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...
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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...
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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...
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08 Sep 2010
TeleHouse Vietnam opens data centre
The TeleHouse Vietnam data centre has opened to all data-related services for businesses involved in telecommunications, finance and banking. At a total cost of US$5 million, TeleHouse Vietnam is designed and equipped with systems in line with...
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08 Sep 2010
Gartner: 40% European cos to increase outsourcing in 2010
Fifty-three percent of organizations in Europe said they will outsource more in 2010, and 40 percent of organizations are planning to increase their external IT services spending, according to a recent survey from Gartner.
The survey found...
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08 Sep 2010
CMS expands its Manchester data centre operations
CMS Group, a Blackburn-based IT infrastructure specialist, is to create 10 jobs at its Manchester data centre after a string of contract wins worth £2.2 million. The group has secured contracts in the North West with Bury-based Trumeter...
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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...
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07 Sep 2010
Australia: Symantec seeks data centre partner
Security specialist Symantec may seek to partner with a data centre or telco as it moves from software into cloud-based disaster recovery. Symantec chief technical officer Mark Bregman said he expected the launch of a new suite of enterprise data...
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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...
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07 Sep 2010
Emerson completes Chloride acquisition
Emerson has announced it completed its acquisition of Chloride Group, which now joins strong global product brands within Emerson Network Power. This acquisition helps drive Emerson's long-term global growth strategy for uninterruptible power supply...
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06 Sep 2010
Independent tower company launches in Cote D'Ivorie
Cote d'Ivoire's first independent tower company "SWAP Technologies and Telecomms, has gone live with its first cell sites built for colocation. SWAP commenced telecoms services operations in Abidjan in 2009 with the objectives of providing...
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06 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...
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06 Sep 2010
Intel invests heavily in Virtualization
Few companies have as large a technical infrastructure as Intel, so the high profile vendor's decision to invest heavily in virtualization is a major endorsement of this data centre technology. Chip giant Intel has detailed its efforts to rein in...
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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...
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06 Sep 2010