Analysis ISLE OF MAN (PTII) Isle of Man: Vital Statistics
Capital: Douglas Population: 85,421 Land Area: 572
sq.km Median age: 42.6 years Languages: English, Manx Gaelic Ethnic Groups: Manx (Norse-Celtic descent), Britons Currency: Manx Pounds (IMP) Government: Parliamentary Democracy Chief of State: Lord of Mann Queen Elizabeth II (represented by Lt Governor Adam Wood) Head of Government: Chief Minister Allan Bell (since 2011) Elections:
Monarchy is hereditary. Lt Governor is appointed by the Monarch. Chief Minister elected by the Tynwald for a five year term.
Casinos: 1 (licence for a second) Casino slots: 150 Gaming tables: 10 Gaming halls: 2-3 Slots: 250-300 LBOs: 11
“One of the island’s greatest strengths is the willingness to work with operators to create suitable and forward thinking legislation. Good examples of this are the Disaster Recovery Legislation and the new Network Licence. Both before and during the licence application process support is provided by individuals within the DED. We have worked closely with both our customers and the government in ensuring that the IOM is an ideal location for either primary licensing or a disaster recovery site.”
Domicilium was founded in 1991 to provide technical solutions and upper quartile management services from data centre facilities, network infrastructure and office connectivity. The company provides hosting facilities in a number of jurisdictions around the world. Its most recent investment is the Isle of Man data centre at Ronaldsway which is 20,000 sq.ft in size.
Meanwhile from just one server in 1996 Netcetera has grown to become one of the world’s leading hosting service providers catering for small companies to large global e-business enterprises in over 60 countries.
By the year 2000, Netcetera had opened April 2013 PAGE 56
Wi-Manx operates data centres in London and
Manchester under the Heywood
brand name and
offers a new range of data centre, hosting and
network solutions.
Dataport has a capacity of 16,824 sq.ft the equivalent of over 700 racks or 28,000 servers and is housed in a building which was previously used to manufacture industrial diamonds. Netcetera provides data centre co-location, cloud hosting,
four data centres in London and in 2006 invested £10m to construct a new data centre, The DataPort, in the Isle of Man’s Freeport. It was functional by March 2007.
dedicated servers and managed web hosting services in the UK.
Wi-Manx operates data centres in London and Manchester under the Heywood brand name and offers a new range of data centre, hosting and network solutions. The IOM data centre Heywood House opened in 2011 and offers a range of hosting and network solutions including dedicated servers, cloud hosting, disaster recovery, managed
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