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

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

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 draft filing of their F-1 form with the SEC, the first step in a possible US IPO of the company which Interxion say could take place in the second half of 2010.  The F-1 is a standard document used by foreign companie

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.

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

Founding shareholder 3i, the venture capital company, who were the orignal backers behind Telecity have sold their remaining 16% stake and so ending their involvement in the company which commenced in 1998. 

A brief time-line of the Tel

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

Abovenet Communications confirmed they have now connected Sentrum’s Woking site to their network.

In a stunning move Equinix has announced the agreed acquisition of local colocation rival Switch and Data for USD$689m.  S+D were probably Equinix’s largest single competitor in the carrier neutral colocation market and the acquisition marks an

TelecityGroup issues Interim Management Statement

Telecity Group plc (‘TelecityGroup’ or the ‘Group’), Europe’s industry leading provider of premium network independent data centres, today issues the following Interim Management Statement for