The city of Vancouver, Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) and Pulse Energy today at the Shanghai World Expo announced a collaborative relationship designed to accelerate the development of Vancouver's green-energy goals. The effort with Cisco and Pulse Energy is the latest in Vancouver's ongoing initiatives to showcase the city as an economic hub for the advancement of clean technology, develop a network of specialised partners, and improve energy efficiency and management. Beginning in 2010, the three parties will work to advance Vancouver's green-energy vision by implementing technologies for building-energy management, home-energy management, urban carbon-footprint reduction and data center efficiency. Today's agreement was signed at the Shanghai Expo by Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson, David Helliwell, the CEO of Vancouver-based Pulse Energy, and Cisco. Both the city of Vancouver and Cisco have Expo pavilions, and a team of Vancouver businesses in the green and creative sectors have joined the mayor ...

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HCL America, a division of HCL Technologies Ltd. ("HCL"), India's leading global IT services company, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of a 35,000-square-foot data center from a Fortune 500 organization in Parsippany, New Jersey. The move aligns with the company's strategy to increase its global footprint and meet growing customer demand for eco-friendly, advanced, end-to-end services including near-shore co-location solutions and services, cloud computing, business continuity and mainframe management services.

Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) and Landis+Gyr today announced that they will work together on a holistic approach to smart grid communications infrastructure that is expected to help utility companies and their customers better manage energy. The collaboration between Cisco and Landis+Gyr is expected to accelerate the delivery of standards-based solutions for the energy industry and facilitate the integration of existing capabilities with renewable power sources, plug-in vehicles and distribution automation functionality.

Extreme Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXTR) today announced that that it has formed a Strategic Alliance with security leader McAfee, Inc. (NYSE: MFE) addressing secure networking for enterprise organizations. Working together, Extreme Networks® and McAfee can provide world-class, secure, unified networks to mutual customers delivered through the companies' comprehensive portfolios of high performance Ethernet networking and security (threat management) solutions. The security portfolio from McAfee addresses host security, network intrusion detection and prevention, firewall, and data leakage security requirements to protect the Enterprise LAN.

BLADE Network Technologies CEO Vikram Mehta Named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2009 Award Recipient in Northern California Award Recognizes Entrepreneurial Excellence in "Emerging" Category SANTA CLARA, CA--(Marketwire - June 16, 2009) - BLADE Network Technologies, Inc. (BLADE), the trusted leader in data center networking, announced that BLADE President and CEO Vikram Mehta received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2009 Award in the "Emerging" category for Northern California. According to Ernst & Young LLP, the award recognizes outstanding entrepreneurs who are building and leading dynamic, growing businesses. Mehta was selected by an independent panel of judges. The award was presented at a gala event at The San Jose Fairmont on June 13, 2009, hosted by award-winning broadcast journalist, Sydnie Kohara. The award recognizes Mehta's "if it's not impossible, it's not worth doing" and "never give up" approach, which fueled his determination to establish BLADE as an ...