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LONDON, JULY 3rd 2008 – Interxion, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral data centres, today announced that it has been selected by Bechtel, one of the world’s premier engineering, construction, and project management companies, to provide colocation services in the City of London.

Bechtel selected Interxion following a review of its own legacy data centre in London which is unsuitable for housing high power density deployments. In addition, the current site was unable to meet the connectivity requirements necessary to maximise availability of the latest generation of web-based applications.
“Working with Interxion will improve quality of service and connectivity resilience at the same time as reducing our costs,” said Richard Wood, Global Infrastructure Operations Manager, Bechtel. “The options were to build, upgrade or colocate, and we are confident we made the right decision in working with Interxion. At a stroke, this new arrangement will reduce capital expenditure, improve the resilience of our network and infrastructure, and bring our shared data closer to the core of the internet, thus reducing latency and building additional redundancy.”

“Successful businesses like Bechtel stand to gain the most in price and performance by basing their applications in an Interxion centre,” said Anthony Foy, Group Managing Director, Interxion. “The recent customer information technology refresh that has taken place across Europe has left many data centres unable to meet power and cooling requirements. We can provide the future-proof infrastructure and connectivity choices which are essential to enabling the latest applications.”

Very cool, this article highlights the demand for data center space, whether it’s in private specific data centers or colocation services an issue that is set to continue at least for the short term, until companies can re-code their applications to be more efficient (through grid/hpc) or use virtualization and consolidation projects to reduce the physical infrastructure needed to power their IT services.

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