Griffin Capital has purchased AT&T Wireless' National Network Operations Center in Redmond, Washington, the company said recently. The property also houses AT&T Wireless' next-generation research and development labs.

Networking startup Nicira today unveiled its Network Virtualization Platform (NVP), along with an impressive lineup of companies using its product. Nicira was founded by key players in the development of the OpenFlow protocol for software-defined networking.

What's the state of the modular market? Five years after the debut of the Blackbox, we look at who is using modular data centers, the potential market, and what the analysts foresee for the future of modular design.

Officials in Nebraska are seeking to pass a package of economic incentives to land a huge data center known only as "Project Edge," which could result in a $1.2 billion data center campus.

This week's Industry Perspectives columns come from Dell's Travis Vigil, Kent Christensen of Datalink, and Bhavesh Patel of Emerson Network Power.

Colocation America ? Data Center Services

Founded in 2000, Colocation America Corp. provides colocation, dedicated server, and SEO hosting services at competitive priced. Formed by a group of senior network engineers, Colocation America has grown to become one of the most reliable colocation hosting providers nationwide. Built from the ground up with a vision of delivering a fully integrated, swearing hosting service, the Colocation America Corporation has earned a reputation for its customer service and commitment to the latest data center technology. With its corporate office in Las Vegas, Nevada, Colocation America leverages 22 data centers in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, New Jersey and New York in order to meet its clients’ needs on a national level. Each data center employs a dedicated team of trained engineers that is available 24/7/365.

Colocation America’s state-of-the-art data centers are optimized for guaranteed uptime and superior server performance.As server hardware evolved over the past decade, Colocation America has responded by focusing on investing in new hardware and by maintaining the highest training standards. Data center engineered employed by Colocation America have over five years of experience and industry-leading certifications. As the company continues to grow, Colocation America is dedicated to ensuring that its senior engineer continue to maintain industry leading service quality standards, and to strengthening the company’s reputation for reliability. Features and Benefits of Hosting with Colocation America:• High-Performance Equipment – Built on top of the line hardware, our dedicated server hosting box offer the power to drive an online business without sacrificing flexibility, scalability or reliability.• Higher Availability – With no other clients on the same server slowing it down, greater level of speed, reliability and uptime can be achieved.• Hardened Security – Flexible security and control features allows client to set the individual accounts access and privilege levels for a more secure server hosting environment.• Complete Control – Clients have control over the Installation options of essential internet protocols, web services and custom software applications.• Easily Scale Your Business – Dedicated server and colocation packaging offering a clear path to upgrading, letting businesses scale its hosting plan on an as-needed basis.Los Angeles Colocation With an ongoing investment in providing reliable uptime and hardware support, Colocation America operates its main Los Angeles datacenter in the “One Wilshire” building. Centrally located in the heart of California’s technology corridor, the One Wilshire data center is optimized for connectivity to near every major fiber optic provider along the Wilshire Corridor. This strategical location gives Colocation America the ability to scale data transmission according to clients’ specific hosting needs. The One Wilshire data center provides unmediated connection to unmediated or managed connections with conducting data backbone providers, such as Savvis, Level 3, Above Net and Wiltel, therefore Colocation America can hook clients strong-growing pricing and unmediated data connection access at incredibly tight rates. All of this speed and flexibility means that we are capable to see enterprise-level hosting needs as good as function entrepreneurs, startups, and little businesses.Supplementing Colocation America’s premium hardware and connectivity is its industry-conducting managed and support services. With in-house network engineers undergone in licking hardware and software configuration issues, Colocation America offers committed support for businesses of all sizes and in nigh all industries who desire to be strategically located in one of the better data center locations in Los Angeles. Dedicated Server Hosting with Colocation America Colocation America has committed server specials that render clients with all the flexibility and reliability of a premier server hosting plan — at a much lower cost. With a variety of low-priced hosting plans, Colocation America can accost immaculate IT infrastructure, outstanding security, and lightning tight internet connections to nigh any organization aiming to prosper in today’s competitory business environment. Colocation America will fain tally any publically advertised price from a competitor for indistinguishable products or services. 

Week in Review: Facebook's $1 billion network, SeaMicro servers get brawny with Xen chips, Amazon cloud stores 762 billion objects, SuperNAP featured on CBS Evening News, inside IO's modular data center assembly line.

AFCOM will present its Data Center World conference March 18-22 at the Mirage Hotel and Event Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. The conference promises to help seasoned data center and facilities management professionals gain crucial insight into how they can improve operations.

Opengata Data Systems opens Silicon Valley Office, ATI picks Phoenix NAP for disaster recovery, heathcare software solutions firm RcordQuest selects Immedion for managed services.

HP announces OpenFlow-enabled switches, Cray supercomputers now available starting at $200,000, UPS Limited expands PowerWave 6000 line of UPS systems.