AMS-IX and TelecityGroup Netherlands expand partnership
AMS-IX, the Amsterdam Internet Exchange, has installed its first extension point at TelecityGroup’s Amstel Park data centre. The further expansion of its infrastructure will enable AMS-IX, already one of the world’s largest internet...
Posted Date: 10 Sep 2010
Heineken speeds up supply chain with move to private cloud
Brewing company Heineken Netherlands has turned to a private cloud environment in its data centre to help manage data growth, save on costs and space and to automate data management.
As part of the process, the company has installed a...
Posted Date: 10 Sep 2010
BT dominates Connecting for Health supplier spending
BT's dominance of health service IT has been revealed by government figures showing the firm received more than two-fifths of NHS Connecting for Health's 2009-2010 £1.1 billion supplier budgets. The data, released by the Department of Health,...
Posted Date: 10 Sep 2010
UK jobs: Data Centre Technician, Slough
Salary: £35000 - £36000 per annum
The cline is currently looking for a technician to work in their clients data centre in Slough. Their client is a large, established financial company and you will be working within a team of...
Posted Date: 10 Sep 2010
Photo Gallery: See the data centre of the future
Capgemini has created the first of a new breed of data centres which mean it will never have to build a data centre again after completing its Merlin data centre. The modular approach has created, in Swindon, what Capgemini believes is the most...
Posted Date: 10 Sep 2010
New look for BIS Data Centres
BIS has unveiled a new brand identity and corporate website which reflects its position as a leading owner and operator of secure and expertly managed London data centres and outsourced IT services.
The website uses a distinctive strap line...
Posted Date: 10 Sep 2010
IBM reportedly pulls out of Iceland data centre project
Companies which had planned to take part in a huge data centre being set up by Verne Holding in the former army base of Keflavík International Airport are pulling out of the project. Among the international companies which are postponing...
Posted Date: 09 Sep 2010
Reserve data centres to be created in Azerbaijan
The Ultra company intends to establish reserve data centres in Azerbaijan. The company has said that in order to provide information integrity of the state importance, reserve data centres will be created on the basis of available information bases...
Posted Date: 09 Sep 2010
Raids across Europe on file sharing servers
Police across Europe have launched raids on computer servers believed to host files related to illicit file-sharing services. Fourteen countries are said to be involved in the operation, including the Czech Republic, Hungary, the UK, Norway,...
Posted Date: 09 Sep 2010
Go Voyages chooses Equinix to increase business effectiveness
Equinix has announced that Go Voyages, a French travel agency, has selected Equinix to protect and connect its infrastructure, enabling the continuity of its on-line services. Go Voyages’ infrastructure is hosted at Equinix’s PA3...
Posted Date: 08 Sep 2010
Data Electronics and Enet sign €1.5 million deal
Data Electronics has announced it has secured a five-year, €1.5 million deal to provide a secure colocation facility along with managed services to Enet, which operates the State’s metropolitan area network programme. Data Electronics...
Posted Date: 08 Sep 2010
QuantHouse selects Geo dark fibre for London network expansion
QuantHouse, an independent global provider of end-to-end systematic trading solutions, has leased dark fibre from Geo in order to build out its proprietary London fibre optic network. Geo will provide fibre connections to QuantHouse’s key data...
Posted Date: 08 Sep 2010
Logica to provide IT services to Stora Enso
Logica has announced a contract win with Stora Enso, a global paper, packaging and wood products company, for the provision of IT infrastructure services. Through the three-year contract, which begins in January 2011, Logica will provide IT...
Posted Date: 08 Sep 2010
Baltic Data Centre acquires a company from Martinson Trigon
Estonian investment company Martinson Trigon sold 100% of its Lithuania portfolio company Hostex to Baltic Data Centre, a subsidiary of Lithuanian telecom giant TEO.
Hostex is a leading data centre operator of Lithuania and provides web...
Posted Date: 07 Sep 2010
Volia expands services at data centre
Ukrainian operator Volia announced that it has raised the quality of services for customers at its data centre.
The volume of incoming international traffic has been increased for all tariff plans, the configuration of servers has been...
Posted Date: 07 Sep 2010
Increased broadband for north Antrim
The completion of another project through the £1.9 million Northern Ireland Broadband Fund is set to improve connectivity along the north Antrim coast. The Fund supports next generation broadband services and projects which aim to provide...
Posted Date: 07 Sep 2010
Attenda and RFU sign four year managed services contract renewal
Attenda, the Always On Managed Services Company, has announced that it had signed a four year contract renewal with the Rugby Football Union (RFU) to host the RFU website on Attenda’s Cloud computing platform.
As part of the contract...
Posted Date: 07 Sep 2010
Hitachi and GDS to open green data centre in the Netherlands
Hitachi Europe and Green Data Systems have announced the opening of a highly energy efficient data centre in Deventer, The Netherlands. It will be opened on 23 September this year.
Both firms entered a strategic partnership earlier this...
Posted Date: 06 Sep 2010
2bm launches new data centre power monitoring offering
2bm, a provider of data centre technology, has launched iMeter, a new data centre power monitoring offering that helps businesses monitor and reduce power consumption in data centre. The iMeter can be used at rack level, and provides insight into...
Posted Date: 06 Sep 2010