Daily Archives: March 30, 2011

QTS (Quality Technology Services), one of the nation.s largest and fastest growing providers of data centers and managed services, today announced an expansion plan to upgrade the power, raised-floor space and the connectivity to QTS.s Jersey City Data Center.

With the first phase available in late Q2 2011, the new upgrade will result in over 5.0 MW of power and over 50,000 square feet of raised floor available to customers in the facility. This expansion creates a significant increase in both raised floor space and power density in the data center, where QTS offers all three of its core products; custom data center, colocation and cloud services.

Overlooking the Hudson River and six miles from Manhattan, the QTS Jersey City Data Center is already dual fed by two power grids. To support an expansion project of this magnitude, QTS is investing in additional generators, power distribution, UPS, and cooling capacity. The facility is also undergoing upgrade and expansion of fiber assets connecting the data center to 111 8th Avenue and other key carrier hotels in the region.

“QTS is well-positioned to provide the data center and cloud computing solutions desired by the financial services, healthcare, media and entertainment sectors located in the NYC area,” said Tesh Durvasula, chief marketing and business officer-QTS. “This significant investment indicates the commitment we have to continuing our growth in the region and catering to our customers. business needs through greater flexibility and scalability. By enhancing our facility.s space, power and connectivity, QTS will be able to meet the needs of current and future customers, regardless of size, industry or projected growth.”

To learn more about QTS’ Virtualized Infrastructure [QVI], QTS data center facilities, or other available managed services, visit www.qualitytech.com, call 877.QTS.DATA, or follow QTS on Twitter @DataCenters_QTS.

About QTS

QTS (Quality Technology Services) is a leading national provider of data center solutions and fully managed services for enterprise businesses. The company offers a complete, unique portfolio of core data center services, including Custom Data Center, Colocation and Cloud Services, providing the flexibility, scale and security needed to support the rapidly evolving infrastructure demands of web and IT applications. With 12 locations in seven states, QTS owns, operates and manages more than 3.1 million square feet of secure, state-of-the-art data center infrastructure and supports more than 600 customers. For more information about QTS, please visit www.qualitytech.com or call 877.QTS.DATA or follow QTS on Twitter @DataCenters_QTS.

Spiral Hosting Limited (www.spiralhosting.com), a leading UK and Ireland web hosting solutions provider has announced it has acquired the Domain Registration and Shared Hosting business of Aventure Host (www.aventurehost.com).

Aventure Host has been trading for over eight years with a reputation for delivering a high-quality service backed by first-rate customer support. Aventure Host have a large UK client base and are based in central Belfast. Aventure Host was the first webhosting provider in Ireland to offer webhosting on the cloud.

Spiral Hosting have a large Irish and international client base. Spiral Hosting also expanded into the American hosting market after acquiring the webhosting division of Eideashop in May 2010. Spiral Hosting is headquartered in Belfast and also has offices in Dublin and Oregon, USA. The merger with Aventure Host makes Spiral Hosting the largest webhosting provider in N Ireland.

Peter Armstrong, director of the Irish HSP explained: “Spiral Hosting are delighted to announce the acquisition of Aventure Host. This acquisition allows us to expand our operations in the United Kingdom and invest in our webhosting infrastructure, customer service and technical support.”

“Aventure Host is a first-class webhosting provider that is in many ways similar to Spiral Hosting. Both companies are located just a mile apart in central Belfast, they have a long history of providing quality reputable services and they are proud to offer friendly personal support that will go the extra mile for our customers.

“The merger will result in improvements for all Spiral Hosting and Aventure Host customers. Our top three objectives are excellent servers, fast support and most importantly happy customers. The Aventure Host business will continue as a going-concern with the same website, services and billing portal. Our team will continue to provide 24/7/365 friendly personal support from our offices in central Belfast.”

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DediPower is expressing support for HEFCE’s planned £12.5 million investment designed to deliver efficiencies to Universities through shared services in cloud computing infrastructure and applications.

DediPower confirms that virtualisation, the technology behind Cloud, is ripe for exploitation by educational organisations prepared to pool their resources and share infrastructure in an environment optimised for today’s digital learning platforms. It also throws out a caution to HEFCE to ensure that any new Cloud platforms are fully supported with stringent SLAs and contracts that allow for future enhancements and system flexibility.

