Sanofi joins Platform Equinix.  Equinix (EQIX) announced that Sanofi, a global and diversified healthcare leader, has consolidated its data center operations in Asia-Pacific from six data centers into just one Equinix data center. Sanofi will use the Equinix International Business Exchange (IBX) data center to support business operations from a private cloud in order to provide a stable operating environment with higher levels of collaboration and performance. The 10GB dark fiber connectivity and high power density of up to 8kVA allows Sanofi to deploy a full range of software and business critical applications to its offices from a single location within Asia-Pacific. “We are pleased to have Sanofi join Platform Equinix and help the company to accelerate business collaboration while maintaining a competitive edge in the healthcare industry,” said Samuel Lee, president, Equinix Asia-Pacific..” This clearly demonstrates our capabilities to provide a high level of professional service and connectivity to customers across a wide range of industry verticals. Sanofi can further benefit with access to Equinix Marketplace, which allows businesses to create custom profiles, search for and discover new service providers and partners.”

Power Assure receives $1 million investment.  Power Assure announced that Dominion Energy Technologies, Inc., has invested $1 million in the company, joining ABB Technology Ventures, Good Energies, Point Judith Capital and Draper Fisher Jurvetson as investors in Power Assure. Dominion’s investment completes a $14.5 million round of series B financing, and brings the grand total of funds raised to $29.75 million. The additional funding will be used to expand Power Assure’s sales and marketing for continued growth of its data center infrastructure and energy management solutions. Dominion is the primary electric utility in northern Virginia, where data centers are major consumers of electricity. “Not only is Dominion one of the largest power companies in the country, they are also leading in the area of smart grid innovation,” said Brad Wurtz, president and CEO, Power Assure.  ”In order to help our customers connect to the smart grid and take advantage of the many revenue-generating services offered by the Independent System Operator’s (ISO’s), we have found a partner who can bring the skills and resources needed to execute quickly. Dominion has shown a determination to stay on the cutting edge.”

Radware announces fabric for ITaaS economy.  Radware (RDWR) announced the next phase of its Virtual Application Delivery Infrastructure (VADI) strategy featuring new application delivery controller (ADC) platforms, enhanced data center management and orchestration interoperability, complete support for leading hypervisors, and new AppShape technology to provide the industry’s first application delivery fabric. By implementing Radware ADC Fabric within virtual data centers and replacing traditional ADCs with vADC instances, IT managers can now assign a vADC instance per application, department or customer, essentially creating a fully virtualized application silo. Radware also announced AppShape, a new ADC Service for simplifying and optimizing application deployment with a holistic view from the application perspective. ”Radware recognizes not only the technological, but also the economic demands placed on enterprise and carrier data centers today,” said Avi Chesla, chief technology officer, Radware. “Through our VADI strategy, we now introduce a new application delivery abstraction layer technology which allows organizations to shape our application delivery tools to meet exactly their business needs, removing traditional complexities of ADC administration associated with networking, computing resources, high availability, security and more – letting companies to really focus only on their business’ application.

Savvis completes SSAE 16.  Savvis, a CenturyLink company announced that it has completed its annual Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements (SSAE) No. 16 and International Standard on Assurance Engagements (ISAE) 3402 combined examination. The SSAE 16 Type II SOC 1 report encompasses selected Savvis systems and the suitability of the design and operating effectiveness of applicable controls. ”Completing the SSAE 16 requirements reflects our commitment to our clients and international security and control standards,” said Jeff Von Deylen, senior vice president, global operations and client services for Savvis. “This reinforces to our clients that we have the highest standards of processes, controls and procedures in place and can safely manage their IT needs.”

Emerson Network Power, an Emerson (EMR) business announced the details of its use of Oracle Fusion Middleware in the development of the Trellis platform.  The Trellis platform is a combination of Oracle Fusion Middleware’s Application Integration Architecture and components, and Emerson’s expertise in data center systems. The middleware allows a common language to be used between the many applications and systems managed by Trellis and gives scalability to handle the huge amounts of data that must be consolidated and analyzed to provide real-time visibility and control. “The challenge data center managers face today is that current generation systems do not have the ability to understand what is happening in the complex critical infrastructure and why,” said Steve Hassell, president of Emerson Network Power’s Avocent business. “Our experience in servers, power, cooling, infrastructure management software, services and embedded firmware technologies that span IT and facilities’ domains, combined with the power of Oracle Fusion Middleware, has enabled us to create a game-changing data center management platform that allows our customers to maximize data center availability, capacity and efficiency.”

