Created for the financial services community in 2002, SFTI is built to facilitate large quantities of electronic quotes, trades and market data traffic while ensuring reliable, ultra-low latency access to NYSE Euronext’s markets and other global trading venues and firms, including more than 1,300 market participants.

Under the terms of the multi-year agreement, Q9 is providing NYSE Technologies with secure and redundant physical infrastructure in one of its high-availability data centres.

With this new installation, financial services customers within the Q9 data centre will be able to cross-connect into a suite of low-latency trading services available on SFTI. Customers outside of the facility will also be able to receive SFTI services by connecting into the Q9 access centre.

“Co-locating in Q9′s state-of-the-art data centre further strengthens the reach and connectivity of the SFTI global trading network,” says Don Brook, Head of Infrastructure, NYSE Technologies. “Q9 has attracted a strong base of trading firms, including a number of SFTI customers that will benefit from even greater market access, reduced connectivity costs and enhanced performance through this new access centre.”

Q9 designs, builds and operates its data centres to meet the most demanding IT infrastructure requirements, including the increased power and cooling demands of today’s high density computing devices. Customers connect to the Internet via Q9′s unique network and are protected by Q9′s 100 per cent, SLA-backed uptime guarantees on both power and network availability. Customer equipment and data centre environmental parameters are monitored 7×24 by Q9′s Control Centre, staffed by experts versed in all aspects of IT and facilities management.

“We are very pleased to be hosting the NYSE Technologies’ SFTI network at Q9,” says Q9 Chief Executive Officer, Osama Arafat. “Our reputation for security and reliability has been instrumental in establishing us as the data centre provider of choice for Canada’s financial community. With this announcement, we further extend that reputation and enable Canadian market participants to take advantage of direct access to NYSE Technologies’ high-quality, low-latency trading network.”

About NYSE Technologies
A division of NYSE Euronext (NYX), NYSE Technologies provides broadly accessible, comprehensive connectivity and transaction capabilities, data and infrastructure services, and managed solutions for a range of customers requiring next-generation performance and expertise for mission critical and value-added trading services. NYSE Technologies offers a diverse array of products, services and solutions to: the Buy Side, including order routing, liquidity discovery and access to a community of over 630 Broker-Dealers and execution destinations globally; the Sell Side, including high performance, end-to-end messaging software and innovative market data products delivered on the world’s largest, most reliable financial transaction network; and Market Venues and Exchanges, including multi-asset exchange platform services, managed services and expert consultancy. With offices across the U.S., Europe, and Asia, NYSE Technologies offers advanced integrated solutions for the global capital markets community, earning the ability to power trading operations for many of the world’s best financial institutions and exchanges. For additional information visit: http://nysetechnologies.nyx.com

About Q9 Networks
Q9 Networks is Canada’s leading provider of outsourced data centre infrastructure for organizations with mission-critical IT operations. Q9′s 11 data centres and network are backed by an industry leading SLA that guarantees 100 per cent network and power availability. Q9 services, including: co-location, bandwidth, dedicated servers, firewalls, load balancing, virtual private networking (VPN) and back-up/restore, enable the rapid provisioning and scalability of client infrastructure. Q9 is backed by ABRY Partners, one of the most experienced and successful media, communications and information services focused private investment firms in North America, having completed over $21 billion of investments since 1989.

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This brand new set of hosting solutions for WordPress cluster hosting has been built from the ground up, and rooted in the same technologies that power the company’s more basic WordPress-Optimized Blog Platform (WP-OBP) hosting environment. The Nexcess WordPress cluster is expected to offer site owners the same level of performance optimization that Nexcess’ entry-level WordPress hosting clients enjoy, with added benefits in scalability, reliability through increased redundancy, and potential for higher system resource availability to combat unpredictable patterns in blog traffic.

“Popular blogs need some big server muscle behind them to keep performance at a maximum. That fact made this the logical next step for our special WordPress product line,” commented Chris Wells, President & CEO of Nexcess, “For the ever-growing number of epic blogging success stories out there, we’ve crafted solutions that have virtually limitless traffic growth potential.”

