Pan-European colocation provider Telecity has seen their share price surge from 390p to 432p (at the time of writing ) over the past few days with the financial press (see the FT, The Telegraph or The Times) speculating that a bid of 500p from either KDDI, owner of Telehouse or else from the sector giant [...]
We’re pleased to provide a Google Map listing all local major data centre facilities in Singapore.As ever, to discuss which is the best facility or operator for your own needs in this market please contact Colo-X where we can review your needs, discuss the options and make some recommendations, all in a single call.
Tim Anker, Founder and Director of The Colocation Exchange will be presenting on Data Centre Trends to the audience at the Information Age conference Future of the Data Centre 2010. The event, the seventh in this series, is being held at The Hilton, Park Lane and will be attended by some 200 participants, mostly from [...]
Following the success of their new modular, pod architecture or so called “midi-market product” in Paris, Digital Realty Trust (DLR) have recently fitted out some 2.8MW of capacity at their Foxboro Park site in Redhill, Surrey to offer the same model into the UK market for the first time.With the minimum unit size now at [...]
Survey adds weight to the Carrier Neutral Model Data traffic between data centres is forecast to double or triple over the next 2-4years, according to a survey commissioned by a US company called Infineta (who unsurprisingly make network optimization products). The survey covering over 100 large US enterprises suggests that traffic growth is being driven by data [...]
Tim Anker, Founder and Director of Colo-X, The Colocation Exchange, will be attending the re-arranged 6th Data Centres Europe Event in Nice on the 24th and 25th of June. This important industry conference was originally scheduled for April this year but the timing coincided with the height of disrpuption from the Icelandic ash cloud! For the [...]
With the release of Interxion’s 2009 results, we thought it might be interesting see how the two European headquartered operators might contrast and compare.In fact it turned out to be quite hard to find any differences, though those that there are tell an interesting tale. Telecity Interxion 2009 Revenue (Euros, Millions) 192m, +27% (increase on [...]
We attended the Data Centre World event for the first time which was held in London at the Barbican Centre.In particular we noted that all the big pan-European operators would be present and several of them presenting. The exhibition space was impressive, dozens of companies offering all sorts of data centre related products, in fact [...]
Interesting press release from specialist telecoms consultancy TeleGeography which we pretty much provide ad verbatum.New data from their Enterprise Network Pricing Service show that the telecom cost of connecting offices varies widely around the globe, with some cities offering far more business-friendly environments than others. When looking to link up offices in different parts of the [...]
A mini deluge of surveys today provide a positive picture for the data centre industry though a healthy degree of scepticism is worth bearing in mind as the survey sponsors, US real estate player Digital Realty and Telehouse Europe will of course see themselves as prime beneficiaries!However, some interesting points worthy of note: Digital Realty [...]