Dublin’s Web Summit October 2011
Monday, November 7th, 2011Congratulations to Enterprise Ireland
It was great to be back in Dublin recently to attend the Dublin Web Summit and in particular the “Beyond the Cloud” data centre stream organised by Enterprise Ireland. Hats off to Enterrpise Ireland
Data Centre Industry Leadership Panel adamant industry still supply constrained
Monday, May 9th, 2011Colo-X attended the 7th Data Centre’s Europe conference last week (5/6th May) and the highlight for us had to be the fascinating leadership panel. On the panel were representatives of Telecity, Equinix, Interxion and Global Switch, the four la
What are the implications of the recent acquisition of Blue Square Data by Lumison?
Monday, March 28th, 2011 Lumison’s acquisition strategy begins with their recent purchase of Blue Square Data in a further consolidation of the regional UK colocation market
The combined group will have some 50,000 sq ft of net tech capability of which 90% will be
New Bracknell Data Centre announced – a new wholesale operator
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011Interesting news story yesterday to see Hermes Real Estate Investment Management (a pension fund) and the relatively unknown GCE Data Centres have acquired a 3.2 acre site at 43 Western Road, Bracknell to develop a 60,000 sq ft data centre facilit
UK power capacity – excess supply, not constraints?
Friday, October 14th, 2011I was intrigued to read in yesterday’s (13th October) Time’s stock market report that City analysts are suggesting UK electricity stocks are now a “sell” due to excess supply, which of course flies in the face of one of the perceived “data centre
Manchester expansion for Icecolo
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011Good to hear of the expansion plans from M247, or Icecolo as they like to be known. This Manchester based colocation and hosting provider really surprised me when I visited them in 2010 with their dual use of both a free air/adiabatic cooling
Datacentre search
Tim Anker founded The Colocation Exchange in 2004 and was previously director of IP and Colo services at Band-X from 1999.- Dublin’s Web Summit October 2011
- Industry “Experts” stick to their guns: Concerns addressed about data centre oversupply
- Data Centre Industry Leadership Panel adamant industry still supply constrained
- What are the implications of the recent acquisition of Blue Square Data by Lumison?
- Are we about to experience another data centre crises?



