Interoute expands its Paris Data Center to meet the growing demand for managed hosting
New expansion increases the hosting capacity of Interoute’s Paris Data Centre by 25%
London on 1 July 2014
Interoute, owner of the largest cloud services platform operator in Europe, announces it’s expanded the available hosting space in its Paris data center by 25% to 1600m². Interoute’s Paris data center is directly connected by the company’s 60,000 km fibre optic network to Interoute’s other 10 data centres and 8 Virtual Data Centers across the world. Interoute’s data centers are also connected to 31 colocation facilities and an additional 140 partner owned data centres forming a massive network of distributed data centres across Europe, USA and Asia.
Régis Castagné, Managing Director of Interoute for France and Switzerland commented, “We have added 400m² to our dedicated managed hosting area in our Paris data centre, giving us a total of 1600m² of available space and nearly 200 terabytes of storage capacity. Our facility in Paris is connected to all our data centers via our Parisian MAN (Metropolitan Area Network) which is connected to our 20 other metropolitan networks across Europe, which also allows us to connect to any partner carrier hotels. Plus we have local language teams across Europe ready to serve our customers which is a real asset.”
At the fore front of the cloud computing evolution, Interoute’s managed hosting customers also have access to Interoute Virtual Data Center a global Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solution that provides them with scalable, on demand flexibility. With a few clicks in minutes they can add virtual servers and cloud infrastructure to meet their needs. Among the hosted clients in the Paris data centre are Les Fromageries Bel, Anatole, Voyages SNCF, Photobox, DDB who’ve been trusting data and applications to Interoute for several years.
The new data center is PCI-DSS certified, guaranteeing the security of electronic payments, and ISO 27001. Physical Security is ensured 24H/24 and 7/7 and forty cameras monitor both the surrounding area and racks inside the data centre. Its resilient design includes two geographically independent and distant electricity production rooms. The cooling system consists of air conditioning with independent direct expansion, each with its own means of condensation which eliminates any risk of losing an entire server room.
Interoute’s data center in Aubervilliers, Paris is now in the top 5 of Interoute’s biggest data centres and is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year.
About Interoute
Interoute Communications Ltd is the owner operator of Europe’s largest cloud services platform, which encompasses over 60,000 km of lit fibre, 8 Virtual Data Centres, 11 hosting data centres and 31 collocation centres, with connections to 140 additional third-party data centres across Europe. Its full-service Unified ICT platform serves international enterprises, as well as every major European telecommunications incumbent and the major operators of North America, East and South Asia, governments and universities. These organisations find Interoute the ideal partner for computing, connectivity and communications and developing new services. Its Unified ICT strategy has proved attractive to enterprises looking for a scalable, secure and unconstrained platform on which they can build their voice, video, computing and data services, as well as service providers in need of high capacity international data transit andinfrastructure. With established operations throughout mainland Europe, North America and Dubai, Interoute also owns and operates dense city networks throughout Europe’s major business centres
