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Critical operations are in safe hands for City Lifeline customers

Colocation data centre offers Tier 3 performance levels for mission-critical IT and telecoms and invests £600,000 in two new diesel generators

In response to customer demand for more secure and resilient operations for mission-critical equipment, City Lifeline, the London-based independent carrier-neutral colocation data centre, now offers its customers colocation to Tier 3 standards.  The key to this is a new dual-diesel generator system, installed following a £600,000 investment, which can support the whole facility electrical load even with one generator set out of service for maintenance.

Tier 3, otherwise known as “concurrent maintainability”, means that City Lifeline can now offer its customers electrical power, cooling and bandwidth systems which are always available even if a part fails, is switched off or is being maintained.  It provides a reliable operating environment for the customer which is resistant to failures or an incorrect operation.  Tier 3 standards allow customers to sleep at night, restfully knowing that nothing can go wrong to affect their equipment operations.

City Lifeline’s managing director Roger Keenan explains, “The London colocation market continues to demand ever-increasing technical standards and ever-higher resilience against natural disaster, terrorist threats, mains power failures and equipment failures.  Our customers were telling us we needed to move to Tier 3 standards and the installation of this new dual-diesel system was the last piece of the jigsaw.  We are delighted at what has been achieved and what we can now offer”.

The new dual-diesel generator system is built to the latest pollution and noise standards.  It fits in with City Lifeline’s continuous efforts to become one of the greenest, most energy-efficient and environmentally friendly colocation data centres in London.

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About City Lifeline

City Lifeline is the leading independent carrier-neutral colocation data centre in central London.  Lifeline House is situated in an ideal location, just outside the central London Exclusion zone, in the emerging Silicon Roundabout / Tech City district. 

With some of the best connectivity in London, City Lifeline provides a secure, reliable and resilient home for telecoms, networking and server hosting.  Its customers have access to the fastest, carrier diverse networks in the UK connecting across the world.

The data centre offers a first-class, flexible and personal service coupled with the security, reliability and engineering teams to match.    

For further information about City Lifeline visit: www.city-lifeline.co.uk

Venus Business Communications expands data centre presence to support business growth with City Lifeline

City Lifeline, the London-based independent carrier-neutral colocation data centre, has today announced that Venus Business Communications has expanded its rack space presence within City Lifeline’s central London colocation facility.

Venus Business Communications provides high speed connections to Internet and VOIP telephony services for media and professional services companies in central London. Its dedicated fibre network and hosting facilities will be further interconnected within City Lifeline’s colocation data centre in Central London, enabling it to increase services to key city-based business customers to support its overall expansion strategy.

Brian Iddon, director at Venus Business Communications, said: “It is crucial that we offer our customers reliable services at reasonable rates. By hosting services in City Lifeline’s colocation data centre, we can successfully deliver a full range of facilities to our customers from a professionally run data centre. It also lets us keep tailor our services to the customer’s needs in a safe, secure and reliable environment.”

Roger Keenan, managing director at City Lifeline, adds: “We have worked with Venus Business Communications for many years and we are delighted to be able to offer them the flexibility to grow within our data centre. It is important that customers feel they can rely on suppliers and City Lifeline offers an environment that supports rapid growth and can easily meet the need for new services and equipment.”

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About City Lifeline

City Lifeline is the leading independent carrier-neutral colocation data centre in central London.  Lifeline House is situated in an ideal location, just outside the central London Exclusion zone, in the emerging Silicon roundabout district. 

With some of the best connectivity in London, City Lifeline provides a secure, reliable and resilient home for telecoms, networking and server hosting.  Its customers have access to the fastest, carrier diverse networks in the UK connecting across the world.

The data centre offers a first-class, flexible and personal service coupled with the security, reliability and engineering team to match.   

For further information about City Lifeline visit: www.city-lifeline.co.uk

Pro-Net re-locates to City Lifeline to enhance connectivity and support business expansion

City Lifeline, the London-based independent carrier-neutral colocation data centre, has announced today that UK internet service provider, Pro-Net, is moving its team and equipment to its facility, located at the heart of the emerging Silicon Roundabout district. 

The move allows Pro-Net to widen its networking, carrier and colocation options and offers the company the flexibility to expand and utilise vital technical office space, unavailable at its former base.  The team will now operate from City Lifeline, with part of its core network remaining at the Telehouse Docklands facility.

