Cyxtera continues global expansion with
new data centre capacity in Europe
yxtera Technologies, the secure
infrastructure company, has
announced at CyxteraCon,
its annual user conference, the launch
of a new data centre in Frankfurt and
expanded presence in London to
satisfy growing customer demand for
the company’s secure colocation and
infrastructure solutions.
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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. 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.”
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.
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“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.” u