting Partnership with myclimate

16 Mar 2011

-       ‘Climate neutral’ certification for all customers

-       Offsetting contributions to support a range of climate protection projects

Interxion today became the first data centre operator to launch a comprehensive carbon offsetting partnership with Swiss non-profit foundation myclimate. The new programme provides Interxion Switzerland customers with 100% carbon-neutral colocation services by offsetting any unavoidable CO₂ emissions via a range of climate protection projects in Europe and the developing world.

News Equinix to open fourth IBX data centre in Paris

16 Mar 2011

New data centre will support continued strong demand and position Equinix as the leader in the French market

Equinix has announced that it is constructing a fourth International Business Exchange™ (IBX) data centre in the Paris metropolitan area. The new data centre (PA4), scheduled to open in the third quarter of 2012, will further extend Platform Equinix in Europe to meet strong demand for premium interconnection and colocation services in Paris and across the region.

News TelecityGroup’s Frankfurt Gutleutstrasse data centre to ensure security and resilience of SaaS services for media and publishing industries

15 Mar 2011

Digital Technology International (DTI™), an integrated solutions provider for digital and print publishing, today announced it has chosen TelecityGroup as its data centre partner in Europe to support its launch of DTI Cloud, the company’s high performance Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) publishing platform.

News iomart Group completes Maidenhead Data Centre Expansion

14 Mar 2011

New fit out creates fully flexible, powered and resilient space to meet growing cloud hosting demand

iomart Group, one of the UK’s leading managed hosting and cloud computing service companies, has today announced the completion of the second phase of an expansion programme at its Spectrum House, Maidenhead data centre.

Articles The University of Nottingham - Case Study

10 Mar 2011

The University of Nottingham is ranked in the UK’s Top 10 and the World’s Top 75 universities by the Shanghai Jiao Tong (SJTU) and QS World University Rankings.

News Oscar Music & Media Selects Interxion’s Content Hub to Host Its Connected Media Platform Services

10 Mar 2011

Interxion today announced that it has been selected to host the connected media platform services of digital music company Oscar Music & Media in the Content Hub of its City of London data centre.

Videos Hemant Mahawar on PowerShell Remoting, Hosting, Delegation, and Deep Dive 2011

10 Mar 2011

Hemant Mahawar, the Program Manager behind PowerShell remoting, hosting APIs and delegated administration, talks about the components and the upcoming TEC 2011 PowerShell Deep Dive conference - April 17-19, 2011, Las Vegas.

News Claranet’s cloud to accommodate De Vere’s ambitious online strategy

08 Mar 2011

De Vere Group selects Claranet’s private cloud to consolidate its hosting platform, support online campaigns and boost revenue

Leading independent hotel and hospitality group, De Vere Group, today announced that it has chosen long-term network provider, Claranet, to implement a flexible, reliable and cost-effective dedicated virtual hosting solution (also known as private cloud). De Vere will rely on Claranet’s private cloud solution to host and manage its range of mission-critical applications and websites. The platform will provide the foundations to support the Group’s recently launched online and e-commerce strategy aimed at driving traffic to its websites and boosting revenue.

News iomart Group ranked in Top 10 Global Managed Service Providers by MSPmentor

08 Mar 2011

Fourth-Annual Research Report Lists the World’s Top 100 Managed Service Providers

iomart Group plc (AIM:IOM), a leading UK cloud computing and managed hosting services company, has achieved an overall ranking of 8^th in Nine Lives Media Inc.’s fourth-annual MSPmentor 100, a distinguished list and research report identifying the world’s top 100 managed service providers (MSPs). 

News Telehouse Data Center opens in Istanbul

07 Mar 2011

Telehouse today announced the opening of its new Datacenter in Istanbul/Turkey in partnership with local telecommunications/system integrator company Teknotel Telekomünikasyon.

News GSH completes black building tests for Royal Bank of Scotland

04 Mar 2011

GSH Group has completed black building tests at three critical London office and data centre locations for Royal Bank of Scotland as part of the company’s business continuity and risk avoidance strategy.  The testing process was undertaken during a two-month period, as part of an ongoing maintenance programme and was designed to check essential mechanical and electrical systems and building infrastructure whilst minimising operational downtime.

News Equiduct locate in Interxion’s City of London data centre

04 Mar 2011

Location decision integral to Equiduct’s pan-European growth strategy

Interxion has announced that Equiduct, the fastest growing pan-European trading platform, has moved its matching engines into its City of London data centre to take advantage of Interxion’s leading connectivity and  Financial Hub community.

News OnApp Certifies DedicatedNOW as a Cloud Service Provider

02 Mar 2011

Managed web host builds D-I-Y clouds for growing hosting companies

OnApp has certified DedicatedNOW as an OnApp Cloud Service Provider, and announced a new partnership with the company to offer cloud hosting infrastructure as a service to web hosting providers. DedicatedNOW’s customized private cloud service includes servers, SAN storage and bandwidth, plus OnApp’s cloud management software, for a monthly fee. It offers web hosts a simple and affordable way to launch their own cloud hosting products without the capital investment and running costs associated with building their own cloud infrastructure.

News Cryptosoft launches first encryption service platform

02 Mar 2011

First scalable solution designed for on-premise, virtualised, hosted and cloud deployment reduces cost and complexity of managing cryptography while retaining the value of existing security management tools and processes

Cryptosoft,  ‘Encrypt anything to anywhere’, has announced the launch of its flagship encryption solution as the first dedicated platform built from the ground up to offer scalable encryption for any data type, from any application delivered to any destination.

News First results of the ‘Frankfurt Cloud’ project presented at CeBIT 2011

02 Mar 2011

• Application ran error free during five-month stress testing period
• Smooth operation of even extremely heterogeneous applications
• High-capacity data centre environment - a key factor for reliability and high availability

Interxion has announced jointly with Deutsche Bank, Goethe University in Frankfurt and GSI Helmholtzzentrum for Heavy Ion Research the first results of the project initiative ‘Frankfurt Cloud’. For this project a cloud computing infrastructure housed in Interxion’s Frankfurt data centre campus, has been exposed to continuous stress tests under controlled scientific observation to evaluate its security, performance and reliability.

News BlueSquare Data is Acquired by Lumison for £22m

01 Mar 2011

Lumison, the UK provider of connectivity, hosting and managed IT services, that was acquired by Bridgepoint Development Capital in October 2010, has acquired, BlueSquare Data, a data centre based provider of colocation services.

News TelecityGroup shortlisted for prestigious PLC Awards

28 Feb 2011

TelecityGroup recognised for leading approach to investor relations and sustainability

TelecityGroup has been shortlisted for the ‘Best Investor Communication’ and ‘Achievement in Sustainability’ categories at this year’s PLC Awards.

News Daxten takes the lead with its cooling optimisation solutions for the Data Centre

28 Feb 2011

Highly rated according to EU Code of Conduct Best Practices for Data Centres:

Daxten’s CoolControl solutions

In November 2008 the Joint Research Commission of the European Union (EU-JRD) started with the initiative for a code of conduct to increase the energy efficiency in the data centre. Today the EU Code of Conduct for Data Centre Energy Efficiency stands for a voluntary program that is supported worldwide by manufacturers, service providers, independent experts and data centre operators. Daxten is an endorser of the code and is committed to adhering to and sharing the code’s contents across the IT industry by motivating users to realise higher levels of energy and cost efficiency in their data centres. The code (EUCoc) is based on concrete guidelines and best practices that contribute significantly to reducing energy consumption in data centres. To quantify the value for the user, the 2010 edition of the EUCoC best practices comes with a grading system from 1 to 5. The best practices which can be realised cost effectively and offer maximum energy efficiency improvement are graded with 5. The Daxten CoolControl solution range for the optimisation of data centre cooling is top rated with marks between 3 and 5. 

News The Bunker Demonstrates Commitment to Customer Service with Gold Membership of the Service Desk Institute

24 Feb 2011

The Bunker is pleased to announce that its Service Desk is now a Gold Member of the Service Desk Institute.

Recognising the importance of the service desk within a 21^st century data centre, The Bunker has built a skilled team and implemented systems that allows it to operate 24x7x365 with a consistently high level of customer service. Partnering with the Service Desk Institute with Gold Membership demonstrates to its clients The Bunker’s dedication to continual improvement and adoption of best practices.

News Interxion Enhances Managed Cloud Backup Solution

24 Feb 2011

Interxion has launched an enhanced version of its Secure Data Service (SDS) managed cloud backup service which provides a raft of new benefits for organisations of all sizes looking for a high-speed, agentless, pay-as-you-go backup solution for their mission-critical applications. 

News Conseal Security Selects iomart Hosting to Provide Secure Platform for Delivering Cloud-Based Security Solutions

22 Feb 2011

Web and Server Hosting Specialist Will Underpin the Launch of Conseal’s Innovative Products for Securing Data

Conseal Security today announced that following an extensive evaluation of the market, it has selected iomart Hosting to provide the online delivery platform for its cloud-based security remote management console and remote device authentication solutions.

News Connectria selects Scality to launch a public cloud storage service

22 Feb 2011

Scality’s first ‘Storage as a Service’ customer in North America

Scality today announced that Connectria - one of the longest-standing, most experienced, enterprise-class hosting businesses in North America – has selected Scality RING as the core technology of its new Storage as a Service offering.

News Interxion Completes Further Zurich Expansion

22 Feb 2011

Interxion has completed the second of three phased expansions to its ZUR1 data centre in Zurich-Glattbrugg, in response to consistent growth in customer demand. 640m² of new data centre space was created in the expansion, which increases total data centre space to over 4000m².

News IP-Only to Provide Low-Latency Connectivity to Interxion’s Nordic Financial Hub

16 Feb 2011

Interxion today announced an agreement with IP-Only, a Swedish Internet and telecom operator focusing on companies with high demands on bandwidth, accessibility and reliability. 

News ControlCircle introduces Cloud-based storage for enterprises

15 Feb 2011

Simple to use, scalable data vault on a pay-as-you-go unlimited basis

ControlCircle today introduced a cloud-based storage solution for enterprises.  The easy-to-use, scalable data vault will be available on a pay-as-you-go unlimited basis and offers complete management and secure backup of a firm’s data in the cloud.  The new storage option will suit organisations looking to minimise capital investments in storage capacity or that have fluctuating data backup needs.

News Interxion and NYSE Technologies Launch Data Centre Partnership

10 Feb 2011

Interxion today announced a strategic partnership with NYSE Technologies, the global commercial technology unit of NYSE Euronext (NYX) and the world's leading provider of end-to-end electronic trading solutions.

Articles The Brett Group, Case Study

04 Feb 2011

The  Brett  Group  is  a  privately  owned  heavy  industry  construction  materials company  based  in  the  South East of England.  As part of a complete IT restructuring, the company needed a new cost-effective and resilient data centre. Keysource was appointed to design, build and install the facility following a competitive  tender.

News Dumfries and Galloway Council Collaborate with IBM to Install New Energy Efficient Data Centre

03 Feb 2011

Natural cooling ventilation to save Council over £20,000 a year

Dumfries and Galloway Council, working with IBM, has re-located its data centre to maximise energy efficiency and offer improved real-time data processing. The new location is a refurbished Category C listed historical landmark in Dumfries, Scotland. For over half of the year, the new data centre uses outside air for cooling (‘Free Cooling’), helping to reduce energy consumption and costs. It is anticipated that there will be a 25 to 30 percent reduction in the use of energy for air conditioning and an estimated saving of £20,000 per year.

News OnApp 2.1 extends leadership in cloud management software for hosts

03 Feb 2011

Free update enables hosting providers to offer private cloud services, extends cloud resource billing capabilities and adds KVM hypervisor support

OnApp has extended its lead in cloud management software for hosting providers, with the launch of OnApp 2.1. OnApp software lowers the entry barriers to cloud hosting, enabling hosts to offer fully-featured cloud services without huge up-front investment in software, infrastructure and integration. OnApp 2.1 introduces features that make cloud hosting accessible to a wider range of hosts, with new options for private clouds, cloud resource billing and resilience, and KVM hypervisor support. 

News Claranet makes senior appointments to drive growth of cloud services across EU

03 Feb 2011

Claranet today announced four senior appointments as the business sets its sights on growth across Europe. The appointments mark the beginning of a new stage in Claranet’s evolution as a managed services provider. Following recent investment in a market-leading virtual hosting infrastructure and the ongoing development of its networking services, Claranet is set to capitalise on the growth in demand for cloud services across Europe.

News Telehouse Sets a Clear Course to a Low Carbon Future with Carbon Trust Standard

01 Feb 2011

Telehouse today announced that its two London sites have been awarded the Carbon Trust Standard. Based on a rigorous, independent assessment, the Carbon Trust Standard certifies that organisations have measured, managed and reduced their carbon emissions across their own operations, and are committed to reducing them year-on-year.  Telehouse UK received the award after improving its carbon efficiency by 12 percent, relative to turnover[1]. The award means that Telehouse has joined the group of nearly 500 certified organisations which have already cut carbon emissions by over 3 million tonnes of CO2e.

News ControlCircle Opens Asia-Pacific Operations

31 Jan 2011

Expansion comes amid global growth in cloud computing and virtual technology outsourcing

ControlCircle today announced the opening of its Asia-Pacific operations in Singapore.  ControlCircle APAC will provide regional marketing, sales and support for ControlCircle’s growing portfolio of blue-chip clients expanding in the Asia Pacific region.  Stephen Harrison, former CEO Cellnet Pty Ltd Australia is appointed General Manager (GM) APAC and will spearhead ControlCircle’s expansion into one of the fastest growing markets in the world.

Videos Data Centre World 2011

28 Jan 2011

This year Data Centre World, the UK’s largest and fastest growing exhibition and conference for data centre managers, professionals, distributors and channel partners will deliver more than ever before with more sessions, more theatres and more exhibitors.