Danial Subhani, managing director at Pro-Net says, “City Lifeline understands our need for a data centre facility from where our team can operate and grow.  In our industry it is vital for us to have a reliable data centre delivering strong connectivity from a diverse range of carriers, all of which are now on-hand for us.  

“Our new location at City Lifeline is conveniently located near to some of our customers, is perfect for networking opportunities with likeminded businesses in the media, web and software sectors and means we can access our critical equipment fast.”

Roger Keenan, managing director at City Lifeline adds, “We have experience working with businesses like Pro-Net that really recognise the benefits of operating from the rising Silicon Roundabout district and need flexible colocation solutions.  We are looking forward to providing them with a data centre operation that suits both their business and customers.”

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About City Lifeline 

City Lifeline is the leading independent carrier-neutral colocation data centre in central London.  Lifeline House is situated in an ideal location, just outside the central London Exclusion zone, in the emerging Silicon Roundabout district.  

With some of the best connectivity in London, City Lifeline provides a secure, reliable and resilient home for telecoms, networking and server hosting.  Its customers have access to the fastest, carrier diverse networks in the UK connecting across the world.

The data centre offers a first-class, flexible and personal service coupled with the security, reliability and engineering team to match.    

For further information about City Lifeline visit: www.city-lifeline.co.uk 

About Pro-Net

Founded in 1995, Pro-Net is one of the most established ISP businesses in Europe, offering a wide range of bespoke ISP services to UK SME and corporate clients around the UK. 

The main focus for Pro-Net is to provide resilient bonded connectivity over ADSL and 3g which ensures an excellent middle ground between expensive Leased Lines and poor quality connectivity. A key area for this technology is replacing expensive MPLS services or supplying stable bonded connections where connectivity is poor. 

For further information about Pro-Net visit: www.pro-net.co.uk 

New survey reveals worrying reliance on one data centre despite high number of outages

Over three-quarters of IT and operations managers (79%) have suffered significant outages that disrupted their online business and affected delivery of services to their customers, according to a recent survey conducted by City Lifeline at this year’s Internet World.

City Lifeline questioned over 150 IT and operations managers from a number of internet-based businesses and uncovered that 18 per cent of these outages were caused by data centre failure, 45 per cent were caused by failure of their internet communications and 16 per cent from another cause. A fortunate 21 per cent said they had never suffered any such outage.

In addition to this, nearly half of managers questioned (42%) admitted that their business  relies on one external data centre to deliver services to their customers, with 17 per cent depending on two, 10 per cent relying on three or more and 31 per cent keeping all their operations in-house.

Roger Keenan, managing director at City Lifeline comments: “It worries me to see that internet-dependent businesses are entrusting their most critical processes to a single supplier operating just one data centre, especially when you consider the recent major data centre failure at large internet business Amazon.  Our survey shows that outages do happen to any company, regardless of size, so those who rely on just one data centre are placing their business at considerable risk.

“Companies reliant on Internet communications, in particular, need to be resilient and ensure that wherever possible everything runs on at least two well-spaced sites, operated by at least two companies independent of each other, with automatic fall-over and diverse communications between them.”
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Notes to editors

City Lifeline interviewed 152 IT and operations managers at Internet World at Earl’s Court between10 – 13 May 2011.Full details of the questions asked and any further information regarding the survey can be requested from Ascent PR.

About City Lifeline

City Lifeline is the leading independent carrier-neutral colocation data centre in central London.  Lifeline House is situated in an ideal location, just outside the central London Exclusion zone, in the emerging Silicon Roundabout district. 

With some of the best connectivity in London, City Lifeline provides a secure, reliable and resilient home for telecoms, networking and server hosting.  Its customers have access to the fastest, carrier diverse networks in the UK connecting across the world.

The data centre offers a first-class, flexible and personal service coupled with the security, reliability and engineering team to match. 

For further information about City Lifeline visit: www.city-lifeline.co.uk

City Lifeline boosts disaster recovery and support for remote workers at ihotdesk

City Lifeline, the London-based independent carrier-neutral colocation data centre, has today announced it will provide colocation services for award winning IT support company, ihotdesk.

In a move to expand its existing data centre capacity, ihotdesk selected City Lifeline's facilities to enhance its disaster recovery capability and support for its growing number of clients. Located in central London, City Lifeline’s data centre is close to ihotdesk’s office and customers, who will regularly access and use the facility to maintain equipment. 

