US data center services provider Latisys has expanded into Europe, launching a data center in London, going after enterprise and service provider customers. A large multinational company has signed on as anchor tenant at the facility as part of a global data center consolidation initiative.

The company has seen sales growth for managed hosting and cloud services among mid-size enterprises and large multinationals that have big footprint in the US but need infrastructure overseas. Its domestic data center portfolio consists of facilities in southern California, Denver, Chicago and Ashburn, Virginia, markets.

Pete Stevenson, Latisys CEO, said expansion of the Latisys platform into new markets was part of the company's natural evolution. “By integrating best-in-breed technology with process automation, operational best practices and a company-wide culture to serve as an extension of each customer's IT team, we've always had a model that can scale – for customers and investors – and now internationally,” he said.

Latisys said is services would be ideal for Software-as-a-Service providers, hosting of enterprise resource planning and operations support systems as well as global IT services and consulting firms. The company offers single- and multi-site configurations.

The provider will offer dedicated as well as shared cloud infrastructure services at the facility. Hybrid options that combine both will also be available.

The company said its run-rate revenue over the past 12 months had surpassed US$100m. Its managed hosting and cloud sales in 2013 were up 65% year over year.

Latisys saw 35% growth in multi-site deployments from 2012 to 2013. These deployments now account for about 40% of its revenue.

In its announcement, the provider cited 451 Research analyst William Fellows, who said the move into the UK have the company's growth-oriented enterprise customers access to a high-performance infrastructure for their own international expansion. “Latisys unified platform approach enables consistent and repeatable benefits of IaaS regardless of geographic location: reducing total cost of IT ownership, limiting complexity and achieving rapid time to-value, and we look forward to monitoring Latisys' international expansion in the UK and beyond,” he said.