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CohesiveFT has been shortlisted for the 6th Annual International Datacentres Award. CohesiveFT is nominated in the award category for Public Cloud Services & Infrastructure. "The need for business application-layer security remains universal, and largely unanswered by IaaS and cloud vendors," said CohesiveFT CEO Patrick Kerpan. "By combining VNS3 Overlay SDN with IaaS provider infrastructure security features, our customers are able to create and control a multidimensional security solution."

The International Datacentres Awards, called "the Oscars of the datacentre industry," focus on recognising excellence across the datacentre and cloud sector. "The quality of entry this year was among the highest ever at the 2012 event. This reflects both the growth and confidence of the datacentre sector across Europe," wrote chairman of the Judges Panel, Ashley Davies...

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Equinix's SE3 International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Seattle is now sporting the Amazon Web Services Direct Connect service. This will provide Equinix's Seattle customers with a direct connection to AWS so they can get millisecond latency between SE3 and AWS infrastructure.

In an email to customers, AWS noted that the launch of Direct Connect in Seattle provides local customers with direct connection access to the AWS US West (Oregon) region, which it stated is a frequently requested capability...

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Infortrend Corporation today announced the new EonStor DS G7i Series' dedication to mission-critical Tier III data centers. The G7i SAN storage solution delivers high-availability RAID storage to SMBs and enterprises whose business operations heavily depend on the reliability of their IT environments, such as companies who generate their revenue through online business models. Providers of cloud services and software as a service (SaaS) place heavy emphasis on the security and dependability of their storage, which is why their IT departments rely on the 99.982% availability of Tier III data centers, as opposed to Tier I and Tier II options, which have numerous points of failure and require shutdowns for maintenance.

The EonStor DS G7i Series is designed specifically to match the needs of aggressive and complex applications housed in Tier III data centers. VMware VAAI-Ready and boasting high-availability product design features such as RAID controllers, CacheSafe technology, and hot-swappable components ensure that stored data is safe in the event of an untimely power outage or drive failure. The "scale as you grow" flexibility of the G7i series allows companies to scale up to 240 disk drives through high-density expansion enclosures, including Infortrend's 4U/48-bay JBOD...

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QTS (Quality Technology Services) wants to help federal agencies get comfortable with cloud computing, and is dedicating some of its data center space toward this goal. The company, in conjunction with i2 Sentinel Associates, has set up a testbed inside its massive data center campus in Richmond, Virginia that will focus on creating highly secure cloud computing capabilities based on the needs of the U.S. Department of Defense, federal agencies and the U.S. intelligence community.

QTS sees the continuous transformational environment (CTE) lab at its Richmond data center as an exciting development in the federal sector’s adoption of cloud computing. “The Richmond CTE lab contains some of the most advanced technologies in cloud computing today,” said Scott Shinberg, executive vice president, federal systems group – QTS...

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TeleProviders Inc., a premier communications and technology solutions provider, expands its converged cloud and data center offerings with several technology providers in the cloud and data services sector. TeleProviders is able to help clients co-source products and services that include colocation, managed hosting and infrastructure as a service (IaaS.

“We are fortunate to be able to offer our clients innovative hosting and cloud solutions in addition to the traditional voice, data center and mobility services,” said Jason Sharek, TeleProviders CEO. “The convergence of enterprise hardware, software and IaaS services in our industry means our product mix is as varied as our clients’ needs. We have the specialized skill sets on staff to meet these needs.”...

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Cisco Systems is working with Microsoft to offer new products designed to make it easier for businesses to virtualize their data centers, reduce complexity and leverage cloud computing technologies. Cisco is combining its Unified Computing System (UCS) converged data center solution with Microsoft’s Fast Track 3.0 architecture offerings to give businesses integrated solutions that will make it easier for them to provision, deploy and manage their data center environments, according to the two companies.

In addition, Cisco is offering new Microsoft Fast Track 3.0 packages that can leverage options from either EMC and its year-old VSPEX integrated virtualization solution or NetApp and its FlexPod technology...

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Evolve IP, The Cloud Services Company™, today announced it has released its Virtual Data Center service which allows the rapidly growing segment of cloud computing customers to deploy guaranteed reserved resource pools at Evolve IP's SOC III compliant, geographically redundant data centers. In conjunction with the company's dedicated, private cloud service, vServer, and its award-winning unified cloud platform, it further elevates Evolve IP's position as the nation's leading cloud services provider.

The Virtual Data Center is a next-generation product that provides consumable computing resources with simple unit-based pricing. It is secure, available on-demand and features true customer isolation. IT administrators are enabled to quickly create virtual machines and allocate and provision computing assets via Evolve IP's proprietary OSSmosis Enterprise Cloud Manager (ECM), a secure Web-based portal with sophisticated end-user management tools...

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Equinix opened a $60 million SE3 data center in downtown Seattle Thursday to enhance its data center and network communication services to the RightScale cloud management service, and potentially to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and major enterprise customers. AWS and Equinix are already cloud partners in six other locations, and Equinix officials said the close working relationship makes it likely that AWS will use the Seattle facility at some point in the future.

Amazon Web Services currently relies on Equinix facilities to power its Direct Connect service, used by financial services and other privacy-oriented organizations that wish to establish a fiber-optic communications link with an Amazon data center rather than relying on the public Internet...

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Salesforce has announced an ambitious goal to fully power its data centers with renewable energy. The software-as-a-service company that Bloomberg Businessweek recently called “a cloud computing king” announced last week that it is “committing to work to steadily increase the amount of renewable energy we use in our data center operations, to reach our goal to be fully powered by renewable energy.”

The company will take a number of steps this year to begin making its data centers more sustainably powered. The company will research energy efficient data center technology and encourage its energy providers to increase the supply of renewable energy. The company will also convene peers, sustainability specialists and energy experts around data center energy issues...

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Cosentry, the region’s leading provider of secure cloud computing and data center services, has announced an industry first with the release of their new Ion Cloud Services. This industry breakaway technology allows clients to automatically provision enterprise class, secure virtual private data centers with Cosentry’s Vblock supported infrastructure.

“There are a number of industry offers that might appear similar at first glance” Said Dustin Trager, Director of Cloud Services for Cosentry. “But behind the flashy provisioning software, they don’t actually have a solid infrastructure or a true automatic zero-touch configuration. With Ion Cloud Services you get both, in addition to an orchestration layer that makes provisioning your Virtual Private Data Center take minutes, not hours. We know that this service is going to make waves in the industry, but it’s what our clients have been requesting.”...