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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Not sure a gorilla is quite what Infinity had in mind as a description when I visited their impressive new Slough data centre last week, but it was only when I saw the whole picture about what Infinity are up to these days that the sheer scale of things became apparent.Clearly invigorated from raising nearly [...]
The Moscow colocation market is still very much a “frontier” market for Western based data centre users, but the new IXCellerate colocation facility opened in 2013 is founded by an experienced team with an excellent track record in the European colocation industry. We caught up with IXCellerate Sales Director Mike Segal on a recent customer [...]