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Monthly Archives: January 2014
Blacknight’s Irish datacentre to open shortly
Irish hosting provider, Blacknight is set to open its new datacentre next month. The facility will be opened by Minister Seán Sherlock on Monday February 3. Blacknight has over 70,000 direct clients and hosts approximately 220,000 websites on behalf of its customers … Continue reading
DEAC plans European expansion
The Latvian based datacentre operator DEAC in 2013 has achieved the largest growth of turnover in the history of the company – up to 64%, compared to the previous year. Due to increased demand for IT outsourcing services, DEAC has … Continue reading
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ERN launches Singapore datacentre
ERN, the Big Data start-up based with offices in London, Singapore and Silicon Valley, has launched its first Tier 4 data centre in Singapore. ERN will use the datacentre to host its first financial institution clients that are using its … Continue reading
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Ark data centres reportedly secures UK Ministry of Justice deal
The UK Ministry of Justice is reported to have signed a datacentre deal with Ark, the UK provider of datacentre s with facilities in Corsham, Wiltshire and Farnborough, Hampshire. The news comes after Ark recently revealed that the latest datacentre module at its … Continue reading
Microsoft open sources datacentre designs
Technology giant Microsoft has announced that is has signed up to the Open Compute Project, a foundation created by Facebook in 2011 that publishes open hardware designs intended to be used to build datacentres relatively cheaply. Microsoft says that it is joining … Continue reading
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Cloud computing datacentre zone planned to Northern China
A new cloud computing datacentre zone capable of hosting 200,000 servers is set to be built in Northern China. Chinese media including the Hebei Daily have reported that the Zhangbei County Government of the Hebei Province, Guodiantong Corporation of the … Continue reading
SunGard splitting off its Availability Services data centre business
Software and technology services company, SunGard Data Systems has announced that its board of directors has approved a plan to split off its Availability Services data centre business on a tax-free basis to its existing stockholders, including its private equity owners. Once … Continue reading
Microsoft to let customers choose their European datacentre
Brad Smith, Microsoft’s general counsel, has revealed that in the wake of on-going concerns about the level of surveillance by the US spy agency, the NSA, the company is to allow its customers outside the United States to choose where their … Continue reading
Chinese cloud datacentre project go ahead
A major new datacentre project in China – the Zhongshang Cloud Valley Data Center Project – is set to see ground broken this spring. When completed the project is set to see some 80,000 sq m of total floor space … Continue reading
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