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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.

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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.

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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

Dell was mum about its containerised data centre designs. But once the company announced it would supply the servers behind Microsoft’s Azure compute cloud and Microsoft said it was embracing containers in a big way, it was only a matter of time before Dell opened up a bit and explain its container plans – intended for “a select number of customers.”

Dell’s data centre shipping container package – code-named “Humidor,” if you trust the graphics files that give us an outside and an inside view of the containers – is not a traditional commercial product, but rather a custom product that Dell’s Data Centre Solutions unit has cooked up for the several dozen customers in the world who have tens or hundreds of thousands of servers and who are trying to get out of building hundreds of thousands of square feet of data centre as they roll out infrastructure. The DCS unit is kicking out tens of thousands of servers itself and is one of the bright spots in enterprise sales at Dell.

Source: The Register
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