FOSTER CITY, Calif. - Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), a global provider of data center, announced today that its SV2 International Business Exchange ™ (IBX ®) data center has earned the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). The last accreditation extends global leadership in Equinix energy performance, [...]

Microsoft said Thursday that its power container cloud services vision, according to a report from Data Center Knowledge.
In a speech at the University of Washington, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer revealed that “when it comes to the cloud, we are all in.”
The message is broadcast on Friday in an email to all Microsoft employees and a [...]

Oracle Hosting Provider Core Services (www.coreservices.com) said Monday it has opened a new center of 50,000 square feet of data in Somerset, New Jersey.
The facility was formerly a center for disaster recovery for a “major Wall Street bank,” the press release.
The Data Center Somerset highly redundant infrastructure includes power, cooling, and security, and ample room [...]

The Green Grid (www.thegreengrid.org) announced Thursday that it has introduced new tools and new industry alliances announced third annual week of The Green Grid Technical Forum and Members of the meeting.
In January, the Green Grid opens registration for the technical forum, being held this week in San Jose.
The Green Grid shown to attendees of the [...]

That is firm PAETEC Holding (www.paetec.com) announced Thursday its plans for expansion, high-tech center data in Andover, Massachusetts, about 24 miles north of Boston.
The company currently has 1.4 million square feet of data center facilities in Bethlehem and Conshohocken, Pennsylvania.
This new facility marks the first in a series of new centers the company plans to [...]

Data center operator online from Michigan Tech and Ann Arbor-based management of product life cycle (PLM) software company Campfire Interactive formally announced a partnership to deliver PLM solution bonfire on servers managed Online Tech SAS-70 certified data centers.
Pradeep Seneviratne, President of the stake Interactive, said: “We’re clearly seeing the growing trend of software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is [...]

Online Tech, Michigan, won the largest data center operator and Campfire Interactive, one of Ann Arbor, management based on product life cycle (PLM) software company, announced a partnership to deliver PLM solution of fire on managed servers in Tech Online SAS-70 certified data centers.
Pradeep Seneviratne, President of the stake Interactive, said: “We’re clearly seeing the [...]

Center data provider Consonus Technologies (www.consonus.com) will serve as host of the upcoming Spring 2010 Date Site Network Conference, organized by the Institute website network Date Date (www.uptimeinstitute.org ), a community of data center owners and operators informed.
Place: 28 February to 3 March 2010 at the Hilton Salt Lake City Center, the Conference networking site [...]

3Com Corporation (Nasdaq: COMS) today officially announced that H3C Miercom ® S12508 data center switch and its center of H3C ® S5820X top-of-rack switch industry first product data centers to receive “green certification Miercom ™” designation . The test confirmed that Miercom H3C switches are designed to provide enterprise customers with superior performance, scale and [...]

Data center operator Equinix (www.equinix.com) announced on Tuesday that www.pipeinternational.com PIPE International () has selected Equinix as a key supplier for its new cable interconnection of PIPE Pacific submarine cable.
Through Equinix Sydney-1 International Business Data Exchange Center, located on its campus in Sydney, PIPE Equinix will provide access to the aggregation of leading carriers operating [...]

Internap Network Services Corporation (NASDAQ: INAP), a global provider of end to end Internet business solutions, today announced it has successfully completed the Statement on Auditing Standards No. 70 (SAS 70) Type II audit for your company controlled data centers. This activity is part of an ongoing commitment by Internap to provide advanced services for [...]

Faros DuPont Technology, Inc. (NYSE: DFT) today announced that the company closed a $ 150 million secured loan with a syndicate of lenders led by TD Bank. The loan has a term of five years at a floating rate of LIBOR plus 4.25% with a LIBOR floor of 1.50%. The loan is secured by newly [...]

Scottish Lockerbie data center operator of data centers (www.lockerbiedatacentres.co.uk) announced Wednesday that its proposal for data center 1.5 billion U.S. dollars (£ 950 million), near Lockerbie, Scotland It has been approved by the Council of Dumfries and Galloway.
The project was first announced in March, and local planning officials will approve his proposal to build a [...]

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has recognized web host 1 & 1 Internet (www.1and1.com) for its Lenexa, Kansas Data Center for the annual purchase of 17.5 million kilowatt hours of green electricity.
According 1and1 Wednesday’s announcement, the EPA has appointed Lenexa installing green energy partner, marking the company’s next step in its efforts to protect the [...]