We were able to make our first visit to the new Datum Data Centre on the Cody Technology Park, home of defence contractor Qinetiq and located adjacent to the historic Farnborough airfield.Needless to say one of the first things you are aware of on site is the overall level of security, with the whole campus [...]
Data centre real estate agents CBRE have released their authoritative second quarter European data centre industry overview.As usual it’s really quite a detailed read; the full report is available here: http://bit.ly/NLkDYf. However, I’m pleased to advise the report this quarter includes a guest column by Colo-X on colocation pricing on pages 13 and 14!! Key highlights [...]
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 [...]
Colo provider moving into the wholesale data centre market Gyron have announced today a new 8MW Slough based facility underwritten by a new customer taking a multi-megawatt dual site deal in both Slough and the already announced new 8MW Maylands Hemel Hempstead site. Gyron Maylands is due online in Q4 2012 with the previously announced [...]
The East Midlands region of the United Kingdom has a growing list of colocation and data centre options.There are a number of older and quite small facilities left over from the 1999/2000 'dot-com' era, which because of their age are quite light on power (eg 2kW or 10Amps per cabinet) but quite often very centrally [...]
Congratulations to Enterprise Ireland It was great to be back in Dublin recently to attend the Dublin Web Summit and in particular the “Beyond the Cloud” data centre stream organised by Enterprise Ireland. Hats off to Enterrpise Ireland for such an impressive event both in terms of the quality of speakers and indeed attendees; a [...]
Interesting to read about Tier1 research trying to soothe market concerns about data centre over supply, as reported by Data Center Knowledge http://bit.ly/r51A6Q today.Tier1, an American based specialist research house were extensively quoted in the Coresite prospectus published in early 2010 saying that data centre demand was set to outstrip supply by 250% and that [...]
Colo-X attended the 7th Data Centre’s Europe conference last week (5/6th May) and the highlight for us had to be the fascinating leadership panel.On the panel were representatives of Telecity, Equinix, Interxion and Global Switch, the four largest pan-European carrier neutral colocation providers, together with e-shelter, who currently focus on Germany and Switzerland and Colt, [...]
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.
Colo-X is pleased to be exhibiting at this year’s Internet World at London’s Earls Court 2 exhibition centre.You can find us at booth IS12 in the Business Innovation Village. Furthermore Colo-X founder Tim Anker will be speaking in the Hosting & Web Design Theatre on the first day of the event, Tuesday May 10th at 13.10 on the [...]