Savvis launches Symphony cloud-based Database.  Savvis, a CenturyLink company (CTL) announced the launch of Savvis Symphony Database, a cloud-based database platform. Announced at OpenWorld 2011 it  brings the advantages of cloud computing to Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server environments. Selecting from Oracle Enterprise 11G RAC or Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 users can provision everything needed for a complete database solution with just a few clicks. ”Symphony Database offers the agility that enterprises require of their database solutions, including the ability to burst both performance levels and infrastructure to accommodate the varying demands placed on the database environment,” said Brent Juelich, senior director, managed services at Savvis. “Unlike traditional database offerings, Symphony Database does not require hardware provisioning and software licensing, freeing enterprises from long-term contracts and expenses.”

EMC unveils Oracle best practices.  EMC announced a new EMC Proven Solution as well as a best practices white paper developed by EMC IT that can help dramatically improve Oracle customers’ database performance and accelerate their journey to the cloud. The white paper shows that after deploying the EMC Greenplum Data Computing Appliance (DCA) EMC IT achieved up to 13X faster queries and decreased data load times from six days to just 29 minutes. They also noted that a new IDC user survey names EMC the leading provider of storage technology in Oracle and other mission critical environments. The new EMC Proven Solution doubles the performance of Oracle Database 11g RAC, running OLTP workloads in both physical and VMware vSphere virtual environments, utilizing Oracle Direct NFS on EMC VNX unified storage with the FAST Cache technology. EMC Chairman and CEO, Joe Tucci, and President and COO of Information Infrastructure Products, Pat Gelsinger gave an OpenWorld 2011 keynote Monday about using the cloud to transform IT infrastructure, applications and end-user device layers.

Savvis details 2011 expansions and openings.  Savvis, a CenturyLink company (CTL), announced its schedule of North American data center expansions and grand openings for the second half of 2011. In response to growing demand Savvis will open data centers in Seattle and Piscataway, N.J., and complete expansions in existing Savvis data centers in Atlanta, Boston and Toronto. ”As enterprises move steadily toward a more flexible IT infrastructure strategy, they can benefit from Savvis’ total commitment to reliability, broad range of services and exceptional network expertise,” said Brian Klingbeil, general manager, hosting business at Savvis. Expansions will include an additional 25,400 square feet in Atlanta, 27,150 square feet in Seattle, 13,500 square feet in Boston, 26,000 square feet in Piscataway, New Jersey and 5,500 square feet in Toronto.

Selerity selects Equinix(EQIX).  Selerity, a provider of real-time event data solutions for the financial services industry, today announced that it has colocated in the Equinix Frankfurt (FR2) datacenter to provide low-latency local access to its event data. Selerity adds Frankfurt on top of existing footprints in Equinix Chicago (CH1) and Secaucus, NJ (NY2).  “With the move into the FR2 datacenter, we are able to offer clients low-latency access to our event data without having to back-haul from its origination points in the U.S. We are pleased to expand our successful relationship with Equinix to gain global access and distribution,” said Ryan Terpstra, founder and CEO of Selerity.

Mind Candy selects The Bunker.  In one of the better press release headlines yet, Monsters Invade Nuclear Bunker, The Bunker announced that Mind Candy, creators of the Moshi Monsters game have selected The Bunker as its hosting partner to support its continuing growth.  “At Mind Candy we were seeking to expand our colocation infrastructure to improve our availability & scalability as the company grows,” said Ian Trayler, Network Operations Manager. “We had dozens of requirements and after talking to many data centre providers, The Bunker was the only one that ticked all the boxes. In a year, we could easily have 100 Million users and with some new exciting projects in the pipeline, the demand on our infrastructure is growing day by day. Working with The Bunker, we know we have the capacity to grow rapidly in a secure and reliable environment.”

