Colo demand up 59 percent

Amidst fear of an economic slowdown in the Eurozone demand for colocation data centre services in the major markets of Europe was unseasonably buoyant during the third quarter, leading to an expectation of a year on year improvement in take up. According to CBRE, the global real estate advisor, across the major European markets a total of 56MW of customer IT power has been sold so far in 2014, 59% higher when compared to the same period of 2013.

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DEAC expands foothold to Western Europe & North America

www.deac.eu – one of the largest independent data centre operators in the Northern Europe, has announced plans to roll out services into the UK, US and German markets. DEAC will provide secure data centre support and IT outsourcing that has proven to reduced IT costs for customers by up to 40% within three to five years. DEAC has achieved success across Northern Europe and Russia providing full-range of custom built data centre solutions to more than 2,500 customers in 40 countries,...

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NTT Communications expands global IP network

NTT Communications Corporation has announced the expansion of its Tier-1 Global IP Network today with a new Point of Presence (PoP) in Boston at the Markley Group’s One Summer Street location, New England's largest and longest operating multi-tenant telecommunications and data center facility.

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Fortinet joins Equinix Cloud Exchange

Fortinet® has formed an alliance with Equinix, Inc., joining the Equinix Cloud Exchange™ to provide enterprises and service providers the most mature, scalable and reliable security solutions across multiple cloud architectures. Fortinet’s industry-leading, high capacity firewall technologies deliver exceptional security functionality, throughput and ultra-low latency, enabling security, flexibility, scalability and manageability across customer datacenters, while leveraging the...

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Protecting data centres: don’t neglect physical security

Mike McColl, managing director of high security composite panel manufacturer Securiclad, on the physical security risks facing data centres - and what can be done to counter them.

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New 4,500 m2 data centre in Madrid offers services from the ground to the cloud and across the...
First installation of new Cisco routers in Europe.
BCS Consultancy appoints Chris Coward as COO, guiding a customer-first approach as it expands...
A leading bank in the Baltics has chosen Proact as their partner to update their mission critical...
Data center specialist LCL has been awarded a gold medal by EcoVadis. LCL obtained this medal by...
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