Colocation firm Sentry42 opened a 60,000 sq ft facility in Norwich, East Anglia, England. 

The firm said its refurbished Gatehouse Data Centre underwent a ┬ú12m refurbishment that was managed by Migration Solutions. 

Managing Director, Alex Rabbetts said: "I've been delighted with our rapid progress from initial concept to a customer-ready facility. Today's data centre customers rightly demand state-of-the-art environmental design without comprise on reliability or security. Sentry42 achieves this and scores very highly on every customer requirement."

The firm is going after the outsourced services market 

The site has N+1 power redundancy with diverse supply to all cabinets and the back-up of UPS and generators with enough fuel to run the entire data centre for up to eight days at full load.

Connectivity come from a number of providers via managed Telco Interchange Rooms (TIRs) including BT, Cable &Wireless and Virgin Media, all of which take fibre onto the site. The facility's resilience and connectivity is matched by its outstanding environmental credentials which include free cooling for its IT equipment for 95% of the year and a smart integrated design system which re-uses excess heat generated by the equipment to heat the offices on site. Additionally the new data centre uses low power LED lighting, controlled by Passive Infra-Red (PIR) motion detectors.