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Interxion joins Government-backed Data Centre Carbon Footprint reduction project

Published in Cloud + MS Colocation/Hosting DC Facilities + Colo Design + Optimisation

INTERXION HOLDING NV has joined a Government backed scheme to help UK DC operators reduce their Carbon Footprint. Interxion will join Alquist’s data centre temperature monitoring pilot, supported by almost £1m of government funding. Interxion, will also work with Schneider Electric and a major services company. Interxion hopes that through the pilot scheme it will be able to achieve significant CO2 reductions through installing Alquist’s Celsius temperature monitoring system...

Published in Cloud + MS Colocation/Hosting DC Facilities + Colo Design + Optimisation Infrastructure + Asset Management Infrastructure + Hardware

Virtus says that construction work has commenced on LONDON2; its new flagship data centre in West London, designed to meet the growing demand for scalable, reliable, on-demand colocation services. The data centre will deploy a new ground breaking cooling technology which will dramatically decrease energy consumption, bringing site power usage effectiveness (PUE) to below 1.2 and delivering substantial TCO reductions to Virtus’ clients.

Published in Cloud + MS Colocation/Hosting Data Analytics Infrastructure Platform Security Software Storage + Servers Storage Technology

NTT Communications Corporation will provide Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. with a highly cost-effective cloud platform to operate mission-critical systems in Japan for production, procurement, product development, human resources and finance operations, since January 2014.

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Colt has announced the launch of new cloud infrastructure backup and replication services for its value added resellers (VARs). Colt has extended the availability of its VMware vCloud® Datacenter Services offerings into its datacenters in Italy and Switzerland, building on an existing estate in the UK, France, Spain and Germany. Colt has also announced services are now available from a second datacenter in Spain, with Barcelona adding to the existing Madrid capacity.

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Gravitas, a co -sourcingTM platform providing cloud hosting and collaborative outsourcing for risk support, research, operations and technology to the alternative investment industry, has announced the launch of Gravitas AtmosphereTM, a secure, private, cloud-based online file sharing, sync and storage service.