Over the 2 days of the event you will be able to attend 48 sessions and gain knowledge and insights from some of the industry’s key players.

Register here for FREE!

News Interxion Announces Pricing of Initial Public Offering

28 Jan 2011

Interxion Holding N.V. has announced that it has priced an initial public offering of 20,375,252 ordinary shares at $13.00 per share. Interxion is offering 16,250,000 ordinary shares and certain selling shareholders are offering 4,125,252 ordinary share.

News Metropolitan Police Firearms Unit use The Bunker’s Data Centre for Specialist Training

27 Jan 2011

The Bunker Secure Hosting Ltd has been selected by the Metropolitan Police Firearms Unit for armed police training purposes.

As the leader in ultra secure data centre services, The Bunker was considered to be ideal to use as a training facility by the Metropolitan Police Firearms Unit, due to the uniqueness layout and physical security infrastructure. The Metropolitan Police started their training in the first week of January, and will continue once a week, practising different scenarios at The Bunker facilities for several months.

Articles Moving the data center from chaos to control

27 Jan 2011

Best Practices in Data Center Performance Management with Integrated Processes and Technologies

It’s about having the visibility, insight, and integrated processes to drive optimal performance throughout your data centers. DCPM solutions enable you to collect and understand massive amounts of data so you can make informed decisions on a day-to-day basis, as well as stretch your space, power, cooling resources, server, and other resources in a safe, controlled manner.

News UKSolutions keeps World Cruising Club data safe and secure in the ‘cloud’ and pirates at bay

26 Jan 2011

Joint venture enables over 1.6 million sailors to stay connected via ‘cloud’ computing services to international sailing events / Stability of Noonsite  benefits cruising sailors globally

UKSolutions has cast off with World Cruising Club (WCC), ensuring that more than 1.6 million people can access data on global sailing events, from locations around the globe.  The very nature of the events run by WCC means that people require access to information and data from all over the world, and courtesy of UKSolutions’ Cloud Computing provision, WCC can provide 100 per cent website uptime. At the same time the company has been entrusted by WCC to host Noonsite, the global information portal for cruising sailors. The website provides data from anti-piracy activity to port facilities, weather and tax issues pertinent to yacht owners.

News Adapt launches vendor-neutral Virtual Data Centre

24 Jan 2011

From virtual colocation to managed services, new solution reduces it complexity and delivers highly resilient data centre services tailored to individual customer needs

Adapt has today announced the availability of its Virtual Data Centre (VDC) service, which makes use of Adapt’s comprehensive portfolio of best-of-breed data centres to offer customers bespoke colocation and managed services that grow with their business.  With Adapt’s highly flexible ‘pay as you grow’ model, customers of any size can realise the benefits of virtualisation without the traditionally associated upfront capital investment.

News Melbourne makes "Serverlove"

19 Jan 2011

Melbourne has launched Serverlove – a new cloud computing service.

The new service – which has been billed as ‘the most flexible choice for server hosting’ – went live this month following a period of extensive development and Beta testing in which over 100 customers trialled the product. 

News Equinix and OpSource team to accelerate global delivery of scalable cloud solutions

19 Jan 2011

OpSource Joins Platform Equinix to expand service footprint, enhance performance and advance collaboration with company’s 3,700 customers to grow revenue.

Equinix and OpSource have announced an agreement to deliver enterprise-class cloud and managed hosting solutions to Equinix’s ecosystem of more than 3,700 customers across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. OpSource becomes part of Platform Equinix, which combines business ecosystems and a global footprint of state-of-the-art IBX (International Business Exchange) data centres for enabling companies such as OpSource to accelerate business growth.

News Interactive Data Extends Presence to Interxion’s Stockholm Data Centre

18 Jan 2011

Interxion today announced that Interactive Data 7ticks, part of Interactive Data Corporation, a leading provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions, has extended the footprint of its real-time services by locating a Point of Presence (POP) in Interxion’s Stockholm data centre. The POP offers customers low-latency connectivity and proximity hosting both to the Stockholm-based exchanges and between the London and Stockholm financial centres.

News Teliti Datacentres Sdn Bhd

11 Jan 2011

Teliti Datacentres selected as a key contributor to Malaysia’s Economic Transformation Programme

Teliti Datacentres, a builder and provider of fully-integrated data centres and related services in Malaysia, is delighted to have been acknowledged in the Malaysian government’s Economic Transformation Programme (‘ETP’), announced by Prime Minister Dato’ Sri Mohd. Najib bin Tun Abdul Razak earlier today. The ETP is a comprehensive government initiative that will transform Malaysia into a high-income nation by 2020.

Articles Financial Services – The VIPs of Data Centre Networking

07 Jan 2011

Communication and data are the backbone of the global capital markets industry. In today’s Matrix world, financial services transactions happen not between people, but between servers. The extent of these communications enacted virtually - at the network edge - account for more than 99% of all financial services’ exchanges and correspondence. Ensuring that data arrives with minimal, deterministic and “fair” latency, therefore, is vital. Financial institutions, however, are increasingly faced with the challenge of deploying a network which champions “zero latency” and high throughput at the lowest possible total cost of ownership (TCO). 

News PEER 1 Hosting strengthens Disaster Recovery with Adam Continuity

06 Jan 2011

Data centre recovery specialist partners exclusively with PEER 1

PEER1 Hosting today announces its exclusive UK partnership with Adam Continuity, the BS25999 accredited, and leading provider of business continuity solutions to IBM, Barclays and Dell. 

News Silver Peak positioned as visionary in Gartner's 2010 Magic Quadrant for WAN optimisation controllers

06 Jan 2011

Evaluation based on completeness of vision and ability to execute

Silver Peak Systems has announced that it has been positioned in the ‘Visionaries’ quadrant of the Gartner 2010 ‘Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimisation Controllers’ (Gartner, Inc. Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimisation Controllers, Severine Real, Andy Rolfe, Joe Skorupa, December 23, 2010).

News Armadillo Managed Services Attains Gold Certified Partner Status in Fortinet Partner Program

04 Jan 2011

Armadillo has been accredited with ‘Gold Partner’ status by Fortinet.

Neil Morgan, Sales Director at Armadillo commented ‘We are delighted to have attained The Fortinet Gold Status Accreditation. It confirms that Armadillo have successfully achieved unprecedented growth and profit by delivering superior, next generation multi-threat security solutions to our growing client base. As a Gold Partner, Armadillo has demonstrated expertise with Fortinet technologies and a proven ability to meet customer’s needs. The benefit’s provided through our Gold Certified Partner status will allow us to continue to enhance the offerings that we provide to our customer’s”.

Articles F5 Case Study: Rackspace Hosting

04 Jan 2011

Rackspace, based in San Antonio, Texas, provides hosting solutions to businesses of all sizes, across a portfolio of IT services, including managed and cloud hosting. The company operates nine data centers worldwide, and it offers fully managed hosting and cloud computing options on dedicated and virtualized servers in Rackspace data centers. The company’s 3,000 employees serve more than 100,000 hosting customers, many of whom rely on the cloud for some segment of their hosting needs.

Articles nlyte Software launches Version 6.0 for integrated analytics & intelligent capacity planning in the data centre

22 Dec 2010

nlyte 6.0 now incorporates nlyte Analytics, a set of fully integrated business intelligence capabilities allowing data centre professionals, managers and executives to quickly gain visibility into the information and key performance indicators that help optimise the critical resources of power, cooling and space leading to reduced data centre operating expenses and extended data centre life.  Users can gain detailed visibility into the current status of the business, enabling them to track how their data centre operations are performing against strategic goals and how day-to-day execution is aligned with the broader corporate strategy.

Videos nlyte Software launches Version 6.0 for integrated analytics & intelligent capacity planning in the data centre

22 Dec 2010

nlyte Software recently launched nlyte 6.0, a major new advancement of its award-winning data centre performance management suite, we spoke to Rob Neave, VP Product Management EMEA and Co-Founder of nlyte Software, who talks us through the new release.  You can also download the slides discussed here and read the full news item regarding the nlyte Software release here.

News BP Signs $400 Million Global Hosting Services Agreement with HP

21 Dec 2010

HP to simplify, standardize server infrastructure; enable cloud computing services

HP Enterprise Services UK Limited today announced BP International Limited has signed a five-year outsourcing services agreement valued in excess of $400 million.  

Videos Toronto Datacenter Tour

17 Dec 2010

A look inside PEER 1 Hosting's new flagship 41,000 square foot datacenter located in Scarborough (Toronto), Ontario offering Managed Hosting services

News Node4 to be key source of economic growth in Northampton for 2011

16 Dec 2010

Today, Paul Bryce, Business Development Director of Node4 who are a data centres specialist, was a key speaker on the Northamptonshire Economic Forum. The panel discussed their views on the future. Paul discussed Node4’s reasons for choosing Northampton as a location for the fourth data centre including the proximity to good transport links and the fact that the area is connected with major financial services companies which are set to be one of the industries to be making the most out of the increased efficiencies and reduced costs offered by the new data centre. Next year is set to be the year of the cloud, with a high percentage of businesses  from a number of sectors expected to be outsourcing data to secure data centres, according to Gartner.

News IPC Systems Expands European Infrastructure with TelecityGroup

08 Dec 2010

Presence in highly-connected London Docklands facility expands IPC’s global financial services network to meet customer demand

IPC Systems, Inc., a leading provider of trading communications solutions to the world’s top financial services firms and global enterprises, has expanded its core financial networking infrastructure to TelecityGroup’s Sovereign House facility in Docklands, London. The expansion, in one of London’s most highly-connected data centres, will support IPC’s growing customer demand for its portfolio of Electronic Connectivity Services (“ECS”).

News CFN Selects Interxion for Its Continued Expansion into Europe

06 Dec 2010

Interxion today announced an agreement with CFN Services managed telecom platform company, who owns and operates the CFN Low Latency Global Financial Exchange Platform, to expand its platform at Interxion’s City of London Financial Hub. Customers colocating at Interxion’s facilities will now be able to connect to a wide range of Global markets from a single location through CFN’s shared infrastructure.

News nlyte Software launches Version 6.0 for integrated analytics & intelligent capacity planning in the data centre

06 Dec 2010

nlyte Software today launched nlyte 6.0, a major new advancement of its award-winning data centre performance management suite. (Watch a video here)

News TelecityGroup Amstel Business Park awarded the AMS-IX accreditation

03 Dec 2010

TelecityGroup has been awarded the ‘AMS-IX certified' accreditation by the Amsterdam Internet Exchange for its Amstel Business Park data centre.

News Generali France puts Equinix at the heart of its business continuity plan

03 Dec 2010

Operational excellence and dense connectivity ensure optimum availability and performance for France’s second largest general insurance company.

News Interxion and Otkritie to provide DMA connectivity to Russian markets

03 Dec 2010

Otkritie, one of the largest financial groups in Russia, has elected to locate its servers in Interxion’s City of London data centre. Buy- and sell-side firms also located within Interxion’s Financial Hub can now benefit from direct market access (DMA) connectivity to the Russian markets.

Videos Customer Video: Southern Company

03 Dec 2010

Partnering to power success.

Virtualizing and consolidating on Dell PowerEdge servers enables the Southern Company IT team to save data center space, reduce costs and increase energy efficiency.

News The Lippis Report and Ixia Stage Open Networking Performance and Power Tests for Public and Private Data Centre Clouds

03 Dec 2010

Ixia’s iSimCity hosts Lippis Report series of 10 GE tests to provide first comparative data on 10 GE switch performance and power consumption

Ixia today announced that it has teamed with Nick Lippis of the Lippis Report to sponsor a series of open industry data centre network performance and power consumption tests. The goal of the tests is to provide the industry with comparative performance and power consumption data across several 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) switch providers using Ixia’s breakthrough Xcellon-Flex™ load modules.

News NextiraOne Expands Cisco Data Centre Capabilities Across Europe

02 Dec 2010

Cisco solutions and NextiraOne’s proven international service expertise create powerful data centre offering

NextiraOne today announced an expansion of its relationship with Cisco to accelerate the adoption of virtualised data centre solutions in Europe. Together, Cisco and NextiraOne will focus on delivering advanced communications applications, including Cisco Unified Communications and Cisco Contact Centre hosted in virtualised data centre environments, which bring real value to customers.

News PEER 1 Hosting partners with bluegfx to bring GPU cloud to media and entertainment

02 Dec 2010

3D and video businesses get super-powered graphics on pay-as-you-process basis

PEER 1 Hosting today announces bluegfx, who offer leading edge technologies in the fast-paced industry of 3D and video, as the newest partner for its graphics processing unit (GPU) Cloud technology.

Articles Automating the Virtual Data Center

02 Dec 2010

If your company is like most organizations, virtualization has become a fact of life in your data center. And it is transforming many aspects of the data center – resulting in better system utilization, application availability and cost savings in hardware and energy use. For these reasons and others, virtualization technologies are being deployed to drive the efficiency and effectiveness of data center resources.

News Value Driving Data Centres As A New Asset Class

01 Dec 2010

Launch of new report at 4^th Finance and Investment Forum for Data Centres

 A new research paper by consulting firm BroadGroup proposes that data centres now represent a new asset class in their own right. The findings will be highlighted at the 4^th Finance and Investment Forum for data centres which takes place in London 9^th December.

News Capital Tool Company partners with The Bunker to provide secure hosting for award winning receivable management and finance platform TREFI

30 Nov 2010

The Bunker has announced that Capital Tool Company has chosen The Bunker to provide secure hosting for the web based receivable management and finance platform TREFI.

News Interxion Announces Expansion of Its Second Dublin Data Centre

30 Nov 2010

Interxion today announced the expansion of its recently opened Dublin 2 data centre. The expansion of the facility is in response to consistently rising demand from colocation customers, in particular customers in the fast-growing digital media, carrier and cloud service sectors. Including the investment made to build and equip the new data centre, this latest expansion brings Interxion’s total investment in the new facility to EUR 13 million in the last 18 months.

