“We are confident that CyrusOne’s innovative design paired with the excellent operating environment the Phoenix market offers, is an ideal combination for delivering the high-density, mission critical solutions we’ve become known for, at a scale unmatched by our competitors,” said Kevin Timmons, chief technology officer, CyrusOne.  “In total we’re delivering a cost-competitive alternative for our California clientele looking to secure company data away from the earthquakes and other natural disasters experienced there.”

Planned for completion in the first part of 2013, the data center is expected to become the largest of its kind in the country with 110 megawatts of power capacity, delivered from a substation to be built on the property. The company’s Massively Modular design delivers industry-leading energy optimization and just-in-time inventory to meet customer demand. The Massively Modular approach enables CyrusOne to commission large data center facilities in approximately 16 weeks, beating the deployment capabilities of the data-center-in-a-box solutions currently being marketed by competitors.

“We are differentiating ourselves in how we bring our products to market, and with the products themselves. In comparison to other facilities in Phoenix, the immense scale and modularity of CyrusOne’s facility delivers unmatched economic benefits to customers. Its location with respect to power and fiber infrastructure access ensures customer confidence, and the best-in-class office space keeps our customers comfortable while they work, including amenities such as an espresso bar,” said Timmons. “There’s nothing else like it in the industry.”

The groundbreaking comes on the heels of an industry peer review session the CyrusOne executive team hosted in late April. There were interactive sessions with the general contractor, architecture firm, and CyrusOne mechanical and electrical engineers engaged for the Chandler project, in an effort to further optimize the facility design plan.

Spectranet partnered with Mobile Operators to offer high speed Internet access to mobile customers on Wi-Fi. Spectranet Wi-Fi service can be accessed by mobile subscribers on all kinds of Wi-Fi enabled devices including mobile phones, laptops and tablets. Mobile subscribers can access the Wi-Fi services by latching onto the Spectranet Wi-Fi and following a simple two-step registration process.

Spectranet has deployed core & access service infrastructure for Wi-Fi services enabling seamless authentication solution for both post-paid and pre-paid subscribers. This service enables seamless Internet access for mobile subscribers across GSM/3G network and Spectranet Wi-Fi network. The technology platform has been supplied by leading Indian OSS/BSS vendor Inventum Technologies which is also behind several other leading network deployments. It is notable that this is the first ever deployment of 2G & 3G mobile data offload to WiFi within India.

Spectranet has deployed Wi-Fi network at over 1000 hot-spots across six metros Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Chennai and Hyderabad.

Speaking about the recognition, Mr. Nitin Mehrotra, Managing Director, Spectranet, said, “We are honoured to receive the National Telecom Award and will continue innovating and creating differentiated offerings to enhance consumers’ experience. We are building India’s largest Wi-Fi network across commercial and residential areas and see tremendous growth opportunity in this segment. Being the first to offer this high speed internet experience to its customers, Spectranet has yet again demonstrated its commitment to bringing innovative and value enhancing services to its valued customers.”

About Spectranet:

Spectranet started its journey in the year 2000 as the pioneer of Broadband in India and has evolved into India’s leading Integrated Communication Services Provider.

Spectranet’s operations are strategically segmented into Enterprise and Home solutions. Spectranet’s portfolio ranges from high-speed broadband to next-gen cloud-based services. The solutions Spectranet offers are tailored to meet the rapidly changing needs of our customers.

Spectranet currently offers its services in Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata & Chandigarh and is extending its footprint to many more cities across India.

About Inventum Technologies:

Inventum helps communication service providers deliver, meter & manage next generation IP services. Inventum’s solutoins include intelligent service controllers (MSC), AAA solutions, convergent billing systems (UNIFY SMP) and related OSS/BSS software. The company’s platforms are widely deployed by both ISP & Mobile Operators in India with a market leading position in WiFi OSS/BSS platforms.

The company is headquartered in Noida with office across India, Asia & the USA.

For more information, please contact:

Abhijai Srivastava
Spectranet
Mobile no: +91 97115 03105
Email: abhijai.srivastava@spectranet.in

“While the overall unemployment rate remains relatively high, my sense is that the economy is doing reasonably well and companies are making money,” said Weinman. “Certainly, we have seen a strong rebound in the market for IT audit; security; and governance, risk and compliance (GRC) professionals.”

