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(Gawkwire.com) –  In what could be a defining milestone in Indian entrepreneurial development domain – Grow VC, the ‘Virtual Silicon Valley’ software platform and world’s first-ever ‘Crowd-Funding’ and interaction platform for startups announced the launch of a local funding network in India, in association with Springboard Ventures – an ensemble of experts dedicated to promoting start-ups. Based around the same model as the existing global funding network Grow VC offers, the Indian local funding network will be the first of many “local” networks the company looks to launch within its wider global network in the coming months. Grow VC’s community platform for entrepreneurs who are looking to grow their early stage startups through the “crowd-funding” has already gathered considerable interest with hundreds of new sign-ups each month and active participation of  investors, startup service providers, advisors and entrepreneurs within the online community.
 
Grow VC works to create a “Virtual Silicon Valley” community and develop new models for more efficient early phase funding. Grow VC just announced the Virtual VC Co-investment Fund to enable VC’s to participate in Grow VC’s seed investments. IndiaCo a leading investment management firm from India is the first partner to come aboard the fund and has committed to invest $5 million to the virtual fund will pave the way for other VC’s to join the fund. The local network in India will be spearheaded by Springboard Ventures creating a tailored network suited to Indian needs and culture.
 
The launch of Grow VC India will pave the way for many ‘firsts’ in the innovative start-ups domain within the country as pointed out by Satish Kataria – Managing Director at Springboard Ventures. “It would be the first ever single platform to bring together the various entities which revolve around the creation and growth of start-ups while allowing them all to interact and work together with each-other. Besides uniting angel investors and entrepreneurs, this platform offers a first-time opportunity to various experts and consultancies to now come forward and offer their services to start-up community through innovations such as ‘Service Investments’.“ says Satish. This will essentially help enhance the ‘funnel’ or ‘bandwidth’ of support to Indian entrepreneurs bringing into the system not just funders, but experts, advisors and other resources which can help create and grow successful start-ups.
 
Indeed, as a significant start towards this journey of bringing all key Indian entities together, Indian Angel Network – India’s first and largest network of Angel Investors – having more than 125 members throughout the country, have agreed to associate with Grow VC India – in order to further strengthen and boost Indian start-up eco-system.
 
“We see that India is very important market for Grow VC, because it has a strong entrepreneurial culture and also nowadays, more investors that are interested in investing in local but also international companies”, says Jouko Ahvenainen Founder & Chairman at Grow VC. “India also has a lot of experience in crowd-funding and other innovative finance models. We have already now seen a lot of Indian users also in our global service.” he adds. Local networks will play an important role in Grow VC’s strategy to build a strong global start-up funding community and the company aims to offer options and freedom to its users allowing them to operate on a local level or operate on a global level too if they choose to.
 
Speaking on further developments of the Grow VC India network, Springboard Ventures is already in talks with other leading angel investment networks who have expressed keen interest in participating on the platform. “Grow VC India would tap into different categories of start-ups setting in place self-sustainable groups within the larger platform each with its own set of domain-specific experts” states Saurabh Agarwal – Director at Springboard Ventures. “The larger base of participation will also lead to generation of a larger ‘Community Investment Pool’ which would become available to be invested in start-ups.” he adds. Besides the investment tools and advantages the model offers, Springboard Ventures will also offer host of ‘convenience’ services to the subscribers within the network enriching their engagement with start-ups and offering professional help.
 
With India having the innovative talent and technological capabilities present today the Grow Venture Community (Grow VC) India hopes to extend the support of investors, advisors, service providers and the entrepreneurial community in general much the way enjoyed by the community in the Silicon Valley for so many years. “With the support of a strong local network in place to back great ideas and assist in the growth of early stage start-ups we expect to see a lot more successful ventures come out of this potential goldmine of young talent.” says an optimistic Valto Loikanen Founder & CEO at Grow VC. “The next Google or YouTube can come out of India and with the right network of people working together to discover and nurture innovative start-ups, it could be sooner than you think”, Valto states.
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(The Hosting News) - Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: DLR), the world’s largest wholesale datacenter provider, announced today that it acquired two shell buildings totaling approximately 82,000 square feet located at 3105 & 3115 Alfred Street in Santa Clara, California. Combined, the buildings can support the development of six 1125 kW Turn-Key Datacenter® PODs totaling approximately 48,000 square feet of raised floor datacenter space.

“Combined with the acquisition of 1725 Comstock announced earlier this month, we can continue to incrementally build out and deliver Turn-Key space in Santa Clara to meet the strong demand in Silicon Valley for our datacenter product,” commented Scott Peterson, Senior Vice President of Acquisitions for Digital Realty Trust. “The buildings are strategically located on a single 4.2 acre parcel across the street from our Space Park campus, allowing us to achieve meaningful economies of scale as we expand our footprint in this important, supply-constrained market.

