Star opens new Bristol-based Data Centre to provide Utility Computing Services for UK businesses
Gloucester, UK, 21st May 2009. Star, the UK’s only business focused ISP, is today officially opening its new multimillion pound, 10,000 square foot Data Centre in Abbeywood, Bristol. The Data Centre will be opened by Doug Naysmith, MP for Bristol North West, Star’s CEO, Rick Hudson, and Martin Walker, Head of Software+Services at Microsoft, to mark the culmination of an 18 month construction project. The new Data Centre is at the heart of Star’s infrastructure which has been engineered to deliver utility computing services to UK businesses, providing highly secure, enterprise grade IT solutions, such as email, voice and data connectivity to businesses via the Internet for a fixed and low cost monthly fee.
The Data Centre has been constructed to meet growing demand from businesses for cloud computing services as well as access to an infrastructure for voice and data services. This will give Star’s customers the ability to rapidly access new technologies while cutting costs, but without exposing them to financial or operational risk. The higher levels of security and resiliency that a highly secure and well managed data centre will provide ensure industry leading levels of service. The building of the new facility has been documented on a special website: www.buildingthecloud.co.uk.
Rick Hudson, CEO of Star, comments: “UK businesses are looking for better, cheaper and faster ways of deploying new technologies and want them delivered as a managed service, priced as a low, predictable monthly fee. This allows them to plan their budgets better with none of the unwelcome surprises that on-premise IT solutions tend to serve up on a regular basis, especially when things go wrong. We believe that Star is at the forefront of being able to offer computing services, delivered via the Internet. The new data centre at Abbey Wood is a key part of Star’s infrastructure focused on giving customers access to a new generation of IT services today.”
“There has been a lot of confusion about the concept of ‘Cloud Computing’ and what it really means to UK organisations. I believe we are answering these questions by delivering the services that our customers want today.”
Star has also launched a new business Guide called “Cloud Computing, what does it really mean?” to help UK businesses have an insight into how IT services, delivered via the Internet, can help them. The free Cloud Computing guide can be downloaded from: www.star.co.uk/cloud.