US e-discovery firm Stratify opened a London data centre to provide support for electronic discovery and disclosure solutions.

Ramana Venkata, Chief Operating Officer of Iron Mountain Digital and founder of Stratify, said: "Iron Mountain and Stratify’s clients are located throughout the world, and they want access to our e-Disclosure and eDiscovery solutions and services nearer to where their data resides. We’ve listened and so Stratify’s new UK office and data centre expands our capabilities and resources available to UK and EU clients, and enhances our position as the global leader in ESI management.”

Stratify’s London office and data centre are managed and staffed by a team of lawyers and practice support professionals with more than 30 years of combined experience handling e-Disclosure in the UK and EU.

New data center is Liquid Web's third in the region

Hosting company Liquid Web launched a new data center and headquarters in Lansing, Mich., earlier this week, saying the facility will support the company's expansion into the cloud computing business.

Liquid Web expects to launch its cloud hosting offering – first product the company developed in-house – in the coming weeks, according to a statement. The company says the product (currently in the private beta testing stage) will compete with “some of the largest computer, software and Internet companies in the world.”

“Cloud hosting is a cost-effective, secure server solution for literally thousands of companies and organizations small to large that need to deploy a new server or need to increase the capacity of their current servers,” Liquid Web owner and founder Matthew Hill said in the statement.

The company said it invested about $80 million in the new 90,000-square-foot facility that will employ about 600 people. Th... Читать дальше »

It takes a lot of processing power to keep the digital economy humming. That’s why Visa Inc. (V) has opened a large new data center in the eastern United States, which the company called a “key milestone” in strengthening the disaster recovery capabilities for a global credit card operation that processes $4.3 trillion in transactions each year.

The new data center is a 370,000 square foot facility with more than 140,000 square feet of raised floor space. Visa did not disclose the location of the data center, which contains authorization engines that can process hundreds of millions of transactions daily at speeds of up to 10,000 transaction messages per second.

Visa’s new facility completes a global network of four data centers on three continents connecting more than 16,000 financial institutions. It also provides Visa with two “synchronized, secure and reliable data centers” in North America, which the company says are each capable of carrying Visa’s entire global payments volume in the event of a natural disaster or systems outage. The failover from one data center to another will be instant, the company says.

The additional capacity is driven by the growing worldwide migration away from cash and checks and towards electronic payments, which now account for 33 percent of global consumer spending. Visa said it expects the volume and complexity of transactions to continue to grow, parti... Читать дальше »