The Company plans to build out the six Turn-Key Datacenter PODs in two phases. Phase I is underway and includes Powered Base Building upgrades to the core and shell plus the construction of four 1125kW PODs at 3105 Alfred Street, a 50,000 square foot single story facility. The first POD is expected to come on line in the first quarter of 2011. Phase II consists of Powered Base Building upgrades and building out two 1125 kW Turn-Key Datacenter PODs at 3115 Alfred Street, a two-story building totaling 32,000 square feet.

Digital Realty Trust Turn-Key Datacenter facilities provide state-of-the-art environments for supporting mission critical infrastructure, with advanced cooling, power, redundancy, and sustainability features to ensure that critical applications are available while optimizing energy efficiency. Digital Realty Trust’s Turn-Key Datacenters are scalable from hundreds of kilowatts of IT Load to megawatts of IT load and are located in markets throughout North America and Europe. Each Turn-Key Datacenter facility is physically secure and features a state-of-the-art power and cooling architecture that has been optimized for green operation. Every Turn-Key Datacenter is built using the Company’s proprietary POD Architecture® and uses metered power to ensure that clients pay only for the power that they use.

Digital Realty Trust Acquires Datacenter Property in Silicon Valley

(The Hosting News) - Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: DLR), the world’s largest wholesale datacenter provider, announced today that it acquired two shell buildings totaling approximately 82,000 square feet located at 3105 & 3115 Alfred Street in Santa Clara, California. Combined, the buildings can support the development of six 1125 kW Turn-Key Datacenter® PODs totaling approximately 48,000 square feet of raised floor datacenter space.

“Combined with the acquisition of 1725 Comstock announced earlier this month, we can continue to incrementally build out and deliver Turn-Key space in Santa Clara to meet the strong demand in Silicon Valley for our datacenter product,” commented Scott Peterson, Senior Vice President of Acquisitions for Digital Realty Trust. “The buildings are strategically located on a single 4.2 acre parcel across the street from our Space Park campus, allowing us to achieve meaningful economies of scale as we expand our footprint in this important, supply-constrained market.

The Company plans to build out the six Turn-Key Datacenter PODs in two phases. Phase I is underway and includes Powered Base Building upgrades to the core and shell plus the construction of four 1125kW PODs at 3105 Alfred Street, a 50,000 square foot single story facility. The first POD is expected to come on line in the first quarter of 2011. Phase II consists of Powered Base Building upgrades and building out two 1125 kW Turn-Key Datacenter PODs at 3115 Alfred Street, a two-story building totaling 32,000 square feet.

Digital Realty Trust Turn-Key Datacenter facilities provide state-of-the-art environments for supporting mission critical infrastructure, with advanced cooling, power, redundancy, and sustainability features to ensure that critical applications are available while optimizing energy efficiency. Digital Realty Trust’s Turn-Key Datacenters are scalable from hundreds of kilowatts of IT Load to megawatts of IT load and are located in markets throughout North America and Europe. Each Turn-Key Datacenter facility is physically secure and features a state-of-the-art power and cooling architecture that has been optimized for green operation. Every Turn-Key Datacenter is built using the Company’s proprietary POD Architecture® and uses metered power to ensure that clients pay only for the power that they use.

Digital Realty Trust Acquires Datacenter Property in Silicon Valley

(The Hosting News) - Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: DLR), the world’s largest wholesale datacenter provider, announced today that it acquired two shell buildings totaling approximately 82,000 square feet located at 3105 & 3115 Alfred Street in Santa Clara, California. Combined, the buildings can support the development of six 1125 kW Turn-Key Datacenter® PODs totaling approximately 48,000 square feet of raised floor datacenter space.

“Combined with the acquisition of 1725 Comstock announced earlier this month, we can continue to incrementally build out and deliver Turn-Key space in Santa Clara to meet the strong demand in Silicon Valley for our datacenter product,” commented Scott Peterson, Senior Vice President of Acquisitions for Digital Realty Trust. “The buildings are strategically located on a single 4.2 acre parcel across the street from our Space Park campus, allowing us to achieve meaningful economies of scale as we expand our footprint in this important, supply-constrained market.

The Company plans to build out the six Turn-Key Datacenter PODs in two phases. Phase I is underway and includes Powered Base Building upgrades to the core and shell plus the construction of four 1125kW PODs at 3105 Alfred Street, a 50,000 square foot single story facility. The first POD is expected to come on line in the first quarter of 2011. Phase II consists of Powered Base Building upgrades and building out two 1125 kW Turn-Key Datacenter PODs at 3115 Alfred Street, a two-story building totaling 32,000 square feet.

