Reality Check Network News – REDWOOD CITY, CA – Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), a provider of global data center services, announced that Reality Check Network, a provider of managed hosting services, will continue to leverage its presence within the Equinix International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers to deliver high-end managed hosting services including virtualization, storage, load balancing, VPN and CDN. Since joining Platform Equinix™ in 2008, Reality Check Network has drawn upon the standardization, consistency and network connectivity within the Equinix IBX data centers in New York and Silicon Valley to significantly grow its North American customer base and ensure it delivers on its promise of 100 percent uptime for its hosting customers. Reality Check Network has also opened a storefront in the Equinix Marketplace™ to promote and sell its services to the more than 4,000 potential customers that are on Platform Equinix.

As part of Equinix’s growing ecosystem of more than 800 cloud and IT service providers, Reality Check Network offers managed hosting solutions and powerful dedicated servers that are backed by unparalleled network, server, and application support. Originally launched in 2003, the company delivers proven solutions for some of the most demanding hosting needs, including highly available websites, PCI-compliant e-commerce sites, SaaS platforms, and virtualization. Reality Check Network also offers load balancing and firewall security as well as network storage and CDN services, in highly available configurations.

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QTS News – ATLANTA – QTS (Quality Technology Services), one of the nation’s largest and fastest-growing providers of data center facilities and managed services, today announced that all of the company’s data centers previously certified by the Statement on Auditing Standards No. 70 (SAS 70) audit program have successfully transitioned to Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements No. 16 (SSAE 16).

Individual, independent SSAE 16 Type II audits were performed at facilities in Atlanta, Ga.; Miami, Fla.; New York, NY; Jersey City, NJ; Overland Park, Kan. and Suwanee, Ga., as well as both data centers on QTS’ Santa Clara, Calif. campus for calendar year 2011. Issuance of SSAE 16 Type II Service Auditor’s Reports builds on QTS’ 29 previous SAS 70 Type II Service Auditor’s Reports issued in eight of the company’s coast-to-coast data centers over the past four years.

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NTT Com News – TOKYO – NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com) and Netmagic Solutions Private Limited (Netmagic Solutions) jointly announced on January 25 that NTT Com will acquire 74% of Netmagic Solutions, a leading provider of datacenter services in India. The acquisition is subject to the approval of relevant authorities in India.

The addition of Netmagic Solutions’ datacenter services and sites will expand NTT Com’s capability to provide one-stop ICT solutions in the fast-growing Indian market, as well as accelerate its offering of globally seamless cloud services through expanded ICT infrastructure Asia-wide.

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Interoute News – LONDON – Interoute, owner operator of Europe’s largest cloud services platform, is defining a new class in cloud computing with the launch of its Virtual Data Center (VDC). This enables organisations to create highly dynamic cloud computing services that are sensitive to the complex demands of European business. Interoute’s VDC is built into the fabric of its pan-European network, enabling organisations to deploy virtual computing and storage infrastructure for their enterprise applications in a matter of minutes. The service brings simplicity and security to the enterprise cloud to ensure that, instead of having to choose between the conveniences of the public cloud or the security of a private cloud – enterprises can now have both. To support compliance with European data legislation the VDC service also allows users to select between the different countries in Europe where the physical VDC infrastructure is located. As an added benefit, Interoute will not charge for transferring data between these locations or for connectivity to the VDC.

The Interoute’s VDC is easily scalable, from just one server for one hour, to 100,000 machines across multiple countries. Its structured pay that is based on a ‘pay for what you use’ makes it as cost effective as a public cloud, but uses Interoute’s own network infrastructure to give the additional security of a private cloud. Organisations are given the choice of importing their own appliances, so migrating from a public cloud becomes a simple click, or they can use their own company appliances to comply with their corporate standards. Businesses also have the option to use appliances certified by Interoute in the appliance library.

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NaviSite News – LONDON – NaviSite Europe Limited, a premier provider of enterprise-class hosting, managed application, managed messaging and managed cloud services, has announced a new partnership with IT solutions and services provider, Richardson Eyres. The alliance marks a significant step forward for both companies, helping them to meet the rapidly growing demand for cloud-based managed services, and follows the recent launch of NaviSite’s UK cloud node.