Articles Data Center Transformation

29 Nov 2010

Data centers today are undergoing a dramatic shift in terms of the design objectives, technology options and configurations, and functional requirements. The combination of increasing service and availability requirements, continued data growth, and capacity constraints is placing substantial pressure on organizations to adopt new approaches to accommodate current and future business needs.

News Terremark Selects Interxion to Host Infinistructure® Platform

24 Nov 2010

Interxion today announced that Terremark has chosen to deploy its Infinistructure® platform in Interxion’s Cloud Hub Community at its Brussels data centre.

Articles Do GB consumers & UK businesses understand the real cost of the data carbon footprint?

24 Nov 2010

Survey of 1,000 GB consumers & 100 CIOs/data centre mangers at UK enterprises.  

Research conducted by TNS & Vanson Bourne on behalf of nlyte Software

News The Bunker recognised with Technology Innovation Award

23 Nov 2010

The Bunker is pleased to announce it has won the prestigious Technology Innovation Award, at the Sunday Times Tech Track 100 annual dinner.

News Bernard Geoghegan appointed as Executive Vice President of Colt Data Centre Services

22 Nov 2010

Colt will appoint Bernard Geoghegan as Executive Vice President of Colt Data Centre Services in January 2011. In this role Geoghegan will be responsible for managing Colt’s newly formed Data Centre Services business.

News Eighth data centre for Silicon Valley

22 Nov 2010

$103 million investment for Phase 1 supports customer growth initiatives.

News Scolocate selects Keysource to double Edinburgh Data Centre

22 Nov 2010

ScoLocate has teamed up with Keysource to double the size of Scotland’s largest purpose-built co-location facility as part of an £8 million investment. Under the agreement, the data centre solutions provider has been tasked with designing and building the latest phase of development at the South Gyle site in Edinburgh, which will create one of the most energy efficient facilities of its kind in the UK.

News Enter the Spanish Markets from London at Interxion

18 Nov 2010

Interxion today announced that Bolsas y Mercados Españoles (BME), through its IT subsidiary Visual Trader Systems, has opened an access point at Interxion’s City of London data centre.

News Dell selected by U.S. Coast Guard to continue providing mission-critical IT Field Support Services

17 Nov 2010

Perot Systems Government Services (PSGS), a unit of Dell Services and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dell, was selected by the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) to provide IT field support services for critical mission and rescue systems.

News StarBev taps IBM

17 Nov 2010

StarBev, one of Central Europe's leading breweries, has awarded IBM a five-year, multi-million euro information Technology (IT) services contract.  

News Interxion Launches Cloud Hubs Across Europe

12 Nov 2010

Interxion has launched 13 dedicated Cloud Hubs in strategically located data centres in 11 countries across Europe. The move provides cloud service providers and enterprise customers with a turnkey infrastructure solution for cloud service development and launch, and leverages Interxion’s position as the most geographically widespread, best-connected data centre operator in Europe. Interxion operates 28 data centres in 11 European countries, and houses a large community of cloud-related hosting and service providers, as well as 350 carriers and ISPs and 18 leading European Internet Exchanges.  

News Equinix Helps Businesses Succeed in Growing Digital Economy

12 Nov 2010

New Customer Deployments Leverage Value of Platform Equinix

Equinix has highlighted new customer implementations that illustrate the company’s central role in the digital economy, including global deployments from AboveNet, ACTIV Financial, OnLive and VeriSign.

News EU Code of Conduct failing to engage data centre industry

08 Nov 2010

Sentrum today released further research findings which show that the voluntary Code of Conduct for Data Centres on Energy Efficiency; introduced by the European Union (EU); is failing to secure any significant level of support in the UK.

Articles If you ignore it, it won’t go away...

05 Nov 2010

The deadline to register for the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme may have only just passed, but many companies left it until the last minute, no doubt hoping that it, like the Housing Information Packs, would just disappear when the government does yet another policy ‘U-turn’.  Despite the swathing cuts to public services and Quangos, the CRC is still in force, albeit all pretence of it being neutral has been removed and it is now simply a ‘green’ tax.  High tech industries, especially the data centre sector, are going to have to get up to speed on the scheme very quickly in order to minimise any losses as a result of it.

Articles J.R. Simplot Data Center Refurbishment

05 Nov 2010

As part of a data center refurbishment, the J.R. Simplot data center management team wanted to improve energy efficiency to meet corporate green initiatives. They also wanted to increase IT rack density, be better able to troubleshoot equipment and put in systems to manage potential risks. 

News Dutch IT Service Provider deploys Cisco's Unified Computing system

04 Nov 2010

Previder (formerly Introweb BV), a provider of virtual services to the IT specialist, software vendor and Internet service provider (ISP) sectors, has deployed the Cisco Unified Computing System in its data centers. By adopting the Cisco technology, Previder can now offer its partners new and competitive IT solutions such as Web hosting, streaming media servers, DNS and mail servers, faster than ever before while reducing its physical server count by 94 per cent (from 30 racks down to just 2).

News Interxion Forms Strategic Transatlantic Alliance with Telx

03 Nov 2010

Interxion has announced that it has entered a strategic alliance with Telx, a leading provider of interconnection, colocation and business exchange services in strategic, high-demand North American markets. The non exclusive alliance will provide a smooth transatlantic migration path into industry-leading, connectivity-rich colocation facilities for both Telx and Interxion customers, with particular strategic benefits for customers in the Financial Services sector. 

News Cerner Partners Equinix to Offer Remote Hosting Option to NHS Trusts

01 Nov 2010

Secure hosting service reduces cost of IT implementations while improving system availability and performance

Cerner Corporation today announced an agreement with Equinix Inc., a provider of global data centre services, to utilise Equinix’s London 5 (LD5) International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centre to offer a Remote Hosting Option (RHO) for its healthcare solutions. The RHO service will include secure hosting, hardware and connectivity, and will be immediately available to NHS Trusts and private organisations in the UK. This service allows healthcare providers to take advantage of Cerner’s administrative, clinical and patient care solutions, and coupled with Equinix’s data centre services, allows NHS trusts and other organisations to cost-effectively build, maintain and secure an HIT infrastructure, without the usual upfront capital and resource investment needed. 

News Brocade and Partner Ecosystem To Take London by Storm

29 Oct 2010

Dell, EMC, HP, Fujitsu and IBM join Brocade’s CMO and VP product marketing in discussing how to embrace the virtual data centre 

Brocade has announced more information on the Brocade Conference, which will take place on 1-2 December at the Millennium Gloucester Hotel, Kensington, London.  Join over 1,500 other delegates across EMEA to hear Brocade outline its vision for the virtualised data centre and innovations that will transform the networking landscape.

News Equinix Carrier Ethernet Exchange attracts leading network and cloud services companies

28 Oct 2010

Equinix has added 16 new customers to its Equinix Carrier Ethernet Exchange, a global, network-neutral service that improves quality and removes the cost and complexity of facilitating commercial transactions between Layer 2 Ethernet networks. Equinix has also extended the service to three new European markets—Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Paris—and launched a new online portal, called Marketplace for Equinix Carrier Ethernet Exchange, that connects buyers and sellers of Ethernet-based services globally.

News Atrium Network Adds Stockholm as Second Interxion POP

27 Oct 2010

Interxion has announced that Atrium Network, provider of smarter connectivity for the financial community, has extended the footprint of its services by locating a Point of Presence (POP) in Interxion’s Stockholm data centre. Atrium Network’s POP offers the trading community ultra-low-latency connectivity to all the Stockholm-based exchanges: Nasdaq OMX, Burgundy and NGM, as well as between the London and Stockholm financial centres.

Articles Claranet launches virtual hosting services; bridging cloud gaps

26 Oct 2010

Tier1 Research analyst, Antonio Piraino writes:  UK (and France) based Claranet has been working rapidly on making its cloud services generally available in rapid succession over the past few months. In September, the company launched its Managed Virtual Hosting to complement its managed dedicated virtual server environments – or private clouds.

News Interoute provides Europe’s enterprises secure cloud hosting solutions

26 Oct 2010

Interoute’s Geneva Security and Hosting Operations Centre attains ISO 27001

Interoute today announced it has received ISO 27001 certification for its Hosting and Security Operations Centre (SHOC) in Geneva.  The internationally recognised 'best practice' security management standard assures enterprises of Interoute’s continuous commitment to securing their critical data.

News New virtual hosting services from Claranet represent the next stage in cloud evolution

25 Oct 2010

Unique three-tier combination of cloud services gives businesses unprecedented flexibility, reliability and cost control

Award-winning managed services provider, Claranet, has announced the launch of a three-tier virtual hosting service offering that will meet the complex, varied and rapidly changing hosting requirements of UK and EU businesses.

News Interxion achieves highly credited BS 25999 Certification

22 Oct 2010

Interxion has achieved the highly regarded certification of BS 25999, the British Standards Institution (BSI) standard for Business Continuity Management. This has been integrated with Interxion’s existing Information Security Management System certification, ISO 27001.

News New Points of Presence in Bulgaria, Romania and Slovakia

20 Oct 2010

Global Crossing has expanded its premier IP-based global network to datacenter facilities in Sofia, Bulgaria; Bucharest, Romania; and Bratislava, Slovakia.  The expansion will enable each data center’s tenants to easily access Global Crossing's network services to support their IP and data networking requirements.

News The Bunker extends its ISO27001 accreditation to cover Newbury data centre

19 Oct 2010

The Bunker has announced that its ISO/IEC 27001:2005 accreditation has been extended to cover its Newbury based data centre, thereby increasing the level of service and choice it can offer clients.

News Sentrum enhances portfolio with Scalable Data Suites

18 Oct 2010

Harmonised power and cooling provides resilient, flexible and scalable data centre suites with lower capital costs and can potentially reduce operational costs by as much as 20%

Sentrum today announced it has added Sentrum Scalable Data Suites (SDS) to its portfolio of data centre solutions.

News Burgundy locates Matching Engines at Stockholm data centre

15 Oct 2010

Interxion has announced an agreement with the Nordic multilateral trading facility (MTF) Burgundy to move its matching engines to Interxion’s Nordic Financial Hub in Stockholm. This agreement allows investment and trading firms to connect at ultra-low latency to Burgundy’s platform.

News ABCOM partners with The Bunker to provide Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery to its clients throughout the UK

13 Oct 2010

The Bunker has announced that ABCOM has chosen The Bunker to help provide business continuity and disaster recovery solutions to its clients.

ABCOM was originally approached by one of its major insurance clients requesting a highly secure disaster recovery solution for its network infrastructure. ABCOM needed to supply a data storage service with exceptionally high data protection levels and high availability to minimise downtime.

Articles PICC Group Invests in CommScope Network Infrastructure for its Data Center in South China

07 Oct 2010

The PICC Group(People's Insurance Companyof China Group) has been China’s biggest insurance company since 1949. Today, it has 5,750 branches, including 80 outside of China, employing a total of more than 110,000 people.

News The most energy efficient colocation facility in Europe

06 Oct 2010

Custodian Data Centre, based at The Maidstone TV Studios in Kent, are regularly returning PUE figures under 1.2, with figures during some weeks as low as 1.149. As holder of The Data Centre Leaders ‘Green Data Centre’ award, they are a fine example of how most facilities could achieve greater efficiencies with a fresh approach to cooling. The impressive thing is that these figures are achieved in a colocation environment where a variety of clients needs have to be met, as opposed to a single client site. The system has been designed to cope with the high power density (64+ Amps per rack) that is available within the facility.

News CSC selects Interxion to support Managed Services

01 Oct 2010

Interxion says that CSC, the world's third-largest IT outsourcing specialist, has selected its Austrian facility to support CSC's Managed Services operations.

News Bloomberg-Equinix partnership boosts customer speed and efficiency

01 Oct 2010

Colocation and Interconnectivity benefits Bloomberg data services and Bloomberg Tradebook customers.

News TelecityGroup hosts Milan Internet Exchange

01 Oct 2010

Growing Italian digital economy to be supported by Italy’s biggest Internet Exchange.

News i/o Data Centers maintains always-on availability

01 Oct 2010

Leading provider of colocation and data center services, i/o Data Centers (“i/o”) is using BMC Software’s (NASDAQ: BMC) Service Desk Express Suite to help maintain its commitment of being always-on during a time of phenomenal growth and heavy demand.

Blog New Campus Grand Opening - IT's Time to Celebrate

01 Oct 2010

Tim Graumann writes: September marks the official grand opening of Brocade’s new Bay Area campus and with it an exciting new chapter in the company’s history. After years of hard, focused work, the new campus recently earned Brocade a place among the most innovative users of business technology. We have a lot of reasons to celebrate.

News PLug and play data centres

28 Sep 2010

Panduit is partnering with IBM to bring large modular, plug and play data centres to market.

News RackSpace API compatibility added by CloudSigma

27 Sep 2010

CloudSigma AG today announced the launch of a new RackSpace API emulator for its customers. The API emulator is designed to extend compatibility of its cloud to the RackSpace API which also forms the basis of the new OpenStack initiative.

Videos VTB 24 Chooses Oracle Database -- the Market Standard

27 Sep 2010

The existing solution for its collections department did not meet VTB24’s needs; after evaluation, the bank chose Oracle Siebel, which was implemented in 3 months. Now it is perceived to be the market standard.

News Interxion Appointed Co-Chair of the Green Grid’s European Communications Committee

24 Sep 2010

Interxion has announced that Director of Corporate Communications, Ali Moinuddin has been appointed by the Green Grid as co-chair of its European Communications Committee. Moinuddin’s new role will encompass creating awareness of advanced energy efficiency in data centres and the broader ecosystem of business computing amongst the pan-European community.