Digital Realty Trust Turn-Key Datacenter facilities provide state-of-the-art environments for supporting mission critical infrastructure, with advanced cooling, power, redundancy, and sustainability features to ensure that critical applications are available while optimizing energy efficiency. Digital Realty Trust’s Turn-Key Datacenters are scalable from hundreds of kilowatts of IT Load to megawatts of IT load and are located in markets throughout North America and Europe. Each Turn-Key Datacenter facility is physically secure and features a state-of-the-art power and cooling architecture that has been optimized for green operation. Every Turn-Key Datacenter is built using the Company’s proprietary POD Architecture® and uses metered power to ensure that clients pay only for the power that they use.

Digital Realty Trust Acquires Datacenter Property in Silicon Valley

(The Hosting News) – Orem, UT – Lane Livingston, CEO of US-based Cloud computing firm NetHosting, , will be the company’s’ official represented at TechWeb’s premier cloud computing event, Cloud Connect.

The event will be held March 15th through the 18th in Silicon Valley, CA, opening with select pre-conference programs that include the Cloud Business Summit—an in depth discussion venue on funding, marketing, and investing in the cloud—and elite developer workshops.

Following the pre-conference programs, Mr. Livingston plans to attend all three days of the Cloud Computing Conference, during which time keynotes and panel discussions will cover a broad range of cloud-centric topics, such as: designs for cloud applications, code-writing, “cloudonomics,” public vs. private clouds, standardization, cloud security, and a great deal more.

“There is a wealth of knowledge to be gained at venues like Cloud Connect, which bring countless professionals together for a specialized purpose,” Mr. Livingston said in anticipation of the event. “In this case, that purpose is to define cloud computing as an emerging, and powerful, new technology, and to share the tools to enhance its application in all areas of business.”

Scheduled keynotes include presentations by Mark Prichard, Senior Principal Product Manager in the Java Platform Group of Oracle, Matt Thompson, General Manager of Microsoft’s developer and platform evangelism efforts, Ric Telford, VP of Cloud Services at IBM, and Scott Chasin, CTO of McAffee SaaS, to name only a few.

NetHosting CEO Attending Silicon Valley’s Cloud Connect Event

(The Hosting News) – Orem, UT – Lane Livingston, CEO of US-based Cloud computing firm NetHosting, , will be the company’s’ official represented at TechWeb’s premier cloud computing event, Cloud Connect.

The event will be held March 15th through the 18th in Silicon Valley, CA, opening with select pre-conference programs that include the Cloud Business Summit—an in depth discussion venue on funding, marketing, and investing in the cloud—and elite developer workshops.

Following the pre-conference programs, Mr. Livingston plans to attend all three days of the Cloud Computing Conference, during which time keynotes and panel discussions will cover a broad range of cloud-centric topics, such as: designs for cloud applications, code-writing, “cloudonomics,” public vs. private clouds, standardization, cloud security, and a great deal more.

“There is a wealth of knowledge to be gained at venues like Cloud Connect, which bring countless professionals together for a specialized purpose,” Mr. Livingston said in anticipation of the event. “In this case, that purpose is to define cloud computing as an emerging, and powerful, new technology, and to share the tools to enhance its application in all areas of business.”

Scheduled keynotes include presentations by Mark Prichard, Senior Principal Product Manager in the Java Platform Group of Oracle, Matt Thompson, General Manager of Microsoft’s developer and platform evangelism efforts, Ric Telford, VP of Cloud Services at IBM, and Scott Chasin, CTO of McAffee SaaS, to name only a few.

NetHosting CEO Attending Silicon Valley’s Cloud Connect Event

(The Hosting News) – Orem, UT – Lane Livingston, CEO of US-based Cloud computing firm NetHosting, , will be the company’s’ official represented at TechWeb’s premier cloud computing event, Cloud Connect.

The event will be held March 15th through the 18th in Silicon Valley, CA, opening with select pre-conference programs that include the Cloud Business Summit—an in depth discussion venue on funding, marketing, and investing in the cloud—and elite developer workshops.

Following the pre-conference programs, Mr. Livingston plans to attend all three days of the Cloud Computing Conference, during which time keynotes and panel discussions will cover a broad range of cloud-centric topics, such as: designs for cloud applications, code-writing, “cloudonomics,” public vs. private clouds, standardization, cloud security, and a great deal more.

“There is a wealth of knowledge to be gained at venues like Cloud Connect, which bring countless professionals together for a specialized purpose,” Mr. Livingston said in anticipation of the event. “In this case, that purpose is to define cloud computing as an emerging, and powerful, new technology, and to share the tools to enhance its application in all areas of business.”

