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Completion of Maidenhead Data Centre Expansion
Completion of Maidenhead Data Centre Expansion.
About this update from Iomart Group Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n\n\n\n\n\nRNS Number : 9288C Iomart Group PLC 15 March 2011 \n \n\n15 March 2011\nRNS Reach\niomart Group plc\n(\"iomart\" or the \"Group\")\n \nCompletion of Maidenhead Data Centre Expansion\nNew Fit Out Creates Fully Flexible, Powered and Resilient Space to Meet Growing Cloud Hosting Demand\n \niomart Group (AIM:IOM), one of the UK's leading managed hosting and cloud computing service companies, has today announced the completion of the second phase of an expansion programme at its Spectrum House, Maidenhead data centre.\n \nThe programme, another sign of strong customer demand for both the Group's cloud computing and managed hosting services, provides iomart with a further 650 square metres of new data centre space, or 300 high density racks, and increases the facility's total data centre area to more than 1300 square metres. \n \nIn addition to the data floors, provision has been made to provide office and build room accommodation for clients.\n \nThe new space provides an energy-efficient, secure, standards-based environment for housing the latest hosting technologies, with free air cooling, 2N UPS and N+1 backup generators. The data centre has been equipped to meet the Group's core objective of delivering 100% Uptime and availability, with all services being engineered to ensure no single point of failure.\n \nPower is fed to the hosting floors from the UPS to multiple Power Distribution Boards. These boards provide single phase 240V AC power to each rack/cabinet on the floor. Feeds are rated at 8A, 16A or 32A with up to 32A available in a single rack/cabinet.\n \nSpectrum House is redundantly connected to iomart's UK network of four further data centres through dedicated dark fibre chains, providing the hosting floors with access to over 40GBit/s of premium internet connectivity. As a result of this network investment, Spectrum House can facilitate client connections from a standard 100MBit/s speed up to multiple 10GBit/s connections.\n \nAngus MacSween, CEO of iomart Group, commented, \"Given its physical proximity to our City of London data centre, Spectrum House is a vital component of the Group's high availability cloud offerings. The interconnectivity between the two locations provides an ideal solution for cloud based disaster recovery, mirroring and backup sol...