Preet Chahal, CEO at ihotdesk says: "We did look at data centres in the Docklands but they are too far away from our office and this would be inconvenient for our staff and customers.  Our team of engineers will need to visit the site daily, as do our clients who will soon be operating their own equipment from there, so quick and easy access is vital."

“City Lifeline’s facilities and operations are excellent, security is tight and the facility is exactly what we required.  Image is vital to us, so we needed a professional colocation data centre that complemented our high quality IT support and services that we in turn offer our clients.  In short, we wouldn’t offer our clients a data centre that we didn’t use ourselves.”  

Roger Keenan, managing director at City Lifeline says: “We are pleased to be working with ihotdesk and providing them with a data centre operation that suits them and their customers.  We are continuing to work with many businesses like ihotdesk that are expanding and recognising the need for a proficient colocation data centre to help support their future growth plans."

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About City Lifeline

City Lifeline is the leading independent carrier-neutral colocation data centre in central London.  With some of the best connectivity in London, City Lifeline provides a secure, reliable and resilient home for telecoms, computer and server hosting.  Lifeline House is situated in an ideal central London location with a wide choice of carriers connecting across the world.  The data centre offers a first-class, flexible and personal service with the security, equipment, plant, services and engineers to match. 

For further information about City Lifeline visit: www.city-lifeline.co.uk

About ihotdesk

ihotdesk is an award winning IT support company based in central London which provides IT support, outsourcing and communication services to businesses situated in London and throughout the United Kingdom.  
ihotdesk has been establised for over 11 years and offers a comprehensive range of services that cater for the needs of small, medium and large sized companies.

For further information about ihotdesk visit: www.ihotdesk.com

City Lifeline enables its customer base with direct connection to euNetworks

City Lifeline, the London-based independent carrier-neutral colocation data centre, has today announced it can offer its customers a high-density network connection from bandwidth infrastructure provider, euNetworks.

This arrangement now brings the number of voice telecoms carriers and internet carriers to a total of 23 that have chosen to establish a Point of Presence (POP) at City Lifeline’s data centre.  Ideal for any organisation requiring high-speed access and monitoring fast transactions, euNetworks’ infrastructure will significantly boost City Lifeline’s connectivity and carrier offering. 

Roger Keenan, managing director at City Lifeline says: “We are delighted to be able to give our customers the option of using euNetworks’ fast network.  As a carrier neutral colocation data centre it’s vital we can provide a wide range of networks to meet our varied customers’ needs, whether it be a fast network or a direct secure link to the Far East.”

”We are delighted to provide City Lifeline customers with direct connection to our metro network in London and onward to further cities in Europe,” said David Selby, Vice President of Product at euNetworks. “We continue to add more data centres and bandwidth intensive buildings to our metro networks across Europe, enabling enterprises to benefit from our high-bandwidth fibre-based services.”

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About City Lifeline

City Lifeline is the leading independent carrier-neutral colocation data centre in central London.  With some of the best connectivity in London, City Lifeline provides a secure, reliable and resilient home for telecoms, computer and server hosting.  Lifeline House is situated in an ideal central London location with a wide choice of carriers connecting across the world.  The data centre offers a first-class, flexible and personal service with the security, equipment, plant, services and engineers to match. 
For further information about City Lifeline visit: www.city-lifeline.co.uk

About euNetworks

euNetworks Group Limited (SGX: H23:SI) is a bandwidth infrastructure provider, owning and operating 13 fibre-based metropolitan networks across Europe connected with a high capacity intercity backbone. The company offers a portfolio of metro and longhaul Ethernet and Internet Protocol services including dark fibre, dedicated fibre, wavelength, Ethernet, and Internet. Enterprise and carrier customers benefit from euNetworks’ unique inventory of fibre and duct-based assets that are tailored to fulfil their high bandwidth needs.
euNetworks Group Limited is headquartered in London and publicly listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange. For further information please visit www.eunetworks.com

CITY LIFELINE PROVIDES COLOCATION AND PROXIMITY HOSTING FOR DEUTSCHE BÖRSE’ ALPHAFLASH

City Lifeline, the London-based independent carrier-neutral colocation data centre, has today announced it will provide colocation services for the algo news feed AlphaFlash of Deutsche Börse – Market Data & Analytics.  Having been selected as one of three other data centres in London that are to provide access to this data feed worldwide, City Lifeline will offer access to the organisations’ existing network within close proximity of London data sources and metro-area market centres.

