Director at DataRoom, Peter Godden, believes that DataRoom will fulfil a niche in the market: “We have allocated an initial 10,000 square feet with the necessary power and connectivity for VFX and post companies to locate and engineer their render farm and storage infrastructure served by SLAs and tariffs designed to meet their specific needs. Having archive storage facilities and space for other technical operations alongside will complement the DataRoom service”.
“We chose Geo for two reasons: firstly because of its innovative fibre location in the sewers which affords it excellent up-time records; and secondly because it could give us dark fibre to manage ourselves. This means that we can light additional bandwidth as and when our data centre customer base grows,” continued Godden. “A traditional managed service, on a fibre-by-fibre cost basis, would have restricted our ability to offer our customers a cost-effective solution and space outside of the city. Now we can be a truly competitive alternative.”
Geo’s Media Sales Director, Will Pitt, knows that scalable, secure fibre is critical to the success of DataRoom: “By using Geo’s fibre, customers of DataRoom will have access to the UK & Ireland’s newest optic fibre network and have the freedom to buy dark fibre or managed services from any location. That will enable up to multi-terabit scalability, which is perfect for the demands being placed on those companies involved in the sector, who need to do what they do faster, with a focus on optimal quality and reliability”.