In fact, according to a March 2012 survey by ISACA—a global nonprofit IT association of more than 95,000 IT and business professionals—more than half (52%) of the 3,700 respondents reported that their enterprises do not have enough IT staff and 44% of executive teams in the US are planning to increase their IT-related investments over the next 12 months. This need for employees opens doors for candidates. However, Weinman cautions that while some candidates will have multiple companies competing for their talents, others will find a tougher job market.

“It is clear that companies are raising the bar for production and contribution, and candidates need to change their mindset to be successful in this competitive environment,” Weinman explained. He shared three perspectives he suggests today’s workers need to understand:

1) There needs to be a paradigm shift—a new way of planning for life and career. In the past, most Americans tended to assume that they would continue to earn more each year of their career until retirement, and that it was unlikely that they would face any periods of protracted unemployment. These assumptions are no longer accurate, and they necessitate a different type of planning around life and career.

2) Building and maintaining a personal network is of critical importance. Today’s destabilized economic environment and the ensuing lack of long-term job security with any organization have greatly heightened the importance of building and maintaining one’s personal network, both digital and face-to-face. Many individuals don’t start to think about building their network until the economy crashes and they are out of work. By then, it is too late.

3) It is no longer acceptable to be average. Companies are looking for a different caliber of employees. In addition to strong educational credentials and certifications, companies are also seeking individuals with tangible accomplishments, a history of adding value and a passion for and dedication to the profession.. If you cannot clearly articulate the value you (and your projects) bring to an organization, you could be vulnerable over the long haul.

Weinman and other INSIGHTS speakers will meet with attendees in interactive discussions of the latest business and technology issues facing enterprises today. Speakers include:

• Pat Howard, chief information security officer (CISO) for the Lockheed Martin Antarctic Support Contract in support of the National Science Foundation’s U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP), through SecureInfo, a Kratos Company
• Michelle Finneran Dennedy, vice president and chief privacy officer, McAfee
• John Bumgarner, chief technology officer, US Cyber Consequences Unit
• Hironori Goto, deputy operation head, AXA Technology Services Japan
• Kevin McCabe, chief audit executive, Wells Fargo
• Sanjay Singh, vice president internal audit, Starbucks Coffee Company
• David Foote, chief executive officer, Foote Partners
• Udo Helmbrecht, Ph.D., director, European Network Information Security Agency (ENISA)
• Ron Ross, Ph.D., senior computer scientist and information security researcher, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
• Stephen Ibaraki, advisor to Global Board, Global IT Community Association (GITCA)
• James Golden, Associate Partner IT Governance and Cyber Security, IBM
• Peter R. Gleason, managing director and chief information officer, National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD)

“What makes this particular conference fascinating is the fact that, in addition to participating in high-value networking opportunities, every attendee is able to actively participate in every session, debate and conversation; share their own experiences; ask questions of the experts and the audience; and take away interesting points of view for further review and action,” said Marc Vael, CISA, CISM, CGEIT, director at ISACA and chair of the association’s Knowledge Board. “The key to this experience is being there in person to interact with attendees and panelists.”

For more information on INSIGHTS 2012, visit www.isaca.org/worldcongress.

Amorphous concept that is now beginning to gain traction, companies have begun to turn to cloud computing as a viable supplement to or even a complete replacement for their traditional software licensing models. Developed specifically to provide you with valuable guidance on how to structure agreements that will balance the business benefits with the legal risks of utilizing cloud computing as an IT services model, ACI’s 2^nd National Forum on Cloud Computing will provide you with practical insights on how to tackle complex issues including data privacy, business continuity, standards of care and the allocation of IP risks in the cloud.  Speakers at the seminar will include counsel from Oracle, LiveOps, iTegris, salesforce.com, Microsoft, Citrix, Matrixx, Hewlett Packard, AT&T, Symantec, Pfizer, SoftLayer, Visa, Chartis

With an eye towards structuring agreements, this valuable seminar will show you how to balance the business benefits of the cloud model with the legal risks that are inherent in this non-traditional IT service model.  Led by in-house counsel on both the buyer and vendor side of the cloud, the front-line private practitioners that are guiding corporations through the structuring of these contracts (and resulting litigation), and the federal and state regulators at the front line of data privacy enforcement actions, this conference will help make you aware of the issues your company should consider before you go to the table.

