Modular data center and colocation provider IO will provide colocation and shared web hosting and services company Simplicity Web Hosting with its Data Center as a Service out of its IO Pheonix and IO New Jersey data centers.

Simplicity will use the IO Anywhere modular data center architecture to provide high-density computing and the IO.OS infrastructure operating system to remotely track and manage its IO data center environment.

The service will allow Simplicity to expand capacity fast, as required, and allow the web hosting company to reduce its capital costs, according to Simplicity Web Hosting President Rick Baranowski.

Joyent expands footprint with Equinix

Joyent, a San Francisco-based provider of high-performance cloud-based infrastructure services, has expanded its relationship with the colocation and interconnection provider Equinix by signing on to deploy its infrastructure at the colocation company’s Washington, D.C., and Amsterdam data centers.

Joyent is also planning to eventually expand its reach into Asia by deploying equipment at an Equinix data center there later this year.

Expanding its physical infrastructure in major cities is key for Joyent, a cloud company that needs to be in locations where the highest concentrations of its users are.

Peer 1 scores hosting deal with FSB in UK

Vancouver-based hosting company Peer 1 has won a contract to provide colocation services for the UK’s Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), a campaigning group for self-employed individuals and owners of small companies. Peer 1 has partnered with Calyx Managed Services in this deal.

FSB is now using Peer 1’s colocation facility in Portsmouth, UK, a 58,000 sq ft data center. The contractors finished moving equipment to the facility in May, and the organization has recently turned everything on.

In addition to its data centers, Peer 1 operates a network that connects 20 data centers, 22 points of presence and 10 colocation facilities around Europe and North America.