Data centre industry news and insights

Colo-X, the specialist colocation industry agents, have highlighted major changes taking place in the UK colocation industry as one of the key issues in their 2013 research report entitled “UK Colocation Industry, Structural Changes and Trends”.In summarising the research Colo-X founder Tim Anker said: “as recently as early 2012 the UK colocation industry could be [...]

The Moscow colocation market is still very much a “frontier” market for Western based data centre users, but the new IXCellerate colocation facility opened in 2013 is founded by an experienced team with an excellent track record in the European colocation industry. We caught up with IXCellerate Sales Director Mike Segal on a recent customer [...]

Pan-European colocation provider Interxion have given details of a significant new expansion of their Schiphol-Rijk Amsterdam data centre hub.Amsterdam 7, or Ams7, will offer up to 7300sq m (aprx 80,000 sq ft) of net technical space or 13MW of customer power.  The new facility will be delivered across six distinct phases, the first of which [...]

Pan-European colocation provider Interxion have given details of a significant new expansion of their Schiphol-Rijk Amsterdam data centre hub.Amsterdam 7, or Ams7, will offer up to 7300sq m (aprx 80,000 sq ft) of net technical space or 13MW of customer power.  The new facility will be delivered across six distinct phases, the first of which [...]

To download your own copy of our September 2013 Colocation Industry Newsletter please click HERE. In this quarter’s newsletter we report on our recent site visit to wholesale data centre operator Virtus and their Enfield colocation facility.  Like many wholesale data centre operators, Virtus are now launching a high quality yet low priced retail colocation [...]

Not sure a gorilla is quite what Infinity had in mind as a description when I visited their impressive new Slough data centre last week, but it was only when I saw the whole picture about what Infinity are up to these days that the sheer scale of things became apparent.Clearly invigorated from raising nearly [...]

The North Virginia data centre market, based just south of Washington DC, is one of the most important in North America and this recent review from US based specialist data centre brokers WiredRE is worthy of reading (and my thanks to Everett Thompson for his permission to add comment).What I found especially interesting is the [...]

Almost a year has passed since Volta Data Centres took possession of the former Reuters/BT Radianz facility on Clerkenwell’s Great Sutton Street and the new 9.6MW, 1600 rack colocation facility is about to go live, with the first customer, Fusion Media Networks, a cloud based service provider, now installing. Background to Volta and Great Sutton [...]

Its all a matter of perspective! Call me “Mr Sceptical”, but funny how headlines can be used to give certain impressions! Data centre agent CBRE’s ever detailed quarterly review was out last week (click here to download) and the headlines screamed:  “Cloud drives European data centre demand as colocation take up rises 12%” – “woo [...]