With 87 per cent of businesses currently using public cloud in some form, central London data centre City Lifeline is announcing its plans to open a new data hall to keep up with high demand. The new hall, named the Shoreditch Suite due to its location at the heart of Tech City, will see City Lifeline take a further step in the expansion of the London data centre. The current part of this multi-phase development includes a new 11,000 volt …
Posts By: Roger Keenan
Social change and the Data Centre industry
Social change and the Data Centre industry The world is changing faster than ever. The economic centers of power are shifting, from West to East, and from North to South. Economic liberalisation is one driver, as is the speed at which capital moves seamlessly around the world - and the general demographic trends of people moving from insular communities in the countryside, to faster paced environments in towns and cities. But the biggest driver is technology. Manufacturing and IT technology …
Is the Data Centre facing extinction?
Is the Data Centre facing extinction? Enterprise data centres, government data centres, commercial data centres and colocation houses have seen a massive expansion over the last 15 years or so. Every organisation in the world uses more computing power today than it did five years ago and five years ago used more than it did ten years ago. Even small children who can barely walk use more computing power. Is there any end? And how can the world cope with …
What’s driving the colocation industry?
What’s driving the colocation industry? In 2012, the colocation industry projected a 30% increase over the next five years. And why not? The industry has several things on its side – the growth of cloud, the increasing digitalisation of almost everything, the ever-decreasing cost of bandwidth, the drive to outsourcing, the need for low latency communications with guaranteed packet transit times, and the green agenda which favours specialised operators over in-house data centres to mention just a few points. As …
Backing up critical business functions
Backing up critical business functions By backup of functions, we mean operational activities. For example a company selling shoes might have an office with servers and PCs for everyone, plus an e-commerce website and a stock management system. Some of these are time and mission-critical, and some are not. The e-commerce website is time-critical and mission-critical, as it can’t be down for long without affecting the business. The Managing Director’s PC probably isn’t though – he’ll be annoyed if it …
The emotional side of Business Continuity
The emotional side of Business Continuity Most business owners these days recognise that loss of business data would be a catastrophe from which they might never recover. Gone are the days when data backup meant making a tape copy before going home (if the man in charge remembered, or wasn’t on holiday) and then that tape getting destroyed in the fire that burnt the building down! Almost all businesses now have an automated backup that streams a copy of the …
When should you use the Cloud?
When should you use the Cloud? Cloud Computing is still in its relative infancy, with many providers offering different (and incompatible!) services. There are also many different ways of implementing cloud solutions – public, private, bare-metal, hybrid - with all sorts of overlaps in the way the same things are described by different users and providers. Over time, things will mature, all of the applications running in the cloud will be written for the cloud, and users will be able …
The ‘networked world’ and what it means for data centres
The ‘networked world’ and what it means for data centres The world of work, play and living is changing. The economic models we have all dealt with for many years are based on ideas that relate to enterprise manufacturing and do not fit the interconnected digital work. The networked society gives us the strange idea of billion dollar corporations that own nothing – just our trust in them and our willingness to give them our information which they can then …
Cloud Computing for InfoSecurity
Cloud Computing for InfoSecurity Cloud Computing was identified a few years ago as one of the clear future trends in the industry, and so it has been proved. Granted, as we’ve said before, it’s an old concept in a new package – as IBM was selling it years ago as ‘Business on Demand’, without much traction. Perhaps its’ time just hadn’t come then, but the industry certainly believes it has now. A few applications, notably salesforce.com have shown that the …
Why should we back up the backup?
Why should we back up the backup? A short while ago, we told you the story of our upgrade from a single, rather elderly, backup generator to a shiny new pair of N+1 diesel generators - giving us Tier 3 status at the same time. But why is it so vital to have this ‘belt and braces’ approach? Is it just about the standards, or is it really more about the customer? We think it’s most definitely the latter. The …
We offer a full range of managed services as well as colocation racks, private suites and NOCs.
Reasons to choose City Lifeline ...
- We are tier 3
- We provide carrier choice
- We offer dark fibre
- We are in central London
- We are independent
