The World Cruising Club has chosen UKSolutions' hybrid cloud to handle its data requirements during its Trans-Atlantic races.

More than 1.6m sailors require access to information through the World Cruising Club to data from around the world via Noonsite, the club's global information portal, during the event.

The UK-based hosting company has guaranteed 100% uptime, faster connectivity and greater security as a part of the contract that will see all World Cruising Club servers migrated into a UKSolutions facility early this year.

SunGard Availability Services said it has retained its British Business Continuity Management standard certification BS 25999-2:2007, with a particular focus on risk minimization, disaster recovery and security.

SunGard was the first such provider to receive the certification in 2007 with the introduction of its Information Availability programs and technology centers and workplace recovery sites.

New data center recruitment service launched DatacenterDynamics blogger Peter Hannaford, former VP of Data Centers and Alliances for APC by Schneider Electric EMEA, has launched a new recruitment service Datacenterpeople, which focuses on the data center industry.
The site is focused on data center architects, facilities managers, mechanical and electrical engineers, and other data center-specific roles relating to security, software, connectivity, project management, operations, and executive management.