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 [...]
In a stunning move Equinix has announced the agreed acquisition of local colocation rival Switch and Data for USD$689m.S+D were probably Equinix’s largest single competitor in the carrier neutral colocation market and the acquisition marks an interesting concentration of power in this specialist market niche. It can certainly be seen as a case of the [...]
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 [...]
After leading the European colocation market since the industry turn around in 2004/5, UK colocation prices have started to narrow the price gap with Europe when expressed in local currency terms.This is primarily a result of the Euros surge against both the British Pound and US Dollar over the past year, but an improving balance [...]
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 [...]
This article describes the history and evolution of the London colocation market and was written by Tim Anker, appearing in the September 2005 edition of Capacity Magazine.The article will provide a useful reference for anyone looking at the London carrier neutral data centre market for the first time despite the time past since it was written and was part [...]