NaviSite Cuts Losses, Continues Shuttering Colocation-Only Data Centres
Datacenter Dynamics
Data center service provider NaviSite has shrunk its losses, as it shifts focus further away from colocation and closer toward hosting, its main revenue source, managed services and cloud computing. The company will launch its new fully managed cloud services offering in April and the full-production release is expected in May.
Verizon, Network Vendors Transmit at 100 Gbps Over 1,500 km of Fiber
Datacenter Dynamics
Following Verizon’s announcement of deployment of 100 Gbps technology on a part of its network in Europe, the company announced this week a successful optical fiber transmission of real traffic in a field trial of 100 Gb in collaboration with Juniper and two other firms. Data was transmitted over a 1,520 km section of Verizon’s network in Dallas. The test applied standards-based optics end-to-end and used the latest 100 Gb native router interfaces. In a statement, Verizon said the multi-vendor demonstration validated the standard’s maturity.
U.S. Regulators Propose New Co-Location Rules
Reuters
U.S. regulators will propose a rule, aimed at high-frequency traders, to ensure all market participants have equal access to market data, the head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said on Thursday. “We are doing a proposed rule on co-location to best promote … open access,” CFTC Chairman Gary Gensler told reporters on the sidelines of the Futures Industry Association annual conference.
Cisco Unveils CRS-3; AT&T Uses New System in 100G Ethernet Testing On Commercial Fiber Route
Datacenter Dynamics
Keith Cambron, president and CEO of AT&T Labs, joined several Cisco executives, including CEO John Chambers, in a Webcast announcement of the new system. The large network operator made CRS-3 part of its trials of 100G Ethernet, which Cambron said concluded successfully.
The New Threat Data Center Security: The Underground Economy
Enterprise IT Planet
Today, there is an underground economy fueled by stolen data and the pursuit of maximum criminal financial gain. Organizational leadership must understand the players and the conditions and act accordingly if they stand a chance at protecting the organization from theft or compromise.
Data Center Expansion Set To Explode in Next 12-24 Months
Information Management
The study, conducted by Campos Research & Analysis on behalf of Digital Realty Trust, showed that companies are quickly eating up their existing data center capacity and are planning to build new facilities. The result is 83% of respondents to the study said they are planning data center expansions over the next two years.
Data Centre Demand Continues To Grow In Asia
Bangkok Post
The market for data centre co-location and managed hosting services in Asia Pacific has been strong for almost a decade, driven by the rise in business and internet subscribers. Frost & Sullivan analysts predict growth is likely to continue into the next few years with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of about 14.6%.
Datacom Data Centre Flooded In Melbourne
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Datacom suffered a major outage in its Melbourne co-location facility after heavy rain broke a ceiling panel and poured into customers’ equipment on Saturday afternoon.
People had racks full of equipment that was dead. Some techs in there were close to tears
- A national voice and data carrier who spoke on condition of anonymity
New Datacenter Uses “Free” Cooling
Web Host Industry Review
Data center operator Corporate Colocation (www.corporatecolo.com) announced on Thursday it recently built a new green data center in Los Angeles that cuts energy consumption and reduces energy costs. Corporate Colocation hired engineers to design a free cooling system within the facility that would filter the cool Los Angeles air and use it to cool the data center.
HP Offers New Datacentre Services For SMBs
Datacenter Dynamics
New support services for SMB’s include multivendor support, offering a single service agreement whereby HP will manage all supplier contracts and ensure SLA accountability. There is also a new around-the-clock remote monitoring service for all HP products, as well as some IBM and Dell servers, Sun Solaris on HP ProLiant servers and for Cisco IP telephony networks.
Punked in the Data Center Video
Data Center Knowledge
The folks at Isilon Systems teamed with magician Scott Tokar to have some sport with Kiran Bhageshpur, Isilon’s director of engineering, who thinks he’s making a video promoting network attached storage. Watch this video for the drama and then check out the explanation of how the trick was executed.
Yahoo Opens Nebraska Data Center, Call Center
WebProNews
As for some more substantial details relating to development, the data center is located in 180,000-square foot building, and the building is located in a small city called La Vista.
SunGard Expands Colocation and Managed Services Centers
PR Newswire
SunGard Availability Services is expanding its data centers in Midtown Atlanta and Smyrna, Ga. to meet increasing customer demand for colocation and managed services. SunGard’s investment in the facilities will help customers address business IT needs without incurring the capital and operating expenses of building and running their own data centers.
Colocation Sometimes Proves Most Cost Effective Solution
DataCenter Dynamics
Colocation turned out to be the most cost effective of the three choices the client explored when looking for the best way to expand capacity, the other two being retrofitting an existing legacy data center and building a new one, according to a CyrusOne news release.
Washington D.C. Data Center Launched by Qwest
DataCenter Dynamics
Large US network operator and data center provider Qwest announced opening of a new data center in the Washington, D.C., area on Monday. The new facility’s anchor client is a federal agency whose name or size of the data center floor leased Qwest declined to disclose.
