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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
We were able to make our first visit to the new Datum Data Centre on the Cody Technology Park, home of defence contractor Qinetiq and located adjacent to the historic Farnborough airfield.Needless to say one of the first things you are aware of on site is the overall level of security, with the whole campus [...]
To download your own copy of our September 2013 Colocation Industry Newsletter please click HERE. In this quarter’s newsletter we report on our recent site visit to wholesale data centre operator Virtus and their Enfield colocation facility. Like many wholesale data centre operators, Virtus are now launching a high quality yet low priced retail colocation [...]
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 [...]
In 2007 we were approached by David Morgan, the procurement specialist for a global IT services company. Their requirement was for a Tier 3 data centre with fibre connectivity to London in the M25 radius and with a short completion timeframe. At the time the London market was facing a significant imbalance between data centre [...]