Two years after launching its second Calgary data center, Canadian outsourced data center infrastructure provider Q9 Networks (www.q9.com) has opened its third data center in the Calgary area, which has a potential total capacity of more than 10,000 cabinet equivalents. According to Q9’s Thursday announcement, the first phase of the data center, costing $50 million, will support 1,200 cabinet equivalents, more than 38 percent of which has already been reserved. Additional capacity will be brought online as required

Web hosting provider Rackspace (www.rackspace.com) announced on Thursday it is enhancing its portfolio of services designed for the needs of large enterprises with a focus on managed storage, disaster recovery and application-level hosting. According to the press release, these new services are “designed to meet the enterprise-grade needs of large organizations across all industries with a focus on performance, flexibility and control.” “Rackspace’s enterprise solutions can allow our customers to respond quickly to market changes, yet stay mindful of risky capital expenditures and rapidly evolving technologies,” says Taylor Rhodes, VP and GM of enterprise services for Rackspace. “We evolve our enterprise offerings based on customer feedback.

UK based web-hosting provider eUKhost.com (www.eukhost.com) has partnered with software developer SmarterTools (www.smartertools.com) to offer SmarterBundle for free with its services. Worth about $800, the complete SmarterBundle license includes all-in-one mail server solution SmarterMail, statistics utility SmarterStats, and a help desk application designed for customer service and communications called SmarterTrack

Private-label reseller web hosting automation solutions developer ResellersPanel (www.resellerspanel.com) has added the Elefante Toolbar to its control panel, allowing a direct installation of nearly 40 open-source PHP scripts on customers’ websites. The Elefante Toolbar is available in the file manager, domain manager and sub-domain manager sections of clients’ Web Hosting Control Panel, according to ResellersPanel’s Friday announcement, and users only have to choose a script, pick a desired host location where it will be installed and simply hit the install button.