Vtesse News
New data centre targets value and eco-conscious buyers
“It’s all about value, availability, connectivity, sustainability and personal service” said John Kersley, General Manager of Vtesse Networks new co-location business. John continues, “Our new service, VTESSE/LOCATE, focuses on a market of increasingly value conscious buyers who nevertheless rightly demand the highest levels of service availability, communications connectivity and service”
VTESSE/LOCATE is a co-location service based in Vtesse’s newly refurbished 30,000 sq ft data centre in Hertfordshire. The service provides n+1 power and cooling for customer equipment requiring up to a massive 30Kw per rack. The raised floor computer hall offers a secure environment for continuous processing, storage, backup and communications systems and is protected by Very Early Smoke Detection Alarms and comprehensive fire suppression systems. Continuous AC power supplies to customer racks are protected by diesel generators in n+1 configuration backed up by Uninterrupted Power Supply arrays.
Customer racks may be installed individually, in contiguous space or in secure cages providing an additional level of access security to the security patrols, CCTV monitoring and access control systems protecting the site.
Dedicated PODs (private data centres within the main data centre) supporting customer requirements in excess of 200 racks are available to bespoke designs that reflect the Tier (2 or 3) of resilience required.
The low Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) target of 1.4 is reflected in the Vtesse electricity pricing promise ensuring that the benefits of the centre’s energy efficient design are reflected in electricity prices through all stages of the data centre’s development.
Importantly, co-location customers are offered wholesale IP transit internet connectivity as well as access to Vtesse’s national fibre network and its associated IPVPN and Ethernet services. Connectivity to other telecoms company’s IPVPN and Ethernet services is also easily accommodated in the new facility, thanks to thanks to Vtesse’s established 3rd party interconnects in leading telehotels.
The data centre is 34Km by road from London City and 51Km from London Docklands and enjoys diverse fibre connectivity to both locations making synchronous replication to London from a location outside of the M25 a practical proposition.
The Hertfordshire data centre enjoys a 5MVA diverse power supply from the National Grid and is scalable to 11MVA ensuring that customer plans for growth can be readily accommodated.
The facility is available for immediate occupancy.
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