Issue 5, Aug/Sep 2009
FOCUS NEWS UK & EUROPE
Wikimedia Foundation, a San Francisco-based operator of Wikipedia and seven other online publishing projects, has secured free colocation space in Amsterdam. EvoSwitch will provide more than €300,000- worth of in-kind bandwidth and hosting services in its carrier- neutral Netherlands data center.
Dutch colocation provider Denit Hosting Solutions selected Brocade NetIron MLX Series routers for 10 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity between its two data centers.
Web browser developer Opera Software ASA has signed an agreement to lease data center space in Poland. Stockholm, Sweden-based TeliaSonera will provide space and high-speed network access to Opera from its Warsaw data center.
Management consultancy Capgemini has signed up to a Digital Realty Trust Turn-Key Data center lease agreement in a French site.
BT unveiled a plan to launch a Virtual Data Center service in the coming months that will allow customers to use virtualised IT and networking infrastructure as a service.
SSE Telecom, the telecommunications subsidiary of Scottish and Southern Energy plc, is buying a data center from Cantono Data Centre Services Limited, for £4.85m.
Irish telecoms firm Eircom signed a €2m deal with the Irish Health Service Executive, dubbed ‘the establishment of Ireland’s National Health Data Centre’ at the firm’s managed services site in Clonshaugh.
DIGITAL BRITAIN CALLS FOR INVESTMENT
The UK data center sector risks being unable to meet demand when the recession ends if it fails to invest now, says Digital Britain, the report into how the UK will take advantage of digital technology.
London is the largest data center market in Europe and a location for international businesses looking to expand into Europe, but the report raises concerns about supply of data centers capable of delivering “a crucial part of the underlying infrastructure and a vital
UK IT association Intellect has produced a detailed report on the issues facing the data center industry, calling for more dialogue between policymakers and industry representatives. It says: “Data centers are vital to the resilience of public services and competitiveness of UK businesses ... The economy’s reliance on data centers will intensify over the coming years, in line with the development of the Knowledge Economy.” But the report warns the industry is lacking a strategy for involvement in policymaking across the sectors it affects. It also calls on policymakers to “establish a regular dialogue with the industry, particularly on issues such as energy, planning and environmental policy”.
FURTHER READING Intellect, page 16
Software giant Microsoft opened two data centers, both with capacity to house containerised equipment.
Phase 1 of the Dublin, Ireland center is the company’s first data center outside the US. Both this and its facility in Chicago, Illinois will be used to support Microsoft’s Online, Live and cloud services.
foundation block of much of the digital economy”. It urges the private sector to invest more heavily in data centers: “The current demand for highly connected data centers in the UK points to constraints in supply which is of concern as these facilities can take up to two years to build from initial inception. The private sector needs to look beyond the current recession, since the upturn in the economy will not be the only driver of expanding demand – the quantity of information
Microsoft’s Dublin facility on the 19-acre site in Grange Castle Business Park currently has about 303,000 sq ft of data center floor, with a supply of 5.4MW – expandable up to 22.2MW.
HP Critical Facilities in EMEA is offering service packages covering energy efficiency analysis, basic capacity surveys, infrastructure condition and capacity analysis and a full service assessment. The fixed packages are aimed at existing and new design projects. “Many customers are facing challenges as a result of capital budgets and lower operating costs,” said Ed Ansett, director of critical facility services at Technology Services EMEA, HP. “This suite of standardised assessments provides a comprehensive framework and roadmap to increase efficiency and economic returns.” The energy efficiency
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FURTHER READING Digital Britain, page 18
computational fluid dynamics to improve cooling effectiveness.
APC signed a partnership with Internet Villages International (IVI) to deliver “ecologically designed, modular, scalable, data centers for sustainable operation”. APC will bring its power and cooling expertise and combine its efforts with “a data center specialist focused on environmental sustainability and sympathetic rural development”. Under the terms of the partnership, APC by Schneider Electric will provide the technology and infrastructure for the standardised IVI data center architecture. The standardised solution incorporates APC’s hardware and management software and will be combined with pre-engineered, pre- assembled and tested elements for the data center facility. The pre-built solution will be used on the ALBA1 project, located on a site in SW Scotland.
Equinix announced a plan to build a new data center in Zurich. The facility will be the Foster City, California-based data center’s fourth in the Swiss city.
FURTHER READING Build update, page 50
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