Working with City Lifeline this new hosting facility will give algo traders direct and high-speed access to AlphaFlash data in order to trade on London markets.  Deutsche Börse aims to make it as easy as possible for other businesses to use its algo news feed as well as to ensure the lowest latency for AlphaFlash customers.

“Deutsche Börse delivers more than 150 machine readable macroeconomic indicators directly into trading algorithms; by adding hosting alternatives such as City Lifeline, we are able to respond directly to customer demand for expansion of the proximity hosting infrastructure in Europe”, said Georg Gross, head of front office data & analytics at Deutsche Börse.

Roger Keenan, Managing Director at City Lifeline said, “Low latency and high speed of data communications are essential for the algo traders. Our central location makes that possible for them, and we are delighted that City Lifeline London colocation is contributing to the success of AlphaFlash and of Deutsche Börse.”

AlphaFlash is a joint product of Deutsche Börse, Need to Know News and Market News International (both entities of Deutsche Börse).  Colocation and proximity hosting options for AlphaFlash are also available in Chicago, New Jersey, Washington and Frankfurt.  Further data centres, such as in Asia are currently being planned.

About City Lifeline

City Lifeline is the leading independent carrier-neutral colocation data centre in central London.  With some of the best connectivity in London, City Lifeline provides a secure, reliable and resilient home for telecoms, computer and server hosting.  Lifeline House is situated in an ideal central London location with a wide choice of carriers connecting across the world.  The data centre offers a first-class, flexible and personal service with the security, equipment, plant, services and engineers to match.

 
For further information about City Lifeline visit: www.city-lifeline.co.uk

About Market & Data Analytics

Deutsche Börse Market Data & Analytics collects, refines and disseminates independent capital market relevant data and information. The product range includes price data, trading statistics, analyses, master data, financial news and over 3,000 indices which document market movements and bring transparency to international financial markets. With the acquisition of Market News International (MNI) in January 2009, Market Data & Analytics extended its services with trading relevant macroeconomic real-time news. Since November 2009, the US financial news agency Need to Know News, a pioneer in the delivery of machine readable news for algorithmic trading, has been part of Deutsche Börse Group.

City Lifeline, the leading independent colocation data centre in Central London, will exhibit on Stand E6026 at the Internet World 2010 exhibition at Earl’s Court 27 to 29 April 2010.   City Lifeline’s new website, launched today, will be a major feature of the stand.

Roger Keenan, Managing Director of City Lifeline, said “Exhibiting at Internet World is a first for us.  Internet World is the most important Internet-related exhibition in the UK calendar and a way for us to meet key decision-makers in the industry.  We look forward to meeting new and old customers at Earl’s Court” 

Please see www.city-lifeline.co.uk

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Media Contact
Christine Brenkley at City Lifeline Ltd
Tel:  +44 (0) 207 247 6066
Fax: +44 (0) 207 247 6662
christine.brenkley@city-lifeline.co.uk

Notes to Editors

1. City Lifeline is one of London’s oldest and most experienced carrier-neutral co-location data centres, having been in continuous operation since 1994.

2. Based near Moorgate, City Lifeline is one of the few carrier neutral colocation data centres with a genuinely central location in London

City Lifeline, the leading independent colocation data centre in Central London, has launched a brand-new website to coincide with the Internet World 2010 exhibition.  The new site at www.city-lifeline.co.uk  has been designed in direct response to City lifeline’s research into what customers really want from a London colocation provider.

John George, Sales Director of City Lifeline, said “This new and greatly expanded website reflects City Lifeline’s growing position and success in the London colocation market.  The new website shows the market just what we can do.”

Roger Keenan, Managing Director of City Lifeline, said “We have invested much time and effort in this new website.  It helps people in the IT, media and communications industries to decide whether colocation is for them.  It helps City Lifeline’s long-established and loyal customer base to gain the best experience from being a part of the City Lifeline data centre community in Lifeline House” 

Please see www.city-lifeline.co.uk

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Media Contact:
Christine Brenkley at City Lifeline Ltd
Tel:  +44 (0) 207 247 6066
Fax: +44 (0) 207 247 6662
christine.brenkley@city-lifeline.co.uk

Notes to Editors

1. City Lifeline is one of London’s oldest and most experienced carrier-neutral colocation data centres, having been in continuous operation since 1994.

2. Based near Moorgate, City Lifeline is one of the few carrier neutral colocation data centres with a genuinely central location in London