WordPress site owners should realize that design of the Nexcess managed WordPress cluster differs significantly from traditional managed cluster hosting. Bloggers utilizing these services will benefit from server configurations that are highly tuned towards WordPress’ needs. They will also receive a system that utilizes APC caching and the Nexcess CDN, which will dramatically improve site speeds over more traditional web hosting. This comes in addition to more traditional server cluster features, including such security perks as hardware firewall appliances and the removal of database services from the public Internet.

For more information on the Nexcess managed WordPress cluster, visit: www.nexcess.net/wordpress-enterprise-hosting

About Nexcess
Nexcess is an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based managed hosting company founded in 2000, with wholly-owned data centers located in Dearborn, and Southfield, Michigan (opening sometime this quarter). Nexcess offers a variety of hosting services ranging from entry-level packages to specially-catered clustered/complex configurations, with an emphasis on mission-critical hosting for high-profile eCommerce web sites. For more information, visit www.nexcess.net or call +1.866.639.2377.

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The Uptime Institute Management and Operations (M&O) Program provides an industry-driven set of criteria for operational and site management independent of Uptime’s Tier Certification, and creates an independent party for validation of management and operations best practices. The M&O Assessment validates the critical facilities management and operations practices of an existing data center and provides third-party assurance that the site management satisfies industry-recognized criteria for 24×7 uptime. Those sites meeting the criteria are awarded an Uptime Institute M&O Site Award.

“As a global leader, Equinix’s participation in the coalition was invaluable, not only providing the necessary views from a data center service provider perspective, but helping to validate those behaviors that need to exist in data centers worldwide,” said Julian Kudritzki, vice president, Uptime Institute, LLC.

As a world-class data center provider, Equinix was invited by Uptime Institute in 2011 to collaborate on the development of the M&O Program. Equinix was one of 11 coalition members to help shape the program.

“Equinix’s exceptional uptime is one of the most important reasons our customers choose us and our work with the Uptime Institute helps us become even stronger in the critical area of management and operations,” said John Shultz, vice president, global product management and development at Equinix.

About Equinix
Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) connects businesses with partners and customers around the world through a global platform of high performance data centers, containing dynamic ecosystems and the broadest choice of networks. Platform Equinix connects more than 4,000 enterprises, cloud, digital content and financial companies including more than 680 network service providers to help them grow their businesses, improve application performance and protect their vital digital assets. Equinix operates in 38 strategic markets across the Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific and continually invests in expanding its platform to power customer growth. http://www.equinix.com.

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Situated in the heart of London Docklands, the expansion into Telecity Sovereign House provides a premier, Tier 3 carrier class hotel as the basis for the Host Virtual Service.

The location provides unrivaled connectivity options on the campus, including over 400 carriers international and local fixed lines, broadband and mobile networks, internet exchange points, content distribution networks, financial exchanges, and cloud hubs.

The Host Virtual, Inc cloud allows customers to easily deploy over 150 Linux, FreeBSD, and VOIP images in just a few minutes, with native dual-stack IPv4 and IPv6 support to any of its 11 worldwide locations.

“We expect the expanded service to be available to all customers in early March”, said Sandy Bhargavi. “We are also working on our Amsterdam, NL location and expect to announce further services in the EU in the near future.”

About Host Virtual, Inc.
Host Virtual, Inc. is a cloud hosting provider that operates dual-stack IPv4 and IPv6 IaaS clouds worldwide. Built around scalability, self-service and ease of use, Host Virtual customers can deploy Linux, VOIP or FreeBSD servers to any location within minutes. Free from the hassle of complicated, pay-per-minute or per-resource plans, Host Virtual customers can deploy to any of its cloud locations with unlimited usage for a low, flat monthly fee starting at under $10 per month.

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“Flex Images provide our customers with unprecedented flexibility and scalability,” said Simon West, Chief Marketing Officer for SoftLayer. “The ability to provision and automate server images seamlessly between cloud and dedicated computing environments empowers users to easily build out their IT environments while being able to quickly meet changing requirements. Our customers can focus on the purpose of their application and then on the right technology solution—with the freedom to move between or integrate technologies as needed.”

Flex Images is a key differentiator for SoftLayer—like the company’s network, portal and automated platform—available to all customers. These new capabilities help showcase SoftLayer’s ongoing innovation efforts, which help blur the distinctions between cloud and dedicated computing environments while offering customers the highest possible levels of control and scalability.