News AccelOps Advances Integrated Data Center And Cloud Monitoring For Service Providers And Large Enterprises

22 Sep 2010

AccelOps has announced expansion into the service provider and large enterprise markets with the release of AccelOps SP (Service Provider) edition. The platform provides extensive visibility, proactive alerting, analytics flexibility and service insight for managing multiple customers/divisions across on-premise, off-premise and cloud environments. AccelOps delivers an intelligent and cost-effective means to meet service levels, increase efficiency and capitalize on new service delivery opportunities for service providers and large enterprises.

News The Bunker ranks highly in Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track 100

21 Sep 2010

The Bunker has been named as one of Britain’s most successful technology businesses in the 2010 Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track 100. The Tech Track 100 ranks Britain’s fastest-growing private technology companies.

News Interoute extends presence to Russia as demand for next-generation connectivity grows

21 Sep 2010

Interoute opens new Moscow office to deliver network solutions to domestic and international markets

Interoute today announced it has extended its presence into Russia in response to increasing demand for next generation connectivity and telecommunication services in the region. The opening of a new office in Russia and the appointment of a Russia and CIS Country Manager, Elena Chernykh, will enable Interoute to meet the demand of both international companies looking for connectivity in the region and carriers looking for a high speed connection between the East and West.

News Missouri lease agreement

17 Sep 2010

Digital Realty Trust has signed a Powered Base Building lease agreement totalling approximately totaling14,000 square feet with Hosting Solutions International HHHHat Digital Realty Trust’s property in St. Louis, Missouri.

News Internet Exchange doubles network capacity

17 Sep 2010

To cope with the surging appetite for bandwidth and today’s 24/7 Internet culture, the Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX), one of the world’s largest Internet Exchange Points (IXPs), has doubled its network capacity by deploying new Brocade MLXe Core Routers as part of a core infrastructure upgrade.

News The Bunker adds an Ultra Secure lining with its Secure Hybrid Cloud proposition

16 Sep 2010

The Bunker is pleased to announce its Secure Hybrid Cloud proposition, delivering all the benefits of a scalable and flexible hosting environment, but with the ultra secure peace of mind afforded by a solid SLA (Service Level Agreement) and years of experience delivering security and business continuity.

News Montagu Private Equity acquires leading hosting provider - Webfusion

16 Sep 2010

Webfusion has today announced that it is to be acquired by leading European private equity investor Montagu Private Equity. The acquisition will help Webfusion to expand internationally and supports its company vision of bringing the world’s ideas online.

News AMS-IX Doubles Network Capacity and Paves Way to 100 GbE with Brocade

15 Sep 2010

New Brocade MLXe Core Router helps leading Internet Exchange Point cope with close to a Terabit per second (Tbps) of Internet traffic, providing a seamless upgrade path to 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) and future-proofing the network

To cope with the surging appetite for bandwidth and today’s 24/7 Internet culture, the Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX), one of the world’s largest Internet Exchange Points (IXPs), has doubled its network capacity by deploying new Brocade® MLXe Core Routers (see separate press release) as part of a core infrastructure upgrade. This effort future-proofs the network while enhancing operational stability and providing a seamless, cost-effective path for high-density deployment of 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) technology.

Blog Affordable Cloud DR is Here

15 Sep 2010

Jeff Echols writes: While many CommVault users have been interested in cloud storage as a low-cost, long term repository for backup & archive data, the more interesting topic is what can be done to the data once it gets to the cloud. By far, the most frequent user request centers on disaster recovery (DR). This week, CommVault and Rackspace announced 'Cloud DR', an affordable solution that combines enterprise class data management software with on-demand cloud infrastructure.

Videos Amsterdam Internet Exchange uses new Brocade MLXe

15 Sep 2010

Henk Steenman, CTO at AMS-IX talks about the benefits of being a Brocade customer and using it's new MLXe technology.

News Glowpoint aligns with Equinix

14 Sep 2010

Glowpoint, a provider of managed services for telepresence and video conferencing, has signed an alliance agreement with Equinix to offer carriers direct access to Glowpoint’s managed video services through the Equinix Carrier Ethernet Exchange, the only private Layer 2 Carrier Ethernet Exchange that offers Ethernet-based services across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific.

News Survey Reveals Concern About Storage Costs

14 Sep 2010

A survey conducted by BlueSquare Data has revealed that almost two thirds of data centre clients believe that the cost of storing increasing amounts of data will pose a major challenge over the next two years. With data growth and its associated costs causing such concern, it's no surprise that affordability remains an important factor when it comes to data centre selection for an astounding 97 per cent of respondents.

News Integrated business approach key to data centre measurement and optimisation

14 Sep 2010

Businesses need to take an integrated approach if they are to truly understand the environmental and financial impact of their IT infrastructure according to Mike West, Managing Director of Keysource. Speaking at the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme – What You Need to Know seminar – held at the HQ of Hammonds solicitors in the City of London – he explained that organisations needed to work together across all areas of the business to measure the actual cost of their data centre usage and potentially reduce their entire energy consumption by as much as 25 per cent.

News IPC Collaborates with Interxion to Accelerate European Expansion of its Global Financial Connectivity Infrastructure

14 Sep 2010

Interxion to host IPC Electronic Connectivity Services infrastructure in London and Vienna to continue to position IPC customers at the heart of European financial markets

Interxion have announced that IPC will locate its core Electronic Connectivity Services (ECS) infrastructure at Interxion’s Financial Hubs located in London and Vienna. IPC’s expanded presence in Europe will strengthen the company’s capability to support growing demand for its portfolio of Electronic Connectivity Services, and will help position its customers at the heart of Europe’s financial markets.

News Global finance company signs with DRT

13 Sep 2010

Digital Realty Trust has signed a Turn-Key Datacentre^® lease agreement with a global financial services company for a new datacentre in a Digital Realty Trust property in London.

News ControlCircle awarded ISO/IEC 27001:20005 certification for its UK operations

10 Sep 2010

ControlCircle today announced the company has achieved the ISO/IEC 27001:20005 certification for information management and physical security at its UK operations centres. The internationally-recognised standard provides assurance that ControlCircle maintains the highest levels of security for its clients’ information assets. The award is part of an ongoing process to achieve ISO 27001 accreditation at all ControlCircle sites as the firm expands its global footprint deeper into Europe, North America and in the Asia Pacific.

News Interxion Partners with France’s Largest Internet Exchange, France-IX

10 Sep 2010

Interxion announced today that France-IX, the largest Internet exchange in France, is now operational in its Paris data centres.

Articles Consolidate Storage Infrastructure and Create a Greener Datacenter

08 Sep 2010

As data volumes grow and budgets shrink, datacenter managers are looking for ways to scale storage infrastructure and reduce operating costs. StorageTek tape drive and tape library solutions from Oracle provide the answer, helping companies grow automated tape environments without disruption, and consolidate mainframe and open system operating environments while minimizing power, floor space, and operating costs.

News ACTIV Financial Continues to Expand its Global Offering with Low Latency Market Data Access and Delivery at Interxion City of London Data Centre

08 Sep 2010

Interxion today announced that ACTIV Financial, a leading global provider of fully managed low-latency market data solutions, is to house its ticker plant and aggregated market data feeds at Interxion’s City of London data centre.

Articles Freestyle Interactive - Case Study

08 Sep 2010

Freestyle Interactive is a full-service digital agency offering strategic consultancy, creative design and technical build across a range of digital channels. Since its inception in the mid 1990s, it has grown to become one of the leading independent full-service digital agencies in the UK. Currently ranked the largest digital agency in the Midlands, the company brings together first class strategic thinking and straight forward business logic to deliver tangible results for brands and businesses alike.

Videos HP Data Center of the Future, Today

07 Sep 2010

Delivered by HP Converged Infrastructure:HP Converged Infrastructure provides a blueprint for the data center of the future that eliminates costly and rigid IT silos so you can spend much more of your IT budget on innovation.

News Trans Data Management partners with The Bunker to provide IP-based Alarm Signalling System

07 Sep 2010

The Bunker Secure Hosting Ltd has announced that Trans Data Management Ltd (TDM) has chosen The Bunker to host AlarmLink, an integrated alarm signalling and management system.

News Higbie forecasts for the future of data centres at DatacenterExpo in Düsseldorf

07 Sep 2010

Infrastructure thought leader and data centre expert, Carrie Higbie of Siemon, is due to speak on the topic of the changing face of the data centre in light of new technologies at the forthcoming DatacenterExpo event in Düsseldorf on 17 September 2010. Her talk will focus on the impact of cloud computing, virtualisation, consolidation and higher bandwidth demand technologies on the data centre environment.

Articles The Internet Group Case Study

06 Sep 2010

The Internet Group is an award winning provider of managed IT services which has recently been awarded the Service Desk Institute (SDI) 3 Star award for its adherence to industry best practice. It specialises in technology-enabled business solutions including consulting, systems integration and design, IT outsourcing, and virtualisation applications. The London based company employs more than 60 people including 35 highly qualified engineers and was founded in 1999 by managing director Adam Maurice and sales director Mitchell Feldman.

Articles Visit Britain - Case Study

02 Sep 2010

Working in partnership with key UK tourism associations, Visit Britain is responsible for inspiring the world to explore Britain and for developing the UK’s visitor economy. The organisation works in collaboration with representatives from 35 countries to provide tailored information to promote Britain and its tourist attractions via a global network of 46 websites. It’s goal is to increase overseas visitor spend to all parts of Britain and improve Britain’s rankings on the destination wish list for international travellers.

News CiRBA announces enterprise-class analytics platform for capacity & efficiency management

01 Sep 2010

CiRBA Version 6.0 adds unique cross-functional dashboards to enable executives, capacity managers, and operations to collectively manage efficiency and risk across physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructure.

News Datalink awarded $8 million project by global consulting and software company

01 Sep 2010

Datalink has been awarded an $8 million project with a Midwestern global IT consulting and software company. Datalink will optimize this client's disaster recovery (DR) capabilities via disk-based, site-to-site replication technologies. In addition, Datalink will consolidate and virtualize this client's data center storage infrastructure, making it more agile and easier to manage. In addition to hardware and software, this award includes Datalink professional services and customer support.

News Equinix plans to build $63 million International Business Exchange data center In Hong Kong

01 Sep 2010

The second Hong Kong data center will service strong demand from the banking and financial market participants and the expansion of cloud and IT service providers.

News Core Consultancy experience strong demand for SME focused Business Continuity Managed Service

01 Sep 2010

DataSafe customers grow by 22% in last quarter, 100TB EMC storage added to off-site vaulting, performance improved by move to iomart datacenters and addition of new channel partners highlights business expansion

Core Consultancy has announced its strongest quarter of growth with a 22% increase in customers prompting the firm to expand its offsite storage and switch to a more scalable datacenter environment with iomart.

Articles The Data Centre Boom: Finding the right site just got serious

01 Sep 2010

With the data centre market continuing to grow at an astounding rate, co-locating operational servers or finding space for an expanding server business is only going to get more difficult. With a 30 per cent increase in data centre floor space since March last year¹ and a finite amount of resources available (land, suitable buildings, adequate power and data connections), finding a site that ticks all of the boxes could be a real struggle in the future.

News Trust issues apparent despite increasing demand for data centre advice

01 Sep 2010

Sentrum research shows that large UK companies want consultancy, but most will ignore the advice given

Sentrum has today released new research findings which show an increasing use of consultants for the design and specification of data centre facilities. Yet despite this growth, there remains a poor level of trust in the advice given by these consultants. 97% of the UK businesses which took part in the survey admitted that they had in fact ignored some or all of the advice they received.

Videos Eliminate Idle Redundancy in Your Data Center

30 Aug 2010

Everyone needs a disaster recovery plan. The challenge with typical DR plans is that investments in your standby databases sit idle waiting for disaster to strike. John Brust, of Oracle, takes us through how to provide disaster recovery and eliminate idle redundancy in your data center using Oracle Active Data Guard

Videos Meet Ray, Norm, Sue and an IT department about to have revenue pouring in!

30 Aug 2010

Get your virtualized environment to run faster and more efficiently and future-proof your IT investment.
Sue and Norm help their global blue chip enable better than ever IT performance and humming applications.

News BlueSquare Data gives customers a taste of life in the fast lane

26 Aug 2010

BlueSquare Data is offering its co-location clients a novel way of boosting their profile on national TV, by giving them a co-branding opportunity on its Renault Clio racing cars. Comprised of Matt Munson, BlueSquare Data’s technical director, and Paul Rivett, two-times Clio Cup champion, the BlueSquare Data team is competing in the ELF Renault Clio Cup, part of the British Touring Car Championships.

News Vigilante Bespoke strengthens ‘Cyber-Bodyguard’ system by partnering with The Bunker

26 Aug 2010

The Bunker, provider of Ultra* Secure Data Centres and Managed Services, has announced that Vigilante Bespoke has chosen The Bunker to host its ‘Cyber-Bodyguard’ personal digital security system. With a client list including celebrities, Premiership footballers, VIPs, and high net worth individuals, Vigilante Bespoke has selected The Bunker for the added value that its firm commitment to all aspects of security can bring to its own unrivalled digital security products.

Videos An IT Cloud Computing Roadmap from Intel IT

26 Aug 2010

IT Cloud Computing: Intel IT has defined a path for building and implementing a private cloud for the enterprise. This is a significant shift to a new enterprise architecture based on a cloud computing approach. Cloud computing is a shared, multi-tenant environment built on a highly efficient, automated, virtualized infrastructure. In this video, you'll see how Intel IT's office and enterprise private cloud not only increases efficiency and agility, but also offers high availability without additional cost, and improved capacity management. This roadmap is based on extensive experience -- Intel IT operates a massive worldwide computing environment, supporting about 78,000 Intel employees and 100,000 servers.

Articles Shared Data Centres: The Application Delivery Solution Approach

25 Aug 2010

The US government recently announced one of the largest data centre consolidation projects ever. When complete, more than 1,100 data centres across the country will be consolidated into a smaller number of extremely large data centres. It is thought UK public sector organisations will follow this lead.

