Colo-X Blog
New Bracknell Data Centre announced – a new wholesale operator
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011Interesting 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 facility, in addition to offices. Demolition of the existing site buildings will take place in …
UK power capacity – excess supply, not constraints?
Friday, October 14th, 2011I 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
Manchester expansion for Icecolo
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011Good to hear of the expansion plans from M247, or Icecolo as they like to be known. This Manchester based colocation and hosting provider really surprised me when I visited them in 2010 with their dual use of both a free air/adiabatic cooling
Meet Colo-X at Internet World and hear us present, May 10-12th, London
Tuesday, April 12th, 2011Colo-X is pleased to be exhibiting at this year’s Internet World at London’s Earls Court 2 exhibition centre. You can find us at booth IS12 in the Business Innovation Village. Furthermore Colo-X founder Tim Anker will be speaking in the Hos
Hear Colo-X at Data Centres Europe, Nice, 5th and 6th May
Tuesday, April 12th, 2011Colo-X founder Tim Anker will be speaking Data Centres Europe in Nice on the event’s first day, Thursday 5th May. Tim will be discussing Colocation Business Models with a panel of senior industry representatives. More details can be found via
Colo-X March 2011 Quarterly Newsletter
Monday, March 28th, 2011In our first quarterly newsletter of 2011 we examine the takeover activity in the data centre industry as well as increasing evidence of strong interest in outsourced data centre solutions from the enterprise sector. We also include a list of
Colo-X in the Press
Monday, January 10th, 2011Recent press coverage for Colo-X:
Capacity Magazine 2011 Year Book - Data Centre Developments to Watch – what’s changed in the industry over the past ten years and what can we expect looking forward? Guy Matthews from Capacity Magazi
Colo-X Scandinavia Office open next month
Friday, November 19th, 2010We are pleased to announce that we will have a Scandinavian representative from December 2010, located in Oslo/Stockholm.
Further information will be available shortly.
Colo-X at Convergence Summit South – Esher Oct 5th & 6th 2010
Friday, October 1st, 2010Colo-X will be exhibiting at the Convergence Summit South at Sandown Park, Esher, Surrey on the 5th and 6th of October . This is a key channel event and is expected to be extremely busy.
Future of the Data Centre – Event Roundup
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010A useful two page summary of the event is now available here. Other presentations included:
Thomson Reuters discussing how they are reducing power consumption across their 20 company data centres
The impact of the CRC, Carbon
Datacentre search
Tim Anker founded The Colocation Exchange in 2004 and was previously director of IP and Colo services at Band-X from 1999.- UK Wholesale data centre market opens opportunities for colocation users
- Dublin’s Web Summit October 2011
- Data Centre Industry Leadership Panel adamant industry still supply constrained
- What are the implications of the recent acquisition of Blue Square Data by Lumison?
- Are we about to experience another data centre crises?
