>>During his "Mad Money Lightning Round" on Thursday evening, Jim Cramer briefly addressed his concerns about the data center industry:
Equinix (EQIX): "A server play ... I would be a seller of EQIX because I don't think the data centers, the physical space, is going to grow the way people think."
DENVER, Jan. 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Catalyst Repository Systems, Inc. (www.catalystsecure.com), the pioneer in providing cloud-based document repositories for e-discovery and other complex legal matters, today announced the opening of its Asia data center. The full-featured, high-security data center—housed in the Equinix facility in the Shinagawa ward of central Tokyo—is designed to provide a safe haven for data for clients in Japan and throughout the Asia-Pacific region.
Recognized as the leader in true multi-language search and review, Catalyst has long supported international law firms and multinational corporations in matters involving complex "CJK" (Chinese, Japanese and Korean) data. The opening of the new data center adds to Catalyst's existing offices in Hong Kong and Tokyo and further expands the services and capabilities Catalyst offers throughout Asia.
"We understand that our clients conduct their businesses in multiple languages and we've made it our priority to provide the best technology to support them," said John Tredennick, Catalyst's founder and CEO. "As our operations in Asia continued to expand over the years, our clients asked us to enhance our physical presence in the region to better serve their needs. We established Catalyst Asia and opened the Tokyo data center in direct response to our clients."
"With more than a decade of experience under our belts, our in-house team and our partners have always provided local expertise on international matters," said Catalyst's Asia Managing Director Richard Kershaw. "Japan provides exceptional connectivity between Asia and North America, and has the strongest data protection laws in Asia. Our new data center provides the perfect tools and location to meet the changing expectations of courts both local and international."
A Complement to our Network of Trusted Partners
Throughout Asia, Catalyst has built a network of partnerships with trusted litigation support firms, staffed by experts in their respective jurisdictions. These partners welcomed the opening of the data center.
"Catalyst Japan Data Center will be a game-changer for the Japanese legal community," said Ted Fujisawa, CEO of Ji2 (www.ji2.com), a provider of computer forensics and litigation support in the U.S. and Japan. "Catalyst's capabilities to handle complex multi-national and multi-lingual litigation cases are the best in class and we believe that this new data center will greatly benefit enterprises and law firms in Japan by delivering lower cost and risk and improved speed & efficiency."
"By opening a data center in Asia, not only has Catalyst proven its commitment to the region, it has also brought to the region an e-discovery platform that truly supports Asian language," said Darren Cerasi, founder of I-Analysis (www.i-analysis.com.sg), a Singapore-based specialist in e-discovery, digital forensics and information management. "We have long held the view that clients based in Asia or who have their data in Asia are best served by working with Asia-based service providers."
In Hong Kong, Alan Jeffries, managing director of data forensics consulting firm D3 Forensics (http://d3forensics.com), commented, "We are very excited to enter into partnership with Catalyst as our exclusive vendor for secure hosting and review. Catalyst's multi-language, secure, hosting, processing and review platform allows us to be up and running fast."
Secure, Powerful Multi-Language Capabilities
As with Catalyst's U.S.-based data centers, the Tokyo facility is highly secure and is capable of powering the heart of the litigation lifecycle, from initial processing through search, review, production and trial. Catalyst's security has been vetted and approved by many of the most demanding organizations in the world, including banks, major software companies, insurers and the U.S. government for sensitive terrorist materials.
Catalyst was one of the first e-discovery companies to offer true multi-language capabilities. Its systems are optimized for the CJK languages, can handle both Unicode and non-Unicode pages, and is the only system to use full tokenization to allow language and locale selection in processing and search. Our capabilities have been tested and used by Japanese, Chinese, Taiwanese, Korean, Singaporean and Hong Kong based companies, in industries ranging from finance to high technology, software to logistics.
Catalyst also provides language experts to help clients search, analyze and review data in multiple languages, for US and local litigation and international arbitration.
„Wir haben Equinix aufgrund seiner hohen Qualitätsstandards und der globalen Hochverfügbarkeit ausgewählt“, erklärt Josef Glöckl-Frohnholzer, Geschäftsführer von BCC. „Die Partnerschaft ermöglicht uns ein breiteres Produktspektrum und verschafft uns einen besseren Stand im Managed-IT-Geschäft.“ Auf den Equinix-Plattformen bietet BCC ein ganzes Bündel an Managed IT Services an – angefangen beim Housing über Infrastructure as a Service bis hin zu Platform as a Service.
Equinix betreibt seine „International Business Exchange“ (IBX)-Rechenzentren in 35 Märkten in Nordamerika, Europa und Asien. Allein in Deutschland verfügt der RZ-Dienstleister über drei zentrale Datacenter-Standorte in Frankfurt, München, Düsseldorf und demnächst auch in Hamburg. Die Datacenter des US-amerikanischen Dienstleisters sind weltweit bis zu TIER 4 klassifiziert.
Equinix' data centers are increasingly being used to house the operations not just of trading firms, but exchange operators.
