UK

London

Our London carrier- and cloud-neutral data centres provides the latest highly secure, scalable infrastructure for mission-critical IT systems, with a wide range of connectivity solutions, within 6,700m² of maximum equipable space.

The data centres offers communities of interest for companies across the cloud, digital media and finance sectors. It’s a great place to make new alliances for revenue opportunities and lower costs.

We’re conveniently located in the heart of the City, 7 miles from City Airport, 25 miles from Heathrow Airport and close to public transport links.

• Cloud Community

  • Lower networking costs by peering traffic directly with key cloud delivery partners
  • Reduce latency to end-users via Cloud Hub city centre location
  • Maximum uptime with industry-leading redundancy, resilience and security
  • In-house access to a thriving and growing cloud community

• Digital Media Community

  • Centrally located with direct access to Europe’s broadband subscribers
  • Lowest latency to key European markets for optimum performance
  • Maximum cost efficiency via extensive choice of content delivery partners
  • Industry-leading security for premium media assets
  • Industry leading redundancy and resilience supporting live and real-time services
  • In-house access to a large and growing digital community

• Finance Community

  • Specialist provider of colocation and proximity hosting to the financial services industry
  • Uniquely located in the City providing sub-millisecond latency
  • Market participants able to reduce costs and complexity of their trading infrastructures whilst increasing flexibility
  • Connectivity to a large number of liquidity venues, such as NYSE Euronext, Nasdaq OMX and Bolsa de Madrid
  • Over 100 capital markets participants, including investment firms, high-frequency trading firms, hedge funds, brokers and banks
  • Extensive community of services providers, including leading vendors of market data, DMA and sponsored access, low-latency connectivity, leading-edge technology and clearing services

• Connectivity

  • A growing community of carriers, ISPs, Internet Exchanges and other connectivity partners will help you reduce the cost of network access and improve performance
  • Access to around 50 carriers and ISPs and direct access to the London Internet Exchange and LONAP
  • We provide dual-entry fibre and SLA-based cross connects

• Power

  We provide managed power with in-built resilience, allowing extra equipment to be added without outage. Features include:

  • 2N UPS redundancy
  • High density power configurations
  • A full range of AC and DC output currents
  • N+1 backup generators supporting 24 hours at full capacity with 4-hour refuelling
  • Up to 99.999% availability SLAs on power

• Security

  • Our buildings typically have five layers of physical security
  • Trained security staff are on site 24/7
  • ISO and BS certified for information security management systems

• Controlled Environment

  • All equipment is maintained and monitored in a climate-controlled environment
  • We use fire-retardant walls, very early smoke detection apparatus, direct lines to fire stations and automatic gas-based fire suppression systems
  • We have SLAs on temperature and humidity in line with ASHRAE recommendations, and the whole facility is monitored 24/7

• Energy Efficiency

  • Our London campus is powered by 100% renewable energy and we’re committed to the use of sustainable energy such as free cooling, ground water cooling and waste heat re-use
  • Continuous monitoring of our environments helps us to improve efficiency
  • We employ a phased modular architecture to optimise power usage effectiveness, and we operate to the highest energy efficiency standards