Interoute, owner of Europe’s largest cloud platform, has opened two new Virtual Data Center (VDC) locations in London – one in Canary Wharf and a second site in Slough.

Interoute’s VDC is a scalable and fully automated Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solution which provides on-demand computing, storage and applications. It is built into Interoute’s fiber-connected physical data centers worldwide and is maintained and operated through a certified ISO 20000 and ISO 27001 Enterprise Quality and Security Management System.

The two London sites were deployed in less than 12 weeks and give users the ability to send data from one London zone to the other and back within 1.3 milliseconds. Latency grows to 68.2 milliseconds between London and New York. Interoute said the low latencies delivered between UK and European locations will enable VDC users to architect for disaster recovery as well as replication of time-sensitive business applications.

Competing with giants

Interoute has bought its total number of VDC zones to ten globally, with five sites launched this year. Since its acquisition of fiber-optic network operator Vtesse last week, Interoute said it has ‘cemented’ its position as one of the fastest growing providers of enterprise cloud services worldwide, surpassing Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google and Softlayer by number of locations on the continent.

Interoute CTO Matthew Finnie said “Interoute believes in being close to its customers and key markets because it brings lower latency and higher performing solutions, straightforward compliance management and good customer service. That’s why we are investing in many zones, rather than relying on a single or limited presence to serve a continent.”

“Our recent UK data center and network expansion brings our cloud within a few milliseconds of our customers, partners and major business hubs in the UK. Low latency means higher throughput, fewer servers for the same application and less rewrites to get it there,” he added.