Qube Managed Services was looking for a data center partner that could provide flexibility and quick scalability to meet growing customer demands. After reviewing several providers, Qube selected Infinity, praising their Slough facility for its security, infrastructure, and ability to scale as needed. Qube plans to expand their partnership with Infinity by mirroring storage and services across locations and increasing rack space over time. Infinity's flexible colocation solutions allow their partners like Qube to adapt to changing customer IT environments and add value.

1. Case Study
Qube Managed Services
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2. Adapting to the client
Founded in 2001, Qube Managed Services has been at the forefront of
managed hosting provision, offering high-availability colocation and IP
transit services, including cloud services, managed network and dedicated
servers, supporting highly technical, fast growing clients including Blinkbox,
Betfair and Just Giving.
In early 2014, Qube identified an opportunity to capitalise on market growth
trends and the need for flexibility in data centre requirements. Although its
centres across Europe and the US presented excellent facilities, they were
not equipped with the flexibility to quickly increase services in line with
customer demand.
The forthcoming demand was highlighted in an analysis from Frost &
Sullivan’s 2014 research in the European Data Centre Services Market,
that showed managed hosting revenues will increase from $2.01 billion to
$4.90 billion by 2018.
Qube’s requirements were driven by the demands of their clients for a
data centre with excellent connectivity, the ability to upscale quickly and to
be located at least 40 miles from any current data centres in use, to reduce
business continuity risks.
Selecting the right provider
Qube reviewed the data centre market to find an organisation with
facilities to suit their requirements. As this was a first for Qube, having
not outsourced data centre services before, thorough research was
undertaken to find a partner that could offer the latest advanced security,
with excellent infrastructure and be able to upscale quickly to ensure it
met long term needs.
Qube selected award-winning Infinity with a focus on its data centre facilities
in Slough, offering a true partnership enabling growth and maximising the
value which Qube provides its clients. The resilient, efficient and secure data
centre has minimal energy costs and carbon footprint and is supported via
a comprehensive range of smart services covering migration, installation,
remote hands and cross connects.
With Qube in a growth phase, Infinity’s Infinite Data Centre product
provides the flexibility to grow and shrink the data centre footprint in tune
with the changes in the IT estate. This is especially important for Qube
as many of its clients’ IT estates were migrated from in-house facilities,
consolidated or virtualised.
Case Study
Qube Managed Services
“We looked at several providers to
partner with, but found Infinity was the
only one that truly met our needs. The
facilities at Infinity Slough are not only
exceptional, but also fitted our physical
security requirements.
“As an agile business, we also needed
a partner that is able to flex with our
requirements, scaling the service as and
when we need it.”
Jamie Donnelly - Qube Managed
Services Managing Director
Contact
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3. Infinity Slough
Infinity’s Slough data centre supports a broad range of flexible products
and provides a range of pre-built facilities ready for immediate occupation.
It offers individual racks, private suites, scalable halls and dedicated data
centres supported by innovative cooling techniques. Its halls provide a
standard power density of 8.5 – 10kW per rack and our modular, dynamic
chilled water cooling system delivers a market leading PUE of 1.22. It is
highly resilient with no single points of failure.
Working together
Jamie Donnelly, Qube Managed Services Managing Director, plans to
increase its partnership with Infinity to take the offering further. The
company has plans to use the Infinity data centre to mirror storage and
services in other locations, increasing its capacity significantly from the
initial deployment.
“Expanding our data centre facilities will allow us to grow further and ca-
ter for more clients,” he says. “When choosing a new data centre partner
we first had to take into account our clients’ needs. We identified that
more and more of our clients are looking for data centre facilities that
offer a fully adjustable service, with excellent security and the ability to
up-scale quickly.
“We are an agile business and look for similar organisations we can scale
with, and Infinity was the perfect choice. We are planning to increase the
number of racks further and ultimately we plan to use Infinity to mirror our
London centre.
“Infinity has an excellent track record of designing and building data centres
that support major brands across the most demanding of sectors and its
infrastructure is extremely resilient, having an unblemished service record.
Along with the excellent security, which integrates into our own access
management systems, Infinity Slough provides Qube with the ultimate
peace of mind, knowing that we are receiving the best service possible,
with excellent facilities and in a completely safe environment.”
About Infinity
Infinity provides high quality data centre facilities and services, designed
for the most astute users and providers of enterprise IT. Its London data
centre facilities are based in prime locations to the east and west of the
city and it provides a comprehensive range of flexible products, including
colocation and wholesale data centre services.
Infinity’s clients include some of the UK’s leading banks, cloud vendors,
global insurers and telecommunications companies. All its data centres
are built to meet or exceed the Uptime Institute’s Tier III standards, as well
as quality standards in process, information security management and
staff pre-vetting procedures.
Case Study
Qube Managed Services
“We see the data centre as a fully
integrated part of the overall IT solution,
not just the building where it resides
and our Infinite Data Centre proposition
provides evidence of our commitment to
this. Our flexible data centre solutions
enable our channel partners to truly
add value to their customers.
“Infinity Slough provides 9,200 m2
of
technical space and is supported by
34MVA delivered via a dedicated on-site
primary sub-station. Quoted by many as
“the best data centre in the UK market at
the moment”, its state of the art design
draws on all our previous experience.
Everything about this data centre is truly
world-class.”
Stuart Sutton, CEO of Infinity
Contact
Tel: 020 7079 2900 | Email: sales@infinitysdc.com | 50 Eastcastle Street | London | W1W 8EA | UK
Infinity SDC Limited ©Copyright 2015 | Registered in England Wales 05585726 | www.infinitysdc.com