“Flex Images have been a massive time saver,” said Aaron McKee, VP of engineering for Struq, an early beta customer. “We love being able to effortlessly scale and manage our infrastructure. This really sets SoftLayer apart from the competition because traditional cloud systems just don’t have this type of flexibility and performance. The feature has cut down new server deployment by several hours per server, which has made recent expansion bursts at Struq much easier. This is definitely a better way to deploy and manage IT resources in the cloud.”

Key features and benefits of Flex Images include:

• Universal images that can be used interchangeably on dedicated or cloud systems
• Unified image library for archiving, managing, sharing, and publishing images
• Greater flexibility and higher scalability
• Rapid and easy migration
• Available via SoftLayer’s management portal and API

Flex Images is available immediately to SoftLayer customers as a public beta. General availability is expected in the second quarter. For more information, please visit www.softlayer.com/FlexImageBeta.

About SoftLayer Technologies
Headquartered in Dallas, SoftLayer operates a global cloud infrastructure platform built for Internet scale. Spanning 13 data centers in the United States, Asia and Europe and a global footprint of network points of presence, SoftLayer’s modular architecture provides unparalleled performance and control, with a full-featured API and sophisticated automation controlling a flexible platform that seamlessly spans physical and virtual devices, and a global network for secure, low-latency communications. With 100,000 servers under management, SoftLayer is the largest privately held infrastructure-as-a-service provider in the world with a portfolio of 25,000 leading-edge customers from Web startups to global enterprises. For more information, please visit softlayer.com or call 1.866.398.7638.

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In addition to leveraging advanced capabilities to affordly protect valuable business information without the need for expensive and bulky tape backups, CoreLink’s secure data backup services leverage sophisticated encryption technology to deliver full security and data integrity. The services also integrate real-time replication and fast data restore capabilities.

CoreLink’s data backup offerings build upon the relentless data center and managed security services that the company delivers from its Chicago, Las Vegas, Phoenix, and Seattle data centers. Like each of its products and services, CoreLink’s data backup offerings are backed with a 100 percent Uptime Service Level Agreement (SLA) that covers IT infrastructure elements including power, temperature and network availability.

“Our data backup services reflect our deep commitment to continually expand and enhance the breadth and depth of the support offerings we deliver to a growing client base,” said Jason Weisberger, CoreLink’s Chief Technology Officer. “Expert, 24/7 help and support are our company’s hallmark, as is our pledge to provide IT infrastructure and support that not only meets, but consistently exceeds, customer expectations.”

“At the end of the day, by delivering stellar managed services as well as thoroughly reliable enterprise hosting, clients are freed from having to perform non revenue-generating IT infrastructure support and, instead, they can focus on primary revenue generating functions,” Weisberger said.

CoreLink’s straightforward and dependable data backup services also cut backup time by as much as 70 percent; eliminate physical storage requirements up to 65 percent; and, provide a scalable, fail-safe and resilient environment for secure storage of readily available valuable information assets.

About CoreLink
CoreLink is a leading data center hosting and managed services provider of critical infrastructure services delivered on a “state of the art,” robust and environmentally friendly technology platform. By leveraging data centers in Chicago, Las Vegas, Phoenix, and Seattle with access to massive and diverse network connectivity, CoreLink delivers small, medium and large enterprise customers and service providers with high quality and uniquely agile, data center services. CoreLink’s focus on aligning customer needs with the proper solution, combined with a relentless focus on service, provides the flexibility and peace of mind all businesses require from a data center provider. In addition, CoreLink also services the healthcare market by delivering HIPAA security compliant data center solutions to a broad spectrum of healthcare organizations.

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The construction has been carried out by NTT Worldwide Telecommunications Corporation (NTT WT) and the services will be offered through NTT Singapore Pte. Ltd. (NTT Singapore), both of which are wholly-owned subsidiaries of NTT Com.

Serangoon Data Center, as well as NTT Com’s data centers in Hong Kong and Japan are strategically located in close proximity of the stock exchanges to provide low latency networks to the financial industry for high-frequency electronic trading. The data center is also able to host high density racks of up to 12kVA and is fitted with IPv6 ready infrastructure.

