Colo provider moving into the wholesale data centre market Gyron have announced today a new 8MW Slough based facility underwritten by a new customer taking a multi-megawatt dual site deal in both Slough and the already announced new 8MW Maylands Hemel Hempstead site. Gyron Maylands is due online in Q4 2012 with the previously announced [...]
The East Midlands region of the United Kingdom has a growing list of colocation and data centre options.There are a number of older and quite small facilities left over from the 1999/2000 'dot-com' era, which because of their age are quite light on power (eg 2kW or 10Amps per cabinet) but quite often very centrally [...]
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 for such an impressive event both in terms of the quality of speakers and indeed attendees; a [...]
Interesting to read about Tier1 research trying to soothe market concerns about data centre over supply, as reported by Data Center Knowledge http://bit.ly/r51A6Q today.Tier1, an American based specialist research house were extensively quoted in the Coresite prospectus published in early 2010 saying that data centre demand was set to outstrip supply by 250% and that [...]
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 largest pan-European carrier neutral colocation providers, together with e-shelter, who currently focus on Germany and Switzerland and Colt, [...]
Colo-X founder Tim Anker will be speaking Data Centres Europe in Nice on the event’s first day, Thursday 5th May.Tim will be discussing Colocation Business Models with a panel of senior industry representatives. More details can be found via this link.
Colo-X is pleased to be exhibiting at this year’s Internet World at London’s Earls Court 2 exhibition centre.You can find us at booth IS12 in the Business Innovation Village. Furthermore Colo-X founder Tim Anker will be speaking in the Hosting & Web Design Theatre on the first day of the event, Tuesday May 10th at 13.10 on the [...]
In our first quarterly newsletter of 2011 we examine the takeover activity in the data centre industry as well as increasing evidence of strong interest in outsourced data centre solutions from the enterprise sector.We also include a list of upcoming events, colocation price specials and details of our new Scandinavian office. Click here to view a [...]
What are the implications of the recent acquisition of Blue Square Data by Lumison? Lumison’s acquisition strategy begins with their recent purchase of Blue Square Data in a further consolidation of the regional UK colocation market The combined group will have some 50,000 sq ft of net tech capability of which 90% will be in [...]
Recent press coverage for Colo-X Capacity Magazine 2011 Year Book - Data Centre Developments to Watch – what’s changed in the industry over the past ten years and what can we expect looking forward? Guy Matthews from Capacity Magazine speaks to Tim Anker and other industry experts to assess the outlook. ComputerWorld UK Dec 2010 [...]