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Scotland: Naturally Cool The perfect home for European data centres
These existing IT professionals are complemented by the stream of talented graduates emerging from Scotland’s world- class universities.
Business IT solutions provider Onyx Group operates
data centres in Glasgow and
Edinburgh. Nigel Hedley, managing director of its service division, said: “As we’ve grown, we’ve become more Scotland-centric.
Cray’s super-computer Hector based in Edinburgh, Scotland
A variety of factors such as geography, robust power and telecoms supply, quality
property options and a skilled workforce have positioned Scotland as a location of choice for the data centre industry.
As the adoption of private and public cloud hosting gathers momentum, global companies increasingly need to have data centre facilities in key geographic locations such as the US, Europe and Asia to allow them to comply with the myriad of compliance and governance issues in relation to data to data storage – Scotland, within the UK and European Union, is ideally placed as a potential European hub for these companies.
The trend towards consolidation within the market and the move towards super centres by major operators have been of particular significance in boosting the country’s increasingly high profile in the sector.
Those developments are the latest stages in a well-established track record of delivering the full range of data centres, shared service centres and network operations centres with companies such as IBM, JP Morgan, Oracle, Fujitsu, Dell and NCR already locating major facilities in Scotland.
This track record can be attributed to the established expertise in the electronics industry and pool of cost competitive, high quality skilled staff which has been created to service the sector.
“This is a great location to do business with a workforce full of talented people. We’ve always been able to recruit the skilled staff we require – people who combine a strong technical background with sales ability.”
Basing and operating a data centre operation in Scotland can save your business money, in no small part due to the country’s geography and climate.
The average daily temperature
being 2°C cooler than most other European data centre locations meaning Scottish centres require less power for cooling and the use of ‘free-air’ technology becomes a realistic, cost- effective option.
The availability of large open spaces and a reliable, robust and competitively-priced power supply is another major advantage with the country home to two leading suppliers, ScottishPower and Scottish & Southern Energy, who lead the rest of the UK in development and delivery of power from renewable energy sources.
That access to green energy is crucial with the Scottish Government committed to greater use of renewables and a target of 100% of Scottish consumption from green sources by 2020.
High quality property options are available across the country supported by excellent power and fibre infrastructure.
Lumison, the UK’s leading business internet service provider, first launched in 1995 as EdNET, a modest local dial-up ISP, and has grown to become part of a global network.
The firm’s Edinburgh HQ provides high security co-location space, office accommodation and secure storage areas for central and local government agencies and the emergency services.
Managing director of ScoLocate, Roy Maxwell, commented: “Scotland has a great support network in place for business and plugging into that was one of the best steps we have taken. By providing us with access to information on companies setting up in Scotland, SDI has helped to accelerate our growth.”
Support in Scotland is offered through schemes such as Regional Selective Assistance (RSA) grants where funding towards investment which will create or safeguard jobs while R&D Funding can cover the cost of everything from buildings and people to technology and equipment.
Funding is also available via the Scottish Investment Bank, while as part of its strategy of supporting innovation and inward investment, the UK Government offers generous incentives to companies carrying out research and development. n
Aydin Kurt Elli, CEO of Lumison, said: “Apart from basic technical skills, we look for the soft skills associated with the Scottish work ethic such as fairness, professionalism and service/ duty of care mentality.
“Scotland is an ideal location for business because of the people, telecoms and transport while its universities and tertiary colleges have helped provide us with a highly skilled workforce.”
Another integral part of Scotland’s appeal is the support on offer from Scottish Government. Via Scottish Development International (SDI), potential investors can access a range of support services.
IT management company ScoLocate provides infrastructure and business continuity services to public and private sector organisations, operating one of the most advanced data centres in the UK outside London.
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