LOGICALIS OPENS NEXT
GENERATION HIGH DENSITY DATA CENTRE
Tier 3+ Facility to support Made-To-Measure
Hosted, Managed and Cloud Services
Slough, UK, 27th May
2010 – International solutions provider, Logicalis,
today announced the launch of its 10,000sq.ft high density data
centre (HDDC). The Tier 3+ facility, located on the M4
corridor, will provide customers with made-to-measure hosted and
managed services to support hyper-virtualised computing, storage
and networking technologies, as well as Logicalis’ suite of hybrid
Cooperative Enterprise Cloud services.
Tom Kelly, MD of Logicalis UK, comments; “As a trusted partner
to many national and international organisations, Logicalis is
committed to investing in innovative, enterprise-class IT resources
that facilitate and future-proof our customers’ business
strategies. This new data centre will allow organisations to
exploit a new era of game-changing high density technologies,
without financial or operational risk, and in an environment
optimised for stability and availability.”
Designed for maximum flexibility, power and environmental
efficiency, the HDDC is based on twin data halls both with 2N power
design and, uniquely, offers 4, 8, 12 and 32kw rack options
throughout, enabling customers to locate low and high density
systems together driving convergence and reducing costs. A
free air cooling system maximises efficiency, taking advantage of
the cooler British climate, and lowering Logicalis’ operational
costs as well as the data centre’s carbon footprint.
Located adjacent to Logicalis’ Managed Service Centre (MSC) and
development and pre-staging labs, customers are afforded the
opportunity to build, test, configure and transition their systems
into a live environment, and with direct access to onsite HDDC
engineers. The HDDC is supported by Logicalis’ three MSCs,
offering customers managed hosting services ranging from Intel
virtualisation, through to mainframe and managed business
intelligence services.
Simon Daykin, CTO at Logicalis UK, and architect of the HDDC,
explains; “With our extensive experience in building enterprise
grade data centre infrastructures and solutions, we understand the
elements critical to deliver robust, reliable, secure and efficient
IT services. Our holistic solution is unparalleled, with the
capability to support the most cutting edge data centre solutions
including the highest density computing environments.
“Customers don’t want to compromise business reliability, and
therefore the co-location of management, development and data
centre facilities allows customers to mitigate the risks from rapid
deployments, migrations and service construction. They also
want to work with a managed hosting provider offering pre-built
value added services and, with the investments Logicalis is making
in cloud services, customers can choose the ownership and
operational model for a data centre that suits their specific
business and operational priorities.”
The HDDC is serviced by major carriers, including dark fibre
services for customers that need very low latency or high data
volume services.
For more information about Logicalis’ HDDC, please visit:
http://www.logicalishddc.co.uk/
About Logicalis
Logicalis is an international provider of integrated information
and communications technology (ICT) solutions and services founded
on a superior breadth of knowledge and expertise in communications
& collaboration; data centre; and professional and managed
services.
With its international headquarters in the UK, Logicalis Group
employs over 1,900 people worldwide, including highly trained
service specialists who design, specify, deploy and manage complex
ICT infrastructures to meet the needs of over 6,500 corporate and
public sector customers. To achieve this, Logicalis maintains
strong partnerships with technology leaders such as Cisco, HP, IBM
and Microsoft.
The Logicalis Group has annualised revenues in excess of $1
billion, from operations in the UK, US, Germany, South America and
Asia Pacific, and is fast establishing itself as one of the leading
IT and Communications service providers, specialising in the areas
of advanced technologies and services.
The Logicalis Group is a division of Datatec Limited, a $4.2
billion revenue business listed on the Johannesburg and London AIM
Stock Exchanges. For more information, visit
www.uk.logicalis.com.
For further information please contact:
Jennifer Manning/Charlotte Sandy
Cohesive Communications
T: +44 (0) 1291 626200
E: Logicalis@cohesive.uk.com