Equinix reports second quarter 2010 results
Equinix, a provider of global data centre services, has reported quarterly results for the quarter ended June 30, 2010. This quarter includes the results from the acquisition of Switch & Data Facilities Company, Inc. from May 1, 2010, which is...
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29 Jul 2010
Equinix opens US$80 million data centre in Washington, D.C.
Equinix, a provider of global data centre services, has announced the opening of DC6, its sixth International Business Exchange data centre in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. The new IBX data centre offers 1,750 cabinets to the...
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29 Jul 2010
Telx doubles capacity in Chicago Cermak data centre
Telx, an interconnection and colocation provider in strategic North American markets, has announced a 13,500 sq ft expansion of its premier data centre footprint at 350 East Cermak Road, located in the heart of the Chicago Business District. This...
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29 Jul 2010
Australia: Central Coast to host HP pod data centre
Regional NSW managed service provider Verb IT is one week away from completing the fit out of the first container data centre in Australia based on HP's POD technology. Verb IT director Christopher Clifford said he spent some 20 months researching...
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29 Jul 2010
Summit County and Akron agree to sell land for new data centre
Summit County and Akron are selling property to an Iowa company that wants to build a US$20 million electronic data storage facility in a blighted section of the city. The County Council and City Council approved the property sales this week. The...
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29 Jul 2010
Interview: Canada's push to overhaul data centres and data management
When Corinne Charette was appointed chief information officer of the Government of Canada in May 2009, she quickly discovered her responsibilities ran wide and deep. Charette's broad experience certainly helps, having held executive and information...
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29 Jul 2010
Britvic awards IT contract to Atos Origin
Atos Origin, an international IT services company, today announced that it has been awarded a new five-year contract worth around £15 million with Britvic Soft Drinks, a leading international soft drinks business and one of the two market...
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29 Jul 2010
APC forms data centre software unit
American Power Conversion, owned by Schneider Electric, has announced the formation of its own “specialized data centre software business to focus” on control of “all aspects of the data centre environment.” The new APC...
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29 Jul 2010
Active Power reports second quarter 2010 results
Critical backup power systems manufacturer Active Power has announced results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2010. Revenue for the quarter was US$16.0 million, an increase of 44% from the first quarter of 2010 and an increase of 142% compared...
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28 Jul 2010
HP says prefab data centre cuts costs in half
Hewlett-Packard thinks it can build data centres faster and more cheaply by using standard, pre-built components that are assembled on site in a "Lego-like" fashion. Its Flexible Data Center consists of four large data centre halls, or...
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28 Jul 2010
Telecitygroup achieves carbon trust standard in the UK
TelecityGroup, the provider of premium network independent data centres, 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...
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28 Jul 2010
City of Johannesburg gets a helping hand from Dimension Data
Dimension Data, the US$4 billion specialist IT services and solution provider, used its holistic systems integrator skills, technology assets, and experience to seamlessly migrate the City of Johannesburg’s (COJ’s) ICT outsourcing...
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28 Jul 2010
European IT spend 'will be lower'
Forrester Research has released a report predicting strong growth in IT spending in the US and Asia offset by weaker growth in Europe due to the Greek debt crisis. The analyst said that the IT goods and services spending in the US will increase by...
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27 Jul 2010
Savvis reports second quarter 2010 results
Savvis has reported its second quarter 2010 financial results, with revenue of US$221.8 million, compared to US$219.9 million in the second quarter of 2009.
Income from continuing operations for the second quarter of 2010 was US$2.6...
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27 Jul 2010
Interview: Ou Yan of China Telecom Europe
The head of China Telecom’s small but fast-growing business in Europe, based on its competitive terrestrial routes across Russia, says he is looking for opportunities to invest in IT services to support its work with enterprise customers. Ou...
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27 Jul 2010
SoftLayer revenue and operations grow in first half of 2010
SoftLayer Technologies, the innovative on-demand data centre services provider, has announced solid financial and operational growth through the first half of 2010.
SoftLayer provides highly automated, on-demand data centre and IT services...
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27 Jul 2010
Vodafone data strategy improves its results
UK mobile phone operator Vodafone has reported that group revenues increased in the last quarter. Group service revenues grew by 1.1% as all regions of the global player improved, it said in its interim management statement for the quarter ended 30...
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26 Jul 2010
BSkyB agrees proposed deal for Easynet
BSkyB has reached an agreement over the proposed sale of its business-to-business telecommunications operation, Easynet Global Services, to LDC, a leading UK private equity company. LDC will pay Sky £100 million for the business on completion...
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26 Jul 2010
Digital Realty Trust reports second quarter 2010 results
Digital Realty Trust, an owner and manager of corporate and Internet gateway data centre facilities, has announced financial results for the second quarter of 2010.
Recent Highlights included: Increased the quarterly dividend 10.4% to $0.53...
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26 Jul 2010