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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.

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A Green power company has won a six-figure contract for one of Europe’s largest data centres on Teesside. Billingham’s Resilient Power Solutions will install a vital battery back-up system at the EDS contact centre, on the former Samsung site at Wynyard Park. EDS is investing £30 million in the 300,000 sq ft warehouse known as Wynyard 360 at Wynyard Park and is the largest supplier of IT services to the UK Government.

Resilient Power Solutions says it is on track to treble turnover to £1 million this year as its reputation grows. The group installs technology to make high-powered IT systems more efficient, helping to slash the huge energy bills of blue-chip companies. It has developed a heat recycling system from cooling equipment, which recirculates hot air from computers for room heating. Managing director John McGee said: “The eco friendly solutions we offer are the biggest door opener we’ve got – it’s our market now. New environmental legislation is coming in all the time, so businesses have to keep on top of it.”

Source: NE Business

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Internet Facilitators (IFL), providers of ‘Business Class’ carrier neutral colocation services in Manchester, have announced the launch of their Premium Scheduled Engineering service for customers with equipment hosted in IFL data centres. Streamlining regular data centre tasks and minimising costs associated with visiting and carrying out work within the data centre by utilising IFL’s on-site technical resources can go some way to achieving the best value and ROI from hosting your equipment at IFL2.

By using on-site support teams to carry out tasks such as server racking, tape rotation, component swapping, and software services, clients can eliminate some of the travel and time costs associated with sending engineers to site, ensuring engineers are available in-house to focus on other business areas where their time and resources can be better utilised.

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UK based ISP Lumison has announced that managed hosting provider NetBenefit has chosen Lumison as its new data centre partner. Under the agreement terms, NetBenefit will provide its customers with secure and reliable managed hosting facilities and a resilient fibre network out of Lumison’s Croydon facility.

According to NetBenefit CTO Gerry Lawrence, the company was seeking additional data centres to meet the growing demand for its managed hosting services, citing “scale for growth, high resilience and environmental awareness” as key criteria for selecting the Lumison’s South London facility data centre. “I am particularly pleased that Lumison’s approach to environmental and carbon management within the data centre was key to the selection process.” says Dr Aydin Kurt-Elli, Lumison CEO

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About half of data centres are responding to the economic crisis by cutting their budgets an average of 15% for 2009, according to a new survey by the AFCOM Data Center Institute.

While the overall cuts were “surprising low” in the view of Jill Eckhaus, the CEO of the Association for Computer Operations Management (AFCOM), she said she doesn’t want to minimize the impact those cuts will have on the 49% of affected data centres. Eckhaus said the low number of data centres making cuts indicated their importance to the businesses. And while half are cutting, the budgets for the remainder are staying the same or going increasing. That’s important, because it wasn’t long ago when data centres “used to be known as the money pit,” she said.

Source: Computer World
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