As part of the agreement Capgemini will open a new datacentre in France on a Digital Realty Trust property this summer.

Senior Vice President of International Operations of Digital Realty Trust, Bernard Geoghegan, said that the company is excited to work with Capgemini on the datacenter project to help increase IT global strategy.

According to Geoghegan, the Turn-Key datacentre is the best solution for customers like Capgemini to deploy IT systems in a time-efficient and low cost manner.

Capgemini has spent a great deal of the last two years upgrading its hosting prospects so that it can offer clients higher security levels and the best resilience against future attacks.

At the same time, it has been aiming to reduce energy costs for clients while offering high quality services, according to the Deputy Chief Operations Officer of Outsourcing Services Olivier Herrmann.

Harmann also stated that the company hopes that by leasing the space from Digital Realty Trust it will begin to move forward quickly and receive the benefits of the company’s reputation for offering reliable solutions to other large leading companies across the globe.

Digital Realty Trust has also recently entered into an additional turn-key lease agreement with ServeCentric.

The new partnership will allow ServeCentric to move into Dublin.

Datecentre SM Turn-Key offices offer the best hi-tech environments with advanced sustainability features that provide lower energy costs while supporting infrastructure of clients.

News of the expansion comes at a time when Digital Realty Trust itself reports that most datacenters across the UK are fearful of expansion given new ‘green’ government regulations.

According to the survey by Digital Realty Trust, which included senior level datacentre professionals from across Europe, who are directors at IT, IS, MIS or finance companies that earn over €500 million, 70% of professionals are concerned with the impact ‘green’ regulations will have on the costs of current or expanded datacentres.

CTO, Jim Smith, of Digital Realty Trust commented that the survey shows that companies are concerned about how they will efficiently meet new CRC (Carbon Reduction Commitment) regulations and how the new regulations might affect the way datacentres are currently operated as well as future customer relations.

The concern seems to branch from the misconceptions and misunderstandings that companies have about the new CRC regulations, with only 57% of the survey respondents claiming to understand the exact definition of a ‘green’ datacentre.

This may be one reason why IBM targeted the Digital Turn-Key space, as the datacentre already meets a wide array of the green regulations including advanced cooling, energy efficiency, redundancy, and sustainability features.

Yet, the Digital Realty Trust survey reported that while many companies mention that green strategy plays a vital role in choosing a datacentre provider, there is no present company that currently shows significant growth as a green leader.

The new UK datacentre offers a turn-key facility that allows Tata to move in weeks earlier than could normally be expected, and provides state of the art facilities with green power, the latest cooling architecture, and redundant back-ups continually online.

Tata Communications, which has been under a cloud since the Indian government, which owns 26% of the company, expressed concerns about the company’s cash reserves reaching a “critical” point last January, is now back on top of things, with Tata’s CFO recently announcing that the company now had over $300 million in current cash reserves.

The new UK centre will allow Tata to expand its services to both UK and European customers.

This news comes on top of an announcement by Tata that it is moving into new markets in the high growth areas of Africa, with the setting up of new licence holder Neotel Pty Ltd, of which Tata owns 56%.

It is investing about half a billion dollars in underwater cabling which will connect South Africa and Europe to the Indian sub-continent.