Mar 7, 2011 : Telehouse Data Center Opens in Istanbul

📅 March 7, 2011 - Company opens its new data center in Istanbul/Turkey in partnership with local telecommunications/system integrator company Teknotel Telekomunikasyon.

Telehouse, a colocation, dedicated data center and business continuity solutions firm and an IT operations management provider, today announced the opening of its new data center in Istanbul/Turkey in partnership with Teknotel Telekomunikasyon, a telecommunications/system integrator company.

The company articulates that 'Telehouse Istanbul' in partnership with Teknotel Telekomunikasyon, will be operational from March 2011 and is its first data center operation in the region. The new carrier neutral data center facility in Kozyatagı is located on the Asian side of Istanbul and is opened under the Telehouse brand and operated, supported and maintained by Teknotel to the company's stringent global operating standards. The Istanbul site is supplied by dual power feeds and will be able to provide 4-5 KW per rack. Managed services, remote hands and other services will be available to the company's Istanbul clients from the site. In addition to the Kozyatagi site, it is also planning a second Istanbul data center in 2012 in partnership/conjunction with Teknotel.

Andrew Fray, Business Development Director at Telehouse said, "Turkey is an extremely important market for us, bridging both Europe and Asia. In working with Teknotel we have found a partner with the expertise, focus and willingness to carry the Telehouse brand. Our customers can be confident to expand and place their infrastructure in Telehouse Istanbul which, like all Telehouse facilities around the world, specializes in providing the highest levels of security, power management and cooling. It is important for companies to locate their critical infrastructure in data centers where risk is carefully managed especially in Istanbul which faces some significant physical risk factors, such as flooding and earthquakes." "Telehouse continues to open data centers in countries where we find a local partner with the capability to run superb facilities. We are pleased to extend the Telehouse footprint to Turkey and can now serve the needs of customers and partners in 21 major cities globally," Andrew added.

Alper Selcuk, General Manager of Teknotel Telekomunikasyon commented, "Opening a Telehouse facility in Istanbul is a superb opportunity for us to extend our range of products and services in the Turkish market. We are well-known for delivering communication solutions to our corporate customers and, with our Telehouse facility, we can now offer carrier neutral colocation too. Telehouse is the very best name in the international data center and colocation market and the opening of Telehouse Istanbul comes at an important time when Turkey is opening up rapidly and connectivity, security and continuity are vital to companies located in the city." "Already we are finding that demand for carrier neutral data center space is building quickly. Senior ICT executives who are making decisions regarding the deployment of their critical infrastructure realize that they now have a wider choice of communication solutions in Istanbul and that they can now house them more strategically and cost-effectively," said Alper Selcuk.