Data centre industry news and insights

We're delighted that Colo-X’s Tim Anker will be speaking at LINX119 in Manchester on Tuesday 16 May.

Tim Anker shares his thoughts and perspectives on the changes he’s seen in the UK data centre market over the past few years.

Tim Anker from Colo-X made a prospective-customer site visit to the new Proximity Edge 9 data centre in Bristol – a facility that is a welcome new addition to the list of regional UK data centres on our database.

Colo-X guide for retail colocation users seeking data centre options in the north of London, including Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Essex.

Our detailed analysis of the regional UK data centre market covers 50 facilities representing about a fifth of total UK capacity.

It was a great honour to be asked to speak at LINX105 at the end of May this year. While the aim of my presentation was to summarise some of the dramatic changes we’ve seen in the London data centre market over the past 20 years, I also took the opportunity to bring the audience up to date on where we are today.

Four-and-half years since the aborted merger with arch-rival Telecity, Interxion appears to once again walking down the aisle with long-fancied suitor Digital Realty Trust (DRT).

Long established south coast colocation provider Serverhouse has just opened their largest and most impressive data centre, a new 400 rack/2MW facility on the Segensworth East Industrial Estate, Fareham, adjacent to junction 9 of the M27.

London colocation buyers are being offered a new wave of data centre options, many of which are repurposed sites previously occupied by a single user.  This is yet another new trend for the London data centre market but is providing a less risky and therefore attractive entry point for numerous new operators which we continue to add to the Colo-X London data centre data base. 

I don’t wish to put a bit of a downer on the growing Black Friday excitement but I’m just not sure of the effectiveness of such promotions in the B2B world.  Indeed I must admit I’ve always been a bit sceptical about the role of pricing as the main driver in winning data centre services [...]