The North Virginia data centre market, based just south of Washington DC, is one of the most important in North America and this recent review from US based specialist data centre brokers WiredRE is worthy of reading (and my thanks to Everett Thompson for his permission to add comment).What I found especially interesting is the [...]
Almost a year has passed since Volta Data Centres took possession of the former Reuters/BT Radianz facility on Clerkenwell’s Great Sutton Street and the new 9.6MW, 1600 rack colocation facility is about to go live, with the first customer, Fusion Media Networks, a cloud based service provider, now installing. Background to Volta and Great Sutton [...]
Its all a matter of perspective! Call me “Mr Sceptical”, but funny how headlines can be used to give certain impressions! Data centre agent CBRE’s ever detailed quarterly review was out last week (click here to download) and the headlines screamed: “Cloud drives European data centre demand as colocation take up rises 12%” – “woo [...]
Documents released from the Greater London Authority today (http://bit.ly/X7eJVN ) confirm that Telehouse has secured two plots of land right next door to their long established Docklands campus on East India Dock Road and Coriander Avenue. Securing yet further capacity expansion for the long term – the two plots are highlighted on the aerial image [...]
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 [...]
Interesting to see today’s news that Pulsant has acquired Edinburgh’s Scolocate for £26m, so building on Lumison’s longstanding presence in the Scottish capital.Scolocate has been majority owned by The Royal Bank of Scotland since 2002 following a financial restructuring. Scolocate History Scolocate is an important regional hub facility in the UK data centre market. Having [...]
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 [...]
I wasn’t able to post a comment when I saw last week’s press release (http://bit.ly/TC5SZG ) from respected telecoms industry analysts Telegeography as I was at the Eco Data Centre Summit in Nuremberg (and what a good event that was).However, I thought it was most interesting to at last see one of the analysts present a [...]
UK Wholesale data centre sector update – January 2012 summary The recent 4.3MW deal by CWW with Infinity was a rare large scale leasehold deal for the only part of the UK data centre market that has been struggling over the past few years. Yet despite the widely acknowledged challenges facing the wholesale data centre sector [...]
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 [...]