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 [...]
One of the key data centre hub buildings in Manhattan has been acquired by Google for a figure believed to be just under $2bn.The sale though poses interesting questions for the plethora of colocation providers and carriers who operate within this established network node. 111 8th Avenue is a vast building occupying a whole city [...]
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, [...]
Colo-X will be exhibiting at the Convergence Summit South at Sandown Park, Esher, Surrey on the 5th and 6th of October. This is a key channel event and is expected to be extremely busy.
Global Switch CEO John Corocoran was interviewed by Estates Gazette in summer of 2010.The article discusses the company’s ownership by the Reuben Brothers, their ambitions to start realising some returns from their investment via either a bond issue to pay down some of their loans or a possible flotation. The company’s current expansion plans and [...]
A useful two page summary of the event is now available here. Other presentations included: Thomson Reuters discussing how they are reducing power consumption across their 20 company data centres The impact of the CRC, Carbon Reduction Commitment legislation Analysis of data centre efficiency including calculation of the PUE, Power Usage Efficiency, the recognised measure [...]