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"Although we witnessed a slow start to 2008 in the London market, we continued to see demand in the other European tier 1 cities. Our results this quarter show that we have seen take-up levels return in London, both in the CNH and shell markets. The continued growth in the CNH market is illustrative of underlying demand in the data centre market. said Andrew Jay, head of technology practice group at CB Richard Ellis.
Among the key findings of the survey were: "Whilst the implication of location on necessities such as security, connectivity and employment remain important, power - how to get it, pay for it and use it efficiently - appears to be the single pre-occupation across the data centre industry."
"Carrier neutral colocation suppliers appear to remain buoyant, announcements of data center expansions across the European landscape have been limited over the last three months."
IT managers have been accused of continuing to ignore green issues. Survey evidence suggests that nearly 9 out of 10 businesses have no idea how much energy the IT department uses.
"The use of software to help enterprises contain their data centre costs shows signs of growth, with organisations seeing virtualisation as being key to their data center strategy. Following the first half of the year which saw a number of reports of large data center development projects in the pipeline, European developers and investors have been quiet over the summer quarter, with only a couple of notable exceptions."
There is strong evidence of the continued expansion aspirations of carriers and IT services companies across the broader European data centre landscape.
"Although we witnessed a slow start to 2008 in the London market, we continued to see demand in the other European tier 1 cities. Our results this quarter show that we have seen take-up levels return in London, both in the CNH and shell markets. The continued growth in the CNH market is illustrative of underlying demand in the data centre market. said Andrew Jay, head of technology practice group at CB Richard Ellis.
Among the key findings of the survey were: "Whilst the implication of location on necessities such as security, connectivity and employment remain important, power - how to get it, pay for it and use it efficiently - appears to be the single pre-occupation across the data centre industry."
"Carrier neutral colocation suppliers appear to remain buoyant, announcements of data center expansions across the European landscape have been limited over the last three months."
IT managers have been accused of continuing to ignore green issues. Survey evidence suggests that nearly 9 out of 10 businesses have no idea how much energy the IT department uses.
"The use of software to help enterprises contain their data centre costs shows signs of growth, with organisations seeing virtualisation as being key to their data center strategy. Following the first half of the year which saw a number of reports of large data center development projects in the pipeline, European developers and investors have been quiet over the summer quarter, with only a couple of notable exceptions."
There is strong evidence of the continued expansion aspirations of carriers and IT services companies across the broader European data centre landscape.