Smart Telecom has awarded a €2.5m co-location contract to IT and telecommunications solutions provider Data Electronics to host the majority of Smart's national voice and data infrastructure.

IT outsourcing company Data Electronics has won a €2.5 million contract from phone and broadband provider Smart Telecom to host over half of Smart’s national voice and data infrastructure.

Data Electronics, a provider of integrated outsourced solutions, has announced it has won a €100,000 contract to supply co-location and support services for Pigsback.com's entire web infrastructure .

Honeynet, the Irish site set up to study the patterns of hackers, recorded a three-fold increase in hacker visits in June.

An Irish website set up by Deloitte & Touche, Espion and Data Electronics to test the frequency of attacks by hackers, has seen 334 attempts to breech its security in the space of one month.

Data Electronics is to acquire the complete assets of the Wolfe Group.

The new Internet Neutral Exchange [INEX] in the Data Electronics Data Centre was officially lit up by Mary O'Rourke, Minister for Public Enterprise yesterday.