Interxion announces Dublin expansion


Interxion has expanded its recently opened Dublin 2 data centre. The expansion of the facility is in response to consistently rising demand from colocation customers, in particular customers in the fast-growing digital media, carrier and cloud service sectors. Including the investment made to build and equip the new data centre, this latest expansion brings Interxion’s total investment in the new facility to EUR 13 million in the last 18 months.


The new phase of Interxion’s data centre will provide an additional 900m2 of net space, increasing Interxion’s overall capacity to 1,700m2 of equipped space.


The project also includes the delivery of an additional 1200kW of high- density power to the site, helping meet the growing need for energy-efficient, high-power-density infrastructure, a key requirement for the latest virtualized servers. Work has already


Outsourcery selects Telecity Group


Outsourcery has selected TelecityGroup’s state-of-the-art Powergate facility as its primary data centre. The decision will guarantee the availability of Outsourcery cloud services to its customers – including infrastructure, applications and storage – maximising resiliency and business continuity.


started on the expansion and is scheduled to be completed by Q1 2011.


“The demand we are experiencing for premium, energy-efficient colocation space is driven to a great extent by the innovative and fast-growing digital media, cloud service and carrier sectors,” said Tanya Duncan, Managing Director, Interxion Ireland. “We plan to continue to enhance our facilities and build on our standards to support and grow these and other customer communities, offering them the best possible environment for managing and developing their mission-critical applications.”


Equinix opens eighth Silicon site Equinix has opened its eighth


International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre in Silicon Valley, located in San Jose.


The new data centre extends Platform Equinix to a total of 91 data centres across 35 strategic markets worldwide, and supports the growth of Equinix’s customers who are connecting to their digital supply chain partners in Silicon Valley.


This new IBX data centre is another example of Equinix investing in its customers’ growth, and will offer 165,000 square feet of space and 2,600 cabinet equivalents when all phases


Due to the nature of its business, ensuring maximum availability is critical to Outsourcery, as its customers rely on the company’s ground-breaking cloud services to run their businesses.


Outsourcery is currently experiencing 100 percent year-on- year growth, and made the decision to use a third-party data centre provider to ensure its infrastructure can scale to cope with such increasing demand.


are open. Today’s $103 million Phase 1 facility opening adds 125,000 sq. feet and 1,098 cabinet equivalents to Equinix’s global platform of more than six million square feet of data centre space.


Connecting this new data centre to the existing Silicon Valley campus will enable Equinix to strengthen its peering, cross connect and traffic exchange services, and help its customers extend their market reach.


The project is expected to cost approximately $148 million when all phases are complete.


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When looking for a data centre, it needed to ensure that significant provision of power and resiliency for its IT services, as well as the physical capacity to enable growth.


Ryan O’Reilly, Head of Telecoms Infrastructure and Networks at Outsourcery, comments: “We chose TelecityGroup’s Powergate facility because it is one of the most advanced data centres in the UK.


“The power availability is the key differentiator for us; the supply of 20kW per rack ensures that we have scope to grow, and this is vitally important for the virtual cloud services we will be providing from the facility. Additionally, it is centrally located making it easy for our engineers to visit.”


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