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Rackspace Hosting expects to issue customer service credits from Monday’s data centre outage of between US$2.5 million and US$3.5 million, the company has announced in an SEC filing.

A series of equipment failures contributed to the power outage at a Rackspace data centre near Dallas, where several parts of the facility lost power. The most significant failure involved a bank of generators that malfunctioned, leaving several computing clusters without backup power. Other failures involved equipment that connects the data centre to its two utility feeds, a UPS system and a transfer switch. The outage affected two of the four phases of data centre space in the facility in Grapevine, Texas.

Source: SEC

BT has just opened a new data centre hosting facility near St. Marks Place in New York City’s East Village. The new location, which increases the company’s hosting space in Manhattan by 30%, is geared toward financial services firms that want to colocate servers near the exchanges and trade execution venues downtown.

This new facility supplements BT’s existing New York metro data centre as well as those in London, Chicago, Frankfurt, Paris, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, and Sydney.

Source: Wall Street Tech