CyrusOne’s first European data center operation will be run out of Sentrum’s data center in Woking, in Surry, bordering Greater London.
The US-based colocation provider, which largely services Fortune 1,000 customers from the oil and gas and financial markets, has leased 10,000 sq ft of data center space at Sentrum 4.
Its contract, which started this week, allows for an additional 10,000 sq ft to come online if required, according to CyrusOne CEO David Ferdman.
He said the facility provides high-availability colocation space, with N+N or N+1 power, a minimum of N+N Uniterruptible power Supply with battery back-up and a minimum of N+1 standby on all cooling systems.
CyrusOne’s pitches a 2N architecture for power redundancy and 250+ watts per sq ft across its entire data center as part of its offering. It is expected to start offering services from the data center this quarter.
Senturm has a number of data centers around London, as well as a site in Rugby, Warwickshire, comprising more than 1.2m sq ft of technical space.
CyrusOne has been encouraged to expand its data center operations internationally by parent company Cincinnati Bell, a US telecommunications company that bought the colocation provider in May 2010.
Looking for new high-margin revenue streams, Cincinnati said it will invest all phone company profits into CyrusOne, which until now has only operated out of the US.
Led by a new CFO Gary Wojtaszek, Cincinatti Bell recently reported first quarter 2011 earnings of 8 cents a share -- ahead of the 6-cent estimate made earlier by research investment firm Zacks.
Revenues were up 11% year on year to more than US$360.8m – once again above estimates, by about US$20m.
Much of this growth was attributed to CyrusOne figures, buoyed by higher demand for data center colocation and IT services and hardware.