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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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