Welcome to the IT Infrastructure blog from Paul Bevan.
As an investor or a data centre operator considering building new facilities, or a CIO weighing up build or buy arguments to manage an...
We've been kicking around building blocks of the ideal 'business model' for data centres. The exercise has taken us through provider...
Market segmentation, ideal client profiles and client personas are necessary, but not an alternative to talking to customers.On the...
I don't think anyone wants to run a dirty data centre, to use a Greenpeace term. Much of the debate has tended to focus on balancing...
You have to ask the question, was Equinix caught a little flat-footed by the proposed Telecity Interxion merger when it was announced back...
AWS has finally come out and started reporting its revenue and income figures separately from the rest of Amazon. In itself this hardly...
Last week the Register preempted the official announcement, due this week, that the Ark had scooped a UK Government 4 year “£700...
You might be forgiven for thinking that the only place to be as a datacentre operator in Europe is in one of the current hotspots of...
Last week I had a tour of the Equinix LD5 datacentre in Slough. It’s an impressive facility with a six nines availability record....
Forgive me for misquoting Charles Dickens, but for IT companies this must feel like the best of times and the worst of times. The...