BT to splash out $27 million on new datacenter
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(InfoWorld) - British telecom giant BT Group will spend Â£14 million ($27 million) over the next seven years on a new south London datacenter to strengthen its hosting and management services, the company said Thursday. The 930-square meter facility, which will have biometric security features, should be complete by September and has additional room for expansion, BT said. The company wants to grow its data services business by 20 percent a year with an emphasis on enterprise, public sector and financial services customers. BT estimates the data services market is worth Â£5.2 billion in Europe. BT is revamping many of its 70 data centers across the U.K., said Rajiv Abeysinghe, BT's data center transformation manager, at a conference in London on Wednesday hosted by Intel. Customers are asking for the ability to architect and host applications within BT datacenters, he said. BT is also looking to maximize its return on investment in datacenters, looking at ways to cope with power requirements with an eye toward renewable energy. The company said it reduced its carbon emissions by 60 percent between 1996 and 2006, and is working to up that figure to 80 percent by 2016. BT is asking vendors to make products with wider limits on temperature, humidity and air-quality, which could allow for more utility savings, Abeysinghe said. The company is increasing the ratio of applications on each of its servers' CPUs (central processing units) while also looking at virtualization technology. BT would like to increase its CPU virtualization rate from around 7 percent to 10 percent to 80 percent. "Virtualization can provide us with greater efficiency," Abeysinghe said. Â
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British Telecom will acquire Infonet Services in a deal worth US$965 million, BT Group said on Monday. The telecommunications giant said its acquisition of the network service provider will create cost savings
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BT is spending Â£260m to create a new hi-tech communications network in Northern Ireland, the BBC learns.
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By Anna Marie Kukec  AT&T Inc. is expected to announce today that it will open a new Internet Data Center this week in Oak Brook.  The center, which hosts Web sites and other data for businesses, joins a similar center in Lisle - the only two in the Chicago area.
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BT Group Plc will buy Infonet Services  Corp. for $965 million in cash, giving the UK's top fixed-line  telecoms company 1,800 multinational corporate clients and an  expanded presence in the United States and Asia.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Wachovia Corp. is planning a $400 million data center in Birmingham that will anchor a 337-acre technology park.
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Telecoms operator BT Group said it had agreed to buy Californian voice and data network service provider Infonet Services Corp for 965 million dollars (520 million pounds).
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IBM announced yesterday that it will invest US$250 million (S$425 million) over the next five years and employ 1,000 people in a new business unit to support products and services related to sensor networks.
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Ziff Davis - Industry analysts say there are many pluses to BT buying Infonet Services, including giving BT more resources to be a more effective global networking player.
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LONDON - BT Group, the British telecommunications company, said Monday that it&#39;s buying US-based Infonet Services in a deal that values Infonet at $965 million.
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Blueprint, in conjunction with BT, plan to launch a new service for hosting, managing and distributing digital music and related content online, which could substantially accelerate the growth of the market to the benefit of artists, record companies
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Britain's BT Group Plc  posted third-quarter core earnings in line with forecasts on Thursday and issued a strong outlook as it reported better-than-expected retail broadband additions.
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Britain&#39;s BT Group Plc (BT.L: Quote, Profile, Research) is hoping to make a dramatic return to the United States with a $1 billion acquisition of Californian telecoms group Infonet Services Corp.
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Britain's BT Group Plc BT.L is hoping  to make a dramatic return to the United States with a $1  billion acquisition of Californian telecoms group Infonet  Services Corp. IN.N, the Sunday Times newspaper reported.
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London will take part in IBM Canada&#39;s $35-million initiative to create regional centres selling technology services to small and mid-size companies.
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The high-speed broadband communications, storage, and MIPS processor chip maker said revenues are now expected to be between $71 million and $73 million.
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Lloyds TSB is gearing up to roll out one of the largest converged networks in Europe, a Â£500m 70,000 phone VoIP infrastructure linking all the bank&#39;s branches and cash points.