UK Grid opens its new Data Center in Manchester, UK

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Wednesday, 21 May 2008 13:34

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No.1 Synergy House provides tier II business class data centre space to alleviate the shortage of such facilities in the North of the UK and has a current capacity for 300 racks.

The facility has its own HV supply and substation enabling it to sustain high powered racks. Backup Generators can take the full load of the building should a mains power failure occur and Chloride energy efficient UPS systems provides N+1 uninterruptible power. N+1 cooling is provided by Airedale HVAC systems and the facility has full smoke and fire detection and suppression systems.

As mentioned, Synergy House is located on Manchester Science Park which boasts the best available Internet connectivity in Manchester. A carrier neutral facility, Synergy is connected via a dark fibre ring into Telecity Williams, Telecity Kilburn and IFL2. This enables customers to benefit from a great choice of connectivity from Dark Fibre to carrier neutral tier1 and tier2 bandwidth and layer2 long reach services into London.

Rob Garbutt, the Managing director of UK Grid states "The facility has been proving very popular already, back in December we signed our first contract even before we had started the build process!. Manchester is a real alternative to London now, either as a low cost option or for DR.  We recently saved a customer 56% in their Colocation fees by moving them out of London into Synergy House and we are currently in discussions with other London based organisations."

UK Grid, now in its 4th trading year, has recently become ISO9001:2000 certified highlighting its commitment to customer satisfaction and quality of services.  Tripling turnover and customer base year on year, UK Grid illustrates sound financial status and goes from strength to strength attracting large blue chips with mission critical requirements.

For more information on No.1 Synergy House and UK Grid, please visit http://www.1synergy.net and http://www.ukgrid.net

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