PEER 1 Hosting, the global IT hosting provider, today opens its new 5,372m2 green data centre in Portsmouth. The facility in Langstone Technology Park, Portsmouth offers businesses across London and the South East scalable managed hosting, dedicated hosting and colocation services in one of the greenest data centres in the country.
Within easy reach of London, the centre has a staggering 11MVA of available power, room for 20,000 servers, and provides a direct connection to PEER 1 Hosting’s 10Gb fibre backbone network.
The facility is located in one of the most energy-efficient …

AOL has been operating a trial datacenter that runs without any on-site staff since the start of the month, and reports that the system is resilient and cuts costs.
Dubbed ATC, the datacenter uses off-the-shelf, pre-racked/vendor integrated gear with open source code, is run as a 100 per cent lights out facility (no BOFH patrolling the racks), and was put together in 90 days from the first proposal. AOL’s special sauce is its configuration management system, which the company says can set up and start a virtual machine in eight seconds …

Connectivity provider Hibernia Atlantic announced on Friday that it is now connected to colocation firm UK Grid’s Manchester One data center.
According to the press release, the network expansion supports the high growth in this region. UK Grid added 6,000 square feet of colocation space to Manchester One at the end of June.
“By connecting our diverse, high capacity network into UK Grid’s Manchester data center, we can further address the demand from enterprises and IT service providers throughout this region,” Bjarni Thorvardarson, chief executive officer for Hibernia Atlantic said in a …

Gyron has announced that it had commenced work to bring online an additional data centre in Hemel Hempstead. When open for customer occupation in Q1 2012, the new Maylands facility will complement the existing Centro facility, also in Hemel Hempstead, that was opened by the company in 2009.
The new facility is set within a secure private 170,000 compound with 66,000 sq ft of data centre space and 22,000 sq ft of associated offices and disaster recovery areas. The site will feature dual redundant 8MW power supplies from two dedicated on-site …

Having the ability to call on a national icon and international movie star to open your facility could never do any harm so thanks to a family connection, that’s what UK data centre operator Virtus did.
Sir Michael Caine had not had cause to visit many (any?) data centres. But he has now. He was on hand to the officially celebrate the completion of phase one of Virtus’ site in Enfield in North London. 
It was in the week that his contemporaries were glamming it up in the South of France at …