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Data Centre industry leadership panel adamant industry still supply constrained

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, [...]

Industry ‘experts’ stick to their guns about data centre oversupply

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 [...]

CBRE Q2 European Data Centre Viewpoint – including guest column by Colo-X on colocation pricing in the UK

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 [...]

Pulsant acquires Scolocate for £26m – yet another deal for the serial consolidator

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 [...]

Dublin’s Web Summit October 2011

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 [...]

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