Colt and BT sign access agreement. Colt announced they it has reached an agreement with BT Wholesale to allow customers to access content from Europe’s largest media market exchange at the BT Tower in London. Colt will provide UK broadcasters with access to key live dedicated and occasional use content from BT’s network of around 350 sports and news locations in the UK.  ”The broadcasting sector is currently going through a number of significant transformations with the onset of digitization, transition to high-definition services, convergence of IT networks and content delivery platforms, and the proliferation of devices consumers use, ” said Mark Webb, Business Development Manager, Media at Colt. “This agreement on top of Colt’s existing impressive broadcast specific service capability ideally position us to help our customers offer reliable, high quality content from sporting and news events to a wider geographic reach.” The agreement also allows Colt’s customers to transmit content to locations on the BT network outside of Europe, such as Hong Kong, Delhi, Sydney and numerous locations in the U.S.

Cisco acquires Versly. Cisco announced that it has acquired privately-held Versly.  Versly integrates collaboration capabilities via a plug-in into Microsoft Office applications, simplifying the way people work by enabling more effective collaboration around content in documents, spreadsheets, presentations and email. As one of Cisco’s top five priorities, collaboration is what Versly offers – directly in Microsoft Office applications. The acquisition will expand the Cisco collaboration architecture to change the way businesses work and Versley employees will be integrated into Cisco’s Collaboration Software Group (CSG). “With this acquisition we’re enhancing our collaboration offerings and improving the user experience by integrating social technologies within the business applications individuals and teams use at work,” said Murali Sitaram, vice president and general manager, Collaboration Software Group, Cisco. “Furthermore, the integration with Versly will drive productivity improvements for organizations and their knowledge workers, many of whom are among the 600 million Microsoft Office users.”

Savvis Symphony announces VPDC Premier. Savvis, now a CenturyLink company, announced a new Premier service profile for their Symphony VPDC (Virtual Private Data Center) enterprise-class cloud solution. As a top-tier service, the Symphony VPDC Premier combines a high degree of resource commitment and priority, security, redundancy, support and performance needed for large-scale, essential enterprise applications. With assurance of application performance on a continuous basis in the cloud, customers can optimize their infrastructure in many dimensions, including compute services, bandwidth, storage and security. Some of the attributes reserved for the Premier service include three-tier information life-cycle management, not being subject to CPU over-subscription scenarios, fully managed 24/7 virtual servers, and pooled, fixed server load balancers. ”From our survey of the cloud market, we don’t believe there is another provider that can offer the kind of robustness, dependability, efficiency and peace-of-mind represented in our Premier offering,” said Bryan Doerr, chief technology officer at Savvis. “The Premier option broadens the range of Symphony VPDC service profiles to meet evolving market demands and makes our public cloud applicable to service needs ranging from test/dev to turnkey virtual data centers.”

Viridity to incorporate Intel DCIM. Viridity Software announced that Intel Data Center Manager SDK will be incorporated into their EnergyCenter software. “The relationship with Intel and the addition of its technology into our EnergyCenter software is a critical next step as it provides the ability to communicate directly with the hardware and to expand the capabilities we can offer, as servers continue to become more sophisticated,” said Michael Tresh, Director of Product Management and Marketing at Viridity Software. “Simply put, Viridity can now provide customers with the ability to monitor and manage data center assets at a much more granular level, as well as offer a head-start on supporting and managing future technology.”

Embrane secures $18 million. Distributed software platform Embrane announced that it has received $18 million in Series-B financing, led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA). Embrane delivers the first distributed software platform that powers high-performance, elastic, virtual network services on-demand. Currently in Beta and set to launch later this year, Embrane will use the funding to continue to innovate in the area of virtual network services as well as to ramp up sales and marketing.  “While most of the attention around building cloud infrastructures has focused on virtualizing compute and storage, the network has been long overlooked,” said Pete Sonsini, partner at NEA. “Until now, the network has been far too rigid, expensive and limited in its ability to deliver multi-tenancy options at scale – particularly when it comes to network services. Embrane has tackled this and will enable both cloud service providers and enterprises to procure, provision, grow, and shrink network services on-demand.”

VMWare to acquire Digital Fuel.  VMware (VMW) announced its intention to acquire Digital Fuel, a leader in IT financial and business management SaaS solutions. Digital Fuel products enable transparent analysis of a range of IT financial metrics from physical and virtual systems to people and application costs to compute, storage, and networking resources, even when sourced from public cloud service providers. “New levels of financial visibility and control in cloud environments will enable CIOs to engage with the CFO, line of business stakeholders and others around how IT investments translate to real business value,” said Boaz Chalamish, VP and General Manager at VMware. “As an authority on helping organizations navigate the business operations of IT, Digital Fuel will add a significant capability to our portfolio, broadening beyond operational management to include business-centric capabilities.” This is the third acquisition for VMware in just a few months, following Shavlik Technologies and SlideRocket.

