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Cisco’s new data center game plan

Cisco announced its new data center strategy called Unified Computing System, which unites things such as network and storage access in a single efficient system. This approach can reduce IT infrastructure costs and help customers develop efficient data centers.

abeo colocates at Consonus DC

Managed server provider Consonus will be providing colocation services to abeo. It will host the company’s data and IT equipment at Salt Lake City, Utah. Consonus has three data center facilities in Utah and several in Colorado, Massachusetts, and Ohio. It also has a new data center in North Carolina which boost its disaster recovery […]

Netfirms goes for more office space. Again.

Netfirms announced that it has moved and expanded its new data center in Markham, which is company’s fifth expansion of office space in 11 years. Netfirms also plans a launch of a Tier 1 data center with a 40,000 server capacity. Company’s new enterprise grid hosting platform was showcased last month at a conference in Toronto, Ontario.

Tata’s London data center

New details have been released by Tata Communications on their London Data Center. The India-based company notes that it is equipped with advanced cooling, power, and redundancy. In times when many firms are moving their IT services away from London, Tata says their 21,400 square foot center will go online in the second quarter of […]

Teraco’s new data center in South Africa

Teraco has opened a data center in Cape Town, South Africa. It is the first vendor neutral data center in Cape Town and it also the first of its kind in the country. In the past, outsourced data center facilities in South Africa have been supplied by large IT outsourcing companies and ISPs.

Google will turn a paper mill into a data center

Google is in the process of purchasing a paper mill and turning it into a data center in Summa, Hamina, Finland. This is the company’s first announced data center since the recession began. The sale is expected to be complete by the first quarter of this year.

New data center for BAIS

Bay Area Internet Solutions is building an 83,000 square foot facility in Santa Clara (will be able to house more than 2,000 racks). It is built with environmentally friendly technologies and equipment, and designed to minimize pollution and power consumption.

Is The Planet in peril?

2008 was a difficult year for The Planet. Founded in 1998, the world’s largest privately held dedicated web host, The Planet, faced mammoth challenges last year. An electrical fire in late May 2008 swept through their Houston data center, knocking out 9000 servers, impacting 7500 customers and 700,000 websites for at least two days. In […]

IFL’s new power tool to save energy and costs

IFL has launched a tool called ISIS which is designed to provide clients with information about colocation space environment. The data is similar to what the operations center staff at IFL sees. The data can be viewed in simple text data and graphical formats. The company says one of the purposes of the tool is […]

i/o Data Centers to launch new elite DC in Phoenix

i/o Data Center is launching a new data center in Phoenix. The leased property is 530,000 square foot and will open for business in June. According to i/o Data Centers, its new DC “Phoenix ONE” in Scottsdale, Arizona will be one of the elite data centers commercially available. The project is fully funded after the […]