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Cooling technologies have evolved a great deal in the 21 years since City Lifeline was founded to colocate telecoms equipment, and have moved far beyond the original CRAC units of 1993. As such, modern London data centres have needed to continuously redesign and regenerate their cooling systems to keep up with an ever fluctuating industry. Location, location, location Data centres located in technology hotspots such as central London have specific cooling constraints due to the high cost of space. Using …

Modern organisations have become defined by the information technology they use, and as a result the data centre is where the key assets of any business now reside. Companies in all sectors now routinely devote resources to collecting, analysing and using the information in a data centre, even when that is not the obvious product of the organisation. Every business is different, and their information technology needs can vary wildly, especially when it comes to how they define and prioritise …

It’s a well known fact that technical things go wrong. So what should businesses think about to ensure reliable and consistent operations with an added layer of complexity? The first step is recognising that things will go wrong. Whether operations are in an in-house data centre, an external commercial colocation data centre, or in a hybrid cloud arrangement, with workload split between in-house and cloud, the principles are the same. Cloud isn’t new No matter what marketing would have us …

After a long period of uncertain market conditions, the world economy is finally on a stable upward trend. The world is starting on a period of sustainable growth and the data centre industry needs to be part of it. Lead-times are shortening: colocation, communications and cloud projects in data centres which were on hold are becoming live again. In the UK, over 370,000 new businesses have been set up this year alone. Over the last thirty years, economic activity has …

Despite the UK economy’s continued growth, almost a quarter of businesses are failing to take advantage, a survey carried out by City Lifeline has shown. The survey of senior IT personnel found 22 per cent stated network scalability is not central to their business growth plans, despite the vital role this plays in accommodating future development. Roger Keenan, managing director of Central London data centre City Lifeline, is warning businesses are risking their future potential by taking a short sighted …