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

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

Frankfurt’s leading carrier hub, ancotel, have announced a further expansion of  colocation capacity of their established hub at 90 KleyerStrasse, Frankfurt.  A further 1250 sq m is being developed.

At the latest count ancotel now clai

Good 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

Telecity has announced the acquisition of Dublin’s leading and longest established colocation provider Data Electronics Group.  The privately held company was bought for just under £90m and operates two data centres offering a combined capacity

Telehouse has announced that the German stock exchange, Deutsche Börse, has opened a new low latency access point in their Telehouse North facility, so offering access to Deutsche Börse’s derivatives exchange Eurex and their cash market Xetra.

We were able to take a look at progress on Telecity’s massive expansion to their Powergate, Park Royal facility.

Construction of the 21Mw extension to Powergate is now well underway with the first phase due for delivery in the third quar

A new operator and new facility has just launched in the Docklands market:  Eurohub, a subsidiary of the MRY Property Group, has just opened the doors on their 400 cabinet  site located at 7 Greenwich View Place, adjacent to the well established

Large UK energy users, about 5000 companies using over 6MWh per year, are claiming a £1bn “stealth tax” was buried in the details of yesterday’s Spending Review.  Data centre operators, as large energy users, are heavily involved in the scheme b

Dutch ICT provider Previder has just opened a 2,500 sq m colocation facility Hengelo, located some 150kms east of Amsterdam and only 20km from the German boarder.  Previder claim the carrier neutral data centre is the largest in Eastern Holland a

Level3 have announced an “access node” has been launched in Equinix’s LD4 and LD5 colocation facilities in Slough, Berkshire, thus giving direct access to the Level3 transatlantic system known as Yellow.  Equinix also claim direct access from the

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 Gr

We were interested to see Terremark announcing their first major foray into Northern Europe.  The Press Release confirms Terremark are leasing an initial 25,000 sq ft from DLR inside the Schipol Airport Area and indeed Terremark confirm their anc

US Tier1 carrier Level3 have announced that their network into the Manchester market is now independent of their London infrastructure.  This is an important point for data centre users locating in the Manchester area as a diverse location to Lon

North Building – some part rack capacity available at present in TFM15 and TFM19, dual fed cabs with 2kW each but otherwise pretty much sold out until Q4 2010 when new room of 2kW cabinets will become available.
East – sold out but we have a t

QuantHouse, who provide ultra low latency trading solutions have added Interxion London to their London data center coverage.  QuantHouse clients include The London Stock Exchange, Credit Suisse and Turquoise. 

Launch party reflects strong sales success of West

Telehouse hosted several hundred clients and friends at the official launch party on Tuesday 11th May.  Besides the usual speeches the Japanese tradition of literally cracking open a barrel

Interxion have announced the systems integrator and IT services provider Bull has expanded its data centre footprint with Interxion Netherlands.  Bull’s clients include DetailResult Services.

Managed services provider Savvis has announced a further 20,000 sq ft of space will be added to their Slough facility, so taking total capacity at the site to 43,000 sq ft of net tech.  The first phase of the site opened in October 2008. 

Telecity have announced the much anticiapated expansion at their Park Royal flagship facility Powergate.  But few would have anticipated the expansion would be an effective tripling of their capacity at this site.  An additional 20MW of client

Data centre operator Blue Square have released financial results for the year ending December 2009 with turnover up 120% to £8.4m.  The company state that growth was driven by the opening of their new Milton Keynes facility which has been in ope

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.

Highlights from the 2010 Annual Report for the year ending 31st December 2009.

Revenues increased by 24% to €171M
Interxion believe the mix of ISPs and carriers in their facilities creates “critical exchange points for Internet

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.  Th

IFL, or Internet Facilitators, the Manchester based colocation provider has announced their long awaited new facility for the Manchester market will be built close to the massive Media City development taking place in Salford Quays.   The new da

Fibrespan, the specialist dark fibre and ultra-high bandwidth carrier has connected Interxion London to their network, so becoming the 32nd onsite carrier at Interxion London according to Interxion. Fibrespan clients include financial services, public sector, system integrators and multi-site users.

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…

London’s second peering exchange LONAP has announced that Interxion London will become the fifth LONAP site, so adding to Telehouse North, Telehouse East, Telecity Sovereign House and Telecity HEX 8&9. 

Like LINX, LONAP is a peering

Telecity announces US cloud hosting provider Linode will take space up at Telecity Powergate.  Powergate is well suited to power hungry clients by virtue of its high power specification, being the newest Telecity site in London, with 4kW per rack

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 Inte

An interesting report from Tariff Consultancy Ltd who have focussed at what we would call the “retail” end of the market, looking at pricing for racks and space up to only 50kVA.

The report suggests total revenue across the 19 countries

Geneva – announced Oct 2009 – Equinix has announced plans to build a new 4,500sq m (48,000 sq ft) data centre, first phase of 380 cabinets expected to open in December 2009, with the total capacity of 760 cabinets.

Zurich – announced Jun

We’re pleased to provide a link to quite a good general article about the Irish data centre market with comments on many of the carrier neutral operators as well as the growing list of corporate owned and operated facilities. 

Remember,