Chris Miller, CEO of DediPower, comments: “With virtualisation, we are able to achieve rapid roll-out of storage capacity in a fast-access, collaborative environment. With Cloud infrastructure, SaaS applications can be launched across all linked universities, colleges and schools in a matter of minutes – irrespective of size, scale or location.

“Our experience shows that Cloud offers substantial cost savings to any organisation that is dependent on digital content and access; however it must also be properly designed, delivered, supported and controlled. Security, data safety and integrity are crucial and the HEFCE will have to ensure that outsourced Cloud programmes include stringent SLAs to ensure the best solution for Universities today and tomorrow. ”

With up to £10 million of the HEFCE’s investment planned specifically for cloud computing and shared IT infrastructure and support, DediPower envisages much of this will cover virtual servers, storage and data management applications. Miller explains, “Centralising infrastructure in this way allows servers to be optimised to provide better performance at the lowest cost; while reducing risk by safeguarding against outage, downtime and data loss.”

Already working with leading educational SaaS providers including UniServity, SAM Learning and Semantise as well as educational providers including the College of Emergency Medicine, DediPower is well aware of the challenges that face the sector.

Miller concludes, “With intense pressure on funding and resources, it is vital that any investment demonstrates clear performance benefits – improving teaching, student development, research and administration. It also has to deliver a viable return through cost savings and efficiencies. Properly managed Cloud can do all this and more. We are delighted that the further educational sector is now embracing Cloud with the funding necessary to make it succeed.”

For more information, visit www.dedipower.com

DediPower has announced the winners of it’s Digital Awards‎.

The two winners were, Piran Watson, a student from UWE in Bristol, who won the DediPower UK Young Digital Entrepreneur, for his concept – www.allmyreceipts.co.uk.

Winning the DediPower UK Digital Innovation Award, were Swedish-born Christer Holloman, Ludvig Freij and Anders Hallsten for ATTYER.com.

The judges also decided that although all the finalists were worthy of winning, tightly behind the two winning companies was Simon Swan and Sara Jones from Hiring-Hub.com, who received an honourable mention, they were delighted.

Read more: http://www.dedipower.com/blog/article/395/dedipower-digital-awards-–-winners-announced

INTERXION HOLDING NV, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data center services, today announced that Michel van den Assem, Managing Director of Interxion, will speak at AFCOM’s Data Center World Spring conference, March 27-31, 2011, at Las Vegas’ Mirage Hotel and Convention Center. Michel’s session, “Improve PUE through Data Center Operations,” will be presented on March 31 at 9:45 a.m. in Montego DEF.

Michel’s presentation will examine the close relationship between data center design; operations and build; and energy efficiency. He will discuss best practices for improving data center power usage efficiency (PUE), as well as give practical advice on building energy-efficient, yet highly available and scalable, data center foundations.

Interxion’s participation in the event – and on this topic in particular – demonstrates the company’s longstanding commitment to data center energy efficiency. Michel himself has exceptional in-depth experience in the data center industry and has had specific responsibility for the design, build and operation of Interxion’s six data centers in the Netherlands. Each of those data centers is designed using Interxion’s energy-efficient modular architecture, with 100 percent green energy, free cooling and maximum-efficiency components as standard.

“For years data center professionals have been discussing the ultimate green data center but secretly wondering what it means to be ‘really’ green,” said van den Assem. “Ultimately it boils down to measurement, and the key calculation is power usage efficiency (PUE). At Interxion we aim to make all of our data centers as energy efficient as possible and are fully committed to helping the industry implement and define best practices in achieving data center efficiency.”

Interxion is a Contributor Member of The Green Grid, a founding member of the Uptime Institute’s European Chapter, and a member of the European Commission’s DG Joint Research Committee on Sustainability and its European Data Centre Code of Conduct Metrics Group.

To learn more about Interxion, visit http://www.interxion.com. To schedule an interview with Michel at the conference, email [email protected].

About Interxion
Interxion (NYSE: INXN) is a leading provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services in Europe, serving over 1,100 customers through 28 data centres in 11 European countries. Interxion’s uniformly designed, energy-efficient data centres offer customers extensive security and uptime for their mission-critical applications. With connectivity provided by 350 carriers and ISPs and 18 European Internet exchanges across its footprint, Interxion has created content and connectivity hubs that foster growing customer communities of interest. For more information, please visit http://www.interxion.com