Data Centre Magazine April 2021 | Page 134

BT
Cyxtera

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BT

CEO : Philip Jansen
Data Centres : 48 As one of the UK ’ s major telecom operators , BT is a rare bird among MNOs . Over the past five years , data centre operators have largely taken pains to divest themselves of their data centre assets . BT by contrast has grown significantly , although mostly outside the UK . The company operates a network of 48 colocation data centres throughout Europe ( although it has one in New Jersey ), providing private compute , managed compute and cloud services to companies like Telefonica , BBC News and the Football Association .

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Cyxtera

CEO : Nelson Fonseca
Data Centres : 62
Cyxtera was founded in 2017 from the combination of CenturyLink and Savvis ’ data centre portfolios , and is currently focused on the US market , although it does operate facilities in London , Amsterdam , Germany , China , Singapore and Australia . The company operates a global platform of 62 data centres spread across 29 markets . Cyxtera also focuses on bringing leading edge tech to its customers in an affordable manner . In August of last year , the company announced the launch of an AI hardware as a service solution , in partnership with NVIDIA , to better serve the global HPC market .
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