News Kooperativa Förbundet Signs New Services Agreement with HP

25 Aug 2010

HP Enterprise Services has announced that Kooperativa Förbundet (KF), one of the leading supermarket companies in Sweden, has extended its existing relationship with Hewlett-Packard Sverige AB by signing a new five-year infrastructure services agreement. The new contract is designed to reduce complexity and improve the efficiency of KF’s technology environment.

Articles Choosing a data centre designer

23 Aug 2010

When choosing a designer for a proposed data centre it is vital to understand that the process should not just focus around price. The role of designer has evolved over time and it is no longer acceptable for price to be the only factor on which to base a decision. If you don’t get it right at the design phase, it could end up costing you more at a later stage.

News Interxion opens sixth Frankfurt site

18 Aug 2010

Interxion has opened its sixth Frankfurt data centre. The new site will take Interxion’s total data centre footprint to 28 and reinforces the position of its Frankfurt facilities as Germany’s central data hub, connecting 200 of the 350 customers of DE-CIX, the Frankfurt-based German Internet exchange.

Blog Are Data Centers complying with Executive Order 13514?

17 Aug 2010

Joe Polastre writes: In October, 2009, President Obama issued an Executive Order (EO 13514) that set federal energy efficiency standards. EO 13514 superceeds the previous executive order put in place by President Bush (EO 13423) from 2007. While the previous order required the government to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 3% per year, totaling at least a 30% reduction by 2015 from 2003 levels, Obama's order actually lets each department set their own goal. EO 13514, in contrast to EO 13423, is much more specific about the improvements that have to be made in transportation fleets, building design, etc. Just to be clear, this order only applies to federal government and their respective organizations, not the country at large. You can think of it as a government-specific climate bill.

Videos Equinix IBX Data Center Virtual Tour - Amsterdam 2

17 Aug 2010

This September Equinix will open its second state-of-the-art data center facility in Amsterdam.

Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) provides global data center services that ensure the vitality of the information-driven world. Global enterprises, content and financial companies, and more than 595 network service providers rely upon Equinix's insight and expertise to protect and connect their most valued information assets. Equinix operates 90 International Business Exchange (IBX) and partner data centers across 35 metro areas in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.

Videos New Network Data Center Security Solution: (Demo)

16 Aug 2010

Today's data center demands an advanced, end-to-end network security solution that can address evolving and multi-faceted security challenges. Juniper Networks new network data center security solution is addressing these challenges by focusing on three areas: making security dynamic and providing application visibility and identity-aware networking. The result is a cloud-ready data center network with security that is both intelligent and elastic.

Articles Strategies for Solving the Datacenter Space, Power, and Cooling Crunch: Sun Server and Storage Optimization Techniques

16 Aug 2010

By meeting the requirements to deploy new applications and support a larger number of internal and external customers, IT organizations are facing a space, power, and cooling crunch. Silo-architected legacy applications that do not share resources and energy-inefficient legacy servers that are sized to handle the maximum possible workload have pushed data centers to the limits of space and energy consumption. Many datacenters built to last 10 to 15 years have reached a premature end of life because they were not meant to support the growth that has actually taken place.

News Verari renames and moves forward as Cirrascale

13 Aug 2010

Cirrascale has announced the launch of its new business providing industry-leading independent blade-based cloud computing and cloud storage platforms for conventional and containerized data centers. Cirrascale, originally organized under the name “Verari Technologies”, acquired the intellectual property and other assets of Verari Systems in January 2010.

News Wipro launches FluidState Data Centers

13 Aug 2010

New design framework offers accelerated deployment, increased flexibility and efficiency.

Wipro Infotech, the India, Middle East and Africa, IT Business of Wipro Ltd and a leading provider of IT and business transformation services, has announced the launch of its FluidState^TM Data Centers targeted at small, medium and enterprise businesses. Based on its model-driven engineering framework for next-generation Data Centers called FluidState, the FluidState^TM Data Center from Wipro is essentially a predesigned, prefabricated Data Center which can be setup in less than a week - almost 10 times faster than a conventional Data Center.

Articles DBSi Case Study – The Evolution of Network and Application Performance Management

12 Aug 2010

DBSi is a leading regional provider of high availability disaster recovery, managed hosting, and data centre services. Headquartered in Pennsylvania USA, its business model is based on flexible, cost-effective solutions tailored to the specific needs of its clients. DBSi operates multiple advanced technology recovery and hosting centres which also contain seats for workspace recovery; and through its high-speed fibre optic networks provides seamless connectivity between its facilities, clients and the world.

Articles Data Centre Network Virtualisation – The Final Frontier

12 Aug 2010

As demand for greater processing continues to outstrip available space, power and air-conditioning, the market has turned to server virtualisation in order to maximize resources. Recognising that having hundreds of servers running at 5% utilisation is a waste, virtualisation has become a key driver for energy efficiency as well significantly reducing organizations’ IT infrastructure spend.

News Equnix supports expansion of cloud services

11 Aug 2010

Voxel, a leader in highly scalable, hybrid Internet infrastructure, has selected Equinix to support the expansion of its VoxCLOUD service. Voxel deployed its new cloud offering within Equinix International Business Exchange (IBX) data centres due to the superior performance Equinix has provided in the 10 years that Voxel has been a customer. With Equinix, Voxel was able to quickly and efficiently build out its cloud platform, enabling them to successfully tap into the growing market for cloud services across eight strategic metropolitan areas: Chicago, Dallas, Washington, D.C., New York, Silicon Valley, Amsterdam, Hong Kong and Singapore.

News Connect Internet Solutions partners with The Bunker to host disaster recovery option for the National Audit Office

10 Aug 2010

The Bunker has announced a new customer relationship with Connect Internet Solutions, providing the company with an environment to host the disaster recovery option for the website and underlying content management system (CMS) of the National Audit Office.

News Belgium National Internet eXchange selects Force10 Networks

04 Aug 2010

European Internet exchange deploys ExaScale E-Series switch/routers to power high-speed, congestion-free peering services for broad range of organisations.

Articles Yorkshire Water Case Study

04 Aug 2010

Yorkshire Water, a subsidiary of Kelda, provides water and waste water services to domestic and business customers across Yorkshire, servicing more than 4.7m people and 140,000 businesses. The company is committed to using advanced techniques and technologies to drive efficiencies and minimise environmental impact by reducing the energy consumption of its IT facilities.

News Business continuity firm makes Core decision to use iomart Hosting data centres

04 Aug 2010

Award-winning disaster recovery and business continuity specialist Core Consultancy has consolidated its data storage operations by moving to iomart Hosting data centres

News BlueSquare Data provides consolidated co-location services to WIN plc

03 Aug 2010

BlueSquare Data has been selected by WIN plc, a leading provider of interactive information and entertainment to mobile phones, to consolidate information and reduce the number of data centres WIN uses. The deal supports the company’s new messaging platform - WIN Engage - the subject of a £3.5 million investment.

Videos Server Performance: Intel® Data Center Dude, "Not All Cores Are Created Equal"

30 Jul 2010

The first in a series of videos on performance measurement from the Intel Data Center Dude. Shows a bake-off between Xeon and Atom cores. Highlight in a dramatic fashion that all cores are not created equal. Use of the 3D graph to show the performance difference.

News TelecityGroup becomes first data centre provider to achieve Carbon Trust Standard

30 Jul 2010

• Delivers improvement in carbon efficiency
• Environmental leadership further highlighted through ISO 14001 certification

TeleCityGroup has been awarded the Carbon Trust Standard across their operations in the UK and achieved ISO 14001 certification for environmental management, highlighting its commitment to maximising the energy efficiency of its operations.

Videos More Than A Box Podcast - Hu Yoshida

29 Jul 2010

Belive in data center transformation. Hu Yoshida from Hitachi Data Systems talks about some cool advances, summarized in his blog series at http://blogs.hds.com/hu/2010/07/data-...
Check it out!

News Equinix opens new Washington DC data centre and expands in Singapore

29 Jul 2010

Sixth D.C. Area Data Centre Will Help Meet Global Demand for Peering and Traffic Exchange Services, and the Expansion of Cloud and IT Provider Services

Equinix has announced the opening of DC6, its sixth International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. The new IBX data centre offers 1,750 cabinets to the telecommunications, enterprise, cloud and IT, and content companies that are either headquartered or have a significant presence in the area. Adding the DC6 IBX data centre to the existing campus of data centres will enable Equinix to strengthen its peering, cross connect and traffic exchange services, and help its customers extend their market reach.

News BlueSquare Data signs £2million contract with C4L to provide co-location services

28 Jul 2010

BlueSquare Data has signed a £2million contract with C4L, a major data centre aggregator and internet backbone provider, to supply interconnected co-location services across the company’s Maidenhead and Milton Keynes sites. The deal, which comprises more than 100 racks over the two locations, allows C4L to take advantage of the dark fibre between the two sites to offer disaster recovery services to its customers.

News Lupus alpha optimises performance with Interxion

23 Jul 2010

Frankfurt-based asset management firm optimises its mission-critical IT applications at Interxion.

News DataCentre Expo’s Visitor Marketing reaches over 1 million internationally

23 Jul 2010

DataCentre Expo’s visitor marketing plan is extremely high-profile, with a ‘global reach’ of over 1 million recipients.

Email broadcasts, off-the-page advertisements, online advertising and press coverage will really take off throughout July and August. The marketing campaign has already produced impressive results with appearances in: IT Mittelstand, eWeek and Network Computing, DV Dialogue, Manage IT and of course TheDataChain.

Articles Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) - Case Study

21 Jul 2010

Leading oil exploration surveyor Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) data centre required a high performance data centre solution at the company’s head office in Weybridge, Surrey that would significantly reduce power usage to achieve considerable cost savings and reduced carbon footprint. Keysource was appointed to design, build, install and manage the facility following a competitive tender.

PGS offers a broad range of products to the oil industry including; seismic and electromagnetic services, data acquisition, processing, reservoir analysis/interpretation and multi-client library data. The company helps oil companies to find oil and gas reserves worldwide, offshore and onshore.

News Colt offers low latency connectivity to NYSE Euronext’s SFTI® Access Centres for Colocation Customers

21 Jul 2010

Helping connect customers to NYSE Euronext’s new European Liquidity Centre

Colt today announced it has been selected by NYSE Technologies to provide customer connectivity to NYSE Euronext’s SFTI® Access Centres via the low latency SFTI® Optic service. Once connected, customers will be provided with low latency access to their colocation racks at the new NYSE Euronext European Liquidity Centre located outside of London.

News CIOs vote for The Cloud

20 Jul 2010

Colt has published the results of a European CIO survey that demonstrates that awareness of cloud services among CIOs and senior IT decision makers has increased by over 20 per cent in just seven months. Over 68 per cent of CIOs and their peers are now saying that they are familiar with cloud technology. The UK has the highest levels of awareness (77%) followed by Germany (75%), France (71%) and Italy (66%). Spain has the lowest levels of familiarity with cloud services, with 58 per cent of CIOs and their peers saying they are familiar with the technology.

News Interxion increases power capacity in Germany

20 Jul 2010

With a capacity of 14 megawatts of additional electricity the privately financed energy infrastructure will increase the power availability to Germany's leading data hub, which Interxion has been operating for more than 11 years. The new power supply will not only benefit Interxion, but potentially other key industries in the region.

Videos OpenStack storage project lead, Will Reese

19 Jul 2010

Dell's cloud evangelist Barton George interviews Will Reese, project lead for OpenStack storage at the inaugural OpenStack design summit in Austin.

News New hybrid cloud offered to UK Channel

19 Jul 2010

- Independent data centre’s new hybrid cloud platform focuses strongly on security and compliance offerings -

UKSolutions (UKS), one of the countries largest privately owned data centre specialists, today unveiled a new hybrid cloud platform as a wholesale package for the UK Channel. The solution can be divided and used in conjunction with individual and bespoke requirements, importantly providing the security of the private cloud, while also incorporating the flexibility and cost saving ‘pay as you go’ model of the public cloud.

Blog How desktop technology drives data centres

16 Jul 2010

Christian Paetz form Raritan writes:

One would assume that data centers are a place where high tech gets introduced and the mass PC market is a followers market. However there are plenty of examples where it is just the other way around. For years the processor market was driven by the battle between Intel and AMD this battle was fought where the volume was and is – consumer PCs. Another good example is the keyboard interface. Servers still used PS/2 when it was already hard to get a non-USB keyboard for consumer PCs. Also the good old VGA interface has only survived in the metal rack cabinets of data centers and data rooms.

News Deutsche Börse Systems selects Equinix as strategic data centre provider in Frankfurt

15 Jul 2010

Eurex and Xetra customers to benefit from enhanced capacity and further reduced latency

Deutsche Börse Systems, the IT division of Deutsche Börse Group, and Equinix, Inc., (Nasdaq: EQIX), a provider of global data centre services, today announced the completion of a strategic data centre services contract, which will both increase data centre capacity and improve execution times for algorithmic traders located in Frankfurt. From 2011 onwards, Equinix’s FR2 International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre, will serve as the new main data centre for Deutsche Börse Group in Frankfurt, where electronic trading platforms will be deployed, and acting as the central colocation site for customers of Eurex, the international derivatives exchange, and Xetra, the cash market within Deutsche Börse Group.

Articles Site selection – top five things to consider when building a data centre

15 Jul 2010

Whether you’re an in-house IT manager, developer or collocation provider looking to build a new data centre, one of the most important decisions in the whole process has to be where you build it. Over the last 10 years various factors have been jostling for position as the most important consideration.

It is essential to recognise that each site is different and every company has separate requirements. There is no such thing as a one site fits all.

In this article, Adam Tamburini, UK country manager at e-shelter, draws on over a decade of experience to discuss how requirements for data centre land has changed in recent years and what the industry top five now look like.

