Leading industry deal maker IXEurope has announced their fifth and most stunning acquisition to date of the former Digiplex Frankfurt data centre, a facility capable of offering 56, 600 sq m (over 600,000 sq feet) of space, though with an immediate capacity of 6000 sq m of fitted out space.  This is the company’s second …

This article describes the history and evolution of the Frankurt colocation market and was written by Tim Anker, appearing in the October 2005 edition of Capacity Magazine.  The article will provide a useful reference for anyone looking at the Frankfurt market for the first time despite the time past since it was written.  This was part of a series …

Deutsche Börse Systems who run the trading platforms for Deutsche Börse have announced a further expansion of their relationship with Equinix’s FR2 facility in Frankfurt which will serve as the new main colocation facility for Deutsche Börse Group (DBG) from 2011.  This will include housing the electronic trading platforms for both Eurex and Xetra, the derivatives …

Trade Haven GmbH, a company which provides trading platforms and systemsto banks, brokers, asset managers and traders has taken capacity at both Interxion Frankfurt and Dusseldorf.

Interxion have announced their 6th Frankfurt data centre, to open in Q3 2010.   This is a brand new data centre building which we belive will be built on cleared land adjacent to the company’s well established campus on Hanauer Landstrasse.  The new building will offer 15,000 sq m of space, though the company have declined …

This is yet another in a string of capacity enhancements in Frankfurt from the big 3 pan-European operators, so demonstrating the health of the colocation market in a market that for a long time was very much seen as a laggard in terms of recovering…

Press release from Interxion announces increased commitment from Telecom Italia Sparkle.  The Italian carrier has taken more capacity in Frankfurt 5 in addition to its current presence in Farnkfurt 2.  
Its worth remembering that Interxion has essentially expanded a building at a time on this business park located to the East of the city centre on …