Issue 12, Oct/Nov
FOCUS NEWS UK & EUROPE
PAN NORDIC DC MIGRATION: Skandinavisk Data Center, a data center supplier for Nordic banking and financial services providers, is entering the third phase of its migration away from mainframe to Windows-based systems which it said could save it US$20m per year.
FINLAND Google said it will be using sea water alongside recycled water to cool its fi rst dedicated data center in Hamina, Finland. The search giant has already started construction of its new data center – a project that will see it turn a paper mill into a data center in a project worth US$260 million.
The IT Center for Science (CSC) said it will create a “state of the art” data center for supercomputers, data storage and other IT systems, which will be completed in 2012. Situated in a business park focussed on measurement and information technology, the data center will use river cooling and hydroelectric power and will be used for education and research needs.
NETHERLANDS
US-based Hyland Software says it will open a data center in the Netherlands to cater for growing demand for software- as-a-service (SaaS). Hyland develops SaaS-based OnBase, a document management and content management solution. It recently opened a data center in Australia and also has plans for more in Asia and South America by the end of this year.
ICELAND
Iceland is working on changing how the country charges value added tax (VAT) to IT and data center eqiupment. In an open letter
Virtus Enfi eld’s ground fl oor plans
LONDON OPERATOR’S NEW CONSTRUCTION: Virtus has started construction of its new Tier III 70,000 sq ft facility in London which will be built in two stages, the first floor plans of which are shown above
UK
The UK Atomic Weapons Establishment took on its third supercomputer from French
Phase 1
to industry leaders the country’s fi nance minister Steingrimur J Sigfusson said a “solution is currently being worked out and will be presented shortly so necessary changes can take effect as soon as possible”. The country, has been working on building a data center industry which it says can take advantage of its mid- Atlantic location and especially low cost renewable geothermal energy but it came under criticism recently because of taxes placed on bringing IT equipment into the country.
61% of CIOs in EMEA told Brocade they think their biggest challenge over the next year will be reducing management complexity
supplier Bull, to be used for the Trident nuclear deterrent programme. The system – called Blackthorn – is the largest bought for the laboratory. It is based on Xeon ‘Westmere’ chips from Intel and comprises 2,160 (6 core) processors in 1080 blades with 750TB of storage and has a peak performance of 145 TeraFlops (trillions of calculations per second).
IT spend in western and southern Europe will contract 0.7% in US dollar terms but grow by 4% in Euros this year, according to Forrester Research.
Scotland announced it’s largest underwater turbine for the generation of power using tidal current which will connect to its electrical grid. The fi rst AK1000 will be installed on the seabed not far from where Atlantis and a group of partners plan to build a data center that will be powered by tidal energy.
Deutsche Börse’s Market Data & Analytics signed a deal with London-based colocation data center City Lifeline, Telehouse London Metro and Equinix’s D4 International Business Exchange for its algorithm news feed AlphaFlash, otherwise known as Need to Know News (NtKN). The three data centers are being used by the German
Phase 2
FRANCE IBM has signed a new lease agreement with Digital Reality Trust for its turn-key data center site in a suburban region of Paris.
GUERNSEY Wave Telecom said it plans to double the size of its new First Tower Lane data center, which opened in April this year in Guernsey, after it sold three times more space than expected, at a cost of £3 million.
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company to deliver more than 150 machine readable macroeconomic indicators directly into trading algorithms for use by the London fi nancial market.
Alcatel-Lucent said it is
extending its West Africa submarine cable system, which runs at 40 gigabit per second (40G), to the UK.
SPAIN
The Spanish Government said it will promote cloud computing within its departments. In its 2011-2015 strategy within the Plan Avanza 2, it said it will aim to increase resource-sharing and cloud computing.
NEWS IN BRIEF
SWEDEN WikiLeaks moved a portion of its servers to a data center in an underground nuclear bunker in Sweden operated by service provider Bahnhof.
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