New topics for 2012 will include:

• A strategic discussion around balancing business benefits with costs and legal risks when moving to the cloud
• Emerging models in cloud computing agreements and a deep dive into the inherent differences in cloud contract models
• The licensing of public data aggregation tools and how companies are structuring business-to-business data exchanges
• Best practices to address uptime, business continuity, data manipulation, retention and recovery in the cloud
• How to conduct effective due diligence on third-party vendors and subcontractors
• Plus, an entire afternoon dedicated to data privacy and security issues in the cloud, including key lessons learned from the biggest data breach cases, how data breach insurance can factor into your company’s decision to move to the cloud and insights from key state and federal regulators

In addition, no other conference offers you the opportunity to pose questions to government officials and come back to your clients with exclusive information on how to handle their biggest challenges on this highly sensitive and high profile topic.  Our government panel will be led by:

Alexander C. Tang                 Federal Trade Commission

Travis LeBlanc                        California Office of the Attorney General

Jah-Juin Ho                             New Jersey Office of the Attorney General

Christine Nielsen                     Office of the Illinois Attorney General (former)

Take advantages of the opportunity to share best practices and gain insights from your peers and colleagues. This conference will allow you to gain valuable insights on how to handle the most complex aspects of transitioning to the cloud and setting up effective cloud contracts. Companies on the leading edge of today’s most innovative cloud deals and regulators at the front line of developing legislation and the lawyers helping to guide the industry through it all will lead ACI’s innovative forum. Speakers at the seminar will include counsel from:

Benchmark your current strategies with your peers as you gain valuable insights on how to handle the most complex aspects of transitioning to the cloud and setting up effective cloud contracts.

We are extending you a $200 discount. Register members of your IT, transactions and compliance team now!

Register now by calling 1-888-224-2480 or faxing your registration form to 1-877-927-1563. You can also register online at www.AmericanConference.com/CloudComputing

“SDN presents a tremendous opportunity for customers to streamline and automate network infrastructure and operations,” said Christoph Glingener, CTO, ADVA Optical Networking. “While server and storage virtualization have been widely adopted, network virtualization is still in its infancy. SDN closes this gap by offering programmable network control, better scalability and faster adaption to virtual machine mobility. We have proven that SDN can seamlessly extend into the optical domain and enables network virtualization across multiple layers. The OpenFlow approach extends our existing SDN solution employing our RAYcontrol control plane.”

“It has been exciting developing this OpenFlow solution with the team at ADVA Optical Networking”, commented Professor Dimitra Simeonidou, head of the High Performance Networks Group, University of Essex. “Together we have built an SDN testbed with packet and wavelength switches under a common OpenFlow control. This is something that has never been done before. Researchers can now obtain slices of network infrastructure to program their own virtual multi-layer networks.  They can use optical switching alongside packet switching to adapt bandwidth, latency and power consumption to their application needs.”

The SDN facility at University of Essex comprises packet switches and application servers that can be dynamically connected by optical lightpaths. External users can directly access the facility via GÉANT, a high-bandwidth pan-European backbone that interconnects national research and education networks. Web-based tools and services enable users to request network resources from OFELIA and run, control and monitor their own SDN applications. A demonstration of the new SDN solution will be shown at the European Future Internet Assembly in Aalborn, Denmark, on May 10-11^th, 2012.

During recent ceremonies in Chicago, the Chamber’s Chairman, W. David Braun, pointed out that, “Rittal’s Liquid Cooling Package is recognized as a ‘green’ solution to the cooling requirements of today’s high-density IT server environments. Introducing its original model in 2004, the newest version was released in October, 2011, landing Rittal at the forefront of the data center cooling market.”

Rittal’s innovative product removes heat directly from IT equipment, in contrast to traditional methods used for the last 20 years.  The new LCP, a space-saving 12 inches wide, is capable of removing enough heat from a data center rack to cool four average-sized homes. The new products also enable the use of outside air as “free cooling,” which can reduce a data center’s energy requirement by as much as 40 percent.

The Liquid Cooling Package allows Rittal, through its system approach, to provide seamless solutions to its customers‘ data center requirements in a wide array of markets, including the fields of education, medical care, government and finance.

The demand for efficient, “green” products addressing these needs is vital. According to a Stanford University study, data centers use 3 percent of the total energy used in the United States and the IT industry’s CO₂ footprint is equal to that of the aviation industry – and emissions from IT represents the fastest growing sector in the country.

