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NTT Communications, the global data and IP services arm of telecommunications company NTT (NYSE: NTT), announced the opening of its new data center in the Pudong development zone of Shanghai, China. The new data center, colocation center third of NTT Communications in Shanghai, will offer about 2,0 m2 of server room, which is equivalent to 1,000 racks.

NTT Communications Expands Services core data in China to include not only the roommate but also hosting services to primary cloud, as its Enterprise Cloud. The company offers its data center services worldwide under the brand Nexcenter. The new data center in Shanghai will provide data center services to clients in the areas, including finance, manufacturing and IT services

Features of the new data center facility Shanghai, China, including :.

• Approximately 6,500m2 (equal to 1000 racks)
• Tier III +
• raised floors; airflow management optimized in the server room
• PUE Calculated: 1.5
• multi-carrier connectivity
• UPS :. N + 1 redundant configuration, with 2N configuration available
• cooling water
• maximum load weight: 1000 kg / m2
• Certifications (planned): ISO27001, ISO001 and ISO000

global Network IP expansion

NTT Communications also announced the expansion of its global Tier-1 IP network with a new point of presence ( PoP) in Boston at One Summer street location of Markley group.

Commonly known by its address, One Summer Street, the colocation center is a neutral Markley Support Center. With connectivity to more than 80 national and international network providers and utility feeds a network grid system consists of eight sub-stations for uninterrupted, reliable power, One Summer Street houses critical IT operations to financial, health, academic, entertainment and business and technology institutions.

installing Markley is a center 920,000 square feet of data providing 2N redundancy with thirty operating engineers supporting the installation 24 X 7 in a place that is considered intersection of all major fiber routes in New England.

The new company, BASELAYER, will include hardware and modular data center to data center infrastructure management software IO. The company plans to complete the separation in early 2015.

There are only seven years brothers George and William Slessman and business partner Anthony Wanger launched IO with a mission to transform. Industry data centers

"Our growth has exceeded our expectations - and given the scale of the innovations of our company - we decided to divide our portfolio into two," said George Slessman co-founder and CEO at IO .

IO initially launched its colocation services in 07, layering optimized thermal efficiency over traditional offerings. Shortly after, in 2011, the company invented a patented modular data center with intelligent management and control mechanisms to further drive efficiency and density.

The intensified history in 2012 when IO developed an operating system data center to better manage its data centers as it expanded its footprint globally. open cloud services IO marked the next chapter because it offers companies the scale and network necessary for a data center environment to the test.

IO customer base

"We have built two strong companies, but distinct," George Slessman added. "By separating the two, we create clarity of purpose to accelerate the growth of both companies. This decision introduced two market leaders - each with talent and resources directly focused on their core competencies "

William Slessman, co-founder and former chief technology officer of IO, will assume the role of chief Executive Officer (CEO.) to BASELAYER. George Slessman and Anthony Wanger continue to lead IO in their current roles as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and President, respectively. IO will continue to be based in Phoenix.

BASELAYER, with headquarters in Chandler, Arizona, will use technology and customer base that originated in IO. company's data center products enable service providers, enterprises and governments intelligently provision of their data centers . UNDERWEAR customers will be able to bridge the gap between data center operators and IT.

MacStadium, a global provider of Apple Mac hosting, colocation, cloud hosting and Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) solutions, founded in 2012, has closed $ 1 million in series a equity funding from a providential private investor. Funding 2014 provides debt and equity of the total funding of the company to $ 2.2 million. Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP, represented the company in the transaction.

This latest infusion of venture capital will be used to accelerate the growth of MacStadium in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region from the first quarter of 2015 and to improve further development activities of relevant for the core of Apple IaaS and cloud deployments, VMware. MacStadium currently offers developers access to its network organized in over 40 countries worldwide.

