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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The wide variety and scale of some of our recent deals serves to illustrate the breadth and depth of our industry knowledge, as well as the benefits of our consultative approach in working with buyers to fully understand all aspects of their needs before making supplier recommendations. Whether its price, power, quality, network choice, convenience [...]
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 [...]
Wholesale data centre operator Global Swtich has announced a new 35,000 sq m (375,ooo sq ft) or 45MVA data centre facility on the Tseung Kwan O (TKO) Industrial Estate in Hong Kong.Development will commence in 2013 with the first phase of capacity targetted for use in Q1 2015. Adding a new wholesale offering to Hong [...]
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 [...]
Interesting to see Newport (Wales) based Next Generation Data announce a second “colocation” hall yesterday (http://bit.ly/S1nkvE ).NGD have just released another hall to accommodate some 138 cabinets, so about 4000 sq ft in total and apparently they’ve already sold some 60-70 cabinets in their first hall dedicated to individual rack sales. Rather than selling directly [...]