“Many of the world’s major financial institutions are increasingly shifting their focus to Asia and this has seen the growth of Asian financial hubs, particularly in Singapore, Hong Kong and Tokyo,” said Mr Takeshi Kazami, President and CEO of NTT Singapore. “The Singapore Serangoon Data Center puts NTT Communications in a prime position to support the connectivity needs of the financial sector in Asia. This move also supports our strategy to expand business in the fast-growing Asian region which is expected to account for 40 percent of the global economy in 2030.”

The Serangoon Data Center incorporates NTT Com’s exacting standards for uniform, world-class data-center services, facilities and operations. NTT Com’s standards are closely aligned with those of globally recognized organizations, such as the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), The Uptime Institute, Inc. (TUI) and the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Inc. (ASHRAE).

“The Singapore Serangoon Data Center is purpose-built and is designed to be Tier IV ready to serve those mission critical IT systems of multinational corporations. The data center has received the Green Mark Platinum Award by the Singapore Building and Construction Authority. This certifies the building is environment-friendly, and utilizes water and energy efficiently,” said Mr. Kazunori Tanaka, President and CEO of NTT WT.

The Serangoon Data Center will be fully operational by end of February 2012 and NTT Com will be holding a grand opening ceremony in Singapore in April 2012.

For more information about NTT Com’s Asian strategy, visit www.ntt.com/worldwide/topics-asia/index.html.

About NTT Communications Corporation
NTT Communications provides a broad range of global networks, management solutions and IT services to customers worldwide. The company is renowned for reliable, high-quality security, hosting, voice, data and IP services, as well as expertise in managed networks and leadership in IPv6 transit technology. NTT Communications’ extensive infrastructure includes Arcstar Universal One™, Arcstar™ Global IP-VPN and Global e-VLAN, as well as a Tier-1 IP backbone reaching more than 150 countries in partnership with major Internet service providers, and secure data centers in Asia, North America and Europe. NTT Communications is the wholly-owned subsidiary of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, one of the world’s largest telecoms with listings on the Tokyo, London and New York stock exchanges. Please visit www.ntt.com/index-e.html.

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“Datapipe has built a team that includes some of the best talent in the industry. Their commitment to delivering value for our clients every day drives our success,” said Robb Allen, Datapipe CEO. “2012 will be another exciting year as we launch new products and enter new markets.”

Datapipe saw growth in all markets with Europe and Asia both growing more than fifty percent. Stratosphere the company’s Enterprise Cloud Platform more than doubled for the third consecutive year. Additionally, the company significantly expanded its New Jersey, London and San Jose data center footprints.

Datapipe continues to make sustainability a top priority. All of its US data centers are run on 100 percent renewable energy. The company was also recently chosen by the EPA as one of ten organizations nationwide to receive a Green Power Leadership Award for its green power purchases in 2011. And, Datapipe was recently recognized by The New Jersey Business & Industry Association (NJBIA) with an Environmental Quality award for preserving and enhancing air quality in New Jersey.

About Datapipe
Datapipe offers a single provider solution for managing and securing mission-critical IT services, including cloud computing, infrastructure as a service, platform as a service, colocation and data centers. Datapipe delivers those services from the world’s most influential technical and financial markets including New York metro, Silicon Valley, London, Hong Kong and Shanghai. For more information about Datapipe visit www.datapipe.com or call (888) 749-5821.

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The goMobi Mobile Website Builder platform includes a number of features through a WYSIWYG interface that allows customers to create a mobile version of their website easily, by adding options like Products, Contact Forms, Find Us, Reviews, Image Gallery, as well as a link to their Full Website and many more features. The goMobi Setup assistant can also automatically generate a mobile website based on an existing website, to help users and webmasters get started quickly.

With mobile web browsing becoming a more common way for users to access the internet, be it on mobile phones, iPhones, Androids and other smartphones, as well as tablets like the Apple iPad, the time to create a mobile-specific website has never been better. The goMobi Mobile Website Builder and Setup Assistant allows you to create a site with smaller screens, smartphones and tablets in mind, enabling you to more easily engage mobile website visitors with a customized browsing experience.