Thursday, BIDS Trading said it will deploy critical infrastructure for its alternate trading system into Equinix’s New York (NY4) International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data center. This was done to cut costs 40 percent, while increasing performance, according to Jim Lee, COO for BIDS Trading.
Deutsche Börse also said it will switch its trading engines to a Frankfurt-based data center owned by Equinix.
Direct Edge operates its two U.S. equity exchanges out of Equinix' NY4 data center in Secaucus, N.J.
A: Touch panel shipments will increase at a CAGR of 18.3% from 2009-2013. The small- to medium-size segment (under 10 inches but including 10-inch tablet devices) and the large-size segment (10-inch and above, but excluding 10-inch table devices) will see a CAGR of 18.8% and 6.9% respectively in the period. In terms of shipment value, the overall CAGR will be 15.7%, while the small- to medium-size and large-size segments will have a CAGR of 18.6% and 7.5% in the period.
The surge of tablet market, coupled with strong growth of smartphone sales means in 2011, for the first time, sales of personal computers will represent less than half of total computing device market, Deloitte said.
"2011 marks the tipping point," it said.
Deloitte forecast for smartphone sales to reach 375 million devices in 2011 and tablet market to reach 50 million. Combined sales of desktops, laptops and netbooks would be 390 million devices, it said.
HONOLULU--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), a provider of global data center services, and OpSource, Inc., the leader in enterprise cloud and managed hosting solutions, today announced an agreement to deliver enterprise-class cloud and managed hosting solutions to Equinix’s ecosystem of more than 3,700 customers across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. OpSource becomes part of Platform Equinix™, which combines business ecosystems and a global footprint of state-of-the-art IBX® (International Business Exchange) data centers for enabling companies such as OpSource to accelerate business growth.
“During the past two years, the introduction of cloud computing offerings has radically accelerated innovation in the hosting market”
Through a combination of co-marketing, joint solution development and training, OpSource will provide cloud and managed hosting solutions to Equinix’s ecosystem; in turn, Equinix will enable OpSource to deliver on rising end-user performance expectations by deploying its assets and services closer to customers with targeted geographical distribution to improve network performance and application response time. Additionally, Platform Equinix facilitates a faster path to revenue growth by enabling OpSource to leverage joint customers for expanded wallet share across Equinix’s 35-market footprint, while providing access to new customers.
“During the past two years, the introduction of cloud computing offerings has radically accelerated innovation in the hosting market”, said Lydia Leong, research vice president for Gartner. “Many of the use cases that IT buyers are considering when evaluating cloud service models require enterprise-class solutions, including high levels of availability, performance, security, and flexibility. Partnerships can significantly expand the options available to IT buyers, especially where hybrid offerings are desired.”
Increasing digitization and the influx of cloud applications are driving demand for hosted services. OpSource provides cloud and managed hosting solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to accelerate growth and scale operations while controlling costs and reducing IT infrastructure support risks.
“By leveraging Platform Equinix, OpSource is able to offer its cloud and hosting offerings into new markets by tapping into our carrier-rich ecosystem for new business opportunities,” said Vince DiMemmo, General Manager, Cloud and IT Services, Equinix Inc. “Together, we offer customers the best of both worlds – a high performance global data center environment and access to enterprise-class cloud and managed hosting services that can be customized to address each organization’s unique application requirement.”
More than four hundred Software-as-a-Service ISVs, cloud platform providers, carriers and enterprises rely on OpSource's expertise, experience and agility to operate high-availability, business-critical hosting environments. OpSource Cloud is the first cloud computing solution to bring together the flexibility, availability and community of the public cloud with the security, performance and control the enterprise demands.
“We are pleased to expand our relationship to take full advantage of Platform Equinix,” said Treb Ryan, CEO of OpSource. “Together we are addressing the rising needs of SaaS, financial institutions and enterprises interested in building secure and low-latency hybrid cloud environments. Additionally, OpSource’s White Label Public Cloud program is a perfect fit for global carriers and service providers looking to launch high-performance public cloud services.”
Gain insight on how monitoring tools implemented at Equinix facility improved collaboration between IT and Facilities professionals. Learn how Equinix was able to collect real time information on power, temperature, IT Load and energy utilization. This case study will walk you through Equinix’s process of selecting the right monitoring solution that met their business goals, indentifying what information to gather, analyzing the information collected, and the benefits of implementing the monitoring solution.
Deutsche Börse will switch its trading engines to a Frankfurt-based data center owned by Equinix, a global provider of data center services. The move will provide faster trading services to high-frequency traders who use computer-based algorithms to power trading strategies.
"There will be one single hub for all the trading systems of Deutsche Börse and the financial community," said Matthias Kluber, executive vice president and head of networks and infrastructure at Deutsche Börse Systems. "It is a bit like the floor of the old days but it is computers rather than people who are now talking to each other under one roof."
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Sources at Deutsche Börse said the exchange's Xetra cash market will move first in the summer to the Equinix data center, which will have completed a 12 million euro upgrade of its Frankfurt site.Russian phone blogger Eldar Murtazin got his hands on the phone.
Murtazin also describes the X7 as a gaming device.
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