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 [...]
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 [...]