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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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