15 July 2020
Manchester cloud-hosting and data centre operator, TeleData, has begun a 7,000 square feet data centre expansion project at its Delta House facility in Wythenshawe as capacity nears a critical point.
The project, into which the business will be investing up to £2m, will bring online up to 200 server racks for customers, in a range of configurations, within highly resilient Tier 3 space.
This expansion will make use of the most advanced technologies available to ensure maximum efficiencies, and the entire facility will benefit from a number of non- disruptive changes to power and cooling systems to improve resilience even further. The business is also implementing advanced monitoring systems and intelligent Building Management Systems (BMS) which will make TeleData one of the most intelligent facilities in the UK, bringing together monitoring and alerting processes that are enhanced by machine learning.
“TeleData is expanding at a time when available data centre capacity is nearing a crit- ical point, particularly in Manchester, with a serious lack of new investment into high qual- ity supply coming from other providers in the region,” said Matt Edgley, commercial director at TeleData. “As the world emerges from the current pandemic situation, data centres form an increasingly important part of the national fabric, enabling remote and flexible working with high capacity networking and compute solutions to ensure peace of mind.”
Edgley added that “customers who are serious about their technology, the environment and effective continuity of key services” should be considering TeleData as a provider. “Our new data centres will be able to accommodate anything from quarter racks and half racks to dedicated suites or rooms, and phase one of the expansion will be complete in Q4 of 2020,” he said.
The announcement comes after TeleData made a six figure investment into its cloud platform in 2019, as well as a £1.2m investment into energy efficiencies.
TeleData recently became the first UK colocation facility to join the smart grid with battery storage, as part of a project to improve environmental efficiencies with low loss transformer and voltage optimisation, boosting the resilience of the facility by improving the shelf life of equipment, while reducing unnecessary energy waste and optimising the incoming power supply.
It also recently announced the release of private cloud and private cloud desktop products to expand its portfolio even further and provide key solutions that are designed to help businesses accelerate their digital transformation.
