Tata Communications launches new UK data centre
By CommsDay International
Less than a month since it announced a US$180 million new data centre facility in Singapore, Tata Communications unveiled plans to expand its data centre capacity in the UK.
The new facility, dubbed London 2, is a 21,400 square foot data centre located 25 miles from the actual city. According to Tata, the location was selected strategically to meet a growing demand from corporations looking beyond the power-constrained confines within the City of London in order to lower costs.
London 2 is scheduled for commercial service in the second quarter of 2009. No investment value was disclosed as part of the announcement.
The facility will feature advanced cooling, power, redundancy, and sustainability features to ensure that Tata Communications client’s critical systems and applications are readily available while optimising energy, the company said.
“Tata Communications has seen a rapid increase in demand for managed IT infrastructure services in the EMEA region, driven in part by rationalise IT budgets and companies looking to outsource their data centre operations and achieve greater cost and resource efficiencies” said Abid Qadiri, vice president of Data Centre Services for Tata Communications. “As the availability of highly secure Tier-3 data centre space is limited, we are pleased to bring this state-of-the-art facility to the market.”
The new facility will offer Tata’s full suite of data centre services, including collocation, managed hosting, managed storage services, as well as associated value-added services. It will also be connected to Tata’s global IP infrastructure to deliver Internet, MPLS and Ethernet services.
This article was first published in CommsDay International
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