Funding was acquired after the presentation MacStadium highlighted the Venture Atlanta, an annual event where top technology innovators Georgia meet investors in the forefront of the country.

new Council members

"Many software developers and applications require Mac-centric environment for testing and design that can be managed and accessed worldwide via the cloud, "said Greg McGraw, CEO of MacStadium . "By expanding in Europe and Asia Pacific, we can place servers hosted geographically closer to this region and to reduce the loss of network latency in half or more, resulting in greater efficiency of the testing and real dollar savings. "

MacStadium also announced two new members of the board. They include Jeffery Jones , co-founder and CEO of Apto Solutions , a global provider of IT asset disposal, and R. Will Brooks , CFA, CLU and associated with Brooks Schussler Company , a financial consulting firm where it is responsible for the evaluation and negotiation of real estate transactions of more than $ 100 million.

Before launching Apto, Jeffery Jones has held key leadership positions for World Access and Telephone.com where he was responsible for all aspects of company activities and financing activities, and help the company raise more than $ 5 million in private equity funds. Jones also qualified in mergers and acquisitions, case management business and international transactions.

Will Brooks previously was president and co-founder of Security Check , a payment processing company start-up that was sold for over $ 15 million. He is a member of CFA Institute and National Association of evaluation analysts .

Telx, a global provider of interconnectivity, data center solutions and cloud activation services, has completed the expansion of its New York data center facilities -. NYC1 with the expansion of 40,000 square feet and 50,000 square feet nyc3

Located 60 Hudson Street, NYC1 is a key New York City data center to Telx and serves as one of the densest carriers and enterprise connectivity environments in the world. , City-based Extra Space has been set at the end of 2013 and now 40,000 square feet of data center space is available.

Located 32 Avenue of the Americas nyc3 is third in New York Telx data center , and one of six in the metropolitan area more. In December 2013, Telx announced an agreement to work exclusively interconnection facility in this building and its construction finished on the additional colocation capacity in April 2014. Thanks to an agreement to establish a global telecommunications company as a point anchor long-term tenant, Telx has increased its capacity by adding a new floor, bringing its footprint to over 0 000 square feet in the building.

Urban Giants

Known as the "Urban Giants" a documentary sponsored by Telx, historic buildings and where NYC1 nyc3 resident were critical telecommunications buildings remain the cornerstones of the global communication and information exchange to date.

These new deployments complete full New York City metropolitan area Telx presence that now serves more than 870 clients across 700 000 square feet.

"New York City remains a strategic market for us as we continue to grow our customer base and to promote interconnection between companies and service providers in the region, as well as worldwide "said Chris Downie, Director General Telx ." Expansions in NYC1 nyc3 and allow us to increase our connectivity dense colocation capacity while securing and accelerating additional footprint in most data strategic market of North America center. The combination of these expansions with our facilities nyc2 111 8th Avenue and our three facilities in New Jersey on the river, Telx offers the largest data center solution has critical in the metropolitan New York area. "

C4L, a colocation, cloud hosting services and solutions connectivity based in the UK, selected the A10 protection systems against the Thunder GST network to mitigate threats sophisticated distributed denial of service (DDoS) and improve service availability. C4L also use the A10 platform Thunder TPS to launch a new range of services, providing additional DDoS protection to customers through its 300 sites connected to the network.

UK C4L whose headquarters is a colocation, connectivity, cloud hosting services and communications with headquarters on the south coast of the United Kingdom, providing access to more than 100 data centers in the United Kingdom and over 300 worldwide. The company conducted a thorough technical evaluation of several suppliers across a range of DDoS attacks and related scenarios, concluding that A10 Networks provides the solution that best fits their needs.

The company is deploying the A10 Thunder 6435 GST network to its central London with a primary strategy to extend the additional units based on customer requests.

"We have rapidly expanded our network CoreTX already invest in DDoS and extensive security systems, but felt that with increasing threat landscape, the A10 Thunder GST provided the best performance against the combination of price, "said Alex Cruz Farmer, CTO for C4L ." the solution allows us to strengthen our own security posture and extend DDoS as an additional value added service for our customers. "

The deployment of Thunder GST C4L provides the visibility of the deep circulation to identify anomalies in the spectrum of traffic, and protects against several classes of attack vectors, y including volumetric, protocol and sophisticated application layer attacks, which are detected and mitigated to prevent becoming unavailable service.