LayeredTech achieves PCI DSS 2.0.  Layered Technologies announced it is compliant with Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard 2.0 (PCI DSS). Layered Tech has provided PCI-compliant hosting and managed services before and are now compliant with DSS 2.0 requirements which look at additional guidance and evolving requirements to address emerging threats and changes in the market. To adhere to these extensive data security standards they offer PCI-compliant monitoring, vulnerability scans and change management processes to an advanced suite of network administration and server management services. “Layered Tech actively participates in the proceedings of the PCI Security Standards Council, and in addition to maintaining a continual state of compliance, we leverage our relationships with Qualified Security Assessors (QSAs) in the industry to ensure we have a solid understanding of changing evaluation requirements,” said Layered Tech President Brad Hokamp.

CenturyLink prices $2 billion of debt securities. To fund the payment of the cash portion of its pending acquisition of SAVVIS, CenturyLink has combined cash on hand along with the financing of approximately $2 billion in newly issued and senior notes. The funds will also go towards refinancing of the credit facility debt of SAVVIS and to pay fees and expenses incurred in connection with the merger. Barclays Capital Inc., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC are joint book-running managers for this offering.

SGI ships over 500 Altix UV systems. SGI announced that they have surpassed the milestone of having shipped over 500 SGI Altix UV high performance computing (HPC) systems since it began commercial delivery in June 2010. Numerous government agencies and universities around the world are listed as customers, with one of the most recent systems being ordered by LRZ, the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre in Munich.  The SGI Altix x86 platform allows scaling up to 256 physical cores and 2 terabytes of memory.  SGI announced that they will be unveiling groundbreaking solutions next week at the 2011 International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany.

CenturyLink, Inc. said today that it has agreed to acquire Savvis, Inc. for $2.5 billion in cash and stock in a deal that will boost the telco’s capabilities in managed hosting and cloud computing. CenturyLink’s offer values Savvis (SVVS) at $40 a share, an 11 percent premium to Tuesday’s closing price of $36.02.

CenturyLink is the third-largest telecom company in the U.S., having just completed an acquisition of Qwest. The transaction continues the consolidation in the managed hosting and cloud computing space, following deals in which Terremark and NaviSite were acquired by Verizon and Time Warner Cable, respectively.

Savvis Focus of Deal Speculation

Savvis (SVVS) has been widely rumored as a takeover target since shortly after the Verizon-Terremark deal was announced in January. In early March the company denied reports that it had hired an investment banker.

Under terms of the deal, Savvis stockholders will receive $30 per share in cash and $10 in shares of CenturyLink common stock. CenturyLink (CTL) will assume debt of approximately $700 million, placing the net value of the deal at $3.2 billion.

Buying Savvis will accelerate CenturyLink’s ability to offer managed hosting and cloud services to its business customers. The combined company will operate 48 data centers located in North America, Europe, and Asia with more than 1.9 million square feet of gross floor space. It would also have a 207,000 route mile fiber network and a 190,000 mile global access network.

‘Global Scale in a High-Growth Sector’

“The transaction creates a premier managed hosting and colocation provider with global scale in a high growth sector, and is expected to be accretive to revenue growth and cash flow per share,” said Glen Post, III, CenturyLink chief executive officer and president. “Today, businesses are shifting the way they manage their information technology services and infrastructure, and this transaction helps us meet these needs by offering Savvis’ leading products and services coupled with CenturyLink’s network. We look forward to working with the Savvis team to leverage CenturyLink’s significant scale and scope to fully realize the potential of Savvis’ capabilities for our combined customers, while also enhancing value for our shareholders and providing opportunities for our employees.”

“As migration to cloud-based services continues to accelerate rapidly, a strategic combination was a natural choice to create significant scale and become part of a large global network for the benefit of our customers, stockholders and employees,” said James Ousley, chairman and chief executive officer of Savvis. “We believe that combining our proven capabilities in cloud infrastructure and managed hosting with CenturyLink’s hosting assets and large base of business customers will create powerful opportunities to accelerate growth. We also look forward to making the full resources of a much larger network infrastructure available to our customers.”

