Monthly Archives: November 2010

November 29, 2010

8 Solutions at the DatacentreDynamics Frankfurt Event

8 Solutions Group Director Kaushal Doshi will today be speaking at the DatacentreDynamics (Designing for Demand) event in Frankfurt. His presentation will be on Data centre decontamination – Demonstrating real energy savings. We hope to see you there.

November 26, 2010

8 Solutions wins contract at TNT Express

8 Solutions have won a contract for decontamination of the data centre at TNT Express’s Midlands Head Office. We have been working with this international company for a number of years.

November 25, 2010

8 Solutions win work for Somerfield

Somerfield have booked in for their annual clean in January, 8 Solutions have been have been working with Somerfield for 5 years and are their preferred choice for data centre decontamination.

November 24, 2010

Adobe Announces Plans for New Data Centre to Serve Omniture Business Unit Customers in Europe

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced it is opening a data centre just outside of London, England to serve its Omniture Business Unit customers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The new data centre will provide faster data processing, … Continue reading

November 23, 2010

8 Solutions at the DatacentreDynamics Amsterdam Event

8 Solutions Group Director Kaushal Doshi will today be speaking at the DatacentreDynamics (Designing for Demand) event in Amsterdam. His presentation will be on Data centre decontamination- Demonstrating real energy savings. We hope to see you there.

November 22, 2010

BT to open major new Cardiff data centre

BT has announced plans to bring one of the biggest software centres in Wales to Cardiff. As part of a -£4.3 million investment programme, the broadband bundle provider will open the facility at its International Data Centre in Cardiff Bay, … Continue reading

November 19, 2010

UK Grid offers carbon neutral data centres

UK Grid, the Manchester-based IT hosting business, has launched a renewables arm to win business from other data centre providers looking to offset their carbon production. UK Grid, which will open its fifth data centre in Manchester in January, has … Continue reading

November 18, 2010

Portsmouth City Council Renews Contract for Computer Room Decontamination

Portsmouth City Council has renewed its contract with 8 solutions for computer room decontamination. The schedule runs throughout 2011 and includes a number of services to ensure smooth running of the facility.

November 17, 2010

Tesco bank asks Cable & Wireless to supply data centre services

Tesco Bank in the UK has chosen Cable&Wireless Worldwide to provide managed data centre services and a telephony solutions to support its banking and insurance customer service centres in Newcastle and Glasgow. C&W Worldwide will provide solutions to ensure that … Continue reading

November 16, 2010

NYSE Euronext completes migration to new UK data center

NYSE Euronext, one of the world’s largest stock-exchange operators, has migrated all of its matching engines for European markets to a new state-of-the-art data center in Basildon, England. The company’s last business to migrate to the new facility in Europe … Continue reading

November 15, 2010

8 Solutions win contract with Abbott Laboratories Limited

8 Solutions have won the contract to provide specialist data centre decontamination to Abbott Laboratories Ltd throughout 2011.

November 12, 2010

UK Grid invests £10m in new storage space

DATA centre provider UK Grid is investing -£10m in a new 27,000 sq ft site in Manchester. The company says the facility, which houses racks of digital storage space, will be carbon neutral as it is offsetting its carbon emissions … Continue reading

November 11, 2010

8 Solutions win contract with Siemens Energy Services

8 Solutions have won the schedule to clean Siemens Energy Services Data Centre in the Midlands throughout 2011.

November 10, 2010

8 Solutions win contract with Axa Technology Services

8 Solutions have won a contract to carry out our specialist services at two Axa Technology sites in the south of England. The first project is set to start in November and the second in December. We have worked with … Continue reading

November 9, 2010

8 Solutions at the DatacentreDynamics London Event

8 Solutions Group Director Kaushal Doshi will today be speaking at the DatacentreDynamics (Designing for Demand) event in London. His presentation will be on Data centre decontamination- Demonstrating real energy savings. We hope to see you there.

November 5, 2010

8 Solutions win contract with Western Power Distribution

8 Solutions have just secured further work with Western Power Distribution. We already service 4 of their sites but have just been awarded work at various sites in Wales.

November 4, 2010

Green data centre for Welsh council

Gwynedd Council has acquired one of the most energy efficient data centres in the UK, improving security and reducing running costs. The new bespoke green data centre for the north-west Wales council has been designed using a combination of a … Continue reading

November 3, 2010

Scotland’s biggest purpose-built co-location facility

Two firms are working together to double the size of Scotland’s biggest purpose-built co-location facility. ScoLocate and Keysource will design and build the development in Edinburgh, creating what they believe will be one of the most energy efficient data centres … Continue reading

November 2, 2010

Telecity Group announces 3.5MW data center in Manchester

Telecity Group has confirmed that it has reached an agreement to open up a new 3.5MW data centre in Manchester. Releasing its latest performance figures, the data storage provider has noted that it is on track to meet expectations for … Continue reading

November 1, 2010

8 Solutions sales team growing

8Solutions have recruited another team member to the Sales Team. We would like to welcomeMike Meyerwho starts with us today. Mikehas joined the Company as a field based SeniorAccount Manager and we wish him every success with 8 Solutions.