Cyxtera continues global
expansion with new data
centre capacity in Europe
C
yxtera Technologies, the secure
infrastructure company, has
announced at CyxteraCon, its
annual user conference, the launch of
a new data centre facility in Frankfurt
and expanded presence in London to
satisfy growing customer demand for
the company’s secure colocation and
infrastructure solutions.
The latest deployments, along with a
planned expansion in Amsterdam later
this year, extends Cyxtera’s presence in
key European markets while providing
customers with the high-calibre expertise
and security required in today’s changing
General Data Protection Regulation
(GDPR) landscape.
To address the growing demand for
Cyxtera’s data centre services in
Europe’s largest data centre markets,
the expansions increase the company’s
regional footprint to just under 650,000
square feet and 34 megawatts of power.
Cyxtera’s second Frankfurt data centre
will help global enterprises expanding
into Germany.
An example of customer demand in
Europe is evidenced by Scan, a multi
award winning GPU solution provider.
Scan is working with Cyxtera to offer an
accredited NVIDIA Cloud Service Provider
solution in the UK and Europe.
“We were searching for a data centre
provider that could offer the ideal
environment to support data intensive
workloads such as AI and Deep Learning,
GPU-accelerated Virtual Desktop
Infrastructure (VDI) and super-fast
storage,” said Elan Raja, CEO of Scan.
“We selected Cyxtera’s London data
centres for their ability to meet both
Scan’s and our customer’s strict
infrastructure and security requirements
and support our rapid growth.”
Cyxtera’s data centres meet key enterprise
and service provider criteria, including:
• • A total of 99.9999% power uptime
service level agreements
• • Compliance with SSAE18, SOC-1,
SOC-2, ISO 27001 and PCI DSS standards
• • Access to a rich ecosystem of
diverse network service providers
• • Secure Cabinets and dedicated
Secure cages
Speaking about the momentum the
company is enjoying in Europe, Randy
Rowland, President of Data Centre Services
for Cyxtera, said: “Enterprises continue
to turn to colocation to reduce operating
costs and take advantage of the latest
technology developments in infrastructure
without the risk of losing control or the
ability to meet security requirements.
“The increased demand for cloud and
hybrid services is driving technology
service providers to consume our data
centre capacity. Our expansions ensure
we continue to operate one of the largest
global footprints in the colocation industry
and can offer new and existing customers
world-class service in major data centre
markets worldwide.” ◊
Meanwhile, the company’s expansion
in London – the data centre hub of the
EMEA region – will see an additional
30,000 square feet commissioned in the
company’s Slough data centre campus.
Both the new Frankfurt and expanded
London data centres are expected to
open in July 2019 with Amsterdam later
in the year.
“Increasing our presence in London and
Frankfurt is key to meeting the growing
demand we are seeing from industries
including the finance, manufacturing and
technology sectors,” said Alex Pearson,
Senior Vice President for International
Sales at Cyxtera.
“Europe is a key region for Cyxtera and
our customers, so this expansion is a
natural progression.”
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