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We were delighted to see so many of our industry colleagues at IP Expo last week. There was a sizeable crowd building even before the show had started - and a really good ‘buzz’. It definitely felt like the industry was alive and kicking once more! The stand attracted lots of interest and many partners and customers coming to say Hello. In all, we uncovered around 70 new opportunities for City Lifeline, which was a seriously good result and way …

City Lifeline has now been in existence as a London Data Centre, in one form or another, for a full 20 years. Quite an achievement in a time of such technological change. We believe City Lifeline is the second longest established commercial data centre in the UK. The business was established in Autumn 1993 by four founding shareholders - and although we have developed and evolved over the intervening years, our ethos of customer service and technical expertise has never …

If your business telephones use a PBX that was installed in the last 12 to 18 months, then it’s more than likely that you could be ready to make the move to SIP Trunking immediately - and even if it was installed between 18 months and five years ago, then you may only require the addition of new hardware interfaces. The City Lifeline London data centre is home to a variety of carriers who can quickly and effectively provision you …

Our survey results are in! As you may be aware, in September we conducted a wide ranging research project into changing Data Centre requirements across the UK. We asked a wide variety of senior IT personnel to complete a detailed 16 question survey. This covered key issues, such as their views on the main things that are driving complexity in IT at the moment - or what the effect would be on their business if they were to lose their …

City Lifeline is committed to operational excellence and to ensuring that the exceptionally high levels of availability we offer are continuously maintained - and one key area where we focus is regularly testing our backup power generation. As a Tier 3 central London data centre we have to maintain continuous power for our customers and protection against failures on either of the two mains electrical feeds. We operate two complete and totally separate diesel generator systems, each capable of delivering …

At City Lifeline we are well known for our central London location and for being one of the longest established data centres in the country. But what many people do not know is that we also operate a backup, mirror and disaster recovery facility in Surrey. Both data centres are designed, built and operated to the same high standards of reliability and resilience, and we have a private dark fibre connection between the two that provides secure, reliable, high-speed data …

City Lifeline partners with Gamma Telecom for the provision of SIP Trunking. The product management team at Gamma has produced this handy two minute video animation on how SIP Trunks can assist with business continuity and disaster recovery - and we thought you might be interested to see it. And whether you have this technology already or not, it explains exactly what Gamma can do to help you maintain ‘business as usual’, in the event of a disaster situation. SIP …

City Lifeline’s Managing Director, Roger Keenan, recently took part in a 15 minute interview with the Chartered Institute for IT. During the session he talked about colocation data centres and how they differ from cloud storage, plus a more general overview of London’s Tech City and how it compares to Silicon Valley, followed by his thoughts on making the UK more entrepreneurial. Colocation vs the Cloud In the first section of the interview, Roger was asked to give a brief …

We thought you might be interested to know that City Lifeline is one of the most environmentally conscious and sustainable data centres in London. We purchase only 100% renewable electricity, use the maximum possible bio mix in our diesel fuel and have a continuous improvement policy that is dedicated to energy efficiency. Renewable electricity - Our electricity comes from certified wind, hydro, solar and biomass sources, with no fossil fuels such as oil, gas or coal being used. It’s not …