Videos Brocade's World Class Data Center Overview

15 Jul 2010

Michael Hirahara, Vice President of Global Real Estate, Facilities and Services at Brocade, discusses the design of the world-class data center at Brocade's new San Jose Campus. He covers the three design and construction elements of the data center (scalability/flexibility, energy efficiency and environmental sustainability) and Brocade's approach to facilities development.

News PGS Data Centre achieves annualised PUE of 1.17 to achieve major reductions in energy usage and emmisions

15 Jul 2010

A data centre designed and built by Keysource for oil exploration surveyor Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) has achieved an annualised PUE of just 1.17, making it one of the most energy-efficient facilities of its kind in Europe. As a result, the data centre has achieved first year savings of £650,000 and a 6.7 million KWh drop in power consumption, equating to a 2.9 million kg reduction in CO2 emissions.

News ControlCircle Meets Demand for Maximum Availability and Security with Interxion

14 Jul 2010

Interxion today announced that it has partnered with ControlCircle, a global provider of design, implementation and outsourced managed services of complex IT infrastructures. The agreement will permit ControlCircle to deliver enhanced colocation data centre packages to customers where security, infrastructure and availability are critical to their business.

News Low latency connectivity

13 Jul 2010

Equinix and Transaction Network Services (TNS) say that TNS’ Secure Trading Extranet is now offering low-latency connectivity through Equinix’s International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centres in Australia and Singapore.

News BATS takes wing with Interxion

13 Jul 2010

Interxion is now offering low-latency access to BATS Europe, the fast-growing European Multilateral Trading Facility (MTF).

News Colt launches innovative approach to Data Centres

12 Jul 2010

Colt delivers high quality, large-scale Modular Data Centre halls within 4 months.

Colt, a leading provider of business communications and IT managed services, today announced the launch of the Colt Modular Data Centre, a radical new approach to data centres which redefines the method of construction and delivery of large data centre halls.

Videos Colt Modular Data Centre

12 Jul 2010

Description of the new Colt Modular Data Centre product (Modular Data Hall) - how it is built & delivered in 4 months.

News Carbon Trust halves data centre emissions, by design

12 Jul 2010

Low carbon design of Lockerbie ‘Data Fortress’ paves way for new Carbon Trust Design Service

The rise in carbon emissions threatened by the projected exponential growth of data centres could be halved in the UK, thanks to a new design service launched by the Carbon Trust today.

News Interxion Recognised for ‘Outstanding Contribution’ to the Data Centre Sector at Data Centre Europe

08 Jul 2010

Interxion has announced that its Technology & Engineering Group, has been recognised for their “Outstanding Contribution to the Data Centre Sector” at the sixth-annual Data Centre Europe Awards ceremony held at Espaces Antipolis in Nice, France.

News TelecityGroup’s innovative Paris facility wins Data Centre Europe Award

08 Jul 2010

Industry leading data centre awarded ‘Best Colocation Facility’ for unrivalled customer satisfaction

TelecityGroup, Europe's industry leading provider of premium network independent data centres, has been awarded ‘Best European Colocation Facility’ for its new Condorcet centre in Paris at the 2010 Data Centre Europe Awards.

Videos Cisco Data Center Distribution Supporting Virtualization

08 Jul 2010

CiscoChannels sat down with Disty Dave O'Callaghan to find out the scoop on virtualization and what it means for resellers and distribution partners.

News EMC to acquire data warehouse vendor Greenplum

07 Jul 2010

EMC will continue to offer all current Greenplum products

EMC has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Greenplum Inc., a provider of data warehousing software that is used to build large cloud computing infrastrutures.

News Third IBX data centre for Sydney

06 Jul 2010

Equinix has announced plans to build its third International Business Exchange™ (IBX) in Sydney, Australia. The new IBX data center, called SY3, will significantly increase the company’s Sydney capacity to meet the high demand for premium colocation and interconnection data center services in the Sydney market. The $65 million first phase of the SY3 IBX data center will add 1,000 cabinets and is targeted for opening during the second quarter of 2011.

Videos Interview with Interxion MD, Anthony Foy Part2

06 Jul 2010

Anthony Foy talks us through Interxion's services and in particular the financial services sector in London. Click here for Part 1 and here for Part 3

News Sentrum warns UK businesses not to ignore space for power

06 Jul 2010

Sentrum has released new research findings which show that space and power issues currently top the data centre agenda. Despite these being the key business concerns that are continuing to drive companies to outsource data centre requirements, Sentrum warns that the over emphasis on power in particular could limits future business agility and growth in this sector - and that space, in fact, should become the priority consideration.

Videos Sentry Power Manager (SPM) Overview with Marc Eisenberg

06 Jul 2010

Marc Eisenberg from discusses the capabilities of the Sentry Power Manager.

Videos Interview with Interxion MD, Anthony Foy Part1

06 Jul 2010

Anthony Foy talks us through Interxion's services and in particular the financial services sector in London. Click here for Part 2 and here for Part 3.

Videos Interview with Interxion MD, Anthony Foy Part3

06 Jul 2010

Anthony Foy talks us through Interxion's services and in particular the financial services sector in London. Click here for Part 1 and here for Part 2.

Articles Controlling Datacenter Costs With Virtualization

06 Jul 2010

Switch on a server and you've just doubled its cost. According to Gartner, between 2007 and 2012, most U.S. enterprise datacenters will spend as much on power and cooling as on the hardware itself. Couple this with increasing infrastructure demands needed to handle the petabytes of data flowing through organizations as well as increasing energy costs, and Gartner also predicts that energy costs for IT could double by 2012.

Videos Citrix and Intel's latest Xeon Processors

05 Jul 2010

Watch how Intel and Citrix work together to ensure that Citrix runs optimally when run on Intel's Xeon processors.

News Emerson partners with Panduit

01 Jul 2010

Emerson Network Power is partnering with Panduit to meet the rising demand for effective enterprise system integration and risk management in the data center.

Videos Andrew Butler highlights Gartner Data Center & IT Operations Summit 2010

01 Jul 2010

As a Data Center professional you are expected to "do more with less" and be a key enabler towards business growth and manage business change. Find the nuggets of fresh learning and knowledge that will show the business why they should count on you and how you can help the business look beyond the cost discussion to new opportunities for growth.

News Naptech enables standard servers to build 10Gbps IPS

30 Jun 2010

At the recent Interop Tokyo event, Napatech successfully demonstrated that a standard server with 8 CPU cores can be used to build a full throughput 10 Gbps Intrusion Prevention System (IPS).

News Music to clients' ears?

28 Jun 2010

Savvis Symphony, one of the broadest lines of cloud services on the market, officially launches today with the release of Savvis Symphony Virtual Private Data Center (VPDC), a new cloud computing offering from Savvis, Inc. that provides clients with 100 percent enterprise-class cloud.

Blog Assessing Risk in the Virtual Data Center

28 Jun 2010

Brian Gracely from Cisco writes:

Having lived through both the Internet bubble in 2001 and the Housing/CDO bubble in 2008, we’re all too familiar with what happens when large inter-connected entities start having problems. It can often be like watching dominos fall. Things were really great when the systems appeared to be working according to the plan, but then “the plan” got sidetracked and bad things started happening that weren’t on the radar.

Videos Game-Hosting colocation case study

25 Jun 2010

Ulf Magnusson, CEO of Game-Hosting talks about their multi site colocation requirements.

News Data Centre Expo & Green Data Center Alliance

25 Jun 2010

The Green Data Center Alliance and Data Centre Expo have reached an agreement to promote power saving initiatives in the data center.

Videos How to avoid downtime

24 Jun 2010

We all know that downtime is a huge issue for everyone, especially as it affects email, databases and file servers. In this Experts & Insights video, we take a close-up look at the data protection challenges and solutions surrounding downtime.

Videos Cisco and Red Hat Innovations

24 Jun 2010

Learn about breakthrough advancements from Cisco and Red Hat for data center innovation, performance, and business results.

News Amazon Veterans Launch Company to Deliver Amazon EC2-like Services Behind the Firewall

24 Jun 2010

At the Structure 2010 conference on cloud computing, Chris Pinkham and Willem van Biljon, former Amazon executives who led the development of the Amazon EC2 public cloud service, today announced that they are launching Nimbula. Nimbula's business and technology focus is on blending EC2-like scale, agility and efficiency with private infrastructure customization and control.

News Simplified infrastructure for London Grid

23 Jun 2010

The London Grid for Learning (LGfL), the world's largest fiber network for education purposes, has upgraded its data center network with a high-performance infrastructure from Juniper, including routing, switching and security solutions. The upgraded network enables LGfL to provide bandwidth-rich multimedia teaching and learning services, including videoconferencing with museums and specialist learning centers; content streaming; and online managed learning resources to all 2,600 primary and secondary schools in greater London.

News CFN Services gets connected

23 Jun 2010

CFN Services, a managed telecom infrastructure services company, is now connected to Equinix’s International Business Exchange (IBX) data centres in Chicago, Frankfurt, London, New Jersey, New York, Philadelphia, Seattle and Toronto as part of the CFN Services global low latency network. By leveraging Equinix’s global data centre footprint and services, CFN Services is able to offer its customers ultra low latency, diverse routes for protected services, and optimised network routes in relation to all of the major global financial exchanges.

News Equinix adds 100+ financial services customers

23 Jun 2010

More than 50 exchanges and trading venues, 300 buy-side and sell-side trading firms and 100 financial technology service providers rely on Equinix for secure, highly reliable and low latency connectivity.

Videos HP BladeSystem Firsts: A Guided Tour

23 Jun 2010

Join HP's Gary Thome on a guided tour of new HP BladeSystem innovations.

Videos Digiplug colocation case study

22 Jun 2010

DigiPlug CEO, Boris Lacroix, talks about the reasons their digital distribution business chose this leading data center and colocation provider.

Videos Case study: the Greater London Authority (GLA) and Computacenter

22 Jun 2010

Find out how an IT energy audit will help the Greater London Authority (GLA) reduce power consumption and costs.

Videos Telehouse West - London couldn't be better connected

22 Jun 2010

Telehouse West is the new, flagship London data centre by Telehouse, located at the company's UK Headquarters in the Docklands.

Telehouse West is a state-of-the-art facility that offers 19,000m2 of data centre space spread over 9 floors.
Designed to be a high-tech, purpose-built facility, Telehouse West enjoys the highest levels of security, power, cooling and technical support

Articles Powering IDE’s Cloud Solutions

21 Jun 2010

IT outsourcer IDE already had their own data centre, but it was filling up fast. Instead of building a new one, they decided to take space from an external data centre operator.

News Pacnet delivers next-generation Internet

17 Jun 2010

Pacnet, Asia's leading independent telecommunications service provider, has completed the deployment of a highly scalable Internet Protocol Next-Generation Network (IP NGN) based on the Cisco Carrier Routing System (CRS) platform. Pacnet aims to take advantage of the system's innovative features to help increase business profitability, service scalability and operational efficiency while meeting customers' demands for higher bandwidth capacity and greater service flexibility.

News AboveNet connects to Telehouse

16 Jun 2010

AboveNet Communications UK Ltd, a leading provider of high-bandwidth connectivity solutions for business and carriers, has announced its network connection to the new Telehouse West data centre in London’s Docklands. This collaboration will enable London’s businesses to benefit from AboveNet’s ultra-low latency, highly scalable and secure fibre network. This installation builds upon AboveNet’s existing connections to Telehouse North, Telehouse East and Telehouse Metro – further expanding the AboveNet network to data centres in London.

Videos Case study: Eversheds and Computacenter

16 Jun 2010

By out-tasking core IT services to Computacenter, law firm Eversheds has been able to reduce costs, mitigate risk and increase mobility for its lawyers.

News Australian data centre consolidation

15 Jun 2010

Knight Frank has deployed Juniper application acceleration platforms and enterprise routers to boost operational efficiency and support its data center consolidation in Australia. Juniper Networks WX and WXC Application Acceleration platforms optimize Knight Frank’s WAN infrastructure while J Series routers provide versatile, secure routing with low overhead and high reliability.

News Low latency proximity hosting for Swiss Exchange participants

14 Jun 2010

SIX Swiss Exchange – the primary Swiss securities exchange – will offer proximity services to market participants from Interxion’s Zurich data centre.

News Transmode sets the industry standard for Low Latency Transport at 4 nanoseconds

11 Jun 2010

Transmode has announced latency performance of up to 1000 times better than comparable solutions for applications such as algorithmic trading, cloud computing, data center interconnect and video distribution.

News Businesses encouraged to look beyond cost

10 Jun 2010

Sentrum has released brand new research findings which indicate that the economic upheaval of 2009 will continue to drive changes across the data centre industry in the near and medium term.

Articles What LBi does...

10 Jun 2010

LBi is a global digital marketing and technology agency, blending insight, creativity and expertise to solve business problems. The largest genuinely full-service agency of its kind in Europe, LBi provides the full range of digital capabilities, including digital strategy, content, service design, media, CRM, technology, managed hosting and support services.

News New Datacenter Solutions From Dell Deliver Efficiency And Performance Without Compromise

10 Jun 2010

Customers in the ‘Virtual Era’ demand IT solutions that drive efficiency, rapidly deliver business value and drive innovation without locking organizations into proprietary technology. Harnessing more than 25 years of expertise in meeting customers’ requirements, Dell today unveiled new technology, services, management tools and business ready solutions that preserve choice and help customers reduce the time required to build, manage and maintain an efficient datacenter.

News Better control and reduced energy consumption

09 Jun 2010

nlyte Software has unveiled nlyte 5.3, the next progression of its award-winning data centre performance management suite.

Videos Low-latency networking

09 Jun 2010

ADVA Optical Networking's Jim Theodoras and Angelica Barriga discuss low-latency networking

News PromonLogicalis Wins Cisco Global Technology Excellence Partner of the Year

08 Jun 2010

PromonLogicalis announced today that it is the recipient of a Cisco Partner Summit global award for Technology Excellence Partner of the Year. Logicalis Group was also presented with a further seven awards spanning Latin America and Europe. Cisco unveiled the winners April 28 at its annual channel partner conference in San Francisco.

