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The Business Desk.com - 28/06/2010
DATA centre provider UK Grid has said it plans to invest £2m in drastically increasing its overall site capacity, and has already begun the extension of its Manchester Science Park site.
West Host Directory - 21/06/2010
UK Web hosting provider 34SP (www.34sp.com) announced on Friday it has opened new space at data center operator and network services provider UK Grid's (www.ukgrid.net) data center in Manchester, UK.
Downtown Manchester in Business - 14/05/2010
UK Grid, the Manchester-based specialist data centre provider has appointed Rudi Feitsma as its new Sales Director.
Data Centre Solutions - 16/05/2010
Manchester-based UK Grid is calling on UK data centre businesses to do more to meet and surpass power usage targets in order to reduce carbon footprints.
Manchester Science Park Press Office - 19/03/2010
UK Grid has been nominated for "Best European Green Initiative" award at the 6th Data Centre Europe event.
E-lec.org - 19/03/2010
As part of a customised, scalable and fully redundant cooling solution, Airedale has helped colocation provider UK Grid to reduce the PUE1 at its owned and operated, new ‘carrier-neutral’ data centre, Synergy House in Manchester.
Manchester Science Park Press Office - 16/03/2010
Manchester Science Parks tenant, UK Grid, discussed its plans to double turnover again this year and expand to take on London-based competitors with the Manchester Evening News last week.
Manchester Evening News - 11/03/2010
A Manchester data centre company plans to double turnover again this year and is expanding to take on London-based competitors.
Total Telecom - 27/10/09
Geo has installed a dark fibre to connect UK Grid’s main data centre facility in Manchester into the nationwide Geo network. The move will enable UK Grid to provide customers with assurances over network diversity as well as deliver a nationwide service via the Geo network.
Web Host Directory - 14/05/09
What unique selling points do you offer?
UK Grid’s USP is its success in providing business class data centre’s with their impact on the environment in mind. UK Grid have taken steps to reduce power consumption in all of our data centres by reducing our PUE’s to <1.4 by the utilisation of cutting edge technologies and research. UK Grid also makes a vested effort in offsetting its data centre carbon footprint by purchasing CER’s as part of the Government Assurance Offsetting Scheme, with an aim to be completely carbon neutral by 2011.
engineeringtalk.com - 15/08/2008
The Chloride 80-NET UPS system chosen by UK Grid has unprecedented power conversion efficiency, up to 100% (unity), delivering considerable energy savings throughout its service life.
UK Grid has awarded Chloride an ongoing contract to provide critical power protection at its newly opened colocation data centre in Manchester.
Office.com - 24/06/2008
UK Grid, one of the largest Internet and Colocation providers in Manchester, has seen a high demand for colocation space in its new Data Centre, 1 Synergy House, which opened for business in Q1 of this year.
The 7000 sq ft facility is located on Manchester Science Park, which forms the main hub of the Internet in Manchester and boasts the best available Internet connectivity in the North West.
Crain's Manchester Business - 16/06/2008
Manchester's power shortage has forced UK Grid, a data centre operator, to draw up plans to generate its own electricity.
It is considering an investment of at least £4.5m in combined heat and power plants to serve a new centre it is planning in the Northern Quarter.
The company, which has tripled its turnover each year since 2005 — hitting £420,000 in 2007 with a target of £1.5m to year end March 2009 — said if it did not take the step, its growth would soon be hindered by electricity supply problems.
Manchester Evening News - 10/06/2008
OFFICES overwhelmed by buzzing racks of equipment surrounded by a sea of wires can now clear the decks thanks to a new Mancunian joint venture.
Two neighbouring companies at Manchester Science Parks Ltd have joined forces to create an innovative computer storage facility which already has plans to go national.
UK Grid Data Centres is the first joint venture company at the park, formed by internet service provider The UK Grid Network Ltd and Manchester Electrical Contractors.
Their new company provides a secure facility where businesses can store computer systems and associated components, such as servers.
Hotlinx-15 - 01/06/2008
UK Grid has recently opened its second data centre in Manchester, Synergy House. The 7000sqft tier 2 facility opened in Q1 2008, and has already seen high demand for space as most of the other similar facilities in Manchester are now full.
Data Centre Journal - 21/05/2008
UK Grid, now one of the largest service providers in Manchester, has been greeting its first customers to its new Data Centre.
The 7000 sq ft facility is located on Manchester Science Park, which forms the main hub of the Internet in Manchester, with Telecity Williams, Telecity Kilburn and IFL2 already residents.
No.1 Synergy House provides tier II business class data centre space to alleviate the shortage of such facilities in the North of the UK and has a current capacity for 300 racks.
Web Host Talk - 21/04/2008
No.1 Synergy House, as the facility is known, provides tier II business class data centre space to alleviate the shortage of such facilities in the North of the UK and has a current capacity for 300 racks.
The facility has its own HV supply and substation enabling it to sustain high powered racks. Backup Generators can take the full load of the building should a mains power failure occur and Chloride energy efficient UPS systems provides N+1 uninterruptible power. N+1 cooling is provided by Airedale HVAC systems and the facility has full smoke and fire detection and suppression systems.
AZ Building - July 12th, 2007
UK Grid, the colocation and network provisioning company, recently appointed FibreSpan to provide a dark fibre link between its data centres in Manchester.
UK Grid provides customers with a fully resilient multi homed network and multiple connections to Tier-1 providers, which is fully scalable allowing customers to use the bandwidth they need, when they need it. The company peers with many other providers, creating a very low latency network which enables it to provide IP transit to sensitive applications.
Manchester Science Park Press Office - 01/05/2006
UK Grid Limited, a fast-growing Internet Service Provider (ISP), stepped-up their operations by building a data storage centre to meet the growing industry trend for extra storage space and increased data protection. Located at Greenheys, the data centre provides collocation/rack space and IP (internet protocol) transit for businesses all over the UK. Despite having presence in other data centres, UK Grid also moved all central operations to their new premises.
