(Raleigh, N.C.) Hosted Solutions, the East Coast’s premier provider of enterprise-class managed hosting solutions, today announced that the company has more than doubled revenue from cloud computing-based solutions. (more…)

(Durham, N.C.) Freudenberg IT announced it is now an SAP-certified provider of cloud services. The internationally active IT service provider is one of the first SAP partners to receive SAP certification of its cloud services. As such, Freudenberg IT can operate its customers’ SAP applications in the dynamic environment of cloud computing. Freudenberg IT has designed its cloud services specifically for the requirements of SAP software. (more…)

(Richardson, Texas) CommScope, Inc., a global leader in infrastructure solutions for communications networks, will exhibit its next generation SYSTIMAX® iPatch® Intelligent Infrastructure Solution at HP Technology Forum 2010 at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada, June 21-24. As today’s enterprise businesses are strained by ballooning data complexity, CommScope’s hardware- and software-based SYSTIMAX iPatch solution delivers intelligence into the physical layer infrastructure and gives network managers in data center and enterprise environments a platform for controlling IT sprawl. (more…)

(Raleigh, N.C.) Hosted Solutions, the East Coast’s premier provider of IT infrastructure as a service (IaaS), today announced that the company will participate in the 2010 Triangle Game Conference (TGC) to be held this week in Raleigh. TGC is the leading East Coast event for developers and professionals working in the interactive entertainment and serious game industries. (more…)

(Cary, N.C. and Denver, Co.) FORTRUST, Colorado’s leading high-availability data center services provider and colocation facility, today announced a partnership agreement with Consonus, a leading data center hosting and Managed IT Services provider. This partnership enables each company’s customers to utilize both providers’ data center and colocation facilities for geographically diverse disaster recovery and business continuity options. (more…)

(Durham, N.C.) Freudenberg IT, the internationally active IT service provider, is launching operations at two new data centers simultaneously and expanding its capacity in the process. The Management Board of the Freudenberg Group has opened new data centers in the Weinheim, Germany and Durham, North Carolina, USA. This increases the total number of data centers to eleven that are now at the Group’s disposal in Europe, North America and Asia. The Group is preparing itself for already contracted and expected future growth with a total investment amounting to $38 million. The growing demand for IT outsourcing and application hosting services among small and medium-sized companies has necessitated this capacity expansion. “Our efforts are consistently focused on upgrading the services that we offer and internationalizing Freudenberg IT,” says Dr. Martin Stark, member of the Freudenberg Group’s Management Board. (more…)

(Charlotte, N.C.) Noted SQL Server expert, speaker and author, John Welch, has recently collaborated with 52 other Microsoft MVPs (Most Valuable Professionals) to produce a collective treatise entitled “SQL Server MVP Deep Dives.” The book shares the technical brain trust of an accomplished group of MVPs who reveal their own perspectives on SQL Server implementations. (more…)

(Hickory, N.C.) CommScope Enterprise Solutions, a division of CommScope, Inc. (NYSE:CTV), will showcase its new SYSTIMAX® InstaPATCH® 360 system at upcoming Datacenter Dynamics conferences. CommScope will feature the visionary solution at the Chicago conference, held Oct. 20 at the Hilton Chicago, and at the Dallas conference, held Dec. 10 at the Renaissance Hotel in Richardson, Texas. (more…)

(Fayetteville, N.C.) NCI, Inc. (NASDAQ:NCIT), a leading provider of information technology (IT), engineering, and professional services and solutions to U.S. Federal Government agencies, is pleased to announce a task order award with a potential value of approximately $4.2 million if all options are exercised. The Fort Bragg Data Centers Infrastructure task order is new work for NCI and consists of a base period and option periods from September 2009 through July 2010. This competitively awarded task order complements NCI’s $48.9 million FORSCOM BRAC task order announced previously in September 2009. (more…)

(Cary, N.C.) Consonus Technologies announced they will be hosting two free events for IT professionals focused on virtualization strategies that optimize data center performance, cost savings and operational flexibility. The “Transform Your Data Center” events are featuring Consonus and industry experts including presenters and demonstrations from HP, NetApp, Hitachi Data Systems, SUN Microsystems, Symantec and VMWare. The events are designed for IT Managers, System Architects and other IT professionals responsible for Virtualization and Technology evaluations. (more…)

Industry News

(Richardson, Texas) Data centers—the backbone of most organizations’ computing and networking capabilities—are increasingly viewed as critical business priorities and, despite the current economic climate, receiving on-going investments to improve performance and reliability. According to the new Global Data Center Survey commissioned by CommScope, with contributing sponsors Brocade, Eaton and Intel, almost a third (32%) of all organizations surveyed worldwide are planning or building new data centers, while more than four out of five (83%) existing data centers continue to receive investment for infrastructure and technology projects. In the backdrop of the current economic environment, almost two thirds (65%) of respondents were required to demonstrate a specific return on the investment before their data center projects were approved. (more…)

(Apex, N.C.) NCTechNews, North Carolina’s technology news source, is accepting submissions from business and organizations to be listed in the publication’s North Carolina Technology Resources Guide. (more…)