BT has announced an additional investment in its datacentre capacity to meet the increasing demand from large UK-based organisations for sustainable, secure and compliant cloud-based services. The company has signed an agreement to use datacentre specialist Ark Data Centre’s two sites in the south of England at Corsham in Wiltshire and Farnborough in Hampshire.
BT will leverage the datacentres to develop new managed cloud services for UK organisations where enhanced security is paramount, such as central and local government, defence and security, police and health.
The capability the two new datacentres offer adds to the company’s existing BT Compute portfolio of cloud services, which span public, private and hybrid clouds through to traditional telehousing and colocation services.
Neil Lock, vice president, BT Compute, BT Global Services, said: “Organisations in all industries are embracing the need for greater innovation through digital strategies that rely on cloud services. This is especially true for public sector bodies faced with the complex challenge of transforming services sustainably with increasingly tight budgets.
“By adding two new datacentres to our BT Compute portfolio that comply with the latest government security guidelines, we believe that we have the ideal platform on which to innovate. We already deliver some great cloud services to our government, finance and pharma sector customers. Our latest investment builds on this strength to help us realise our cloud of clouds vision for large organisations.”
The two new datacentres are fully integrated in BT’s cloud of clouds vision, already supported by more than 20 cloud-enabled facilities across five continents, with a further 30 datacentres from third party cloud service providers connected to its network.
