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 space was impressive, dozens of companies offering all sorts of data centre related products, in fact [...]
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 presentation at the Information Age Conference, The Future of the Data Centre).These themes are: New entrants are growing, [...]
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 [...]
Data centre real estate agents CBRE have released their authoritative second quarter European data centre industry overview.As usual it’s really quite a detailed read; the full report is available here: http://bit.ly/NLkDYf. However, I’m pleased to advise the report this quarter includes a guest column by Colo-X on colocation pricing on pages 13 and 14!! Key highlights [...]
Interesting to see today’s news that Pulsant has acquired Edinburgh’s Scolocate for £26m, so building on Lumison’s longstanding presence in the Scottish capital.Scolocate has been majority owned by The Royal Bank of Scotland since 2002 following a financial restructuring. Scolocate History Scolocate is an important regional hub facility in the UK data centre market. Having [...]
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 [...]
I wasn’t able to post a comment when I saw last week’s press release (http://bit.ly/TC5SZG ) from respected telecoms industry analysts Telegeography as I was at the Eco Data Centre Summit in Nuremberg (and what a good event that was).However, I thought it was most interesting to at last see one of the analysts present a [...]
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 for such an impressive event both in terms of the quality of speakers and indeed attendees; a [...]
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, [...]