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London Colocation provider, City Lifeline Partners With Ocean to provide Managed IT Services -

London colocation provider, Ocean City Lifeline and London-based intelligent communications have partnered to provide customers with two companies with a full range of managed IT services. The partnership covers support both within and beyond the walls of the data center.

the new business means operating colocation customers IT infrastructure of the City Lifeline data center facility in Clifton Street, London have now access a dedicated team of computer engineers from the ocean, the (NOC) network operating Centre is also based in Clifton Street. Together, the two companies now offer a total all-out data center service customers, both on and off site.

Dealing with computer problems

partnership allows customers to add expertise dedicated to their own iT team, without the cost associated workforce, using the ocean to quickly handle iT problems in the data center and free in-house team to focus on the day to aspects of day of. role ocean engineers will be on hand 24/7 - either remotely or by visiting City Lifeline -. to answer anything from connectivity issues to a violation of computer security

"with this new relationship with the ocean, we are able to propose an offer complete our colocation customers who want more comprehensive services, adding the real time management of servers, network communications and operating systems, "said Roger Keenan, managing director of city Lifeline . "Together with the ocean, we can be an extension of our clients IT teams, providing support for their total IT and network infrastructure, not just the data center."

colocation provider based Cicago, AlteredScale, gets the SSAE 16 compliance -

AlteredScale, a provider of carrier-neutral colocation services, reached Declaration on certification standards Engagements (SSAE) No. 16 Type II compliance with standards covering his new colocation facilities at 601 W Polk, Chicago.

Evaluated by independent auditors of Harrell and Widener LLC, achieving SSAE certification demonstrates the commitment of AlteredScale the highest standards of operational excellence.

In accordance sensitive customer

SSAE 16 is a standard developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) for service organizations. Certification SSAE 16 Type II validates that an organization has completed a rigorous independent audit of its control objectives and activities in the information technology, business services and related areas .

The companies that are sensitive compliance, including publicly traded companies, financial firms and health care organizations may require a SSAE 16. The certification report SSAE 16 examination includes the description of the management organization systems AlteredScale, the adequacy of the design and operating effectiveness of controls. In addition, the report contains a written assertion by management regarding the systems and the opinion of the letter of auditor service.

Downtown Chicago

"We are dedicated to the operation of our facilities at the highest level that meets or exceeds industry and regulatory standards," said Kevin Francis, president of AlteredScale . "Achieving SSAE 16 compliance demonstrates that a AlteredScale controls and appropriate processes in place to provide high quality colocation services to our customers expect."

AlteredScale provides data center solutions in the downtown city ​​of Chicago. as the owner of 601 W Polk, the company offers a range of flexible data center services customized private carrier-neutral colocation following.

TelecityGroup data center build for New SURFsara, Active HPC Dutch academic community -

TelecityGroup colocation provider will build a new highly efficient data center SURFsara its existing location AMS01 data center in Amsterdam science Park, the Netherlands. The new data center to be opened in 2016 to enable advanced, high-performance computing (HPC) is necessary for the advancement of Dutch scientific research.

SURFsara is the leading provider of high performance computing -scale, hosting services and cloud data storage to the Dutch academic community. The organization already manages a number of advanced computing and storage, including Cartesius, the new Dutch national supercomputer, a cloud infrastructure to high performance research purposes, and the Dutch national archive to archive of large-scale data.

high computing density

An essential partner for the Dutch scientific research, SURFsara supports national and international universities, institutes and companies. The organization and its partners invest in this expansion with TelecityGroup because of their changing needs for high-density computing solutions. The new colocation environment would offer them flexible and effective solutions data center to meet the growing demand for computing capacity and storage.

iM extends the footprint of Collocation three new markets, double installation in Miami -

iM, a firm of IT infrastructure solutions based in Miami and colocation provider, has just completed their recent expansion with the addition of three new colocation data centers in London, San Francisco and Vienna VA. iM new colocation facilities each have about 25,000 square feet available.

The data center facilities strategically located the fully redundant power and cooling infrastructure and robust transmission system options.