Scheduled keynotes include presentations by Mark Prichard, Senior Principal Product Manager in the Java Platform Group of Oracle, Matt Thompson, General Manager of Microsoft’s developer and platform evangelism efforts, Ric Telford, VP of Cloud Services at IBM, and Scott Chasin, CTO of McAffee SaaS, to name only a few.

NetHosting CEO Attending Silicon Valley’s Cloud Connect Event

(The Hosting News) – Orem, UT – Lane Livingston, CEO of US-based Cloud computing firm NetHosting, , will be the company’s’ official represented at TechWeb’s premier cloud computing event, Cloud Connect.

The event will be held March 15th through the 18th in Silicon Valley, CA, opening with select pre-conference programs that include the Cloud Business Summit—an in depth discussion venue on funding, marketing, and investing in the cloud—and elite developer workshops.

Following the pre-conference programs, Mr. Livingston plans to attend all three days of the Cloud Computing Conference, during which time keynotes and panel discussions will cover a broad range of cloud-centric topics, such as: designs for cloud applications, code-writing, “cloudonomics,” public vs. private clouds, standardization, cloud security, and a great deal more.

“There is a wealth of knowledge to be gained at venues like Cloud Connect, which bring countless professionals together for a specialized purpose,” Mr. Livingston said in anticipation of the event. “In this case, that purpose is to define cloud computing as an emerging, and powerful, new technology, and to share the tools to enhance its application in all areas of business.”

Scheduled keynotes include presentations by Mark Prichard, Senior Principal Product Manager in the Java Platform Group of Oracle, Matt Thompson, General Manager of Microsoft’s developer and platform evangelism efforts, Ric Telford, VP of Cloud Services at IBM, and Scott Chasin, CTO of McAffee SaaS, to name only a few.

NetHosting CEO Attending Silicon Valley’s Cloud Connect Event

(The Hosting News) SunGard Availability Services has officially announces the establishment of a data center facility in the Sacramento, California area. The new data center will provide managed IT services ranging from virtualized data centers for Silicon Valley startups to fully managed disaster recovery and business continuity services for Fortune 500 companies. The new facility addresses the growing demand from independent software vendors that provide Software-as-a-Service, and for IT services ranging from cost-effective colocation services to innovative, private cloud computing environments.

Located in Rancho Cordova, one of the most stable geographic locations in California that lies outside fault zones and flood plains, the new facility is set to open in May 2010. It provides Bay Area companies with the proven resources of a trusted leader in providing managed IT services that are scalable, reliable and flexible.

“This new facility demonstrates SunGard’s sustained investment in expanding its infrastructure in California, to deliver services scalability and process expertise to customers,” said Lance Hanchey, vice president operations at SunGard Availability Services. “It also reflects our commitment to helping Sacramento and Bay Area companies meet information availability requirements by keeping their people, systems and data connected.”

The facility will be home to SunGard’s enterprise-class managed IT services including: hosting services, applications services (such as SAP and Oracle EBS), messaging services, network services, managed security services, storage services and replication services.

The SunGard facility is 69,000 square feet of which 28,000 square feet of conditioned raised floor will be available in phase one. The raised floor is divisible into caged areas and private suites. The facility has two electrical feeds totaling close to six megawatts of power and is carrier neutral with nine fiber providers having access to the fiber vaults entering the data center.

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(The Hosting News) SunGard Availability Services has officially announces the establishment of a data center facility in the Sacramento, California area. The new data center will provide managed IT services ranging from virtualized data centers for Silicon Valley startups to fully managed disaster recovery and business continuity services for Fortune 500 companies. The new facility addresses the growing demand from independent software vendors that provide Software-as-a-Service, and for IT services ranging from cost-effective colocation services to innovative, private cloud computing environments.

Located in Rancho Cordova, one of the most stable geographic locations in California that lies outside fault zones and flood plains, the new facility is set to open in May 2010. It provides Bay Area companies with the proven resources of a trusted leader in providing managed IT services that are scalable, reliable and flexible.

“This new facility demonstrates SunGard’s sustained investment in expanding its infrastructure in California, to deliver services scalability and process expertise to customers,” said Lance Hanchey, vice president operations at SunGard Availability Services. “It also reflects our commitment to helping Sacramento and Bay Area companies meet information availability requirements by keeping their people, systems and data connected.”

The facility will be home to SunGard’s enterprise-class managed IT services including: hosting services, applications services (such as SAP and Oracle EBS), messaging services, network services, managed security services, storage services and replication services.

The SunGard facility is 69,000 square feet of which 28,000 square feet of conditioned raised floor will be available in phase one. The raised floor is divisible into caged areas and private suites. The facility has two electrical feeds totaling close to six megawatts of power and is carrier neutral with nine fiber providers having access to the fiber vaults entering the data center.

New Northern California Data Center Launched by SunGard is a post from: Hosting News and Reseller Web Hosting information.