446 million packets per second

The first pair GST C4L offer a DDoS mitigation capacity of up to 310 Gbps and scales up to 446 million packets per second. The A10 motor safety and Thunder GST Policy (SPE) leverage specialized hardware models to perform security and the implementation of the policy at high speeds. This includes flexible traffic accelerator-based technology hardware (FTA), which can immediately detect and mitigate more than 50 joint infrastructure attacks.

"The introduction of GST Thunder was an ongoing process and already provides a better level of security of our infrastructure," added Alex Cruz Farmer . "As we move forward, we plan to offer a better level of security service to our customers to enable more granular security and flexibility options."

Infinera, intelligent transportation systems provider, announced the deployment of the Infinera DTN-X packet optical transport platform network Platform through Equinix locations in Frankfurt, Toronto and Singapore. The Infinera intelligent transport network, with the DTN-X platform enables Equinix to offer differentiated services and increase network efficiency.

Equinix is ​​an interconnection center company and global data, operating International Business Exchange (IBX) data centers in 32 markets in 15 countries in the Americas, EMEA and regions Asia-Pacific.

With Infinera DTN-X platform , Equinix can provide a capacity of 100 Gb coherent transmission today / via 500 Gb / s super-channels, with a prior design -échelle to support 1.2 terabits per second (Tb / s) super-channels in the future. The super high-capacity channels are enabled by 500 Gb / s photonic integrated circuits (PICs), developed and manufactured by Infinera.

PICs enable the platform DTN-X to integrate the super multiplex channel transmission wavelength with up to 12 Tb / s of non-blocking optical transport network (OTN) switching, which is designed to provide up to the transparent scale for mesh traffic that Equinix requirements grow in the future. The DTN-X also features RPS-ready application programming interfaces , which are designed to enable the programmability of the network and automating network operations to reduce operational costs twice and delivery services, while allowing new services.

"Equinix continues to invest in strengthening the underlying infrastructure of our IBX data centers, which will increase our ability to anticipate and meet the needs of our customers" said Ihab Tarazi, Equinix CTO . "with intelligent transportation systems Infinera we are able to offer a fast, increase flexibility within our global footprint constantly expanding and shoot advantage of NRS-ready features for network automation capabilities.

Nautical Control solutions (NCS), a developer and supplier of marine fuel management solutions, has selected data Foundry as a partner for colocation. This means NCS now houses its servers and network equipment Texas 1 data center Foundry headlights data in Austin, Texas.

FuelTrax, the fuel management system NCS, is compatible with all types of vessels, engines and marine fuels, in any combination - either for one vessel or an entire fleet. hardware and software technologies FuelTrax monitor fuel consumption and burn rate of links to the location and the GPS time. The data is instantly sent to the deck where the crew can make real-time throttle adjustments to minimize fuel consumption. All data is sent every 15 minutes a low orbit satellite Internet FuelNet Web portal side of FuelTrax side at Texas 1.

Texas 1 data center headlights data Foundry in Austin, Texas

based in the Houston area, NCS has decided to migrate its server infrastructure from a local site in Texas 1 to ensure "the best security and reliability ".

"Fueltrax real -time provides intelligence for vessels and fleets so they can reduce wasteful practices and improve profitability," said Anthony George, CEO of NCS . "We keep constantly generated data Fueltrax for our customers so they can track trends over time. So it is essential that the data is in an ultra-secure facility. That's why we chose Data Foundry as colocation partner. "

250,000 Sq. Ft. Of Data Center Space

Texas 1 is neutral carrier, 250,000 square foot Data Foundry's data center in Austin. Powered by two positions independent and connected to 17 of the largest network of carriers , Texas 1 would be one of the most redundant data centers, connected and secure in Texas.

