projects & agreements
ZENIUM ANNOUNCES CONTRACT WINS AT FRANKFURT ONE
Zenium has announced that it has secured two new customers at its Frankfurt One data centre .
The contract wins confirm strong ongoing interest in the state-of-the-art facility and also contribute towards Zenium ’ s strongest global sales performance to date . The first customer approached Zenium as part of a market-wide initiative to identify a reputable data centre operator that could offer a hybrid solution to effectively link between a hardware platform and software services . The second chose Zenium as a result of its ability to support future expansion plans ; an element of the Zenium business model that major cloud providers are finding very compelling .
Energy efficiency remains high on the German data centre agenda as does the need for high levels of resilience to guarantee service levels required by our customers . Zenium Frankfurt One provides one of the best PUEs in Frankfurt combined with the added advantage of 110kV dual redundant power supplies to the site .
Strategically located in Sossenheim , Frankfurt One extends to 5,000m 2 ( 9.1MW IT load ) of net technical space . It is situated on a highly secure campus that will ultimately provide a total of 15,000m 2 ( 26.7MW IT load ) across two buildings .
Daisy selects EkkoSoft Critical data centre environment solution
EkkoSense has announced that IT and telecommunications provider Daisy Group is successfully using EkkoSoft Critical , an intuitive and immersive web based 3D software and sensor offering for managing its critical data centre facilities . Used as part of a strategic data centre optimisation service by EkkoSense , the solution has already helped to reduce energy costs by 19 per cent at one of Daisy ’ s key UK data centres and the project is set to achieve a full Return on Investment in under a year .
EkkoSense Critical presents a real time 3D view of one of both physical and thermal data centre dynamics . Using this real time data , EkkoSense consultants have helped implement changes to provide Daisy with significant energy saving opportunities , thermal compliance and balanced airflow .
Swiss video surveillance company Morphean keeps its data securely in Europe with Interoute Virtual Data Centre
Interoute has announced that Morphean is hosting its management platform for content analysis videos and incident detection in Interoute Virtual Data Centre .
Currently , Morphean already hosts its Videoprotector platform in Interoute Virtual Data Centres in Paris , Geneva , Frankfurt and London . It is available in SaaS mode for its customers ( CCTV companies , physical security device installers and service providers ) who use the solution or resell it as a white labelled solution . Videoprotector is much more than just a hosted video surveillance platform . It offers the best and easiest solution to monitor , protect or analyse shops , stations , small offices , buildings or industries . Its unique active learning video analysis technology scans human behaviour to detect incidents or report business activities .
VOLTA DATA CENTRES AND LUXCONNECT JOIN FORCES TO SOLVE CHALLENGES OF EUROPEAN UNION AND BUSINESS CONTINUITY
Colocation providers Volta Data Centres in London and LuxConnect in Luxembourg have forged an alliance in a bid to connect the two most strategically important communication hubs in Europe .
The alliance is designed to combine strengths and help companies meet the challenges presented by changing regulations and capacity fluctuations .
This strategic alliance was disclosed at a reception held in the Luxembourg Embassy in London in October hosted by the Ambassador of Luxembourg HE Mr Patrick Engelberg .
Volta Data Centres has a purpose built facility that sits between Shoreditch and the City of London . The site , completely refurbished in 2013 , provides a secure colocation platform for small or medium sized enterprise , growing companies , or enterprise expanding looking to fulfil a global ambition , allowing businesses to connect seamlessly to the world . LuxConnect has four multi-Tier ( Tier 2 , 3 & 4 ) data centres in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg certified by the Uptime Institute . Several global companies from finance , entertainment and online commerce are hosted at its facilities .
The alliance is aimed at bolstering the security and continuity needed by companies in the shifting political and commercial landscapes created by a fast growing IT services sector and the potential restructuring of the EU following Britain ’ s Brexit vote .
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