Thursday 16th February 2012 shall mark the launch of IXLeeds, a neutral not-for-profit Internet Exchange Point (IXP) based in Leeds. Its main objectives are to allow Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the north of the UK to provide faster, cheaper broadband, and make Yorkshire less dependent upon London. The Olympic Games will place a greatly [...]
Leading UK Internet Infrastructure and Web Delivery specialist M247 has aroused the interest of engineers from the prestigious Cambridge University. David Green, from the University’s Department of Engineering, visited the company’s Manchester datacentre and head office recently to have a look at the innovations used to build M247’s renowned climate control system which helps keeps [...]
Manchester based Internet Infrastructure company M247 began work today on their brand new datacentre in Trafford Park. This new building presents M247 with a white sheet of paper on which to design what is likely to be the most energy efficient datacentre in Europe. Their existing datacentre, located right next door to their new building [...]
If you’re finding making a choice of datacentre a headache, especially with the explosion of datacentres outside of London, then Infinicom can help you out with their new Datacentres.co.uk website. The company claims to have a comprehensive range of datacentres in their database, with full specifications, connectivity, and upstream carrier data for each one. While [...]
A national survey of over 100 senior IT professionals found that there are three factors driving demand in the UK data centre market sector – security, power and price. The survey, conducted by Telehouse, also showed that most organisations questioned were looking to expand their data centre requirements adding to the current capacity crunch and [...]
Major industry leaders in the European data centre sector will meet at the sixth annual conference taking place April 22-23 at Sophia Antipolis near Nice, France. The high level content and debate will set the agenda on exploiting Green technologies over the coming year (www.datacentres.com/dce). A high calibre line up of top speakers and experts [...]
Interxion, a leading European operator of carrier-neutral data centres, today announced that FibreSpan, a network carrier specialising in dark fibre and ultra-high-bandwidth services, has successfully connected its network to Interxion’s London City data centre. The addition of FibreSpan’s dedicated dark fibre network to Interxion’s London City data centre brings its total portfolio of carriers to [...]
Interxion, a leading European operator of carrier-neutral data centres, today announced that Sage Software GmbH, a leading provider of business software solutions for German SMEs, has selected Interxion to host and centralise their expanding data centre infrastructure in the company’s Frankfurt data centre. The five-year colocation agreement will provide ample space, power and connectivity to [...]
3Com Corporation (NASDAQ: COMS) today announced four new products and solutions from its H3C and TippingPoint portfolios to extend the Secure Network Fabric to next-generation data centers and virtual networks. The Secure Network Fabric integrates 3Com’s industry-leading H3C® enterprise network and security solutions and TippingPoint® intrusion prevention system (IPS) technology to reduce network security risks, [...]
Interxion, a leading European operator of carrier-neutral data centres, has been selected by Nimbuzz, the mobile social VoIP and instant messaging application provider, to house its mission-critical application infrastructure. With over 20,000 users a day worldwide signing up to use their application, Nimbuzz had an urgent requirement for a best-in-class, highly connected facility which also [...]
Interxion, a leading European operator of carrier-neutral data centres, today announced its sponsorship of the third TradeTech Architecture Conference, taking place from the 9th to 11th of February 2010 at the America Square Conference Centre in London. This year’s conference will bring Europe’s largest meeting of CIOs and CTOs from the capital markets together to [...]
The Green Grid, the IT industry’s leading voice for advancing energy efficiency in data centres and business computing ecosystems, today introduced new tools and announced new industry alliances at its Third Annual Green Grid Technical Forum and Members’ Meeting. Attendees of the Forum will learn first-hand how these new tools and alliances are designed to [...]
Interxion, a leading European operator of carrier-neutral data centres, today announced that ADACOR Hosting GmbH has installed a new online after-sales support system for Suzuki International Europe GmbH in one of Interxion’s highly secure data centres in Frankfurt. The newly developed online portal ensures the efficient management of European warranties for Suzuki dealers and distributors. [...]
The organizers and researchers of 6th Data Centres Europe 2010 (www.datacentres.com/dce) have announced today that Christian Belady, Principal Infrastructure Architect at Microsoft, will keynote at the event. Data Centres Europe is the premier regional networking hub for service companies engaged in the sector, and enterprise IT leadership. The event will take place at the Espaces [...]
The Bunker Secure Hosting Ltd, the Ultra Secure Data Centre and Managed Services provider announces the successful completion of its fourth round of financing. The £1m of new funds was once again raised entirely from existing shareholders at double the value of the last issue. The funds will be used to continue the company’s infrastructure [...]
PEER 1 Hosting, Inc. (TSX:PIX), a global online IT hosting provider, today announced the opening of its US$40 million data centre, located in Toronto, Ontario. At more than 40,000 square feet, this new data centre is more than twice the size of a professional hockey rink and marks the first time PEER 1 Hosting is [...]
Interxion, a leading European operator of carrier-neutral data centres, today announced an agreement with leading Italian brokerage and trading firm Nuovi Investimenti to colocate its trading platform at Interxion’s City of London data centre. The agreement, which follows the migration of the Borsa Italiana matching engines from Milan to London earlier in 2009, enables Nuovi [...]
The organizers and researchers of 6th Data Centres Europe 2010 (www.datacentres.com/dce) have announced today that APC by Schneider Electric is Patron of the event. Data Centres Europe is the premier regional networking hub for service companies engaged in the sector, and enterprise IT leadership. The event will take place at the Espaces Antipolis, near Nice, [...]
Nominations for ten Awards categories for the 6th Data Centres Europe 2010 (www.datacentres.com/dce) have been released today. The final shortlist and Awards winners will be announced at the official ceremony and Gala Dinner which will take place at the Espaces Antipolis near Nice, in France on the evening of 22nd April 2010. The Awards categories [...]
NextiraOne, Europe’s leading expert in communications services, has won a second major contract with the James Paget NHS Trust to build additional dedicated Data Centre facilities and provide a resilient communications platform. The new contract will help the Trust to achieve its objectives of delivering better patient services and of reducing its power consumption and [...]
