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Parallels have announced the latest patch for Parallels Plesk Panel 9.2 which is now available for download. This release will also available through auto-update.

This point release includes a number of version upgrades and bug fixes. Key areas of improvement include email greylisting, migration utilities for all previous versions of Parallels Plesk Panel and also Cpanel. Also included are stability of upgrades from Parallels Plesk Panel 9.0. For a full list of new features and bug fixes, please refer to the release notes for the appropriate version.

Parallels Plesk is available on all Coreix Linux and Windows Dedicated Servers.

Dell has announced a partnership with the company that will see Dell use its 6Sigma DC virtual data centre modeling tools in its efforts to peddle products and services. These days, IT shops are not just looking to replace servers and storage to support more workloads or just make existing ones go faster. They want help reducing costs on the IT infrastructure as well as the means of improving efficiencies and reducing costs in the facilities that wrap around that infrastructure.

Albert Esser, vice president of power and infrastructure solutions at Dell’s Product Group says that the company does not have the luxury of doing data centre engagements with “armies of consultants,” as IBM and HP can certainly do. It will instead rely on tools to assess current data centers and then model changes to them to see the effect of new gear, new cooling gadgetry, and other technologies inside the data centre before the customer commits to the plan.

Source: The Register

TELEHOUSE America and Integralis, have announced an agreement to offer Integralis’ full portfolio of managed security, IT infrastructure and consulting services under TELEHOUSE’s Manage-E brand. The partnership offers organizations solutions that reduce IT costs while achieving a greater depth of security protection, compliance and service availability.

Manage-E provides customers with an all-in-one managed and professional services solution not available from any one data centre company. This comprehensive solution set provides managed security and IT infrastructure along with global services and support. Included is an end-to-end services suite from help desk to full management, payment card industry, compliance consulting, and the technology lifecycle advantage which reduces risk and cost in all phases of the security lifecycle from assessment and policy planning to deployment, 24×7 management, and service and hardware decommissioning.

Source: News Factor

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion is considering establishing an Australian data centre as it continues efforts to upgrade its infrastructure reliability across the Asia-Pacific region and beyond. Speaking with ZDNet.com.au, the company’s chief information officer Robin Bienfait said she had improved the reliability of the company’s network from 99% when she started in 2007 to 99.7% currently. She is now pushing to reach 99.99%.

For the Asia-Pacific region, with its lower levels of network connectivity and distributed geography, this will mean landing data centres in countries and allowing resident businesses and browsing sites to actually connect to them. This would help latency, application adoption and performance, according to the executive.

Source: ZDNet

Digital Realty Trust is living in a different world than most of the rest of the commercial real estate industry. The locally based data centre REIT’s 11-million sq ft operating portfolio is 95% leased, demand appears high and new average rents are three-times higher than expiring rents. “Despite the deepening economic downturn, DLR is seeing solid pricing and demand in almost all regions and sectors,” JMP Securities Analyst Will Marks said in a client note. “This is difficult for many to fathom, particularly in light of what happened to the data centre market during the last downturn and the severity of this global recession in comparison to the last one.”

“Today, data centres are used by a wide variety of companies, from startups to well-established giants, and are now a necessity for businesses in every sector,” Marks writes. Looking ahead, despite a constrained supply of data centres and sufficient liquidity to develop and meet debt maturities over the next two years, Digital Realty is holding back on pursuing this demand in order to maintain a strong balance sheet with a liquidity cushion, Marks reports. While it may not speculate it certainly will be willing to develop freely on a build-to-suit basis with strong tenants, and Marks thinks the demand will be there.

Source: Globe Street

The Planet has announced plans for its first international data centre, located in London. Based on significant customer demand for both international and globally redundant hosted infrastructure, the company initially will offer its virtual racks solution when its centre opens in April. Preleasing begins immediately. The data centre features up to 20kW of power per rack, backed by N+1 redundancy on generators, transformers and UPS systems. Customers gain access to a 10GB private fiber interconnect to The Planet’s core network through its Ashburn, Va., data centre, as well as local connectivity to Tier-1 providers and the major European peering exchanges.

The Planet has forged a colocation agreement with TelecityGroup, which operates 20 network-independent data centres across seven European countries. Procedures in the new facility comply with ISO 9001:2000, which benchmarks quality processes for data centre operations and management. TelecityGroup is highly regarded for both its premium data centres and operational expertise. It is also taking the lead in driving energy efficiency in the data centre in Europe as the first data centre operator to sign up to the new “EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres.” It is also a member of the Green Grid.

Source: Market Watch

Email solutions provider APM Internet has announced it will host its new email archiving and recovery service, MessageBunker in an ultra-secure facility provided by The Bunker at a former nuclear base. As well as ease of use, security of data and uptime are the keys to MessageBunker.com – a simple, robust and highly secure solution that provides an offsite email archive that simply plugs into existing email platforms – and these elements were key to the MessageBunker teams’ choice of data centre.

Adrian Mardlin, APM Internet MD, commented “We are very pleased with our choice of data centre – the team at The Bunker have provided excellent service and support.” He continues: “The facility at The Bunker is ultra secure, well away from London, and able to provide a complete end-to-end solution to connect back to our existing network in London.”

Source: The Bunker

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Indian telecommunications operator Tata Communications will spend US$430 million to set up a data centre in Singapore and a regional cable system with an eye to tapping opportunities in emerging Asian markets.

Tata Communications will spend US$180 million on the data centre in Singapore in addition to US$250 million earmarked for the cable system, a spokesman said, requesting that his name not be used because of a company policy. Some of the funds allocated for the cable system have already been spent. The spokesman declined to say how much more will be invested to complete the network.

Source: PCW Business Centre

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In the latest “data centre in a box” announcement, HP has said that its “pod,” which is similar to Sun’s modular data centre except that it’s twice as long and boasts more and larger server racks, now works with uninterruptible power systems and water-based cooling technology from Active Power.

According to Jim Clishem, president and CEO of Active Power, his company’s power systems are about 10% more efficient than competing UPSs, which could result in about a US$1 million per year operational savings on a pod. He says Active Power’s solution can pack twice the power in half the space of other power supplies because of its use of flywheels. And while the average power usage effectiveness (PUE) of a data centre is 1.8 to 2.0, he says this pod configuration will deliver a PUE of less than 1.25.

Source: Wall Street and Tech

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Google is planning to build a data centre at the old paper mill premises in southeastern Finland that it bought from Stora Enso for 40 million euros. “We are currently considering to build a data centre at this site, and, as with any sort of construction project, there are a number of contingencies to be resolved and plans to be put in place,” said Google spokesman Kay Oberbeck.

Source: Reuters
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