News AlgoSpan and ALGO Technologies select Interxion

07 Jun 2010

AlgoSpan and ALGO Technologies offer low latency connectivity and market data services from Interxion’s City of London data centre with immediate effect.

News Planning permission for Etix DataCenter

07 Jun 2010

Etix DataCenter, Carinae Group's new tier 4, eco-friendly hosting center is announcing that the 2 involved towns have granted it planning permission, and it has rescheduled delivery of the first 4,000m² of Premium hosting space for Q4 2011.

News Zurich launch for pan-European infrastructure service

04 Jun 2010

CloudSigma AG, a Swiss cloud computing Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider, has launched its pan-European operation in Interxion's Zurich data centre. CloudSigma selected Interxion for its connectivity-rich, highly scalable and flexible data centre space in Zurich.

News A Modular, Scalable, Data Centre with a PUE of 1.13

03 Jun 2010

A statement like that is surely worthy of a spot in the next episode of Ripley's Believe It or Not.

Last week I was treated to a revolutionary facility tour. The invitation to see this new facility was nearly ignored, thinking it would be yet another container tour. The PR gambit sent through was a bit vague and in truth, as the old adage goes, if it sounds too good to be true...you know the rest!

Videos The BladeRoom System

03 Jun 2010

Last week I toured this facility before it was broken up and transported to its new resting space with a well reputed hosting provider and re-assembled over the recent Bank holiday weekend.

Read the associated article here. Or view the linked videos on BladeRoom's Cooling System, BladeRoom's Monitoring, BladeRoom's Scalabilty, BladeRoom's Maintenance, BladeRoom's Resilience, BladeRoom's Energy Efficiency andBladeRoom's Plug & Play.

Videos BladeRoom Cooling System

03 Jun 2010

This is a short clip on the innovative BladeRoom cooling system.

Read the associated article here. Or view the linked videos on the BladeRoom System, BladeRoom's Monitoring, BladeRoom's Resilience, BladeRoom's Maintenance, BladeRoom's Energy Efficiency, BladeRoom's Plug & Play and BladeRoom's Scalability.

Videos BladeRoom Monitoring

03 Jun 2010

Watch this clip to learn about BladeRoom's remote monitoring systems.

Read the associated article here. Or view the linked videos on BladeRoom's Cooling System, BladeRoom's Plug & Play, The BladeRoom System, BladeRoom's Maintenance, BladeRoom's Resilience, BladeRoom's Energy Efficiency andBladeRoom's Scalability.

Videos BladeRoom's Resilience

03 Jun 2010

A demonstration on BladeRoom's Resilience

Read the associated article here. Or view the linked videos on BladeRoom's Cooling System, BladeRoom's Monitoring, The BladeRoom System, BladeRoom's Maintenance, BladeRoom's Plug & Play, BladeRoom's Energy Efficiency andBladeRoom's Scalability.

Videos BladeRoom's Maintenance

03 Jun 2010

A demonstration on BladeRoom's Maintenance

Read the associated article here. Or view the linked videos on BladeRoom's Cooling System, BladeRoom's Monitoring, The BladeRoom System, BladeRoom's Plug & Play, BladeRoom's Resilience, BladeRoom's Energy Efficiency andBladeRoom's Scalability.

Videos BladeRoom's Energy Efficiency

03 Jun 2010

A demonstration on BladeRoom's Energy Efficiency

Read the associated article here. Or view the linked videos on BladeRoom's Cooling System, BladeRoom's Monitoring, The BladeRoom System, BladeRoom's Maintenance, BladeRoom's Resilience, BladeRoom's Plug & Play andBladeRoom's Scalability.

Videos BladeRoom Plug & Play

03 Jun 2010

A demonstration on BladeRoom's Plug & Play capability.

Read the associated article here. Or view the linked videos on BladeRoom's Cooling System, BladeRoom's Monitoring, The BladeRoom System, BladeRoom's Maintenance, BladeRoom's Resilience, BladeRoom's Energy Efficiency and BladeRoom's Scalability.

Videos BladeRoom's Scalability

03 Jun 2010

A demonstration on BladeRoom's Scalability.

Read the associated article here. Or view the linked videos on BladeRoom's Cooling System, BladeRoom's Monitoring, The BladeRoom System, BladeRoom's Maintenance, BladeRoom's Resilience, BladeRoom's Energy Efficiency and BladeRoom's Plug & Play.

Videos Writing Code for Many Clouds

03 Jun 2010

This is the presentation delivered by Justin Kitagawa, GoGrid's Lead Senior Software Engineer, on a panel at the Cloud Connect Event 2010 titled "Writing Code for Many Clouds". Justin provides an overview of the GoGrid API which can be used to programmatically control GoGrid's Cloud Infrastructure.

Videos Three Data Centres: One Vision

03 Jun 2010

What is the common theme behind three types of data centres, namely, Platform as a Service, Infrastructure/Hosting as a Service, and Enterprise Back Office. Force10 investigates.

Videos Micro-Modular Data Centre

02 Jun 2010

The R.A.S.E.R. is 42U, vendor neutral, enclosure that can completely replace the building shell portion of a standard data center. The unit can provide the equivalent of up to 130 square feet of high-density, fireproof floor space with 42,000 BTU of closed loop cooling applied directly to the equipment. Equipped with industry standard 19" racks, the R.A.S.E.R. can accommodate the worlds most high-tech equipment including powerful blade servers for a true Tier IV data center.

Articles Nuovi Investmenti Case Study

02 Jun 2010

Nuovi Investimenti is a leading brokerage and trading firm for private customers, institutional clients and investment companies requiring high quality services and a personal business relationship based on the latest technology platforms.

Videos Changing The Rules of Networking

02 Jun 2010

HP's acquisition of 3Com creates a robust set of end-to-end networking solutions that deliver better business outcomes to a full spectrum of customers, from Fortune 100 enterprises to SMB

News Micro-modular partnership

01 Jun 2010

Elliptical Mobile Solutions (EMS), the global leaders in Micro-Modular Data Centres, has formed a strategic distribution partnership with Hammer, the number one European distributor dedicated solely to storage.

News Flagship facility opening celebration

01 Jun 2010

Telehouse has celebrated the opening of its new Telehouse West data centre with a prestigious launch event in the heart of the new facility. The evening was hosted by BBC breakfast’s Bill Turnbull, with speeches from: Mr Mitsui, Managing Director, Telehouse Europe; Mr Ishikawa, Vice President, KDDI; Mr. Hiroshi Oka, Minister of the Embassy of Japan in the United Kingdom; and Mike Harris, co-founder, Egg plc.

News Colleges sign “one-stop shop” IT deal with Calyx

01 Jun 2010

Colleges Northern Ireland (CNI) has signed a £3 million four-year contract with Calyx to provide managed services and a technology refresh across 47 College campuses. The IT specialist was selected by CNI, the representative body of the six regional Colleges, to be the single provider to educational facilities with wide-ranging and complex requirements.

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.

News 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.

News 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.

News 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.

News 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.

News 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.

News 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.

Articles Data Centre Projects: System Planning

25 May 2010

System Planning is the Achilles' heel of a data centre physical infrastructure project. Planning mistakes can magnify and propagate through later deployment phases, resulting in delays, cost overruns, wasted time and ultimately a compromised system.

Videos Unified Compute Platform

25 May 2010

Hitachi Data Systems Unified Compute Platform is the industry's first open and cohesive platform for enterprise data centers and cloud deployment. Protect investment and reduce operating expense with servers, storage, networks and applications as a collective unit. The Unified Compute Platform features multi-hypervisor support and an open API. Check out www.hds.com for more information.

News 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.

Articles Extending the Network

24 May 2010

DFN – Deutsches Forschungsnetz – is Germany`s National Research and Education Network. It provides a high performance infrastructure which connect universities and research institutions and supports the development of new applications. Since 2006 the national backbone of DFN has been the X-WiN with about 60 nodes. Connected to the Internet and to European Backbone GÉANT, X-WiN is an integral part of the world wide community of research and educational networks.

News 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.

Articles Speed to Market for NASDAQ OMX

19 May 2010

The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. is the world’s largest exchange company. It delivers trading, exchange technology and public-company services across six continents, with over 3,800 listed companies. NASDAQ OMX offers multiple capital-raising solutions to companies around the globe. NASDAQ OMX technology supports the operations of over 70 exchanges, clearing organizations and central securities depositories in more than 50 countries.

News 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.

Articles Housing Stardoll

18 May 2010

Stardoll is the world’s largest paper doll site. Members can create their own paper dolls or style different celebrity dolls with virtual clothes and accessories. Stardoll has around 34million members in over 200 countries with twelve million unique visitors to the site each month. Most users are in the USA and UK, although the Stardoll head office is in Stockholm.

Videos Where DCS came from and Where its going

13 May 2010

Dell's DCS marketing director Andy Rhodes talks about how and why the Data Center Solutions group was formed, who it has traditionally served and how its expanding its customer base.

News 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.

News 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.

News 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.

News 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.

News 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.

Articles At the heart of Cancer Research UK

06 May 2010

Information is the lifeblood of Cancer Research UK, the world’s leading charity dedicated to beating cancer through research. After a characteristically rigorous review of the options on offer, the organisation entrusted its mission-critical infrastructure to Interxion.

News 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.

News 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.

News 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

News 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

News 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.

News 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.

Articles A Partner for Bezeq in Europe

30 Apr 2010

Level of service is the overriding concern for Bezeq International. Building a partnership with Interxion Germany allowed them to keep a step ahead of rising Internet demand and expand their portfolio of premium-quality data services for multinationals.

Videos Cisco 10GBase-T for ToR and EoR Form Factors

30 Apr 2010

Cisco Data center team announces , in partnership with Intel and Panduit , the availability of the 10GbE for top of the rack and end of row platforms, starting with Catalyst 6500 and Catalyst 4900M

News Cineteck France selects Equinix

29 Apr 2010

Resilient operations and access to Tier-1 service providers are key factors in Cineteck’s choice.

News Paladyne Systems leverages Equinix to extend global reach of its application service provider solution

27 Apr 2010

Equinix’s LD4 International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre provides network-rich, optimised and neutral meeting place for technology provider to sell its solution

Videos Customer Wufoo Visits Rackspace

27 Apr 2010

Rackspace customer 'Wufoo' recently visited Rackspace, talked about what Wufoo is, how they started, and why they chose to host with Rackspace.

News China Telecom Builds Strategic European Presence at Interxion

27 Apr 2010

Interxion today announced that China Telecom (Europe) Limited, the EMEA division of China Telecom, the world's largest wireline telecommunications and broadband services provider, has chosen Interxion’s PAR 5 data centre in Paris as part of its operation to expand its network across Europe.

Videos Control Circle's Mobile monitoring & management application

27 Apr 2010

Damian Milkins from Control Circle talks about of their mobile application for monitoring and managing your services via a mobile phone.

News TelecityGroup announces new capacity plans in London

26 Apr 2010

21MW customer power to be added to flagship Powergate facility, enlarging London data centre hub to meet high customer demand.

Articles Secure housing for BNIX

23 Apr 2010

BELNET manages BNIX, the central node through which all the ISP traffi c in Belgium passes. When its own legacy data centre had become too small, BELNET asked Interxion to give the node a new home.

News Hi-tech spending to increase

23 Apr 2010

Marketing spending among high-tech and telecom providers (HTTPs) is picking up in 2010, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc. The survey found that 44 per cent of 2010 HTTP marketing budgets will be flat compared with 2009, 41 per cent will increase and only 15 per cent are likely to decrease. This compares favorably to 2009 when more than half of providers' marketing organisations took cuts in their budgets compared to 2008.

News Equinix expands Dutch operations

23 Apr 2010

Equinix AM2 IBX data centre to provide 96,700 gross square feet (9,000 gross square metres) of capacity for Dutch capital.

News New IBM Storage Products Reduce Cost, Complexity of Managing "Big Data"

22 Apr 2010

Help Clients Prioritize, Classify Data for Workloads Like Real-time Analytics

IBM has announced new storage products -- part of its 2010 lineup of workload-optimized systems -- that are designed to reduce the cost and complexity of storing vast amounts of data while making it easier for clients to apply analytics and gain insight from the data.

News TelecityGroup gains international accreditations for quality management and security

22 Apr 2010

TelecityGroup has achieved compliance for its entire European data centre estate to ISO 27001:2005 and ISO 9001:2008. The international accreditations recognise high standards for security management and business quality management respectively, and have been awarded following rigorous assessments under ISO guidelines.

Videos Life as a TelecityGroup customer - secure and resilient data centre hosting environments

19 Apr 2010

Find out how TelecityGroup can build a data centre hosting environment that will ensure your ecommerce infrastructure is secure and available around the clock.

News Turnkey facilities for US and London

16 Apr 2010

Digital Realty Trust is to build out the next phase of over 170,000 square feet of new Turn-Key Datacentres in five major metropolitan markets to meet escalating demand for its move-in ready datacentre space.

Articles Best-in-class backup

16 Apr 2010

When SurfKitchen wanted a best in class backup solution they chose Interxion’s Secure Data Service (SDS), a turnkey online backup solution delivered by a business with the infrastructure and expertise to offer total peace of mind.

News DataCentre Expo set for Dusseldorf

16 Apr 2010

Europe’s first fully dedicated, expo led data centre event will take place in Düsseldorf, 16^th – 17^th Sept 2010.

Videos Kevin Dean Interxion Cloud Ready Colocation Data Center

15 Apr 2010

Kevin Dean, Chief Marketing Officer at Interxion, is speaking on how the carrier neutral datacenter is one of the four key enablers of cloud computing and how they can be leveraged to optimise the delivery of Cloud computing services. Kevin takes the opportunity to highlight the importance of a reliable network infrastructure for Cloud computing and how organisations can build highly resilient, scalable Cloud computing data center environments.