CenturyLink expects to realize approximately $70 million in annual operating cost and capital expenditure synergies.
CenturyLink anticipates integrating its hosting business and Savvis’ managed hosting and cloud services into a single CenturyLink business unit. This integrated hosting business will be based in St. Louis and led primarily by key members of the Savvis leadership team, including Savvis CEO Ousley, who will head the unit.

On Friday, PE Hub reported that Savvis had hired investment bank Qatalyst Partners as a financial adviser. When contacted for comment, Savvis responded via email. “We don’t comment on rumor and speculation,” a Savvis spokesman wrote in an email to PE Hub.

That stance changed this morning after the PE Hub report was picked up by other news outlets (including Data Center Knowledge). Savvis CEO Jim Ousley is now firmly denying that Savvis has reached an agreement with San Francisco-based Qatalyst. “We have not had any discussions with Qatalyst, not a single one,” Ousley said in an interview with Dow Jones Newswires. “We have no idea where that rumor came from. We’ve never talked to those people.”

PE Hub had cited three sources that said Savvis had hired Qatalyst, while one source said it isn’t “definitive.” It’s not clear why Savvis declined to comment on the report Friday, only to issue an authoritative denial once trading had begun. Shares of Savvis jumped about 9 percent this morning on the speculation, reaching $36 a share after closing Friday at $33.23. Savvis currently trading at $34.02, up about 2 percent on the day. The company has a market capitalization of about $1.8 billion.

Ousley told DCK last month that the company is not in active sale talks, but said he hopes the Verizon-Terremark deal will raise awareness of the value of Savvis and the infrastructure sector.

“Bigger is Better”

“Our objective is to grow as rapidly as we can,” said Ousley. “The whole world is moving toward cloud services. It is a capital intensive and technical business where size and scope matter. Bigger is better. Clearly, there will be more consolidation in the sector. We either acquire or get acquired, and right now we are in acquisition mode.”

Savvis subsequently announced plans to launch cloud computing services in India through a partnership with Bharti airtel, and expand its data center facilities in Atlanta, Seattle and Piscataway, N.J.

The company plans to add 15,000 square feet of space in Atlanta, 16,700  square feet of new space in Seattle, and 15,600 square feet of space in Piscataway in central New Jersey. The new space will come online in the third and fourth quarters of 2011, and Savvis expects to invest approximately $41 million in the expansions.

More Expansion to Come?

Savvis executives said the company is considering expansion in other markets as well. The company has allocated $69 million for capital expenditures for 2011, leaving about $28 million for additional capacity. Savvis CFO Gregory Freiberg said the company has “other projects that we’re evaluating but not yet ready to announce.”

That means the company’s 2011 data center deployment could exceed the 55,000 square feet of sellable data center space added during 2010, when the the company added space in northern New Jersey, northern Virginia, downtown Chicago and at a UK facility in Slough.  “All these were bolt-on expansions to existing locations,” said Savvis CEO Jim Ousley. ” Thus, we had a low average cost of approximately $1,100 per square foot.”

Revenue for the fourth quarter was $252.7 million, a 15 percent increase from $219.8 million in the fourth quarter of 2009. Adjusted EBITDA came at $67.8 million, compared to $54.9 million in the fourth quarter of 2009, a 24 percent growth rate compared to the same quarter last year.

For the full year, revenue was $933.0 million, up 7 percent when compared to full year 2009 revenue of $874.4 million, and adjusted EBITDA for 2010 was $236.2 million, up 7percent over the $220.0 million reported in 2009. The company also increased by ~15 bps its adjusted EBITDA margin, compared to 2009.

For a quick look at some of Savvis most important metrics in the last two years, you may refer to the attached spreadsheet, downloadable at this link.

Savvis Symphony line of cloud products, which is a part of its Managed Services offerings, achieved revenue of $15.2 million in 2010, up 106% over 2009 revenue of $7.4 million.

For 2011, Savvis expects to achieve revenue of $1,030 to $1,060 million, and Adjusted EBITDA of $265 to $290 million. CapEx is expected to range between $220 and $240 million.Colocation revenue was up both quarterly and annually in the fourth quarter, achieving a 5 percent growth in total 2010, compared to the previous year.

Data Center Knowledge contributor Paolo Gorgo contributed to this article. Paolo writes about the colocation and CDN sector at Nortia Research and Seeking Alpha.

