Interxion Completes Madrid Expansion

Interxion, a leading European operator of carrier-neutral data centres, today announced the completion of a 1,500 m² expansion of its Madrid Data Centre. Due to sustained demand from customers in the enterprise, Internet and public sectors, 60% of the high-specification, connectivity-rich space has already been sold.

The new data centre space has minimum N+1 power and cooling and 2N UPS, as well as the most advanced security, alarm and monitoring systems. It supports the latest high-density power configurations and has been designed using Interxion’s energy-efficient modular architecture, with free cooling and maximum-efficiency components and management as standard.

The opening of the new facility coincides with the implementation of a new Point of Presence in the data centre for Espanix, the leading Spanish Internet Exchange. Interxion’s Madrid customers will be able to reduce latency and transit costs significantly by peering directly across the Espanix exchange. In addition to Espanix, Interxion Madrid customers have direct access to more than 30 carriers and network service providers within the data centre.

“The completion of this project increases our capacity to satisfy increasing market demand and pass on economies of scale at a time when enterprises are rationalizing investments in expensive in-house data centre infrastructure and looking for best-in-class outsourced solutions,” said Robert Assink, Managing Director Interxion Spain.

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Interxion, Expands LBi Managed Services

Operator of carrier-neutral data centers, Interxion, along with Europe’s largest full-service digital agency, LBi, have formed a partnership in which Interxion will host part of LBi’s mission-critical data center infrastructure.

John Russell, Managed Services Partner, LBi explained, ”Our aim is to provide leading-edge, cost-effective managed services to support our clients’ digital strategies now and in the future. To do this we need a data center partner like Interxion. Colocating with Interxion gives us plenty of space to grow and all the power we need to implement the latest server technology, all in a very convenient central location. They also offer us excellent connectivity and all the security, availability and back-up one would expect from a leading operator.”

The new alliance is hoped to enable the LBi agency to expand its managed services offering to clients. The new space, in Interxion’s London City facility, will enable LBi to deploy high-density power configurations to support its ongoing virtualization programme and also provide direct access to the London Internet Exchange (LINX).

LBi offers clients end-to-end digital service, which includes hosting, maintenance and support. The company focuses on innovative ways to help clients get more from their technology, and the specification of their data center infrastructure is critical to achieving this. LBi managed services clients include leading brands such as ABN AMRO, BT, Disney, Sony and Starbucks.

With a 13 MVA redundant grid supply, Interxion’s City of London facility supports the latest high-density power configurations, enabling LBi to deploy the latest blade server technology to drive its server virtualization programme. To guarantee maximum availability, the facility also provides 2N UPS power and N+1 cooling. Customers can also access up to 28 carriers and ISPs, including the LINX Internet exchange. As well as giving exceptional choice and flexibility, this allows network costs to be managed down through private peering agreements.

Greg McCullough, Managing Director, Interxion UK added, ”LBi are widely regarded as pioneers who lead the field in the world of creative digital media, and we are delighted to provide a base for their customer content and services. Forward-thinking digital enterprises like LBi are constantly consolidating, modernizing and reassessing their mission-critical infrastructure, and it is our business to support their efforts with state-of-the-art facilities.”

Interxion is a leading European operator of carrier-neutral data centers. Headquartered in Schiphol-Rijk, The Netherlands, Interxion serves its customers from 24 carrier-neutral data centers located in 13 cities across 11 European countries. Interxion serves network and carrier-based, hosting and enterprise customers who require professionally managed and strictly controlled physical environments within which to operate mission-critical applications and computer systems. Interxion’s data centers offer cost-effective and fast access to multiple local and global communication networks.

LBi is a global digital marketing and technology agency, blending insight, creativity and expertise to solve business problems. The largest genuinely full service agency of its kind in Europe, LBi provides the full range of digital capabilities, including digital strategy, branded content, service design, media, CRM, technology, managed hosting and support services. The Company employs over 1,500 professionals located primarily in the major European, American and Asian business centers; such as Amsterdam, Atlanta, Berlin, Brussels, London, Milan, Mumbai, New York, Paris and Stockholm. LBi is listed on Nasdaq OMX in Stockholm and NYSE Euronext in Amsterdam

Posted by Admin on September 10th, 2009 | 1 Comment
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Data Center, Internet Growth Expanded by Interxion, in Frankfurt

International Internet exchange in Frankfurt am Main, DE-CIX, has expanded its infrastructure at Interxion, a leading European operator of carrier-neutral data centres, by extending its Internet exchange infrastructure into Interxion’s latest Frankfurt data centre, Frankfurt5.

For the exchange DE-CIX, this means that they now have five infrastructure locations distributed across the city of Frankfurt. Moving into the new data centre will give DE-CIX and its customers more space to grow as well as access to some of the most advanced IT infrastructure currently available in Germany.

Frank P. Orlowski, Director of Business Development and Marketing at DE-CIX remarked, ”While many other exchanges are hitting their capacity limits, data traffic in Frankfurt is still growing significantly, driven by our international reach and the quality of the infrastructure we can offer. DE-CIX does not just offer fast, high-quality Internet connectivity in Germany; we work with Internet companies from over 40 countries for whom Frankfurt and Germany clearly have a location advantage. In addition, Interxion’s Frankfurt5 data centre offers state-of-the-art space including the most efficient and fail-safe infrastructure available today. Among other things, 2N emergency power supply, an energy-efficient cooling system, biometric access controls, multiple layers of physical security and a 24/7 security team ensure that the German Internet exchange in Frankfurt has the infrastructure it needs.”

The newly extended relationship brings significant advantages for DE-CIX customers. Inter-continental Internet Service Providers and telcos in particular will find the one-stop-shop for peering and colocation opportunity very attractive. DE-CIX participants can peer at the Internet Exchange and secure the data centre space they need at the same time. Over the many years of cooperation between DE-CIX and Interxion, which have culminated in DE-CIX’s expansion into Frankfurt 5, the international importance of Frankfurt as Germany’s digital communication hub has grown steadily, to the extent that today no exchange in the world has more Internet traffic than DE-CIX.

Peter Knapp, Managing Director Interxion Germany added, ”There is more data exchanged at the Interxion data centre campus in Frankfurt than anywhere else in Germany. An exceptionally varied community of telecommunications companies has settled in our data centres and around DE-CIX. This means that even customers who are not connected to DE-CIX can easily benefit from improved connectivity. As this interconnected community continues to grow, the international significance of Frankfurt as a communication hub will also continue to rise.”

Interxion is a leading European operator of carrier-neutral data centres. Headquartered in Schiphol-Rijk, The Netherlands, Interxion serves its customers from 24 carrier-neutral data centres located in 13 cities across 11 European countries. Interxion serves network and carrier-based, hosting and enterprise customers who require professionally managed and strictly controlled physical environments within which to operate mission-critical applications and computer systems. Interxion’s data centres offer cost-effective and fast access to multiple local and global communication networks.

Interxion is a Patron of Euro IX, the European Internet Exchange Association.

DE-CIX German Internet Exchange is the central, international Internet Exchange in Frankfurt am Main. DE-CIX enables the exchange of IP-traffic, the so called peering between Internet Service Providers through a failsafe switch infrastructure. Founded in 1995, DE-CIX today is the most important Internet exchange for Central and Eastern Europe and the largest Internet exchange worldwide for data throughput. Over 300 ISPs from over 40 countries carry out an essential part of their Internet traffic through DE-CIX. The independent carrier-neutral owner and operator of the Internet exchange is DE-CIX Management GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of eco e.V., the German Internet Industry Association.

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