VIAWEST ANNOUNCES DATA CENTER EXPANSION IN UTAH
June 29, 2010 – UMA Members in the News
ViaWest increases white floor capacity in Utah, to accommodate a growing customer demand
ViaWest, a leading provider of adaptable colocation and managed service solutions, today announced the expansion of data center capacity in the Utah market. The expansion will encompass an additional 14,000+ square feet in the western-most of the company’s three Salt Lake City area data centers. The construction is already underway, and is slated for completion in the 4th quarter of 2010.
“This expansion was driven by continued requests for growth capacity by current customers, as well as increased demand from prospective customers,” said Steve Prather, ViaWest’s Senior Vice President of Strategic Development. “With several recent infrastructure and network augmentations, we were already in position to quickly respond to the demand. We have experienced consistent quarterly growth in Utah, and specifically in Salt Lake City. This capacity addition is a good representation of our continued commitment in this market.”
“This is fantastic news for us here in the Utah market, and it really underscores the company’s dedication to the region,” said David Tietjen, ViaWest’s Utah Vice President & General Manager. “This expansion, coupled with our other growth initiatives, will allow us to continue to deliver the very best solutions and environments to both current and our future Utah customers.”
In addition to the three Utah facilities, ViaWest’s national footprint also includes four enterprise-class data centers in Denver, six in the Dallas area, as well as one in Austin, Las Vegas, and in Portland, Oregon.
About ViaWest
Headquartered in Denver, ViaWest provides a unique set of colocation, managed hosting solutions, and comprehensive services to mid-sized and enterprise level businesses. As a super-regional service provider ViaWest maintains 16 enterprise-class data center facilities in Colorado, Texas, Oregon, Utah, and Nevada, and offers broad expertise to furnish customers with leading technology infrastructure solutions, as well as the critical resources to support their unique business needs. ViaWest currently serves thousands of customers nationwide including Frontier Airlines, The Denver Broncos, Chipotle, and Northrop Grumman. The company was also recently named 'Technology Company of the Year' 2008 by CSIA, and one of 'Colorado's Top 10 Companies to Work For'. For additional information on ViaWest, please visit www.ViaWest.com or call 1-877-448-9378.
ViaWest increases white floor capacity in Utah, to accommodate a growing customer demand
ViaWest, a leading provider of adaptable colocation and managed service solutions, today announced the expansion of data center capacity in the Utah market. The expansion will encompass an additional 14,000+ square feet in the western-most of the company’s three Salt Lake City area data centers. The construction is already underway, and is slated for completion in the 4th quarter of 2010.
“This expansion was driven by continued requests for growth capacity by current customers, as well as increased demand from prospective customers,” said Steve Prather, ViaWest’s Senior Vice President of Strategic Development. “With several recent infrastructure and network augmentations, we were already in position to quickly respond to the demand. We have experienced consistent quarterly growth in Utah, and specifically in Salt Lake City. This capacity addition is a good representation of our continued commitment in this market.”
“This is fantastic news for us here in the Utah market, and it really underscores the company’s dedication to the region,” said David Tietjen, ViaWest’s Utah Vice President & General Manager. “This expansion, coupled with our other growth initiatives, will allow us to continue to deliver the very best solutions and environments to both current and our future Utah customers.”
In addition to the three Utah facilities, ViaWest’s national footprint also includes four enterprise-class data centers in Denver, six in the Dallas area, as well as one in Austin, Las Vegas, and in Portland, Oregon.
About ViaWest
Headquartered in Denver, ViaWest provides a unique set of colocation, managed hosting solutions, and comprehensive services to mid-sized and enterprise level businesses. As a super-regional service provider ViaWest maintains 16 enterprise-class data center facilities in Colorado, Texas, Oregon, Utah, and Nevada, and offers broad expertise to furnish customers with leading technology infrastructure solutions, as well as the critical resources to support their unique business needs. ViaWest currently serves thousands of customers nationwide including Frontier Airlines, The Denver Broncos, Chipotle, and Northrop Grumman. The company was also recently named 'Technology Company of the Year' 2008 by CSIA, and one of 'Colorado's Top 10 Companies to Work For'. For additional information on ViaWest, please visit www.ViaWest.com or call 1-877-448-9378.
ARE EUROPEAN COMPANIES READY TO LEAVE CHINA?
