Mar, 2011 : iomart Group Completes Maidenhead Data Center Expansion
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iomart Group plc, a managed hosting and data center company, today announced the completion of the second phase of an expansion program at its Spectrum House, Maidenhead data center.
The company mentions that the program, another sign of strong customer demand for both its cloud computing and hosting services, provides the company with a further 650 square meters of new data center space, or 300 high density racks, and increases the facility's total data center area to more than 1300 square meters. In addition to the data floors, provision has been made to provide office and build room accommodation for clients.
It states that the new space provides an energy-efficient, secure, standards-based environment for housing the latest hosting technologies, with free air cooling, 2N UPS and N+1 backup generators. The data center has been equipped to meet the company's core objective of delivering 100% uptime and availability, with all services being engineered to ensure no single point of failure. Power is fed to the hosting floors from the UPS to multiple Power Distribution Boards. These boards provide single phase 240V AC power to each rack/cabinet on the floor. Feeds are rated at 8A, 16A or 32A with up to 32A available in a single rack/cabinet.
The company further states that Spectrum House is redundantly connected to its UK network of four further data centers through dedicated dark fiber chains, providing the hosting floors with access to over 40GBit/s of premium internet connectivity. As a result of this network investment, Spectrum House can facilitate client connections from a standard 100MBit/s speed up to multiple 10GBit/s connections. It now offers over 4500 square meters of data center space across its Maidenhead, Glasgow, London, Nottingham and Leicester sites.
Ed Butler, Director of RapidSwitch, an iomart Group company, has overseen the expansion. He said, "Spectrum House has provided our clients with exceptional service since we opened the facility in early 2009, but we have quickly reached a stage where we needed to expand to meet the Group's current and future customer growth needs. We have doubled our capacity both in data center space and network capacity."
"Given its physical proximity to our City of London data center, Spectrum House is a vital component of the Group's high availability cloud offerings. The interconnectivity between the two locations provides an ideal solution for cloud based disaster recovery, mirroring and backup solutions," Butler continued. "The technological advancements that we have delivered through this expansion, combined with the Group's engineering and hosting expertise, will prove to be a winning combination that will benefit current and future clients with the most advanced and stable hosting environment possible," added Butler.
iomart Group plc, a managed hosting and data center company, today announced the completion of the second phase of an expansion program at its Spectrum House, Maidenhead data center.
The company mentions that the program, another sign of strong customer demand for both its cloud computing and hosting services, provides the company with a further 650 square meters of new data center space, or 300 high density racks, and increases the facility's total data center area to more than 1300 square meters. In addition to the data floors, provision has been made to provide office and build room accommodation for clients.
It states that the new space provides an energy-efficient, secure, standards-based environment for housing the latest hosting technologies, with free air cooling, 2N UPS and N+1 backup generators. The data center has been equipped to meet the company's core objective of delivering 100% uptime and availability, with all services being engineered to ensure no single point of failure. Power is fed to the hosting floors from the UPS to multiple Power Distribution Boards. These boards provide single phase 240V AC power to each rack/cabinet on the floor. Feeds are rated at 8A, 16A or 32A with up to 32A available in a single rack/cabinet.
The company further states that Spectrum House is redundantly connected to its UK network of four further data centers through dedicated dark fiber chains, providing the hosting floors with access to over 40GBit/s of premium internet connectivity. As a result of this network investment, Spectrum House can facilitate client connections from a standard 100MBit/s speed up to multiple 10GBit/s connections. It now offers over 4500 square meters of data center space across its Maidenhead, Glasgow, London, Nottingham and Leicester sites.
Ed Butler, Director of RapidSwitch, an iomart Group company, has overseen the expansion. He said, "Spectrum House has provided our clients with exceptional service since we opened the facility in early 2009, but we have quickly reached a stage where we needed to expand to meet the Group's current and future customer growth needs. We have doubled our capacity both in data center space and network capacity."
"Given its physical proximity to our City of London data center, Spectrum House is a vital component of the Group's high availability cloud offerings. The interconnectivity between the two locations provides an ideal solution for cloud based disaster recovery, mirroring and backup solutions," Butler continued. "The technological advancements that we have delivered through this expansion, combined with the Group's engineering and hosting expertise, will prove to be a winning combination that will benefit current and future clients with the most advanced and stable hosting environment possible," added Butler.
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