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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
A useful two page summary of the event is now available here. Other presentations included: Thomson Reuters discussing how they are reducing power consumption across their 20 company data centres The impact of the CRC, Carbon Reduction Commitment legislation Analysis of data centre efficiency including calculation of the PUE, Power Usage Efficiency, the recognised measure [...]
Colo-X will be exhibiting at the Convergence Summit South at Sandown Park, Esher, Surrey on the 5th and 6th of October. This is a key channel event and is expected to be extremely busy.
Colo-X founder Tim Anker will be speaking Data Centres Europe in Nice on the event’s first day, Thursday 5th May.Tim will be discussing Colocation Business Models with a panel of senior industry representatives. More details can be found via this link.
euNetworks Group Limited (SGX: H23.SI), a pan-European bandwidth infrastructure provider, announced it has connected up London’s newest addition to the data centre market. Connectivity services from euNetworks will be available when Volta’s data centre becomes operational early in 2013. Today euNetworks serves the London market with scalable bandwidth connections. Companies range from the tech and [...]
Telehouse parent KDDI have announced a USD$140m investment into new data centre facilities in Beijing, Hong Kong and Taiwan. The Telehouse branded Beijing data centre is expected to open in December 2012, offering a total floor area of 25,000 sq m and is located in the Technological Development Area (BDA). Telehouse have also announced that [...]