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March: Technology: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft chief executive announced at trade show Cebit that Microsoft would share best practice for the operation of its data centers. Barclays installed HP Dynamic Smart Cooling to cut energy use at its new major 28,000 square foot datacenter in Gloucester, UK. Tyco Electronics introduced AMP NETCONNECT MRJ21 pre-terminated copper cabling system. TrueNet cabinets, especially designed for cable management, were launched and Schroff also introduced a cable management cabinet. A survey found that users were becoming wary of vendors' green claims for their products. The Uptime Institute updated its Tier rating system.
Corporate: The first rumours that Microsoft was about to change the data center industry emerged with conjecture that its cloud computing infrastructure investments would out scale anything its had previously announced and involve 20 cloud data centers of over 500,000 sq ft each. Brocade, signed a definitive agreement to acquire Strategic Business Systems (SBS), a privately held provider of IT professional services. BMC bought Bladelogic.
Europe MEA: An investment surge began. Abu Dhabi opened new data centers to handle its extended efforts to attract tourism and other inward investment. KDDI (see below) subsidiary Telehouse Europe announced plans to invest an initial £80 million in a new build, which will almost double its London Docklands datacenter facilities. IBM said Dublin would be a cloud data center hub for the company. Comtec said it completed its own facility just outside the M25 near London. EDS was awarded a contract to provide information technology support services to the Defense Manpower Datacenter (DMDC). The contract is worth $179 million if all options are exercised. South Yorkshire's attempts to attract data center investment received a £250,000 boost and in Paris St. Denis, Equinix expanded its data center footprint.
Asia Pacific: AT&T said it would expand its global data center footprint saying its increased IT budget included data center build plans in Singapore, Europe and the US. Japan's second-largest telecom carrier KDDI Corp has announced it plans to invest about 25 billion yen to build or expand its existing datacenters in the UK, France and Singapore by 2010 to meet increasing demand from clients of Japanese companies with overseas operations. Fujitsu opened a data center in Thailand.
April: Europe MEA: Deutsche Telekom's enterprise customer unit, T-Systems struck oil in its effort to become the leading network-centric information and communications technology provider to corporate Europe. In a Euro1 billion mega-deal, T-Systems will provide Royal Dutch Shell with global hosting and storage services. Options Technology opened a 200 rack data center in West London with up to 30kW per rack IBM built green data centers in Austria and Switzerland while CB Richard Ellis reported a record 1.7 million square feet of European datacenter take-up.
Technology: Raritan introduced its first intelligent power distribution unit to improve datacenter operations while Eaton added to its scalable Pulsar MX Frame family for protecting dense computing environments. GDCM announced the commercial release of nlyte Express. A global survey by CA found that data center automation would be among the dominant issues for corporates in 2008 and 2009.
Asia PAC: Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, claimed the world's most eco-friendly and power-efficient datacenter - designed to achieve a 1.6 PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) rating -the lowest power usage index of any datacenter in its class in Yokohama, Japan. Unisys announced plans to expand its Wellington, New Zealand, data center.
US: The Green Grid announces a collaboration agreement with the US EPA. Savvis opened a second site in Irving and expanded its Dallas data center campus.
March: Technology: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft chief executive announced at trade show Cebit that Microsoft would share best practice for the operation of its data centers. Barclays installed HP Dynamic Smart Cooling to cut energy use at its new major 28,000 square foot datacenter in Gloucester, UK. Tyco Electronics introduced AMP NETCONNECT MRJ21 pre-terminated copper cabling system. TrueNet cabinets, especially designed for cable management, were launched and Schroff also introduced a cable management cabinet. A survey found that users were becoming wary of vendors' green claims for their products. The Uptime Institute updated its Tier rating system.
Corporate: The first rumours that Microsoft was about to change the data center industry emerged with conjecture that its cloud computing infrastructure investments would out scale anything its had previously announced and involve 20 cloud data centers of over 500,000 sq ft each. Brocade, signed a definitive agreement to acquire Strategic Business Systems (SBS), a privately held provider of IT professional services. BMC bought Bladelogic.
Europe MEA: An investment surge began. Abu Dhabi opened new data centers to handle its extended efforts to attract tourism and other inward investment. KDDI (see below) subsidiary Telehouse Europe announced plans to invest an initial £80 million in a new build, which will almost double its London Docklands datacenter facilities. IBM said Dublin would be a cloud data center hub for the company. Comtec said it completed its own facility just outside the M25 near London. EDS was awarded a contract to provide information technology support services to the Defense Manpower Datacenter (DMDC). The contract is worth $179 million if all options are exercised. South Yorkshire's attempts to attract data center investment received a £250,000 boost and in Paris St. Denis, Equinix expanded its data center footprint.
Asia Pacific: AT&T said it would expand its global data center footprint saying its increased IT budget included data center build plans in Singapore, Europe and the US. Japan's second-largest telecom carrier KDDI Corp has announced it plans to invest about 25 billion yen to build or expand its existing datacenters in the UK, France and Singapore by 2010 to meet increasing demand from clients of Japanese companies with overseas operations. Fujitsu opened a data center in Thailand.
April: Europe MEA: Deutsche Telekom's enterprise customer unit, T-Systems struck oil in its effort to become the leading network-centric information and communications technology provider to corporate Europe. In a Euro1 billion mega-deal, T-Systems will provide Royal Dutch Shell with global hosting and storage services. Options Technology opened a 200 rack data center in West London with up to 30kW per rack IBM built green data centers in Austria and Switzerland while CB Richard Ellis reported a record 1.7 million square feet of European datacenter take-up.
Technology: Raritan introduced its first intelligent power distribution unit to improve datacenter operations while Eaton added to its scalable Pulsar MX Frame family for protecting dense computing environments. GDCM announced the commercial release of nlyte Express. A global survey by CA found that data center automation would be among the dominant issues for corporates in 2008 and 2009.
Asia PAC: Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, claimed the world's most eco-friendly and power-efficient datacenter - designed to achieve a 1.6 PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) rating -the lowest power usage index of any datacenter in its class in Yokohama, Japan. Unisys announced plans to expand its Wellington, New Zealand, data center.
US: The Green Grid announces a collaboration agreement with the US EPA. Savvis opened a second site in Irving and expanded its Dallas data center campus.