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power, extensibility and performance needed to secure the data centre of the future,” Dor explained. “Protecting demanding network
environment requires that both security and performance to be uncompromised. The 41000 Security System brings together Check Point’s innovative hardware and software solutions that in turn accelerate network security,” she went on to say. The 41000 is a medium-size
6U Security System with the same hardware blades found in the 61000 series. The 41000 offers more segmentation and connectivity with high port density of up to 30x10GbE and is the only 6U system to offer high speed interfaces of 40GbE.
75,000 square foot data centre facility at Queensway Business Park in Glenrothes, Fife. According to AOC’s Group Director Alan O’Connor, the plans have been met with an extremely positive response from planners and Council officials in Fife. The application has been hailed
as an extremely significant economic development for the area and a strategically important part of Scotland’s IT infrastructure as a whole. A detailed planning application will
be submitted within the next few weeks and work could start on the £40 million facility as early as this summer. Plans call for the development to
create up to 250 construction jobs and around 50 full time skilled technology and engineering jobs when completed in just over a year. Deputy Council Leader and
Spokesperson for Economy and Planning Lesley Laird said: “News of this development for Glenrothes is particularly welcome not only in terms of the employment opportunities it will bring but in enhancing the Council’s plans to regenerate the entire estate.” “Officers in the Invest in Fife team
and Scottish Development International have worked closely with the company over the past twelve months or so to help identify the best location,” she explained.
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AOC Group says it has submitted a planning application for a
The facility will be the first of its kind
in the UK drawing its energy from a renewable source with power coming from the largest biomass plant in the country located at Markinch in Fife. Queensway Data Centre will accommodate up to 1,500 high performance computer racks offering the highest levels of resilience and data security. The facility will be built to a BREEAM outstanding standard with a power usage effectiveness (PUE) rating of less than 1.15. AOC says that the occupants of the
data centre can expect to reduce their carbon emissions from data centre activities by in excess of 80 per cent in what will be one of most advanced facilities in Europe. The centre will be carrier neutral and provide diversely routed connections from the UK’s backbone fibre network.
sits on top of a massive level of Internet connectivity. The Thurrock area is thought by
many in the industry to be provided only by four carriers: BT, KPN, Cable & Wireless (now Vodafone) and Colt Telecom. However, the new 50MVA Gateway centre sits a mere 20 metres from Fujitsu’s data centre and access to its 6,000 km UK national fibre backbone. According to GVA Connect, the
company behind the Gateway centre, the network gives direct connectivity through a diverse routed ‘figure of 8’ diverse network through Birmingham and Leicester to Manchester, Southport and Leeds. This helps to ensure that direct
low-latency access can be immediately available (subject to contracts) to some 400 Tier-1 and Tier-2 Carriers via London’s Telecity (Harbour Exchange), Telecity (London East) plus Global Switch (London East). The network also gives direct access
to peering exchanges LINX and LoNAP plus easy connection to AMSIX and NLix. High levels of network security are
also available with all Fujitsu routes being classified for either IL3 or IL2 and suitable for a variety of financial,
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London’s new Gateway data centre in London’s West Thurrock
government and military uses. Announcing the connectivity
options, Charles Carden, a Director of GVA Connect, said: “Not only are the connectivity options for the new Gateway data centre superb, we believe from our research that a number of further carriers are considering fibre digs into the area, which is earmarked to become the London East data centre hub, over the coming years. “Diverse dark fibre routes are possible
to The City of London, London’s financial centre, and estimated to have round-trip latency of just 0.19 to 0.2 milliseconds. The availability of BT, Colt, KPN and Cable & Wireless plus Fujitsu’s IL-3 and IL-2 secure IP transit network gives access to some 400 possible carriers and High Density Computing capabilities (thanks to the 50MVA power potential) mean that The Gateway Data Centre is now demonstrated to be one of the most capable sites currently available,” he explained. Carden went on to say that the
Gateway facility is located close to the M25 London Orbital motorway and with easy physical and electronic access to the UK’s financial centres in The City and London Docklands. The data centre consists of a 2.3
hectare site designed to have 8,000 square metres (86,000 sq. ft.) of white space with a gross internal floor area of 19,500 square metres (210,000 sq. ft.). With up to 50MVA of power
potentially available, the Gateway facility is said to be ideal for high density as well as normal density computing uses and is only a few kilometres away from the New York Stock Exchange’s disaster recovery and European Hub data centre in Basildon.
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