Digital Realty Trust, Inc. has signed two long-term leases with NaviSite Europe Limited, a subsidiary of NaviSite, Inc., a leading international provider of cloud-enabled hosting, managed applications and services. The lease agreements provide NaviSite with a platform to support the long-term growth of its UK business at Digital Realty’s high-security Woking data centre and its state-of-the-art Redhill data centre.
“We have the flexibility in place to support our customers as they grow,” said Bernard Geoghegan, Managing Director, EMEA, at Digital Realty. “Connectivity is key in any outsourced IT strategy and Digital Realty has invested extensively to provide high-speed networks to ensure that data is transported between data centres and back to client premises rapidly and securely. NaviSite's expansion into our Woking and Redhill facilities is a testament to that strategy, as well as to our commitment to providing world-class, carrier-neutral facilities. We are providing NaviSite with an optimised network connectivity infrastructure to support the delivery of its entire portfolio of products and services to its customers, whilst avoiding capital-intensive deployment costs.”
“The business environment is experiencing high levels of change, with an increased focus on compliance, data sovereignty and regulation,” said Ron Pepin, Director of Datacenter Operations, Time Warner Cable Business Class. “The agreements with Digital Realty for expanded data centre space support NaviSite’s goal of providing a best- in-class data centre footprint to meet the high levels of support, uptime and security of our present and future clients. The structure by which Digital Realty has built its facilities provides power, cooling and redundancy, as well as security, at a scale that will reduce NaviSite’s time-to-market for provisioning new IT services in a secure way. These factors were key for us in making the decision to expand our data centre footprint with Digital Realty."
NaviSite’s cloud business has grown exponentially since the NaviCloud® platform was introduced in 2010. Leasing in Digital Realty’s data centres at Woking and Redhill will enable NaviSite to provide disaster recovery services over the cloud within the United Kingdom. With access to the new cloud node at Redhill and the expanded capacity at the Woking data centre, NaviSite will be able to provide customers that need to deliver against data sovereignty restrictions the ability to not only host all applications and data over the cloud in the UK, but also have backup and disaster recovery services available within UK boundaries.
