Ohio bans IT offshoring
The US state of Ohio has banned the practice of outsourcing government IT projects to offshore providers over fears that it destroys local jobs and stunts economic growth.
Ohio governor Ted Strickland said in an executive that "the...
Posted Date: 09 Sep 2010
Datalink awarded project by Johnson County Community College
Datalink, a provider of data centre infrastructure and services, has announced that Johnson County Community College has selected Datalink to architect a site-to-site disaster recovery solution.
The project entails Datalink's full lifecycle...
Posted Date: 09 Sep 2010
Tree of Life officials ink contract for data centre lease
Tree of Life Christian Schools will lease a building wing at the site of the former AOL-Compuserve property to Expedient Communications as a data centre facility. Tree of Life purchased the property at 5000 Upper Arlington Center Blvd., which is...
Posted Date: 09 Sep 2010
Wyoming State Auditor on data centre issue
The state of Wyoming currently contracts with out-of-state firms for data storage, with the most significant data storage requirements coming from the state Auditor's office. Vicci Colgan Deputy State Auditor, says they were required to give an...
Posted Date: 09 Sep 2010
C&W to invest US$4.5 million in Panama data centre
Cable & Wireless Panama will build a data centre in the Panama Pacific Special Economic Area, said Jose Quintero, CTO at C&W Panama.
The data centre will focus on information storage and will function as a server for business...
Posted Date: 08 Sep 2010
VMware and Bluelock to offer beta hybrid Cloud operation
VMware has announced it would provide external data centre services through five partners, three of them in the U.S. These partners are geared up to provide VMware vSphere 4 compatible environments and potentially a simplified way of moving an ESX...
Posted Date: 07 Sep 2010
Infocrossing data centre targets Cleveland County
A New Jersey company has an agreement to buy a Kings Mountain-area building for a US$30 million project to convert it into a highly secure server farm, according to sources familiar with the deal. Infocrossing, a unit of Wipro Ltd., plans to buy a...
Posted Date: 06 Sep 2010
Alpheus to build out broadband network in Texas border cities
Alpheus Communications is expanding the company’s fibre-optic network in South Texas.
The Houston-based provider of telecommunications and data centre services will add transport and bandwidth service in McAllen, Laredo and Harlingen...
Posted Date: 06 Sep 2010
JRM Technology data centre now in phase two engineering
The second phase of engineering to support the electrical systems for a 315,000 sq ft data centre facility on Chicago's Near South Side has begun developer JRM Technology has announced. The design and construction team is now working with...
Posted Date: 06 Sep 2010
TierPoint facility uses unique system to chill building
Near water, near perfect might be the business slogan for Liberty Lake’s growing data centre, TierPoint. Inside the 15,000 sq ft addition under construction, the privately owned data centre will use a cooling technology that its managers found...
Posted Date: 06 Sep 2010