“ IT ’ S INCREASINGLY VIABLE FOR ENTERPRISES AND SERVICE PROVIDERS TO CHOOSE DATA CENTRES OUTSIDE OF LONDON ”
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“ IT ’ S INCREASINGLY VIABLE FOR ENTERPRISES AND SERVICE PROVIDERS TO CHOOSE DATA CENTRES OUTSIDE OF LONDON ”
JOHN HALL MANAGING DIRECTOR PROXIMITY DATA CENTRES
decentralisation wave . He continues that , with the development of more reliable servers , as well as the growing availability of more sophisticated remote monitoring software , falling fibre costs , and the shift towards the cloud , things were ready to change . “ It ’ s increasingly viable for enterprises and service providers to choose data centres outside of the London / M25 latency zone , in regions where rental costs for rackspace and hosting facilities can sometimes be half as much as they are in the capital ,” Hall adds .
Proximity Data Centre , Chester
18 months ago , the pandemic provided the catalyst for that change to manifest in a very real , and very necessary way . “ The continued move to cloud and edge computing architectures is now serving to disrupt the UK data centre industry on an unprecedented scale ,” says Hall . “ Furthermore , the working population has grown to be more productive working from home due to the pandemic . People are moving out of expensive cities to work in semi-rural areas which in turn put more pressure on backhauling traffic to the few hyperscale data centres in the UK . With demands for reduced latency , growing network bandwidth congestion and backhaul costs , there ’ s a growing realisation from within the industry that strategically positioned regional colocation
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