SSE Fareham Data Centre acquired by Rigby Group (owner of systems integrator SCC) and Interoute acquires Vtesse SSE Fareham The 60,000 sq ft, 9MW SSE flagship data centre on the south coast near Fareham has been acquired by SCC – a Birmingham based systems integrator with their own data centre located on the company’s Tyseley [...]
Server shipments to mega data centre users highlight underlying demand from hyper-scale cloud deployments
2013 was an exciting year in the London colocation market, with numerous new entrants and data centres appearing and these trends fit the theme of our recent industry presentations which have the key message of “Change and Choice”. By “change” we are referring to the significant changes taking place in colocation industry structure, where our [...]
Colo-X's Q1 2014 data centre industry newsletter provides an update on colocation pricing in London and features an interview with new Moscow data centre IXCellerate.
Colo-X, the specialist colocation industry agents, have highlighted major changes taking place in the UK colocation industry as one of the key issues in their 2013 research report entitled “UK Colocation Industry, Structural Changes and Trends”.In summarising the research Colo-X founder Tim Anker said: “as recently as early 2012 the UK colocation industry could be [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]