Sudlows announce datacentre contract wins

Posted on December 2, 2013 by Michael

The Manchester based IT infrastructure company, Sudlows, has secured a number of datacentre contracts across the North West and Yorkshire.

Sudlows has been commissioned by both Daisy Group PLC and Egton Medical Information Systems Ltd (EMIS) to deliver a range of core upgrades to their data centre operations.

Andy Hirst, Global Director for Sudlows commented; “Big Data is a global topic and having previously delivered highly efficient data centres for both Daisy and EMIS, it’s encouraging to see these two highly successful companies expanding and looking to invest in further technical upgrades and to integrate the latest data centre infrastructure in to their existing facilities.”

Sudlows(Image: Andy Hirst, Global Director for Sudlows at the Datacentre Solutions Awards 2013)

Daisy has rapidly grown to become one of the UK’s leading business communication providers. This fast-growing company currently employs more than 1,400 people at 18 sites across the UK and has more than 65,000 retail customers.

EMIS is the UK provider of clinical IT systems for joined-up patient care. Its systems hold 39 million patient records and are used by over 5,000 healthcare organisations – from GP practices to community, child and mental health services. 52.4% of GP practices in the UK use an EMIS system. More on Sudlows here.

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Netwise to build new Central London datacentre

Posted on December 2, 2013 by Michael

UK hosting provider, Netwise Hosting has announced key details regarding a newly secured site which is set become the company’s newest datacentre.

netwise hosting londonLocated in Central London, the site is situated between the City and Docklands, less than a mile from London Bridge Station, the plot near Bermondsey Underground Station is set to become the company’s flagship datacentre in 2014, with the site expected to top 11,000 sq ft after internal works are completed this winter.

Management at Netwise have informed industry journalists that facility plans pertain to a two-story zoned technical space accommodating in the region of 200 racks, along with NOC and company headquarters. This data centre will also accommodate customer lounge areas, loading bays, warehouse space, as well as further amenities still undisclosed at this time.

According to the company, local commercial property firms value the site at around £2.5 million before major build works begin.

A suitable shell is already in place on the site, with Netwise announcing that sufficient power for the first build phase has already been dug into the compound with an on-site transformer, ready for work to begin immediately.

The build of this facility is set to become somewhat of a milestone in speed of deployment, with an expected soft opening ‘go-live’ date sometime in March / April 2014. As with the organisations current site in Sutton, South London, the build will be chiefly planned and executed in-house.

Matthew Butt, Managing Director at Netwise Hosting, commented on the ambition of the project “As with our Sutton data centre in South London, we will be leveraging our in-house expertise in various M&E disciplines to bring this project to life with minimal reliance on 3rd parties. This is a huge step for us, increasing our available capacity by around 900%. We are chasing the booming Central and East London market with this facility, looking to bring our winning formula of value, quality and flexibility to a customer base closer to the City and Docklands. We are aiming to maintain the same pricing structure as we have in place at our South London facility, which will likely equate to the best value data centre services anywhere in Central London.”

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Rack Centre’s Tier III Lagos datacentre goes live

Posted on November 29, 2013 by Michael

Rack Centre, part of the Jagal Group, has gone live with the first phase of its Tier III datacentre in Nigeria offering around 3,000 rack spaces and 6mVA of power.

Rack Centre is the first Tier III designed, neutral colocation datacentre facility offering services in Nigeria and Western Africa and has set its sights on positioning Nigeria at the centre of the worldwide growth in disaster recovery, data storage and cloud based data centre services.

The datacentre is located in the heart of Ikeja close to the main commercial areas of Lagos and is situated on a 20,000 sq m green field site. Rack Centre took into account the possible hazards of building critical datacentre operations on one of the Lagos islands, choosing the site partly because it is over 23 meters above sea level and is one of the highest points in the city.

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NGD expands with hall eleven at Newport Wales data centre facility

Posted on November 29, 2013 by Michael

ngd-europeNGD has announced the completion and immediate availability of a further data hall at its NGD Europe tier 3+ carrier-neutral mega-datacentre in South Wales.

This is NGD’s eleventh data hall to be built within the giant 750,000 sq ft facility since its opening in 2010. Capable of supporting several hundred racks in shared, caged or private configurations the new hall will meet planned demand from further corporate, government and smaller service provider organisations requiring secure, flexible and scalable facilities.

“With major customers including BT, CGI, IBM and most recently Wipro Technologies on board in custom private halls NGD has already achieved occupancy levels on a scale comparable to filling to capacity several large London Docklands area data centres,” said Simon Taylor, chairman, NGD.

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Syntigo secures HP Belgian datacentre contract

Posted on November 29, 2013 by Michael

IT and telecoms services provider, Syntigo has signed a contract for colocation services with  in Belgium.

Syntigo buildingThe 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.

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17pc of Ireland’s electricity supply came from renewables in 2012

Posted on November 28, 2013 by Michael

Ireland is progressing towards its target of 40pc renewable electricity by 2020, a new report by electric power transmission operator EirGrid claims. In 2012, renewables met 17pc of the island’s electricity demand.

no-fee-eirgrid-annua-3258d9-1(Image: Minister for Communications, Energy and National Resources Pat Rabbitte, TD (left), and Fintan Slye, CEO, EirGrid)

This comprised 18pc in the Republic of Ireland and 13pc in Northern Ireland.

During 2013, some 116MW of renewable power sources (mostly wind) connected in Ireland and 74MW in Northern Ireland.

At the end of September 2013, the total renewable generation installed on the island of Ireland was 2,771MW.

EirGrid estimates that meeting the 40pc renewable electricity targets in Ireland will reduce the CO2 intensity of emissions in the power sector from 489 g/kWh in 2011 to about 300 g/kWh in 2020, representing a drop of by 38pc.

