The Colo-X 2015 review of the London retail colocation market updates our 2013 UK report with the latest changes and trends.
The 180-page Colo-X 2017 review of the London retail colocation market analyses the impact of the wave of corporate activity that has hit the London market in the years preceeding 2017.
It was a great honour to be asked to speak at LINX105 at the end of May this year. While the aim of my presentation was to summarise some of the dramatic changes we’ve seen in the London data centre market over the past 20 years, I also took the opportunity to bring the audience up to date on where we are today.
Four-and-half years since the aborted merger with arch-rival Telecity, Interxion appears to once again walking down the aisle with long-fancied suitor Digital Realty Trust (DRT).
Long established south coast colocation provider Serverhouse has just opened their largest and most impressive data centre, a new 400 rack/2MW facility on the Segensworth East Industrial Estate, Fareham, adjacent to junction 9 of the M27.
London colocation buyers are being offered a new wave of data centre options, many of which are repurposed sites previously occupied by a single user. This is yet another new trend for the London data centre market but is providing a less risky and therefore attractive entry point for numerous new operators which we continue to add to the Colo-X London data centre data base.
I don’t wish to put a bit of a downer on the growing Black Friday excitement but I’m just not sure of the effectiveness of such promotions in the B2B world. Indeed I must admit I’ve always been a bit sceptical about the role of pricing as the main driver in winning data centre services [...]
Latest transaction completes European “clean sweep” and gives yet more submarine access for operator "on a mission". It comes as no surprise at all to Colo-X to read Equinix is today acquiring Itconic, the leading and longest established carrier neutral colocation provider in the Iberian Peninsula, from US based Carlyle Group. The purchase price is [...]
Significant new data centre campus provides welcome new supply for the London market Colo-X is pleased to have been the first agent to bring a prospective customer to the new Kao Data Park data centre complex in Harlow, Essex, with the trip completed just before the August Bank Holiday. Whilst Colo-X attends numerous data centre [...]
The merger of Digital Realty Trust and DuPont Fabros reflects the trends highlighted in Colo-X's 2017 report of continued corporate activity and hyper-scale demand.