In Miami, iM doubled its footprint roommate completed and the related infrastructure improvements. This facility, located on the fifth floor of Digital Realty building at 36 NE 2nd Street, is on the own dark fiber metro optical loop iM and offers colocation environment dedicated to the culture of commerce in Miami. The colocation center is a hub of connectivity in Latin America and the Caribbean.

iM provides a full range of related IT infrastructure solutions including colocation, web hosting, cloud hosting, sharing and dark fiber services, as well as the design, construction and development of two centers of modular and traditional data.

Global Switch is launching the first phase of the Expansion Center Amsterdam data -

global Switch, owner and operator of large-scale, space carrier neutral data centers in Europe and Asia -Pacific, launched the first phase of an extension to its existing data center in Amsterdam provided € 240 million. The large campus roommate, once completed, will provide 64,000 square meters of data center space.

this first phase of the expansion of the data center has been pre-leased to an international provider of telecommunications services. The design of the first phase, which reached a "Very Good" scene design certificate BREEAM-NL Datacenters, provides a density average power of 1500 watts per square meter and is built with the flexibility to offer much higher densities. if necessary

PUE energy efficiency: 1.25

expansion of global colocation site Switch is supported by the latest high efficiency hybrid cooling towers using adiabatic cooling to ensure maximum utilization of the ambient conditions prevailing in Northern Europe with an annual design Power use efficiency (PUE) of about 1.25.

extension has full access to the existing network environment with low latency dense that Amsterdam has overall Switch, 35 carriers, more than 50 other network service providers, and AMS-IX which are all located in the data center.

on € 240 million expansion will ultimately provide global Amsterdam Switch to a total of 25,400 square meters and once all the planned phases have been completed, the campus based in Amsterdam will provide 64,000 square meters of colocation space and lead to a planned capacity of circa 100MW power supplies.

T5 Data Centers BEGINS Build-Out Facility Texas4 standalone Roommate In his T5 @ Dallas Campus DC -

T5 data Centers, a colocation provider with Atlanta data center facilities, Los Angeles, Dallas, Charlotte, and new projects announced in Portland, new York and Colorado, began interior build-out of the stand-alone co Texas4 70,000 square feet housed inside the large T5 @ Dallas data center campus a purpose built building 315,000 square feet in Plano, Texas.

The T5 @ Dallas campus has a "data datacenter-in-a-center" design. The facility currently houses four independent data centers appointed Texas1, Texas2, Texas3 and Texas4 with additional expansion plans. It is no shared infrastructure between the four colocation facilities , so data centers T5 clients have complete control of their data environment, including redundant primary dedicated utility supplies, and electrical and mechanical installations dedicated to each data center.

data centers in the US

Texas4 is the remaining data center soon with 40,000 square feet of space raised floor and 4.5 MW of critical power available, expandable to 6.0 MW. The T5 @ Dallas hotel is set LEED Silver-certified and built to withstand winds up to 221 miles per hour. It has dual primary power feeds connected to two separate positions, and is also maintainable (mechanically and electrically) and fault tolerant (electrically).

T5 @ Dallas is one of seven T5 data center locations located in strategic locations across the United States. Each colocation center is purpose-built and customers have full control of their dedicated data room. Facility Critical Data Centers T5 operations team provides support from design and construction through to commissioning and beyond.

QTS Unveils High Power Density Solutions for customers Roommate -

QTS Realty Trust, one of the largest and most dynamic providers of colocation and managed hosting to cloud the States United announced improved high density solutions for its colocation customers. QTS 'High Density Solutions provide up to 16kW of power per cabinet and roommate to 48kW per cage.

QTS 'High Density Solutions are available at Metro-Atlanta and Suwanee Atlanta- enterprise data centers, with six other expected QTS data center to provide service to third quarter of 2014.

scalable power options will benefit customers who run intensive applications process and those who simply want to more efficient space and power management for their cabinets and bookshelves.

adding high density solutions "QTS also respond to business needs using the latest blade servers, network speed and applications running that require increasingly amounts of treatment, as SaaS or web-based applications.