"We knew we wanted to move our mission essential equipment to further risk of hurricanes Houston, " added George ." multiple physical security layers at the facility made us feel comfortable that our data Customer is in the best possible data center. "

as the portal FuelNet, the fleet management team to the next bank customers can access information and customized reports at any time anywhere in the world with Internet access. They can see the activities and performance indicators, historically or in real time. They can ship to ship, crew to crew, and engine to engine performance comparisons and analysis.

Founded in 1994, Data Foundry operates data centers in Austin and Houston and owns private networks in Austin, Houston, San Antonio and Dallas.

Detroit is the latest major US city to establish an Internet exchange point (IXP). The IXP called DET-IX will bring "faster speeds, more bandwidth and reduce costs" for service providers across the state DET-IX launches with nine initial members, including:. 123.Net A2 Hosting, Active Solutions Group, Clear Rate Communications, MojoHost, advanced servers, LightSpeed ​​Communications, ManagedWay and Nexcess.net.

"the Detroit Internet Exchange is the culmination of our efforts recent years to ensure the best connectivity class in the metropolitan Detroit area, "said Dan Irvin, CEO 123.Net home to the DET-IX . "Detroit now has the infrastructure to be considered among the best connected places on the planet. DET-IX offers many advantages to the business community established in Michigan and help attract and retain new technology companies. It is an important step in the continuous development of high-tech economy of our state. "

While other major IXP costs for interconnection, DET-IX provides 1G and 10G switch ports free . DET-IX is available in 100,000 square feet of neutral support 123.Net data center building located in Southfield, Michigan.

"ISPs, carriers and content providers benefit from reduced costs, lower latency and higher throughput to other members DET-IX," said Ryan Duda, 123.net CTO . "major metropolitan areas were established IXPs for years. It is now our turn to improve Internet connectivity and stability for Michigan. "

The DET-IX switch matrix consists of several high capacity switches interconnected whole. members DET-IX connect over 1G or 10G harbor . In turn, members can pass traffic directly among themselves, rather than purchase by a third party. in addition, traffic is via the local IXP rather than being routed to another city.

data Detroit

Irvin noted that only organizations with an ASN (autonomous system number) are eligible to participate in the DET-IX. it is estimated that Michigan hundreds of eligible members who can benefit from free trade. by comparison, one of the largest Internet exchanges in the world is AMS-IX (Amsterdam Internet exchange) with about 700 members.

Before the opening of the new DET-IX, much of Detroit data had to be carried by other exchanges. In most cases, this meant Chicago. Data from a Detroit company often by Chicago before being re-routed to another location Detroit creating unnecessary costs and delays.

123Net, home to the DET-IX currently operates a 100Gbps network + IP connected to several global transit carriers including Cogent, Comcast, GTT, Level 3, Savvis, TeliaSonera, Verizon, XO Communications and others. Four rings of metro fiber and long distance fiber networks cover 2,700 route miles, covering 70 units in Michigan.

Cologuard, a colocation provider based in New York, announced the completion of a major acquisition in expanding its data center footprint Brooklyn from 20,000 to 50,000 square feet. The acquired colocation center is 30,000 square feet with 25,250 square feet of raised floor space, and the rest private suites.

The formal transfer of ownership took place on April 1, 2015. Cologuard now has a total of three generators, two with N + 2 power, with an additional generator waiting for emergencies. Guests have access to a new "state of the art" -me-room of the meeting.

The acquisition several new carriers were added to its already wide range of suppliers including, GTT, Time Warner, Metro Atlantic Verizon Business, Cogent, AT & T and basic Verizon, bringing the account carrier total to fourteen.

"We built Cologuard from the ground, and this expansion is part of our strategy to meet and exceed the needs of our growing enterprise customers, while preserving options for our small business sector continues, "said Cologuard CEO, Ray Sidler . "The customers acquired colocation center will experience no interruption to their existing services and can expect a seamless transition to the extended managed services are now available. Our existing customers can also expect the same dedication to service that they have had since 03, with increased redundancy and network density. "

For nearly 12 years, Cologuard was a private colocation facility based in the heart of Brooklyn, New York, just minutes from Manhattan.