Home to the Cloud: e-shelter Continues to Expand & Announces It Will Open Another Data Center Campus in Frankfurt in Early 2019
March 21 2018 - 10:06PM
Business Wire
New Data Center will offer up to 60MW IT load across 24.000 sqm
of IT space
e-shelter, a leading data center provider in Europe and an NTT
Communications Group Company, has today announced the acquisition
of new development site in Frankfurt, which will be its 4th
location in the city.
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The expansion comes on the back of strong customer demand in
Frankfurt, as market leader, e-shelter already operates 3 sites
across the city, including Europe’s largest data center campus,
Frankfurt 1.
The “Frankfurt 4 Data Center” campus is located in Hattersheim
in the west of the city and will feature 5 DC buildings built out
in phases, with the first building of 9.7MW IT load scheduled to
open in early 2019. Once fully built out, the site is capable of
housing up to 60MW IT load and 24,000 sqm of IT space, supporting
an average power density of 2.5 kW/sqm.
The new facility will follow e-shelter’s successful business
model – offering both wholesale and retail colocation services,
along with hybrid IT enterprise solutions and it will also fulfil
NTT Communication’s Nexcenter™ global data center standards.
The “Frankfurt 4 Data Center” will offer flexible and scalable
colocation space with high power density, carrier neutrality, cloud
network access, connectivity and on-site support services, as well
as on site first-class dedicated service personnel 24/7. Customers
will be able to choose from flexible colocation deployments of
single rack colocation and suites through to turnkey build to suit
or shell & core solutions.
e-shelter currently operates across ten locations in the DACH
region and a data center area of around 90,000 sqm. Outside of DACH
e-shelter is also expanding to new markets with a new data center
campus opening in Amsterdam in early 2019 and development sites
secured in both Madrid and London.
The essential specifications of the new Frankfurt 4 Data Center
campus include:
- 60MW IT load capacity
- 24,000 sqm IT space
- Separate emergency power supply
and
- Average power density of 2,5
kW/sqm
About e-shelter
e-shelter is one of the leading data center operators in Europe
providing highly secure environments for housing and connectivity
of IT and network systems. With a presence in all key city-markets
of the DACH-region, e-shelter leverages 300 MW of power capacity to
deliver scalable data center solutions. As a subsidiary of NTT
Communications, e-shelter is part of a global network of over 140
data centers and over 400,000 sqm of data center space. Among
e-shelter’s clients are financial services companies, telecoms
operators, public sector, IT service and outsourcing providers as
well as cloud service providers.
In addition to e-shelter, the companies Arcadin, Dimension Data,
itelligence, NTT Communications, NTT DATA and NTT Security are part
of the NTT Group in Germany. In this region, the NTT Group
represents around 5,300 employees and a revenue of more than €1.2
billion the NTT Group. You can find further information on the
global NTT Group at www.ntt-global.com.
www.e-shelter.com
About NTT Communications Corporation
NTT Communications provides consultancy, architecture, security
and cloud services to optimize the information and communications
technology (ICT) environments of enterprises. These offerings are
backed by the company’s worldwide infrastructure, including the
leading global tier-1 IP network, the Arcstar Universal One™ VPN
network reaching over 190 countries/regions, and over 140 secure
data centers worldwide. NTT Communications’ solutions leverage the
global resources of NTT Group companies including Dimension Data,
NTT DOCOMO and NTT DATA.
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