June 29, 2010 – Today in Manufacturing.netEU said increasingly unfair treatment of foreign companies by China's government is making the country a less attractive place to do business and warned that some might leave... continue
FLSA: CHILD LABOR RULES UPDATED
June 29, 2010 – The Employers CouncilThe DOL has published extensive final child labor rules, containing updates and clarifications, effective 7/19/10. For a DOL fact sheet, click here; the DOL also has side by side comparisons of the major changes to current rules that affect the employment of 14- and 15-year-olds and
hazardous occupations. The updated rules include:
• For 14- and 15-year-olds:
• "Employment that is not specifically permitted is prohibited." Permitted tasks are no longer just in retail, food service, and gasoline service establishments.
• Specifically permitted tasks (with sufficient safeguards) include intellectual or artistically creative work, e.g., programming, tutoring, singing, etc.
• Also specifically permitted is loading and unloading of certain personal hand tools and items, onto and from motor vehicles. The limits on riding inside or outside the passenger compartments of motor vehicles are clarified.
• Freezers (but not meat coolers) may occasionally and momentarily be entered to retrieve items.
• Work during school hours is allowed for work-study programs (with sufficient safeguards).
• The 3-hour limit on employment on a school day does include Fridays.
• Youths under 16 are prohibited from peddling, non-charitable door-to-door selling, sign-waving (unless directly in front of the establishment), etc.
• Trained, certified youths 15 and older may work as lifeguards and swimming instructors at traditional swimming pools and water amusement parks.
• Under specified conditions, youths 16 and over may operate pizza-dough rollers and portable, countertop food mixers.
• Added to prohibited occupations ("Hazardous Occupations") if under 18: work at poultry slaughtering and packaging plants, forest firefighting, forestry services, timber tract management, riding on a forklift as a passenger, operating certain power-driven hoists and work assist vehicles, operating balers and compacters designed or used for non-paper goods, and operating power-driven chain saws, wood chippers, reciprocating saws and abrasive cutting discs.
CONSUMER CONFIDENCE PLUNGES IN JUNE
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ECONOMIC FORECAST: UTAH\'S ECONOMY AT MID-YEAR
June 29, 2010 – UB DailyA monthly report produced for Commerce Real Estate Solutions by the University of Utah's Bureau of Economic and Business Research reveals the state of Utah’s economy at mid-year 2010. The most recent forecast for Utah’s economic indicators shows an economy on the mend. The forecast is developed by the Governor’s Office of Planning and Budget and Legislative Fiscal Analyst Office from consensus forecasts from the Revenue Assumption Committee."
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GOVERNMENT SOON TO REQUIRE CLEARER 401(k) FEES
June 29, 2010 – Zions Direct
Increased Transparency A Welcome Improvement Who would choose to buy something without knowing exactly how much it costs? Few people would. Yet that’s what millions of investors do when they sign up for a 401(k) plan.
That’s about to change.
After years of analyzing, deliberating and gathering comments, the Department of Labor is about to require providers of 401(k) plans such as Fidelity, Charles Schwab and The Vanguard Group to reveal details about their fees — a requirement that currently isn’t mandated.
Various bills have been introduced in Congress to force fee disclosure, but...
Read more at http://think.zionsdirect.com/2010/06/24/government-soon-to/?utm_source=ym_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=article_3&utm_campaign=slow_road_ahead_06_29_2010
GOVERNORS TACKLE COMPLEX ENERGY ISSUES AT THEIR ANNUAL MEETING
June 29, 2010 – Western Governor’s AssociationWhitefish, Mont. -- Western governors continued to deal with critical energy issues at their annual meeting held here. The focus during a Monday plenary session was how best to work within a changing energy landscape after the BP tragedy and how the West can meet its growing energy demands.
Experts who spoke to the governors were Dr. Arun Majumdar, Director of Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy; Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures; David Leuschen, Co-Founder and Senior Managing Director of Riverstone; Rob Bernard, Chief Environmental Strategist for Microsoft, and Ronald T. Evans, President and Chief Operating Officer of Denbury Resources.
The experts agreed that the one thing that is certain is that things will change dramatically and rapidly. They supported continuously working on creating increased demand for clean energy.
Gov. Schweitzer (Mont.) also unveiled WGA's "Transmission Roadmap," a report that can be used by anyone who wants to build a renewable energy facility with transmission. It will be especially helpful for anyone who has not previously done a project. The report will be available soon on the WGA Web site and will be continually updated.
The Governors also passed a major energy resolution that will have the WGA reporting on industrial and commercial energy efficiency programs, the impacts of plug-in vehicles on the electrical transmission system, and issues associated with the expansion of nuclear energy in the West. Of great importance will be using grant funds from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop transmission expansion plans for the West that will not only consider the development of renewable energy, but also wildlife and water concerns.