“Ireland and Northern Ireland have set ambitious renewable electricity targets for 2020,” said Fintan Slye, EirGrid CEO.

“There has been solid progress towards developing strong renewable electricity-generation capabilities in the last few years.

“It is important that we build on this momentum as we strive to meet our target of 40pc renewable electricity generation by 2020.

“Achieving these targets and the resulting benefits will require a significant expansion and upgrade of the transmission network across the island of Ireland,” Slye added.

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US Data Centers Go Green With Irish Innovation

Posted on November 28, 2013 by Michael

Hanley Energy, a data center power and energy management company from Co. Meath, Ireland with newly opened offices in Austin, Texas and LA, is proud to announce that it has won a top global cleantech award for a control solution that has begun to be adopted by the US data center industry.

Hanley Energy(Image: The winners of the Global Cleantech Cluster Awards with representatives of the GCCA at the awards ceremony in Lahti, Finland, including Hanley co-founders Dennis Nordon and Clive Gilmore – third and fourth from right.)

Specializing in the design, supply and support of customized energy & critical power management solutions, the company’s world-leading innovation prevents data centers switching from drawing power from generators instead of utility-provided electricity in areas of unstable electricity supply.

Using a touchscreen interface, it allows operators to reduce their critical switchgear costs and reduces the risk of downtime – which can cost up to $5,700 per minute.

Furthermore it offers them savings of between 5 per cent and 15 per cent on their running costs, while reducing CO2 emissions.

Winning the Best in Cleanweb / IT category and being in the 2013 Global Top 10 of cleantech companies at the Global Cleantech Cluster Association  (GCCA) 2013 Later Stage Award reflects Hanley Energy’s success and market position in data center power and energy management in the $163.1 billion global cleantech market.

It confirms that the company ranks them among the best of the association’s nearly 50 member clusters and over 10,000 member companies from around the world, as judged by 22 cleantech venture capital and private equity investors and serial entrepreneurs, who collectively manage over $3.5 billion in global clean technology investment.

“These Global Top 10 are all companies with significant achievements and strong local ties to their economic regions,” said Christian Haeuselmann, Co-Founder of the GCCA and Cluster Manager for swisscleantech.

“They are not only strong technically, but their products and services demonstrate a particular investability and potential market growth mainstream investors are seeking. By highlighting them as winners, we demonstrate to the world that cleantech companies are serious and successful investments.” Full story here.

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Google to open Taiwan datacentre shortly

Posted on November 28, 2013 by Michael

googleReports are emerging that search giant,  is set to shortly open a new datacentre in Taiwan. According to a report from ZDNet, the tech giant has begun recruiting for a number of positions at the facility through LinkedIn.

Two years ago, the company was rumoured to have invested some NT$1 billion (US$34.1 million) to acquire a 15-hectare site in a government-developed industrial park located in a coastal area of central Taiwan. Since then little activity has been noted.

The company has now posted job ads on the businesses networking website which include the following: datacentres facilities engineer, datacentres security specialist and finally, what’s described as a “datacentre environmental and safety technician.”

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Savvis gets ready for China expansion

Posted on November 28, 2013 by Michael

International datacentre provider, , intends to develop a series of strategic partnerships in mainland China in the coming months to expand its business in that country.

savvis managementImage: (Jeffrey Von Deylen (left), pictured with Gery Messer, hopes to sign up potential partners in the first half of next year). 

That expansion would follow the launch of the US company’s second datacentre in Hong Kong under a joint venture with San Francisco-based Digital Realty Trust, which has seen the first phase of an eventual 18,000-sq m datacentre opened earlier this week.

“We have customers already signed up and ready to turn on their operations at the site in January,” Savvis president Jeffrey Von Deylen said in an interview with the South China Morning Post.

“It’s really important for us to figure out who we’re going to be partners with in [mainland] China,” said Von Deylen, pointing out that Savvis has virtually no business in that market. “For our customers to be successful in China, we need to operate in the country.”

Von Deylen is visiting the mainland later this week to continue discussions with potential partners and hopes to clear the way for the signing of formal agreements in the first half of next year.

“It can be more than one [partnership], but we’re not going to do 10,” he said.

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HP reports fourth quarter and fiscal 2013 results

Posted on November 28, 2013 by Michael

hplogoThe American multinational information technology company HP has announced financial results for its fiscal fourth quarter and fiscal year ended Oct. 31, 2013.

Fourth quarter GAAP diluted net earnings per share was US$0.73, up from a GAAP diluted net loss per share of US$3.49 in the prior-year period. Fourth quarter non-GAAP diluted net EPS was US$1.01, down from US$1.16 in the prior-year period. Fourth quarter non-GAAP net earnings and non-GAAP diluted net EPS exclude after-tax costs of US$545 million and US$0.28 per diluted share, respectively, related to restructuring charges, the amortization of intangible assets and acquisition-related charges.

Fourth quarter net revenue of US$29.1 billion was down 3% from the prior-year period and down 1% when adjusted for the effects of currency.

Fiscal 2013 GAAP diluted net EPS was US$2.62, up from a GAAP diluted net loss per share of US$6.41 in the prior-year period and below the previously provided outlook of US$2.67 to US$2.71 per share. Fiscal 2013 non-GAAP diluted net EPS was US$3.56, down from US$4.05 in the prior-year period and within the previously provided outlook of US$3.53 to US$3.57 per share. Fiscal 2013 non-GAAP net earnings and non-GAAP diluted net EPS exclude after-tax costs of US$1.8 billion and US$0.94 per diluted share, respectively, related to the amortization of intangible assets, restructuring charges and acquisition-related charges.

Fiscal 2013 net revenue of US$112.3 billion was down 7% from the prior year and down 5% when adjusted for the effects of currency.

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