INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Data Centres
Cyxtera continues
European expansion with
new Amsterdam facility
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Durvasula, European President at CyrusOne.
“CyrusOne provides customised, secure and
resilient data centre solutions to reduce
operating costs and provide unparalleled
security and control. Cyxtera is answering
the region’s call for increased data centre
capabilities, giving customers the reliability,
security and connectivity needed to support
business objectives. We are delighted to
partner with it to serve the entire market.”
Cyxtera also announced that customers
will soon be able to benefit from CXD,
the company’s on-demand data centre
platform, in both Amsterdam and Frankfurt,
in the first quarter 2020.
C
yxtera Technologies, the secure
infrastructure company, has
announced the opening of its latest
European data centre in Amsterdam which
is slated to commence business operations
during the first quarter of 2020. AMS1, a data centre campus in Polanen
Park. The Netherlands is among the most
connected countries and one of the most
advanced data centre markets in Europe.
Amsterdam is home to AMS-IX, a world-
leading Internet exchange.
Cyxtera’s newest facility in Amsterdam
(AMS1) will provide a world-class, highly
connected secure infrastructure platform
to help customers in the rapidly evolving
regulatory landscape. “With the launch of our Amsterdam data
centre, we’re continuing to answer the
demand coming from our customers,” said
Alex Pearson, Senior Vice President for
International Sales at Cyxtera.
Additionally, the company announced plans
to expand its CXD on-demand data centre
platform to Frankfurt and Amsterdam. “This is an important expansion of our
European footprint and the new facility will
be particularly important to businesses in
the finance, manufacturing and technology
sectors who often need colocation space in
this market.”
The new Amsterdam facility will expand the
company’s global footprint to 2.9 million
sqft and 248 megawatts. The facility was
selected in partnership with CyrusOne, a real
estate investment trust (REIT).
Cyxtera is leasing 29,000 sqft of technical
space and three megawatts of power at
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“AMS1 is a purpose-built colocation data
centre campus under construction in
Polanen Park, offering total power of 72
mw to cloud providers, systems integrators
and multinational corporations,” said Tesh
CXD is an intelligent, software-
programmable platform that enables
customers to easily procure, deploy and
configure interconnection and infrastructure
services, allowing for rapid expansion of
existing colocation environments and
speeding time to market in new locations.
Provisioned via API or web portal,
enterprises using CXD can easily procure,
deploy and configure services in less than
a day, dramatically reducing time and
costs typically associated with dedicated
infrastructure initiatives.
“Organisations want the control and
security offered by dedicated infrastructure
with the speed and agility of cloud,” said
Randy Rowland, President of Data Center
Services at Cyxtera.
“CXD’s on-demand infrastructure
meets the requirements of cloud-first
initiatives yet with complete control
over the environment. This is especially
important across the European continent
as enterprises prepare for data residency
issues associated with Brexit.” n
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