IT and telecoms services provider, Syntigo has signed a contract for colocation services with in Belgium.
The contact which will run for a five year term, will be based at Syntigo’s datacentre in Muizen, a village close to Mechelen where six aisles of the first phase of the datacentre, representing 500 sq m, will be reserved for HP, as well as offices, storage space and a private entrance
Syntigo say that construction of the second building of the datacentre will start in a few months and it should be operational by the end of 2014.
The news follows HP announcement with regard to its investment plans in the Belgian market for virtual private cloud solutions earlier this month. The Syntigo data centre in Muizen will be twinned with HP’s datacentre in Roosendaal in the Netherlands and becomes part of HP Enterprise Cloud Services global VPC-network.
Graham Goldsmith, Data Center/Continuity Services Strategy – HP EMEA explains “We opted for Syntigo as our customers are looking for secure, energy-efficient data centres in a central location combined with flexibility to support further growth of our services.”
“Barely a year ago, we invited our customers and the press to the opening of our new datacentre in Muizen”, recalls Jean-François Michotte, Managing Director of Syntigo. “Today, the first building is almost fully occupied. The fact that we were able to respond positively to the expectations of the German, British, Australian and American subsidiaries of a blue chip company like HP shows the strong customer focus of our staff.” Full story here.
