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Latest Colo-X colocation deals and offers

Latest Colo-X colocation deals and offers

Wednesday, May 1st, 2013

Quick round up of latest colocation and data centre offers that have been sent to Colo-X.  We will update this regularly.  As ever, please contact us for further information or indeed if you have particular requirements or if you wish to add an offer to the list.
Etix Paris, Equinix PA4 – racks and caged areas …

Management Changes at Telecity – Rob Coupland becomes UK MD

Management Changes at Telecity – Rob Coupland becomes UK MD

Wednesday, December 19th, 2012

Having exercised options and sold 80,000 of his 208,000 shares last month (http://bit.ly/V6qazg ) perhaps not that surprising then to hear today that Adriaan Oosthoek has now resigned as UK MD of Telecity.

A busy watch for Oosthoek

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New Reading colocation facility adds to M4 Corridor data centre market

New Reading colocation facility adds to M4 Corridor data centre market

Wednesday, December 5th, 2012

New 50,000 sq ft colocation facility for Reading

Great to hear of the return of former RapidSwitch founder Ed Butler* back into the data centre industry today with the launch of his new venture Everest Data Centres and a new colocation

Another wholesale operator accelerates their colo offering

Another wholesale operator accelerates their colo offering

Friday, September 28th, 2012

Interesting to see Newport (Wales) based Next Generation Data announce a second “colocation” hall yesterday (http://bit.ly/S1nkvE ).  NGD have just released another hall to accommodate some 138 cabinets, so about 4000 sq ft in total and appar

Colo-X site visit to Datum Data Centre, Farnborough

Colo-X site visit to Datum Data Centre, Farnborough

Wednesday, September 5th, 2012

We were able to make our first visit to the new Datum Data Centre on the Cody Technology Park, home of defence contractor Qinetiq and located adjacent to the historic Farnborough airfield (hence our Red Arrows image)!  Needless to say one of the

Virtus Data Centres Management catch-up

Virtus Data Centres Management catch-up

Tuesday, August 21st, 2012

We caught up with the Virtus team in mid August, the update is as follows:

In general Virtus still feel their area of strength remains the “mid size market”, which they believe lies somewhere between a few hundred kW up to 1MW.  In part

Gyron power ahead with new Slough data centre

Gyron power ahead with new Slough data centre

Monday, May 28th, 2012

Gyron Centro, Hemel Hempstead

Dublin Colocation Deal

Dublin Colocation Deal

Wednesday, March 7th, 2012

We’re pleased to have closed a small Dublin based colo deal this week.  Amazingly, despite a numer of previous attempts, this is in fact my first deal in the Irish data centre market since 1999.  Funnily enough my first ever colo deal was in fac

New Bracknell Data Centre announced – a new wholesale operator

Thursday, November 3rd, 2011

Interesting news story yesterday to see Hermes Real Estate Investment Management (a pension fund) and the relatively unknown GCE Data Centres have acquired a 3.2 acre site at 43 Western Road, Bracknell to develop a 60,000 sq ft data centre facilit

UK power capacity – excess supply, not constraints?

UK power capacity – excess supply, not constraints?

Friday, October 14th, 2011

I was intrigued to read in yesterday’s (13th October) Time’s stock market report that City analysts are suggesting UK electricity stocks are now a “sell” due to excess supply, which of course flies in the face of one of the perceived “data centre