Increase efficiency

"the effective management of resources is critical to our customers our colocation and high-density solutions are designed to increase efficiency" said Jim Reinhart, Chief operating Officer, development and operations, QTS . "We guarantee effective cooling power and the equipment and simplified cable management, high density Solutions' QTS help our customers optimize their data center investments."

QTS in partnership with Subzero Engineering, a company specializing in the management of engineering subset of airflow solution to design high-density colocation spaces.

With 10 data centers in seven states, QTS owns, operates and manages approximately 3.8 million square feet of data center infrastructure to provide its colocation and managed cloud hosting infrastructure.

All-Flash Storage Vendor SolidFire opens Asia Pacific headquarters in Singapore -

SolidFire, an all-flash storage systems provider, announced the international expansion in the Asia-Pacific region with the opening of a regional headquarters in Singapore. The regional office in Singapore SolidFire will be led by Kris Day, the new general manager for Asia Pacific.

Kris Day, an industry veteran with over 10 years of experience in the storage industry both in the UK and Asia Pacific, joined SolidFire in January 2014. Previously, he worked for a variety of companies including HP and EMC.

"robust infrastructure of Singapore and strong connectivity to the rest of the region makes it the optimal city the headquarters of the Asia-Pacific operation SolidFire" said Tim Pitcher, vice president international SolidFire to . "Through policies that welcome world affairs, Singapore has built a strong ecosystem of innovation that will benefit SolidFire to join. Our expansion in Asia and our growing European presence allows us to respond quickly to the growing demand for products in these regions. "

expansion of the EMEA staff

SolidFire also expanded its EMEA team with the appointment of industry veteran storage Ian Cooper. Based in the UK, Cooper serves as EMEA Director of SolidFire partnerships and channels, focusing on expanding the presence of the company in the EMEA region.

Asia Pacific SolidFire and expansion of the EMEA staff follows a year of great growth of the company, including strategic partnerships with VMware , OpenStack and Citrix and that wins customers continue to demonstrate widespread adoption and implementation of its all-flash arrays. In addition to its international market leadership, SolidFire also continues to vigorously expand the system engineering teams and technical support in all regions.

"strong customer response and demand of the growing business of predictable, high performance cloud storage infrastructure to accelerate our ability to expand our presence on a global scale," said Dave Wright, SolidFire founder and CEO . "We grew our teams nearly 80% in 2013 and expect continued growth throughout 2014 as enterprise IT continues to evolve. We appeal to the best in the storage industry to join our team this year. "

SanDisk launches new software that clears Flash Complete Performance Storage -

flash storage solutions provider, SanDisk has announced the availability of ZetaScale software, which allows application developers to scale their applications by taking full advantage of high-performance flash technology capabilities.

some performance analysis tools such as NoSQL databases struggled to provide information within the time required by today's business world. SanDisk ZetaScale new software allow application developers to scale their applications taking full advantage of high-performance flash technology capabilities.

Application Performance

[1945011logiciel] ZetaScale enables rapid development of analytical applications such as memory and NoSQL databases computing environments that take full advantage of performance and at lower cost flash storage.

ZetaScale combining the software, SSDs and memory NoSQL or computer applications, customers would be able to analyze large data sets quasi-DRAM speeds at a considerably lower cost and with a higher data density per server node. This opens up new opportunities and accelerate performance of big data and real-time analytics applications in enterprise data centers.

"Flash technology offers amazing performance gains for enterprise applications and cloud without forcing customers to make other changes to their environments of existing data centers," said John Scaramuzzo, senior vice president and general manager, enterprise storage Solutions SanDisk . "However, much of the analysis, today's database and in memory of the computing applications n ' has not yet been optimized for flash storage. ZetaScale represents a major step forward in our vision of transformed flash data center -. Enabling software developers to scale and enhance their applications to meet today's big data and real time analytical applications, while reducing TCO "

A ZetaScale kit software development (SDK) containing the software library and APIs necessary to optimize NoSQL and applications in computer memory for the flash storage is now available on terms negotiated for qualified developers. for more information on ZetaScale, please visit www.sandisk.com/enterprise/zetascale.