Mayor Bloomberg at new consolidated data center in downtown Brooklyn (Photo Credit: Edward Reed) (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — A new 18,000 square-foot data center in downtown Brooklyn opened Monday, which is designed to consolidate the technology infrastructure of 19 agencies over the next year and that of more than 40 agencies over the next five years. The facility’s opening comes just a couples weeks after the Obama administration issued its 2012 federal budget proposa l where it asserted that data center consolidation and cloud computing will play a significant role in curbing IT costs.

Mayor Bloomberg at new consolidated data center in downtown Brooklyn (Photo Credit: Edward Reed) (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — A new 18,000 square-foot data center in downtown Brooklyn opened Monday, which is designed to consolidate the technology infrastructure of 19 agencies over the next year and that of more than 40 agencies over the next five years.

Web Hosting News – ATLANTA – Internap Network Services Corporation (Nasdaq: INAP), a leading provider of IT infrastructure services, today announced that it will open a new data center in the Dallas/Fort Worth market. The state-of-the-art, company-controlled facility will serve growing demand among enterprise organizations in the DFW area for premium colocation backed by Internap’s route-optimized network connectivity services that deliver best-in-class performance, availability and support. The new DFW facility continues Internap’s strategy to build a geographically diversified platform of premium data centers to serve customers’ high-performance IT infrastructure needs, integrated with Internap’s portfolio of colocation, connectivity, CDN, managed hosting and cloud storage services

A photo of Internap’s newest data center in Santa Clara, California (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Colocation services provider Internap Network Services ( www.internap.com ) announced on Thursday that it plans to build a new 55,000 square foot data center in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. In November, the company opened a new data center in Santa Clara, California and revealed its plans to expand its Boston area data center .

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Data Centers Canada Opens New Office In Vaughan, Ontario Web Hosting News – Vaughan, Ontario Canada – Data Centers Canada a data center provider which operates, develops and manages Canadian real estate for the purpose of providing turn-key data center solutions including colocation and disaster recovery solutions for enterprises, today announced that it has opened an additional regional office in the City of Vaughan, Ontario. “We continue to grow our Canadian centric data center practice”, said Tony Di Benedetto, Managing Partner at Data Centers Canada.

Web Hosting News – REDWOOD CITY, CA – Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), a provider of global data center services, and Riverwood Capital, a technology-focused private equity firm, today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire approximately 90 percent of ALOG Data Centers of Brazil S.A. in an all cash transaction valued at approximately $127 million.

Web Hosting News – LONDON – Interxion Holding NV, (NYSE: INXN), a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data center services today announced a strategic partnership with NYSE Technologies, the global commercial technology unit of NYSE Euronext (NYX) and the world’s leading provider of end-to-end electronic trading solutions. The strategic partnership builds upon NYSE Technologies’ use of Interxion as a provider of data center space to house several network access points for its pan-European and Asian trading network, the Secure Financial Transaction Infrastructure® (SFTI®). Stanley Young, CEO of NYSE Technologies said “Interxion have moved from being a trusted vendor to a strategic partner and we are delighted to use their data centre in the City of London to roll out a range of reliable, cost effective and low-latency trading, data and connectivity applications to a wider range of customers

A diagram showing Interxion’s proximity to key markets in London (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – European colocation and data center operator Interxion ( www.interxion.com ) announced on Thursday that it has formed a strategic partnership with electronic trading solutions provider NYSE Technologies ( www.nyse.com ).

Web Hosting News – UNION CITY, CA – Data Center Pulse added Paul Sun to the Board of Directors as the Asia Pacific Regional Director Paul Sun is the Director of the Cloud Computing Center for Mobile Applications at ITRI (Industrial Technology Research Institute). ITRI is a national research organization that serves to strengthen the technological competitiveness of Taiwan.