Web Host PEER 1 Migrates 1,600 Servers to New UK Data Center
February 17, 2012 -- UK web hosting provider PEER 1 Hosting announced on Thursday it has moved over 1,600 servers and over 120TB of SAN data to its green data center in Portsmouth, UK, which opened in October. Read more...
Colocation Firm Telx Releases New Details About Flagship Data Center in Clifton, NJ
February 10, 2012 -- Data center operator Telx announced has announced new details about its upcoming flagship 215,000-square-foot, three-story data center at 2 Peekay Drive in Clifton, New Jersey, which is expected to be completed by the fourth quarter of 2012. Read more...
Iowa Competes with Nebraska for $1.2B Data Center Build by Offering Tax Breaks
February 10, 2012 -- An Iowa state economic development official said Thursday that the state is competing with Nebraska for a $1.2 billion data center project dubbed "Project Edge". The company hopes to break ground in May, with an initial first phase investment of $500 million. Read more...
Verne Global Officially Opens Green Data Center in Iceland
February 10, 2012 -- - IT services firm Verne Global announced this week it has officially opened its first data center in Reykjanesbær, formerly a US Naval Air Station, just west of Reykjavik, Iceland. The 1,640 square foot data center, whose cost is estimated at $700 million, sits on 45 acres of land. Read more...
IT Services Firm High Touch Buys Web Host UniComData, Dallas Data Center
February 3, 2012 -- Kansas-based IT services provider High Touch announced on Friday it has acquired managed hosting provider UniComData and colocation provider Dallas Data Center, according to a report by The Wichita Business Journal. The terms of both transactions were not disclosed. The move follows last month's acquisition of web development firm NewBase. Read more...
Q9 Houses NYSE’s Financial Transaction Infrastructure at Toronto Data Center
February 3, 2012 -- Data center operator Q9 Networks announced on Thursday it has been selected by NYSE Technologies, the commercial technology unit of NYSE Euronext, to host a secure financial transaction infrastructure access center. The agreement will extend the SFTI backbone into Q9's Toronto data center, enabling Canadian customers to directly access services over the global capital markets network. Read more...
Facebook IPO Filing Details Data Center Spending
February 2, 2012 -- With 845 million users, and more than half of users logging in everyday, Facebook has provided some insight into how much it costs to run its infrastructure through the release of its IPO filing on Wednesday. Facebook has invested more than $1 billion in its infrastructure, comprised of its own data centers in Oregon, North Carolina and Sweden, and leased facilities in California and Virginia, according to a report by Data Center Knowledge. Read more...
Telecommunications Firm NTT Completes Singapore Data Center
January 31, 2012 -- Japanese telecommunications provider NTT Communications announced on Tuesday that it has completed the construction of its Singapore Serangoon Data Center. Designed to meet the needs of financial services industry and enterprises, the data center is in close proximity of the stock exchanges to provide low latency networks to the financial industry for electronic trading. The data center will be fully operational by the end of February 2012 and NTT Com will hold a grand opening ceremony in Singapore in April. Read more...