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Issue 14, February/March
NEW DEAL SIGNED FOR DATA CENTER IN LONDON’S SOHO
UK Prime Minister David Cameron is pushing ahead to make London a digital hub, signing with the Deputy Premier of China Li Keqiang to develop a carrier- neutral 4,000 sq m, high-specification data center to meet London’s growing demand for video animation.
Soho Data Holdings, Vision IPTV and Playout247’s sister company, will establish the £10m data center and render farm with Xiking Culture Media of Beijing.
The creative video and TV industries will most likely benefit from the data center that supports the latest technology demands for the video animation, 3D TV and Internet TV industries.
The facility will be based in Soho, in London’s West End – the city’s media heartland.
It will be used for colocation and will also provide managed services for high- yield computational capacity required for rendering applications.
Soho Data Holdings already operates a small data centre, Soho Data Centre, in the area. Its CEO John Mills said that this additional facility will enable local customers to create, store and produce digital content quickly, easily and cost effectively.
“It is a key part of our comprehensive, end- to-end platform for internet TV broadcast,” Mills said.
China signs up for new digital industry relations
Xiking Culture Media President Ye Maoxi said the arrangement provides a platform to build a new generation of Chinese-British partnerships within the media industry.
BELGIUM Nexans has opened a new virtual data center in Brussels which will be used to showcase its products and act as a demonstration facility. The Nexans Technology Network Centre will showcase the cable company’s infrastructure management solutions for intelligent buildings and data centers as well as its products for high-density patching, with copper and fiber interconnection links to server and storage areas.
EUROPE HP has signed a US$400m deal with BP to provide global data center services that will allow BP to standardize and consolidate its hosting services and introduce cloud computing and other innovations. The five-year outsourcing agreement extends HP’s relationship with BP – it currently provides data center services for its data centers in the UK. The new agreement ties in data centers throughout Europe and the Americas, placing them all under one contract. BP will
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be responsible for all back-up, recovery, site management, monitoring and maintenance as well as data base and middleware management.
UK
Data center colocation services
provider Colt
and is
working with the London Stock Exchange on its electronic trading progam, offering low-latency connections to liquidity tools for algorithmic trading as part of a hosting service, enabling sub- 100-microsecond Application
providers
transactions. hosting
with Colt will benefit not only by the fast connections but also close proximity to the London Stock Exchange (LSE) data center in the City of London. The LSE has an established colocation service that
allows clients to locate
trading equipment in its primary data center.
High-bandwidth connectivity solutions
provider AboveNet
said it has expanded its Metro Ethernet and core wave services
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in the London metro market. Its networks now stretch from Slough to the Docklands and London City, providing latency
low- connections for high-
bandwidth customers. Level
3 launched new fiber- optic connections from London to Madrid and from Frankfurt to Madrid, offering customers transport services on the new routes with circuit speeds of up to 10Gbps. The company is targeting new European capacity at financial services clients.
SPAIN
IBM has signed a contract to manage the technology platform of Bankinter, the Spanish financial institute, until 2020. The contract covers the management of its core technology platform (mainframe), as
well as its
distributed environment, which consist of more than 800 servers.
HP signed a contract for data center consolidation worth €230m with one of the largest building
companies in Spain, FCC. According to a report by Computer World Spain, the construction company
will consolidate its
data centers worldwide into two facilities. It is thought both will be in Spain.
Telefónica is consolidating about 100 of its data centers into six large facilities, according to a Spanish government spokesperson. A report on news site Diario de
Alcalá said two of these
data centers will be in Europe (Madrid and Prague), while the remaining four will be built in Latin America. The Tecnoalcalá science and technology park in the town of Alcala de Henares (35 kilometers from Madrid, Spain) will be the site for the first 80,000 sq m data center build, Telefónica said will cost about €300m and will require the work of 100 engineers.
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