Richardson Eyres will add NaviCloud to its catalogue of enterprise focused IT solutions, enabling the company to boost its customer offering. The announcement marks the culmination of a successful 12 months of association between the two companies. NaviSite was chosen by Richardson Eyres over other cloud platform specialists after a long period of in-depth analysis, with both parties benefiting from each other’s experience and expertise in the market. The UK-wide partnership will cover all of NaviSite’s product range, bringing scalable solutions to current and prospective Richardson Eyres customers.

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GoGrid News – San Francisco, CA – GoGrid, a leading cloud infrastructure company, today announced that it has established its EMEA Headquarters, GoGrid AMS BV, and a new data center in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, to provide fully integrated, on-demand cloud infrastructure services around the globe.

Uniquely architected for seamless, scalable, worldwide customer infrastructure deployments, GoGrid leverages a common architectural footprint that ensures consistent functionality and performance across all regions. GoGrid’s EMEA cloud infrastructure services will deliver full-featured solutions via a single management portal. Customers throughout the globe can create, manage, and deploy robust cloud or complex solutions in any of GoGrid’s data centers, including the new Amsterdam location as well as San Francisco, CA, and Ashburn, VA.

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FireHost News – Cloud Expo Europe, London, UK – Secure cloud hosting company, FireHost, has today announced the expansion into Europe, with news that its secure hosting services are now available at data centres in London and Amsterdam. European organisations, as well as international firms operating in the region, can now benefit from FireHost’s award-winning, highly-flexible, secure cloud hosting services, with the added reassurance that their websites and applications are hosted in-region and under the jurisdiction of European data protection legislation.

Founded in 2006, FireHost has previously provided its secure cloud hosting services to companies from 22 countries via its U.S. data centres in Texas and Arizona. Rapidly growing demand from European-based businesses, along with increasing requirements to keep data within the European Union, has driven FireHost’s latest expansion.

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LogicBoxes News – LogicBoxes, a Registrar software and consulting company, today announced that it has partnered with Yovole Communications to help them achieve ICANN Accreditation and to increase their domain extension portfolio.

As an advantage of being ICANN Accredited, Yovole will now be able to further establish its brand as a serious player in the domain name industry. This will certainly ensure in better volumes of business for the company in the days to come.

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Server Intellect News – ORLANDO, FL – Server Intellect, a leading Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and provider of Windows Cloud Hosting solutions, announced today that it has again retained its Small Business Specialist certification for 2012.

To keep this designation, Server Intellect has continued to demonstrate expertise in planning, building, and implementing solutions for small businesses. As a member of the Small Business Specialist Community, Server Intellect receives a robust set of benefits from Microsoft, including access to training material specifically designed for the small-business industry, marketing materials for reuse, and specific partner offers.

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Rackwise News – SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Rackwise, Inc. (OTCBB:RACK.OB) (the “Company”) announced today that it will release version 3.6 of its core DCiM™ software product, the Rackwise® Data Center Manager (“DCM”), in April of 2012. Pursuant to the terms of its recently executed multi-year software integration and license agreement with Intel Corporation (“Intel®”) announced during the fourth quarter of 2011, the Company and Intel will jointly market the Rackwise® DCM version 3.6 product worldwide, with initial emphasis on the Asia-Pacific and European markets. The Rackwise® DCM 3.6 will include an extensive suite of new features including enhanced device level real-time monitoring, enhanced power modeling, rich asset search, visualization, blade server management, fault impact analysis and business reporting analytics. The Rackwise® DCM 3.6 is the latest version of Rackwise, Inc.’s industry-leading DCiM™ product suite designed and built on open standards supporting integrations with leading best-in-class data center monitoring solutions.

The Rackwise® DCM version 3.6 will dramatically extend device level monitoring capabilities through integration of the Intel® DCM software solution. This release will offer the first implementation of real-time data gathering and reporting capabilities built around enhanced temperature/power monitoring, and failure analysis. Advantages of this feature will be extended visibility and analytics at the device, rack, floor and all other levels of the data center infrastructure.

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