Racks inside the Amstel Business Park data center, TelecityGroup’s fourth Amsterdam facility (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — UK data center operator TelecityGroup ( www.telecitygroup.com ) announced on Thursday it has acquired a new 9MW, 64,583 square foot data center in Amsterdam.

Website Hosting News – Paris – NextiraOne today announced an expansion of its relationship with Cisco to accelerate the adoption of virtualised data centre solutions in Europe. Together, Cisco and NextiraOne will focus on delivering advanced communications applications, including Cisco Unified Communications and Cisco Contact Centre hosted in virtualised data centre environments, which bring real value to customers. NextiraOne will invest in developing its already successful Cisco data centre capabilities through certification of people, labs and demonstration equipment across the European group.

[news release] For the fourth year running, AFNIC has published its French Domain Name Industry Report. Produced in partnership with Télécom Sud Paris, this new, complete and extremely detailed edition, highlights items such as the comfortable growth this year of some 21% in the .fr TLD, the development in the secondary market for domain names, or the signature of the .fr zone with DNSSEC last September.

A diagram representing Interxion Cloud Hubs’ infrastructure and locations (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Colocation services and data center operator Interxion ( www.interxion.com ) announced on Wednesday that Terremark ( www.terremark.com ) has chosen to deploy its Infinistructure platform in Interxion’s Cloud Hub Community at its Brussels data center. Terremark’s Infinistructure is a utility computing platform that provides scalable virtual server deployment. The company says it selected Interxion because of the “available space, power density, robust infrastructure, and superior connectivity and coverage” in its Brussels facilities

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — At the Parallels EMEA Partner Forum in Paris, Maziar Zolghadr, who heads the communications sector Software + Services hosting team at Microsoft France ( www.microsoft.com/fr ), said that Microsoft is making major investments for its European cloud users not only in infrastructure, but in its platfrom software, which offers partners even greater options for running their websites and applications. About a year ago, Microsoft opened its first “mega data center” in Europe to meet continued growth in demand for its Online, Live and Cloud services. The $500-million Dublin data center was part of Microsoft’s long-term commitment in the region, and a major step in realizing Microsoft’s Software plus Services strategy.

Parallels account manager Belkacem Moussouni delivered the opening speech of the Paris stop of the Parallels EMEA Partner Forum. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The Parallels EMEA Partner Forum 2010 made its stop in Paris Tuesday, gathering many industry professionals in SaaS, managed services and cloud services to attend sessions on the hosting industry and on specific products from software developer Parallels ( www.parallels.com )

AboveNet’s London network map, part of the company’s European expansion (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Colocation and interconnection provider ancotel ( www.ancotel.de ) announced this week that connectivity company AboveNet had become the 400th customer at ancotel’s Kleyer 90 facility in Frankfurt, Germany.

A screen shot of Verizon Business’ Computing as a Service control panel. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Managed services provider Verizon Business ( www.verizonbusiness.com ) announced on Thursday is enhancing its data centers around the globe, in an effort to meet the increasing demand for the full range of cloud services

A map of AboveNet’s installed fiber locations. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Connectivity solutions provider AboveNet ( www.above.net ) has announced on Thursday it is expanding its international network to key European markets with growing demand for dedicated, high performance and high bandwidth services

SUNNYVALE, CA, Sep 13, 2010 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Infinera /quotes/comstock/15*!infn /quotes/nls/infn ( INFN 9.97 , -0.01 , -0.10% ) has announced that OVH, France’s largest web hosting company, has selected Infinera’s unique digital architecture for its pan-European network. OVH has deployed an Infinera Digital Optical Network to offer high-speed connections with reliability, flexibility, and intelligent management throughout its network. Based in Roubaix in northern France, OVH is a leader in telecom and Internet services.