A photo of Migration Solutions managing director, Alex Rabbetts
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — UK colocation firm Sentry42 (www.sentry42.com) announced on Wednesday that it plans to open its new Gatehouse data center to its customers on May 11, 2011.
The 60,000 square foot facility is located close to Norwich, which is about two hours from London.
Sentry42 is the colocation business of data center consultantcy firm Migration Solutions (www.migrationsolutions.com).
The company is responsible for the $20 million renovations of the facility, since it was previously used by an insurance firm.
Migration Solutions will take care of the ongoing management of the facility as well, according to the press release.
“We are delighted with today’s launch announcement and the rapid progress of The Gatehouse from initial concept to a business-ready facility,” Alex Rabbetts, managing director of Migration Solutions said in a statement. “Today’s data center customers rightly demand state-of-the-art environmental design without comprise on reliability or security. The Gatehouse achieves this and scores very highly on every customer requirement.”
The Gatehouse offers 5.4MW diverse power, N+1 power redundancy, and generators able to run the data center for up to eight days at full load.
The company has made various adjustments to comply with the EU Code of Conduct for Data Center Energy Efficiency and the guidelines set up by The Green Grid, of which Sentry42 is a member. As part of its environmental measures, the facility has free cooling chillers that provide 8,343 hours of free cooling per year, non-ozone-depleting air handling units, and LED lighting.
Sentry42 says the Gatehouse’s telecommunications connectivity offers access to multiple providers via managed Telco Interchange Rooms including BT, Cable & Wireless and Virgin Media.
In October 2010, Rabbetts warned that the UK was running out of space to support its rapidly expanding data center market, referring to the crisis as a “data crunch.” This new facility seems to be a part of the solution to what he was referring to by offering more UK data center space.
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