projects & agreements
LDeX Group doubles capacity in Manchester
LDeX Group has doubled its capacity at its LDeX2 data centre campus in Trafford Park,
Manchester, following continued growth and an uptick in customer demand.
The new 20,000ft2 site, nextdoor to LDeX’s current data centre, will house network carriers
and global Internet Exchange Points (IXPs), with customers benefiting from support by expert
technicians 365 days a year. The state-of-the-art facility will also offer carrier neutral colocation,
network connectivity and streaming media satellite services to a large array of clients in the UK,
Europe and the USA.
LDeX Group owners Rob Garbutt and Patrick Doyle founded the company in London following
the successful sale of their previous organisation, Manchester based UK Grid Group, to Telecity
Group plc in September 2011. Inspired by the region’s burgeoning technology scene and
armed with a wealth of knowledge of the local data centre market, the pair opened LDeX’s first
Manchester based data centre in July last year.
FERRARI AND SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC TEAM UP TO PUSH
LIMITS ON DATA CENTRE EFFICIENCY AND RELIABILITY
Schneider Electric has deployed a second
data centre for Scuderia Ferrari, the racing
team division of the world famous Ferrari
sports car manufacturer.
Ferrari commissioned its first Schneider
Electric/APC data centre in 2004. That data
centre was equipped with a cooling capacity
of 20kW per rack. The InfraStruxure modular,
scalable system serves as the physical
infrastructure supporting computational fluid
dynamics (CFD) platform and the simulations
essential to the aerodynamic modeling of
Ferrari’s championship Formula One cars.
Ferrari’s second data centre was built in
2015. A 300m2 site was created to support
Ferrari’s Formula One car design team. Like the
earlier data centre, it is also equipped with high
efficiency cooling solutions, automatic static
transfer switch (ATS) and hot aisle containment.
The on-demand architecture of InfraStruxure
provides power, cooling, management and
services in a rack optimised design, which is
scalable in accommodating server capacity.
Such scalability eliminates much of the planning
guesswork, reduces installation downtime risk,
and allows for the optimisation of today’s high
density computing installations. The integrated
cooling system consists of in-row precision
air conditioners, and high efficiency hot aisle
containment systems (HACS).
Continuum
expands
international
offerings with
new data centre
in London
Continuum has extended its
international offering with a new
data centre in London, UK.
The opening of the facility
marks an increased investment
for the company’s managed IT
services provider partners across
Europe and will give Continuum’s
MSP partners in the region the
ability to use Continuity247 to
ensure client data is securely
backed up, protected and
accessible to its clients.
Continuum has been utilising
cloud storage via two redundant
IBM Cloud data centres in the US
to ensure security, reliability and
availability of MSP customer data
since the launch of Continuity247
in 2015. Georgia based IT services
provider Sophicity, BSS Consulting
in Indiana, California based WAMS,
as well as eProsper in Toronto,
have all recently announced using
Continuity247 and the public cloud
storage capabilities provided by the
company’s US based data centres.
The new facility in London
will allow Continuum to extend
the benefits of its fully managed
BDR offering outside of North
America for the first time. The
London data centre has built-in
2N redundancy to ensure that
data is always available.
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