TelecityGroup expands in the Docklands. TelecityGroup announced further capacity expansion in the UK. An additional 3 megawatts of capacity will be added to the Docklands facility in London, while TelecityGroup also announced a new 3.5 megawatt data center to be built in Manchester. Scheduled to open in the third quarter of 2011, the Manchester facility follows the recent acquisition of Internet Facilitators Limited.

Global Crossing acquires Genesis Networks.  Global Crossing (GLBC) announced that it has acquired global video services provider Genesis Networks. Including a $15 million debt repayment Global Crossing paid approximately $27 million for Genesis. Genesis Networks was founded in 2001 and is considered an innovator in the broadcast video over IP and satellite solutions market.  Technological innovations are driving the consumption of video through diverse media, such as online, mobile, and broadcast formats, making Genesis a strategic acquisition for Global Crossing,” said John Legere, CEO of Global Crossing.  Gained in the acquisition is the proprietary IRIS customer interface and a Manhattan network operations center for global network monitoring and management.  Global Crossing also announced third quarter 2010 results Monday. Revenue was reported at $648 million and free cash flow at a negative $1 million for the quarter.

Savvis expands access to trading platforms.  Savvis (SVVS) announced that they have reached an agreement with global interdealer broker ICAP to provide Savvis’ clients who are also authorized traders of EBS and BrokerTec with ultra-low latency direct access to the EBS foreign exchange (FX) and BrokerTec fixed-income trading platforms via ICAP’s premium i-Cross colocation service.  “Providing access to the EBS and BrokerTec trading platforms further enhances the connectivity options for the ecosystem of financial services participants in Savvis’ data centers,” said Varghese Thomas, global head of financial services for Savvis.

Oracle invests in Mellanox. Oracle (ORCL) announced that it has made a strategic investment in Mellanox Technologies (MLNX), a leading supplier of end-to-end connectivity solutions for servers and storage systems, to further align product vision and maximize partnership efforts. The Mellanox InfiniBand solution is seen in many enterprise and high performance computing data centers. “InfiniBand is by far the fastest and most efficient switch fabric for running enterprise data centers,” said Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. “Mellanox has been instrumental in maintaining InfiniBand’s immense competitive lead over Ethernet. We are a big supporter of the company and this investment based upon our belief in the InfiniBand technology and in the Mellanox management team.”

Savvis selected for GSA cloud storefront. Savvis (SVVS) Federal Systems announced that it has been awarded a contract by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) to provide cloud computing to federal, state, local and tribal government organizations. Savvis is one of just 11 vendors who were selected to provide Infrastructure-as-a-service solutions for Apps.gov. “We offer what mass market clouds cannot, from security architecture to service-level options to hybrid solutions,” said Bryan Doerr, chief technology officer at Savvis. “We look forward to providing government organizations with the same excellent cloud services and customer experiences that our enterprise clients have come to expect from Savvis.” Through Apps.gov, government agencies will be able to procure Savvis Symphony Virtual Private Data Center (VPDC), Savvis’ signature enterprise-class cloud computing services.

Nimsoft cloud readiness assessment tool. Nimsoft announced a new online diagnostic tool that enables clients to quickly assess their readiness for monitoring cloud environments, along with support for the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS). The online assessment tool aids in gauging existing cloud monitoring capabilities and challenges in order to make well-informed decisions about how to optimally manage their cloud environments. “Cloud computing offers organizations tremendous business value-but it also requires IT to adopt a whole new approach to management and operations,” said Gary Read, Nimsoft CEO. “Nimsoft is helping customers make this transition by providing IT teams with a practical way to quickly gauge how well-equipped they are to monitor the cloud and to determine where they need to address potential technology and process deficits.”

bwin extends Interxion relationship.  Interxion announced that bwin, an online gaming platform, has extended their data center requirements, taking additional space in Interxion’s Vienna data center as well as space in one of Interxion’s Paris data centers.  bwin requires connectivity, resilience, uptime and low latency in order to support over 30,00 bets a day across 90 sports in 22 languages and 25 core markets.  “After an in-depth market analysis, it quickly became clear that Interxion was ‘best-in-class’, offering the best selection of carriers, the best technical specifications, the best references and excellent know-how,” said Johannes Hobel, Head of IT Infrastructure & Operations Vienna at bwin.