UK Wholesale data centre sector update – January 2012 Summary
The recent 4.3MW deal by CWW with Infinity was a rare large scale leasehold deal for the only part of the UK data centre market that has been struggling over the past few years.  Yet despite the widely acknowledged challenges facing the wholesale data centre sector …

Congratulations to Enterprise Ireland

It was great to be back in Dublin recently to attend the Dublin Web Summit and in particular the “Beyond the Cloud” data centre stream organised by Enterprise Ireland.  Hats off to Enterrpise Ireland

Colo-X attended the 7th Data Centre’s Europe conference last week (5/6th May) and the highlight for us had to be the fascinating leadership panel.  On the panel were representatives of Telecity, Equinix, Interxion and Global Switch, the four la

Colo-X founder Tim Anker’s views about the current supply and demand picture in the UK data centre market were published in ComputerWorldUK in December 2010.  The bottom line is there was a lot of headline grabbing stories during 2010 from indust

One of the key data centre hub buildings in Manhattan has been acquired by Google for a figure believed to be just under $2bn.  The sale though poses interesting questions for the plethora of colocation providers and carriers who operate within t

Overall occupancy in the Docklands area remains extremely high and list pricing at over £600 per kW per month expensive, but capacity can be found and deals are available if you know where to look!

Telehouse – interest in this key net

Further signs that new colocation providers are making significant progress are found in two recent news items (summarised below) which reinforce a couple of key market themes that we have been mentioning for some time now (for example, see my

Pan-European colocation provider Telecity has seen their share price surge from 390p to 432p (at the time of writing ) over the past few days with the financial press (see the FT, The Telegraph or The Times) speculating that a bid of 500p from eit

With the release of Interxion’s 2009 results, we thought it might be interesting see how the two European headquartered operators might contrast and compare.  In fact it turned out to be quite hard to find any differences, though those that the

With last weeks opening of both the Telehouse West Docklands site (200,000 sq ft) and Equinix’s second Slough facility of some 300,000 sq ft, there would appear to be quite a deluge of new capacity in the London market, but it’s worth looking

Interesting press release from specialist telecoms consultancy TeleGeography which we pretty much provide ad verbatum.  New data from their Enterprise Network Pricing Service show that the telecom cost of connecting offices varies widely around

A mini deluge of surveys today provide a positive picture for the data centre industry though a healthy degree of scepticism is worth bearing in mind as the survey sponsors, US real estate player Digital Realty and Telehouse Europe will of course

We attended the Data Centre World event for the first time which was held in London at the Barbican Centre.  In particular we noted that all the big pan-European operators would be present and several of them presenting.

The exhibition

Financial results from two important industry bellweather companies, Cisco and Intel bode well for the state of tech spending in general and the data centre industry as a result.

Cisco’s recent results not only beat analyst’s expectation