Data centres in the heart of Europe

While the poker game that is Brexit continues, with no one quite sure of the outcome, the importance of establishing a data centre presence somewhere within mainland Europe has, perhaps, never been greater. UK organisations who wish to maintain their international ‘credibility’, alongside non-European businesses looking to establish or protect their EU credentials, need to investigate the data centre possibilities of the Euro zone.

Wednesday, 14th March 2018 Posted 6 years ago in by Phil Alsop

Enter LuxConnect, which recently hosted a London event designed to showcase the company’s data centre expertise, under the title of: ‘Luxembourg: The safe option’. Alongside presentations from the wholesale data centre provider and Luxembourg for Finance, some of LuxConnect’s partners provided compelling case studies as to how they were helping European and global customers leverage the benefits of Cloud and Managed Services based in the heart of Europe.

The LuxConnect proposition is a relatively simple one. The Luxembourg-based data centre provider has a total of 14,700 square metres of data centre space, based across two geographically separate, but fully interconnected sites. In the 10 years that the company has been in business, 100 percent uptime has been not just the promise, but a reality. The location of the data centres provides low latency connectivity to all the major European internet hubs in Frankfurt, Paris, Amsterdam and London, with 35+ carriers based in the carrier-neutral facilities. Not only does LuxConnect offer two data centre locations – valuable for business continuity/disaster recovery solutions – but also a multi-tier approach. That is to say, LuxConnect has fully redundant and fault tolerant Uptime certified Tier IV infrastructure, with Tier II and III infrastructure available for less critical applications.

Add the fact that Luxembourg is a politically and financially stable country in the centre of the European and the LuxConnect offering seems particularly compelling at the present time of such widespread political and financial instability.

Furthermore, recent research (Data Danger Zones) conducted by Artmotion, and combining 3.5 trillion IP addresses assigned to 170 countries, produced a unique data privacy and security map that ranked Luxembourg as the safest nation for data privacy and storage inside the European Union, with an average data risk score of 2.6 percnt.

LuxConnect’s Chief Business Development Officer, Tom Kettels, comments: ‘’LuxConnect have a compelling story as a secure base for data to be hosted in our facilities in the centre of Europe, running on low cost ‘green’ power with excellent connectivity we are raising awareness of LuxConnect and Luxembourg as a real alternative to Tier 1 locations for international operators. Tuesday’s Dinner for a cross section of guests from the data hosting industry helps in this regard’’

A powerful partner network

Presenting alongside LuxConnect at the London event were some of their partner organisations, including Cegecom, Datacenter Luxembourg and Telindus, part of Belgian telecoms provider Proximus. These, and the many other data centre provider’s partners, offer a range of Cloud, colocation, connectivity and managed services out of the LuxConnect facilities.

The onset of digitalisation has meant a wholescale shake-up of the established IT world. Cloud, managed services, the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, edge computing and other rapidly developing ideas and technologies are challenging the traditional IT model. As businesses begin to transform their IT infrastructure for the Digital Age, there’s no doubt that the supporting data centre infrastructure needs to evolve accordingly. The emerging hybrid IT world needs to be supported by a hybrid data centre landscape, and exploring the offerings of organisations such as LuxConnect and its partner ecosystem could just be the catalyst for many a digitalisation project.