“With search engines like Google indicating that Mobile is an upcoming trend webmasters should be aware of, the time to jump on the bandwagon is now,” proclaimed Tim Attwood, Product Manager at myhosting.com. “Mobile users interact with search results and websites differently than desktop users, and with the mobile segment growing every day, every SMB or Website Owner should be thinking about grabbing their slice of that pie.”

By 2013 it is expected that more internet users will go online using smartphones and mobile devices than on traditional computers and laptops. And already more than half of all local searches are performed from mobile devices, with mobile searchers taking action as a result of the search results. With myhosting.com and a newly created goMobi Mobile Website, the time to take advantage of the trend is now!

For more information, please visit http://myhosting.com/mobile-website-builder.

About myhosting.com
myhosting.com is owned and managed by SoftCom Inc., a privately held company headquartered in Toronto, Canada. Founded in 1997, SoftCom provides reliable and cost effective Email and Web Hosting services to more than 10 million customers with support of 26 languages in 140 countries worldwide. The myhosting.com name and the logo are registered trademarks of SoftCom Inc.

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Now in its fifth year, the event is set to surpass last year’s record attendance of 2,541 visitors. The free to attend conference will be visited by leading technology providers and buyers from across the data centre sector. A survey undertaken at the show last year found that that 38% of visitors planned to spend over £1m annually on data centre products and services – representing almost £1billion of potential business for exhibitors and attendees.

The conference will also provide visitors with panel discussions, case studies and presentations on the latest issues affecting the data centre. These will be given across three conference theatres; ‘Virtualisation and the Cloud’, ‘IT and Management’ and ‘Infrastructure and Facilities’. A total of 48 sessions are scheduled to take place, with keynote speakers from the world’s leading data centre technology companies including:

• IBM, Steve Strutt: Innovation in IT reduces energy costs
• Microsoft, Simon May: Managing your cloud
• Hitachi Data Systems, Francois Zimmermann: Transforming the data centre to the information centre
• Yahoo, Chandrashekar Naik: Challenges and automations for managing large storage systems
• Interxion, Dr. Graeme Creasey: Data centre sustainability and operational excellence
• Ark, Ian Bitterlin: Trends in high efficiency data centre M&E designs

With many companies starting to implement green technologies to coincide with the launch of the government’s CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme, strategies for implementing such technologies are likely to be high on most business agendas this year. Visitors to last year’s show stated that they were interested in purchasing in the following segments: cooling and power management (58%), design and build (38%), servers (32%) and security products (30%), underlining the wide breadth of opportunities available at the show.

Thomas Pavel, director channel sales EMEA, LSI: “The continuing growth in data driven by smartphones, tablets and cloud-based services is taxing today’s infrastructure and changing how data centres are built. Networking and storage solutions that deliver greater intelligence, flexibility and performance while accelerating applications are key to the next generation of data centres. Data Centre World provides an excellent platform for everyone to discuss the latest technologies, as well as the tools and knowledge they are implementing to drive data centres forward.”

Daniel Lowe, managing director for managed data at Six Degrees Group, who will be attending the show, comments: “Data Centre World provides the ideal forum for end users, resellers and operators to interact and discuss the trend towards data centre convergence.”

John Hatcher, Data Centre World conference director, said: “The record number of exhibitors at this year’s show highlights the growing importance of the data centre industry in the midst of an economic recession. The volume of data processed and stored in data centres continues to increase at a rapid pace, which brings new cooling, virtualisation and utilisation technologies into a new and sharper focus. With the most comprehensive collection of data centre experts in the UK now registered, this is an event that shouldn’t be missed by anyone in the industry.”

Exhibitors wanting to follow the latest show news can join the press, analysts and key industry figures who follow the show at @DataCentreWorld. By using the #dcwexpo hash tag, exhibitors can ensure their news is included in the all discussions relating to the conference.

About Data Centre World 2012
Data Centre World is the UK’s largest dedicated data centre event, now in its fifth year. This free to attend conference helps data centre managers and professionals plan, implement and manage their existing and future data centre requirements.

Data Centre World 2012 will take place on the 29th February – 1st March at the Olympia in London. To register or for additional information please visit www.datacentreworld.com

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