Videos Lex Coors Interxion Data Centre Colocation Energy Efficent

15 Apr 2010

Lex Coors VP Engineering and Technology Group presentation explores the likely impact of the impending Carbon Reduction Committee legislation on organisations that operate or outsource their data centre infrastructure.He takes the opportunity to outline potential developments in energy efficiency measurement based on his involvement with the Uptime Institute Europe, European Commission DG Joint Research Committee on Sustainability, The Green Grid and the European Data Centre Code of Conduct Metrics Group

News NGM locates matching engines with Interxion

15 Apr 2010

Nordic Growth Market (NGM) AB, a Stockholm-based operator of securitised derivatives and equities exchanges, is to locate its matching engines at Interxion’s Stockholm data centre.

News Slow server growth expected

15 Apr 2010

According to IDC's EMEA Quarterly Server Forecast, customer server revenue will pick up slightly in 2010 as the market recovers from the recession in 2009. IDC expects a modest increase of 2.4%, set against the weakest server figures recorded by IDC in 2009.

Videos Phil Collerton Interxion key trends data centre colocation

14 Apr 2010

The future of the data centre and web services panel debate extract held at Data Centre World 2010 with
John Hatcher, editor, Data Centre Management Magazine and other senior executives.

News Carrier neutral Ethernet Exchange

13 Apr 2010

Interxion and CENX have formed a partnership to launch a pan-European Carrier Neutral Ethernet Exchange service. The service will be available in Interxion’s London data centre in June 2010 with expansions being planned for other locations including, amongst others, Amsterdam and Paris.

News Environmental best practice recognised by EU

13 Apr 2010

First to be awarded ‘Corporate Status’ by European Commission; European data centre portfolio has applied the Code’s guidelines.

News Equinix launches Carrier Ethernet Exchange

12 Apr 2010

The Equinix Carrier Ethernet Exchange is a global service that provides a multi-carrier environment for the exchange of data traffic between providers of Ethernet services.

Articles Scalability and security

09 Apr 2010

Fender Musical Instruments Corporation of Scottsdale, Arizona is a manufacturer of stringed instruments and amplifiers, such as solid-body electric guitars, including the Stratocaster and the Telecaster.

News Equinix continues global expansion programme with third IBX data centre in Paris, France

08 Apr 2010

116,230 gross square foot (10,800 gross square metre) PA3 International Business Exchange data centre doubles Equinix’s capacity in strategic market.

Videos Diane Morello discusses the Gartner CIO Leadership Forum in London April 27-28 2010

08 Apr 2010

Diane Morello discusses the Gartner CIO Leadership Forum in London April 27-28 2010. For more information, see our events page.

News Broadridge and IBM team up

07 Apr 2010

Data center services agreement and business alliance.

Videos New Paris data centre tour - Telcity Group

06 Apr 2010

Telecity's third data centre in Paris, France, Condorcet, has recently opened and offers 3,400m2 of customer space and 6.4 megawatts (MW) of customer power.

Videos The Planet co-location case study - Telecity Group

06 Apr 2010

The Planet selected TelecityGroups new highly resilient and secure Powergate data centre to provide colocation and connectivity for its first European data centre, located in London

News Interxion opens €12 million second Dublin Data Centre

01 Apr 2010

New 2,455m2 of gross space, increasing Interxion’s overall capacity in Dublin to 4,755m2; Brings number of Interxion European data centres to 27, with over 55,000m2 of equipped space in 11 countries.

News eu chooses TelecityGroup for better security

01 Apr 2010

EURid mirrors its technical infrastructure of the .eu top-level domain operation at TelecityGroup's Amstel Business Park data centre.

News Interxion acquires space for further growth in Frankfurt

31 Mar 2010

• New site in close proximity to Interxion Frankfurt data centre campus;
• Potential for major development following completion of FRA 6 facility, currently on schedule for Q3 2010;
• Accelerated acquisition and expansion programme reflects exceptionally high levels of demand from financial and carrier industry in Frankfurt.
  

News Telehouse West opens

31 Mar 2010

New London data centre can meet businesses’ high capacity demands.

News 50th celebrations

31 Mar 2010

Equinix has announced a major company milestone: the opening of its 50th premier International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre.

News Realising the benefits of SAN virtualisation

30 Mar 2010

More performance, greater available capacity, simplified upgrades and scalability - all on-the-fly.

News Savvis expands range of Cloud infrastructure solutions in the UK

30 Mar 2010

Savvis Symphony Open public cloud now available from Slough data centre.

News Flotation advice

30 Mar 2010

International law firm, Stephenson Harwood, has advised CSF Group plc on its initial public offering on AIM, which went live yesterday. The firm acted on all aspects of the flotation and assisted the client in raising £28m to achieve a market capitalisation of just under £90m on flotation.

Blog Will Google be your next ISP, Telco or Internet?

29 Mar 2010

Pete Gerr from HDS writes:

While Google has been making headlines on dry land from its challenges in China, the company’s investment in a $300 million ultra-highspeed fiber optic link to Japan is nearly ready to begin paying dividends

News Sentrum exceeds expectations with the delivery of new data halls at Sentrum 4

29 Mar 2010

Sentrum Construction Management has completed three new data halls at Sentrum 4 in Woking, ahead of schedule.

News Cisco, GDSYS and Incheon Metropolitan City collaborate in building next-generation green data center

26 Mar 2010

Cisco networking solutions and technology to be used to build ubiquitous service platform.

News Telenor selects Transmode for Metro Core Networks

25 Mar 2010

Telenor Group, a Norwegian global telecommunications services provider, has signed an agreement for Transmode's WDM equipment to build a new optical DWDM metro core network in Norway. Telenor is deploying Transmode's TM-Series throughout 200 sites in order to meet the increasing demand for capacity from both fixed and mobile broadband traffic.

News Interxion plans expansion at its Amsterdam Data Centre, AMS 5

24 Mar 2010

The project, which is due for completion in August 2010, will see a further 1100m2 of high-density power capacity added to the site. The demand for high-quality colocation facilities in Amsterdam has meant that this will be the third time Interxion has expanded in the area in an 18-month period.

News Equinix extends operations in China

24 Mar 2010

Equinix selects SDS as its Data Centre Partner to further support Equinix customers' colocation needs in Shanghai, P.R. China.

News Telehouse extends South African data centre presence

23 Mar 2010

Telehouse and Teraco Data Environments have extended their strategic alliance to include dedicated data centre space in Teraco’s new carrier neutral facility in Johannesburg.

News SaaS Cloud platform for Onboard Retail Solutions

23 Mar 2010

Onboard Retail Solutions has signed a three year contract with Attenda to manage the multi-tenanted infrastructure for its SaaS application delivery.

News Equinix opens second Geneva site

18 Mar 2010

Equinix has announced the opening of the first phase of its second International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre in Geneva, Switzerland.

News Interxion Completes pan-European accreditation

18 Mar 2010

Interxion has completed pan-European accreditation for the internationally recognised ISO 27001 (Information Security and Business Continuity) standard for all 11 of its European country operations. In addition, the company’s European Customer Service Centre (ECSC) team has now been trained in ITIL v3, the latest Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) standard.

News Brocade powers the largest Internet Exchange Point in Italy

17 Mar 2010

Brocade BigIron switches help the Milan Internet Exchange to manage surging Internet traffic volumes, reaching peaks of 54 Gbps.

News IFL announces ‘Manchester 3’

16 Mar 2010

Internet Facilitators Limited (IFL) says that work has begun on its third Data Centre in Manchester.

News SunGard acquires Hosting 365

12 Mar 2010

SunGard has acquired 365 Hosting Limited, a Dublin, Ireland-based cloud computing and data centre services company which trades as ‘Hosting 365’. The acquisition, the terms of which were not disclosed, is not expected to have a material impact on SunGard’s results.

Blog thedatachain of thought

11 Mar 2010

The 'soft' launch of thedatachain continues to go well - with several key content partners on board, and more in the pipeline. Our intention is to use video as the primary delivery mechanism - short, sharp, incisive comment from vendors, analysts and end users as we visit the many data centre, virtualisation and cloud events out there. This content is backed up by vendors own video content, plus the site's strong news focus, articles and, over time, a valuable information source on buzz topics.

News Data centres remain a corporate priority

11 Mar 2010

Research commissioned by Digital Realty Trust shows that in 2010, companies will increase their data centre floor space and expand into new locations as the European economy stabilises.

News South Wales now official home of one of world's largest data centres

11 Mar 2010

Giant high security building opened by Welsh Assembly Government.

News Cancer Research UK relocates data and applications with Interxion

11 Mar 2010

Cancer Research UK, the world's leading charity dedicated to beating cancer through research, is locating its mission-critical data and applications in Interxion’s London data centre.

News Budapest Internet Exchange deploys E-Series switch/router to provide scalable performance

09 Mar 2010

The Budapest Internet Exchange (BIX) has selected Force10 Networks’ E-Series switch/routers to provide highly reliable performance and unmatched scalability for its growing customer base of internet service providers (ISPs) and telcos in Hungary and Eastern Europe.

News Security, power and price drive UK market

09 Mar 2010

83 per cent of respondents regard data centre expansion business critical or important to businesses development.

News SNIA Europe endorses EU Data Centre Code

09 Mar 2010

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Europe is endorsing the EU Code of Conduct on Data Centre Energy Efficiency.

News Bezeq International expands with Interxion

09 Mar 2010

Bezeq International, Israel’s leading Internet and international telecommunications provider, has expanded its colocation requirements, taking space in Interxion’s FRA 5 data centre.

News Equinix earns LEED Certification for Silicon Valley Data Centre

08 Mar 2010

Equinix’s SV2 International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre has earned the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).

News Equinix earns LEED Certification for Silicon Valley Data Centre

03 Mar 2010

Equinix’s SV2 International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre has earned the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).

News Abu Dhabi contamination management contract

03 Mar 2010

8 Solutions has been selected to carry out all post construction cleaning and ongoing contamination management at the HP owned Injazat Data Centre – the largest and most advanced tier IV data centre in the Middle East.

News 6MW data centre capacity for Frankfurt

02 Mar 2010

4000 square metres of new space to be built to meet ongoing demand for premium carrier neutral data centre capacity.

News ASPIDER in Interxion's 'web'

02 Mar 2010

Interxion and ASPIDER Solutions, a leading international Mobile Virtual Network Enabler (MVNE) service provider, have formed partnership agreement that will extend the ASPIDER Solutions applications infrastructure into the Interxion data centre in Amsterdam.

News BSO Network Solutions selects Telstra International

01 Mar 2010

BSO Network Solutions and Telstra International to offer a low latency route between Europe and Asia Pacific.

News Emerson Global Data Centre in St. Louis achieves LEED Gold certification

01 Mar 2010

Energy-Efficient facility also wins Beyond Green Award.

News NII Holdings selects HP for IT Managed Services

01 Mar 2010

Agreement positions NII to standardize processes and enhance customer satisfaction, and to make service delivery faster and more efficient.

News Interxion selected by Sage Software

26 Feb 2010

Sage Software GmbH, a leading provider of business software solutions for German SMEs, has selected Interxion to host and centralise their expanding data centre infrastructure in the company’s Frankfurt data centre.

News Interxion partners with the London Access Point

26 Feb 2010

Interxion is to host a Point of Presence for the London Access Point (LONAP) in its City of London data centre. The move provides Interxion’s 1,100-plus customers with the opportunity to peer directly with LONAP’s extensive member base.

News Space shortage predicted for Latin America

26 Feb 2010

A new report by international consulting firm BroadGroup forecasts space growth averaging 61% across 7 key markets by 2014. Yet this is still likely to leave a space shortage following significant enterprise outsourcing.

Videos Virtually Speaking: Virtualization and the Cloud Infrastructure

18 Feb 2010

Dante Orsini, Vice-President of Business Development at iLand discusses Virtualization and how it has an important role in cloud computing.

News Interxion Awarded New AMS-IX Data Centre Certificate

16 Feb 2010

Interxion says it is the first data centre colocation provider to be awarded the new Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX) data centre certificate. The certificate was awarded to Interxion’s recently completed 4,500 m2 AMS 5 data centre in Amsterdam, following an audit of the facility’s standards for technical implementation, operational resilience and business continuity management.

News Interxion and euNetworks partner

16 Feb 2010

Turnkey low-latency colocation and connectivity for European trading.

Articles Reaching Out - European CEO

10 Feb 2010

As one of Europe’s largest carrier-independent data centre and managed services companies, Interxion has built and operates 25 data centres in 13 cities, spanning 11 countries across Europe. In his role as Group Managing Director, Anthony Foy is responsible for maintaining the company’s core focus – delivering satisfaction to over a thousand customers and developing effective long-term client partnerships in all its countries of operation.

Videos Life as a TelecityGroup customer - how a content streaming company can break into Europe

01 Feb 2010

Find out how an USA content streaming company can break into Europe with TelecityGroup's help and support.

Videos Amsterdam colocation data centre tour - Telecity Group

19 Nov 2009

We have four data centres in Amsterdam offering approximately 8,300 m2 of customer space in total. All facilities have been built to our exacting standards and provide a resilient environment with security, power, connectivity and value added services.

Videos Building a state of the art data centre in London - Telecity Group

18 Nov 2009

Powergate, the first facility to open in central London for several years, is at the forefront of data centre innovation.

Videos London Data Centre Tour: Powergate - Telecity Group

18 Nov 2009

State of the art colocation: the first to open in central London for several years, Powergate is at the forefront of data centre innovation offering between 4kW-20kW per rack

Articles Walkers

01 Jul 2008

Walkers Crisps is part of PepsiCo UK & Ireland which is one of the world’s largest food and beverage companies.

“It is vital our website can cope with the increase in traffic in addition to the intense demands that the multimedia content places on the web infrastructure. We need to guarantee a great user experience at all times."

Miranda Sambles,
Marketing Manager, Walkers