Incoming Chair, Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter (Idaho), said he would continue to make energy policy a key concern over the next year.
JAPANESE INDUSTRIAL OUTPUT DOWN, JOBLESS RATE RISES
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MERKEL SAYS GERMANY IS AN ECONOMIC ROLE MODEL
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NERVOUS INVESTORS TURN FOCUS TO CORPORATE PROFITS
June 29, 2010 – Zions DirectUpcoming Earnings Announcements Could Impact Second-Half Growth For Good or BadWill corporate profits save the stock rally — or kill it?
Most companies won’t announce second-quarter earnings for a few weeks yet. But already Wall Street is buzzing about what might lie ahead. One worry: With investors on edge from bad economic news, the market is riding more than ever on these upcoming reports.
“It’s too early to tell if growth is tapering off,” but people are concerned, said Mark Luschini, chief market strategist at Janney Montgomery Scott. “If companies disappoint, stocks could retrace their recent lows.”
Stock analysts expect companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index to post $184 billion in profits in the second quarter, up 27 percent from the year-ago period, then continue to...
Read more at http://think.zionsdirect.com/2010/06/25/nervous-investors-turn-focus/?utm_source=ym_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=article_2&utm_campaign=slow_road_ahead_06_29_2010
SLOW ROAD AHEAD TO REBUILD WEALTH
June 29, 2010 – Zions DirectGaining Ground? Climbing Out? How Long Will It Last?
GAINING GROUND, BUT WILL IT LAST? Americans’ wealth grew by a modest 2.1 percent last quarter to $54.6 trillion, lifted by stock market gains. Since then, Wall Street has slumped. Net worth in the current quarter could fall or come in flat, analysts say.
CLIMBING OUT OF DEEP HOLE: Even with the first-quarter gain, Americans’ net worth would have to rise an additional 21 percent to get back to its pre-recession peak of $65.9 trillion. Read more at http://think.zionsdirect.com/2010/06/25/summary-box-slow-road/?utm_source=ym_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=article_1&utm_campaign=slow_road_ahead_06_29_2010
UTAH DOCUMENTED EMPLOYER REGISTRY NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE FOR CONFIRMATION OF EMPLOYEE IMMIGRATION STATUS
June 29, 2010 – UB DailyThe Utah Department of Commerce announced yesterday that as of June 28, 2010 “Verify Utah,” the Utah Documented Employer Registry, is up and running online for Utah businesses to voluntarily register that they have confirmed new employee immigration status through the federal E-Verify program. Per Senate Bill 251 sponsored by Senator D. Chris Buttars (R) District 10, beginning July 1, 2010 Utah law provides that a private employer who employs 15 or more people may not hire a new employee unless the employer is registered with and uses a status verification system to verify the federal legal working status of any new employee.
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WESTERN GOVERNORS ADOPT REPORT ON CLIMATE ADAPTATION PRIORITIES
June 29, 2010 – Western Governors’ AssociationThe Western Governors' Association has published a climate adaptation scoping report that emphasizes the need for coordination between state and federal efforts to identify key science that is Western specific and begins to share and implement smart practices.
The governors adopted the report during their Annual Meeting here this week. Govs. Bill Richardson (N.M.) and Arnold Schwarzenegger (Calif.) are WGA's lead governors for Climate Adaptation. Following is their letter that accompanied the report:
"Across the western United States, we are already experiencing the adverse impacts of climate change on our environment, infrastructure, economies and communities. Clearly, we must implement new management strategies to build a resilient West.
"Western governors recognize the need to work together to respond to these changes, which stand to greatly affect our quality of life. In 2009, the Western Governors' Association (WGA) adopted a policy resolution titled Supporting the Integration of Climate Change Adaptation Science in the West. This resolution represented the governors' interest in a coordinated response to climate change impacts and in including climate science in our policy and management activities.
"The WGA created a Climate Adaptation Work Group, composed of western state experts in air, forests, water and wildlife to recommend next steps. The enclosed Scoping Report is the result of its work. The report contains important recommendations for building a West that is resilient in the face of challenges posed by a changing climate. We are grateful to the work group and all of the partners who contributed their time and expertise to this effort.
"Western states will be on the front lines of climate response, and we are uniquely positioned to lead on this issue. We are pleased to share this report with you, and we urge continued and determined steps toward building state capacity to respond to climate change in the West."
The WGA Climate Adaptation Work Group will work with stakeholders to implement the recommendations in the report, which is available on the WGA Web site at www.westgov.org.
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