projects & agreements
Aegis Data enters into
partnership with Custodian
Aegis Data and Custodian Data Centres
have entered into a partnership to expand
their carrier neutral offering across their
entire client portfolio.
By partnering with Custodian, Aegis
Data is able to offer a range of IP transit
networks to its customers, as well as
expand its DDoS protection and high
performance compute (HPC) capabilities.
Aegis Data already has a reputation
for offering HPC ca pabilities, from its new
purpose built, state-of-the-art facility. By
partnering with Custodian Data Centres,
which hosts a number of HPC clusters for
various universities and financial trading
organisations, this offering is now expanded
to offer clients an increased level of
processing power. With the ability to match
power and delivery of up to 25kW, within
the same footprint, Aegis Data is now able
to provide a greater service to its customers.
The disaster recovery functionality offered
by Custodian Data Centres also enables
Aegis Data to assure its customers that
their data is secure and can be recovered in
light of the most testing of incidents.
HYVE PROVIDES MANAGED HOSTING FOR NEXTBASE UK
Nextbase UK, a leader in the rapidly growing dash cam industry, has recently selected Hyve
Managed Hosting to support the company’s website.
Nextbase, a major supplier to Halfords, needed a web team that could effectively deal
with its site requirements.
The Nextbase website features a video hub where customers can upload their own
footage – video files that tend to be large in size. Hyve’s platform is designed to manage
files of this type and ensures that there isn’t any site downtime, particularly during peak
times of video hub usage.
In order to provide the storage needed, Hyve cached the entire Nextbase website to
ensure that it can handle a huge influx of visitors, remaining up and running even if tens
of thousands of viewers attempt to access the site at once. This is crucial for Nextbase’s
business, ensuring that its videos are available to users at all times.
Colt Data Centre Services adds to global capacity
Colt Data Centre Services has announced it is adding 7,000m2 of data centre capacity
around the world, driven by an unprecedented surge in demand for its cloud hosting and
colocation services.
The expansion includes an entire new data centre in Inzai, Japan, in addition to significant
capacity extensions to its existing data centres serving London, Berlin, and Hamburg.
As more and more devices come online, a great wave of digital information is flooding
businesses in all sectors. IDC predicts that by 2020, the global digital universe will reach
44 zettabytes – more than 10 times that in existence today. This represents both a major
challenge to IT professionals, but also a major opportunity for their businesses to derive new
growth generating insights and revenue streams from this potentially priceless information.
With the Asian colocation market predicted to grow by 16.2 per cent (CAGR) by
2018 to $14.5 billion, the new data centre in Inzai, Japan, has already reached near
capacity before its opening – due to take place in 2017.