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Qwest Communications (Q) will open a new CyberCenter hosting facility in Albuquerque, new Mexico, the company announced today. The facility, the 16th in Qwest’s nationwide network of data centers, is open for customers as the company continues a build-out to a final total of 14,000 square feet of space next year. The company will use the new data center to host customers’ disaster recovery operations, complex Web sites, applications, databases and data storage.

“The Albuquerque CyberCenter represents an important phase of our commitment to invest more than $250 million in New Mexico,” said Loretta Armenta, Qwest New Mexico state president. “Our CyberCenters offer customers a compelling alternative to taking on the considerable expense of building, maintaining and staffing their own data center,” added Chris Ancell, executive vice president of Qwest Business Markets Group.

With the addition of Albuquerque, Qwest’s 16 CyberCenters are located in 12 metropolitan areas including Denver.; Burbank, Sacramento and Sunnyvale, Calif.; Chicago; Columbus, Ohio; Minneapolis; Newark, N.J.; Seattle; Sterling, Va. and Tampa, Fla.

Cloud computing technology and services provider 3Tera (www.3tera.com) announced on Thursday that its cloud platform, AppLogic, is the first cloud computing platform to offer support for IPv6.

The announcement follows 3Tera’s partnership with cloud testing provider SOASTA to help 3Tera’s cloud customers develop flexible, scalable, performance-certified websites and applications that can handle traffic spikes.

Along with hosting partners Cari.net and ScaleUp Technologies, 3Tera successfully demonstrated database replication between applications running in two different cloud provider data centers using an IPv6 VPN tunnel created with 3Tera’s new VPN catalog appliance.

The adoption of IPv6, which has a significantly larger address space than current standard IPv4, has been slowed by the misconception that it requires both support on the client side and complex code changes in applications.

With 3Tera’s AppLogic cloud computing platform, it is no longer necessary to make changes in the configuration of the software in order to be able to support IPv6, while still providing data to IPv4 users.

A recent report by monitoring firm Pingdom highlighted this, showing that the adoption for IPv6 only increased from 2.4 to 4 percent in 2008. If things continue at this rate, there will be no available IPv4 addresses by the beginning of 2012.

“We are removing barriers for IPv6 support and creating momentum for IPv6 adoption,” says Peter Nickolov, president and CTO of 3Tera. “Within AppLogic, applications and complex distributed systems are actually not aware whether they are running over IPv6 or IPv4, which makes the transition to IPv6 seamless.”

Adopting IPv6 both internally and for use natively between applications addresses issues facing the growing cloud computing ecosystem including increased need for IP addresses due to virtualization and cloud computing, global accessibility of cloud applications, government mandates for security, complexity of adopting IPv6, use of scarce IPv4 addresses for communications between applications, and ability to obtain IP addresses for international data center operators.

The AppLogic VPN appliance with IPv6 support used in the tests is now offered to AppLogic users by contacting 3Tera, with all relevant appliances in the AppLogic catalog made to be IPv6-ready by the end of the year.

3Tera and hosting partners AgathonGroup, Cari.net, ClearManage, DNS Europe, ENKI Consulting and ScaleUp Technologies are either already supporting IPv6 or are preparing to offer it before the end of 2009 in the US, Canada, UK, Germany, and Singapore.