Pan-European colocation provider Telecity has seen their share price surge from 390p to 432p (at the time of writing ) over the past few days with the financial press (see the FT, The Telegraph or The Times) speculating that a bid of 500p from either KDDI, owner of Telehouse or else from the sector giant …

With last weeks opening of both the Telehouse West Docklands site (200,000 sq ft) and Equinix’s second Slough facility of some 300,000 sq ft, there would appear to be quite a deluge of new capacity in the London market, but it’s worth looking into the headline grabbing numbers to understand the real impact on the …

Further signs that new colocation providers are making significant progress are found in two recent news items (summarised below) which reinforce a couple of key market themes that we have been mentioning for some time now (for example, see my presentation at the Information Age Conference, The Future of the Data Centre).  These themes are:

New entrants are growing, …