“ EDGE COLOCATION FACILITIES ARE THE PILLARS WHICH EXTEND THE CLOUD FURTHER - DOWN TO THE LOCAL LEVEL ”
“ EDGE COLOCATION FACILITIES ARE THE PILLARS WHICH EXTEND THE CLOUD FURTHER - DOWN TO THE LOCAL LEVEL ”
JOHN HALL MANAGING DIRECTOR PROXIMITY DATA CENTRES
market continue to push economic development and users farther afield of London . “ We have already opened six regional colocation sites in the past year or so with at least three more going live before the end of 2021 ,” says Hall . Within a year and a half , Proximity ’ s goal is to have 20 regional edge colocation data centres within 15 miles of 95 % of the UK population .
Over the past year , explains Hall , Proximity has been “ very active ” in the Northwest of England . The company opened two data centres - one serving Greater Manchester and the other serving Liverpool . Both are direct points of presence ( PoPs ) on major networks , which makes them easily accessible to enterprise customers , CDNs , cloud and mobile operator providers .
Proximity Data Centre , Rugby
A snowball rolling to the edge As the decade wears on , the lingering influence of the pandemic isn ’ t the only factor that Hall sees as a driver of increasingly regional , decentralised colocation growth . “ In this new edge computing world , and with the move to 5G and continuing impact of IoT and AI , we will see more regional colocation data centres being repurposed to meet new demanding requirements from enterprises for lower latency and greater agility ,” he predicts . “ They ’ ll need to rapidly provision and scale compute and storage resources exactly where they ’ re needed .”
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