While accepting the award, Rittal Corporation President Douglas Peterson told the gathering Rittal has been promoting German-American trade for decades, with more and more fervor since opening its doors in Central Ohio in 1982.  “We’ve blended hard work and a combination of American and German know-how to bring us to this point.“

“Today, business is all about efficiency, performance, ROI and being environmentally friendly, and our products earn high marks in each category,” he concluded.

The report examined five vendors with unique DCIM tools and cited five key findings:

• Data center managers recognize that power and cooling represent major challenges, and that data center infrastructure management (DCIM) and related tools can effectively help minimize these challenges.
• More than 60% of the data center managers Gartner recently polled will have implemented DCIM and related tools at some point by 2013.
• DCIM is likely to be self-funding; the cost of the tools is likely to be offset by the savings in power costs DCIM helps enable.

“We’re honored to be cited by a leading firm like Gartner, whose reports and analysis carry a lot of weight in the IT and critical infrastructure community,” said Sherman Ikemoto, General Manager, Future Facilities North America.  “For us, this report reinforces Future Facilities’ belief that simulation must be at the center of an effective capacity management and optimization DCIM process.”

Future Facilities’ flagship 6SigmaDC software offering enables data center owners and operators to maximize the utilization of available data-center space, power, cooling and airflow resources, helping them avoid over-provisioning of cooling without compromising the lifespan of critical data center infrastructure.

Recently, Future Facilities has been assisting data center owners and operators with reclaiming lost capacity in their data centers.  Earlier this spring, Future Facilities released a white paper titled The Elephant in the Room is Lost Capacity. How do Short Term Drivers Erode Long Term Goals? The white paper was developed to help data center operators understand and tackle capacity issues.

Expected to be operational by third quarter of this year, to meet growing domestic and global demand, in markets such as South America, Connectria initially plans to use the new space to deliver its rapidly expanding cloud computing solutions and to provide additional disaster recovery options to its clients.

“We intentionally design our facilities with the highest level of power redundancy and density to host mission-critical systems and high-density storage environments, such as the cloud,” said Josh Snowhorn, Vice President and GM of Interconnection, CyrusOne.  “And from a disaster recovery perspective, we offer a solution that protects people and IT equipment, providing our customers military-grade security, reliable power and connectivity in the raised floor areas where we house equipment, as well as our critical infrastructure office suites. When you combine these attributes with our new statewide Texas Internet Exchange, you have an unbeatable solution for the Cloud.”

Eventually, Connectria expects the Texas facility to accommodate the full range of its services, which include the ability to host the widest range of dedicated server and cloud computing technologies in the industry.

Peering in the Dallas facility will enable Connectria to pull traffic from the edge of the Internet to the heart of the data center to more quickly and affordably deliver access to content providers. Part of its Sky for the Cloud platform, peering, as well as interconnection, enables cloud performance for CyrusOne customers through dedicated data halls that meet the redundant power, connectivity, and capacity needs of the data-rich service model.

The CyrusOne facility is the fourth data center location for Connectria, with existing locations in St. Louis and Philadelphia.

The movement to taller enclosures is driven by customer desire to maximize floor space to limit the need for data center build outs. Currently, 42U (1U = 1.75 inches) height cabinets account for nearly two-thirds of all enclosure shipments globally, but this share will decline as shipments of taller racks increase. However, Liz Cruz, analyst with IMS Research suggests that “The growth may be limited to 45U and 48U racks, given the logistical limitations associated with racks of 51/52U or higher. Transporting and moving in racks of this size is made difficult by truck height restrictions and doorway openings to most data centers. 48U cabinets may prove to be the practical limit to enclosure sizes for this generation.”

In terms of width, the current standard is 600mm. Going forward though, shipments of 750-800mm wide cabinets will grow at nearly twice the rate of 600mm cabinets. In terms of depth, the 1100mm category currently accounts for the greatest share, but 1200mm will grow faster than any other depth in percentage terms.

Two of the factors driving width and depth, greater numbers of cables within the enclosure and more heat being generated, are both caused by greater computing densities at the rack level. With the advent of ultra-thin blade servers, a tremendous amount of computing power can be packed into a rack enclosure, requiring more space to manage cables and airflow. Cruz concludes, “Growth in power densities are not expected to level out any time in the near future, which means neither will enclosure sizes.”

IMS Research regularly analyses all aspects of the data center infrastructure market. More information regarding these detailed reports can be found here.