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Top 6 Vendors in the Data Center Colocation Market in Western Europe from 2016 to 2020, According to Technavio
[August 15, 2016]

Top 6 Vendors in the Data Center Colocation Market in Western Europe from 2016 to 2020, According to Technavio


Technavio has announced the top six leading vendors in their recent data center colocation market in Western Europe 2016-2020 report. This research report also lists 25 other prominent vendors that are expected to impact the market during the forecast period.

Data center colocation is a facility for renting computing servers and storage to other organizations. It provides options such as power, bandwidth, and physical security to servers and storage. Colocation is useful for customers across industry verticals. It helps reduce spending on IT infrastructure and improve security and ownership control of the data. Modern colocation facilities will be carrier-neutral and cloud-based. Also, they will be built as per Tier 4 standards to reduce power consumption and carbon emissions. Over the forecast period, data centers will be built with innovative infrastructure and renewable energy sources to reduce operational expenditure.

Competitive vendor landscape

According to Rakesh Kumar Panda, a lead analyst at Technavio for data center research, "The UK, Germany, the Netherlands, and France are the leading revenue contributors to the market. These countries are the preferred locations for data center construction because of high business demands."

Technavio further forecasts that over the next five years, vendor revenues will continue to grow in countries such as Spain, Italy, Greece, and the Nordic countries. Vendors like Equinix, Digital Realty, and NTT Communications (News - Alert) are focusing on acquiring other data center providers and individual data centers in the region. Apart from these vendors, other major contributors to the market include global and local telecommunications operators in the region that also offer cloud services apart from colocation spaces. Also, there are several local vendors that operate less than five data center facilities. Together, these vendors contribute significant revenue to the market.

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Technavio ICT research analysts identify the following key vendors:

Colt Technology Services

Colt Technology Services provides network and voice services to enterprises worldwide. Its customer base includes leading banks, financial groups, and global media and telecommunications firms. In 2015, the company acquired KVH (News - Alert), a managed communications and IT infrastructure services provider based in Japan.

Colt Technology Services operates 29 data centers across Europe an APAC. These data centers are connected to more than 500 third-party data centers along with private links to major public cloud providers.



Digital Realty

Digital Realty was incorporated in 2004 and is headquartered in California, US. The company develops and manages technology-related real estate. It serves strategically located properties related to the critical operations of technology, industry tenants and corporate enterprise data center users. Digital Realty offers colocation products and solutions, called Connect@Gateway (News - Alert), which provides network-dense connectivity for carriers, content companies, and cloud service providers. Connect@Campus is a solution which allows for a variety of technical services and access to a wide ecosystem of partners.


Equinix (News - Alert)

Equinix was incorporated in 1998 and is headquartered in California, US. It offers data center services that help in protecting and connecting the information assets for financial service companies, enterprises, and content and network providers.

The colocation segment offers colocation and related services for customers to interconnect with a choice of networks or other business partners through its IBX data centers.

Global Switch

Global Switch was established in 1998 and is headquartered in London, UK. The company owns and operates 3.2 million square feet of large, multi-tenanted, carrier-neutral data center space across APAC and Europe.

Global Switch offers a broad range of colocation services for government organizations, financial institutions and enterprises, telecommunications carriers, global system integrators, managed service providers, and other hosting businesses.

Interxion (News - Alert)

Interxion is one of the leading providers of cloud-enabled and carrier-neutral data center colocation services across Europe. The company supports around 1,500 customers through its data center locations across 11 countries in Europe. The company is based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It also operates in other European cities like London, Paris, and Frankfurt.

Interxion data centers are designed to offer high reliability and performance. These data centers house around 20 European Internet exchanges and 500 carriers and Internet service providers. Some of the benefits of the colocation space in Interxion data centers include reduced capital and operational costs, improved application performance, and higher business flexibility.

NTT Communications

NTT Communications provides consultancy, security, architecture, and cloud services to optimize information and communications technology environments of enterprises. The company offers data center colocation services through its business segment: long distance and international communications. The segment also offers cloud and other services. NTT Communications provides a broad range of solutions related to the data center colocation market, globally. Its solutions offer secure colocation, management and monitoring and performance and availability.

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