EXPERT OPINION
UK data centre trends:
Security, the cloud and Brexit
The data centre
sector is evolving in
line with the ongoing
Digital Transformation
sweeping across the
region. Intelligent Data
Centres spoke to Eltjo
Hofstee, Managing
Director of Leaseweb
UK, to gain insight into
the current trends
within the UK market.
easeweb is a global hosting
company with more than 20
years of experience. Its hosting
solutions include private,
public and hybrid cloud, dedicated servers,
colocation, a content delivery network and
cybersecurity services. coming up and the amount of data centre
space expanding.
The company entered the UK market in
2018 and has a five-year plan for expansion. You see, London is really growing in
terms of the amount of data centres.
This also means there are quite a few
very modern data centres as they’ve
been built quite recently and so you see
more and more data centres which can
offer racks with a very high amount
of kilowatts.
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We spoke to the company’s UK MD, who
revealed insights into the current trends
within the data centre market in the UK.
In your role as MD as Leaseweb
in the UK can you outline some
trends you’re seeing?
The trend that we are seeing, and I think
it’s everywhere, particularly in the London
market, is a lot of new data centres
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If you look back a few years, Amsterdam
and London had around the same amount
in square metres of data centre space, but
now London is way bigger.
There is also a focus on security – not
only physical but in terms of how to
get access etc. You’ll see a lot of data
centres updating their procedures and
becoming stricter.
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