Germany Datacenter Market

A new report from BroadGroup indicates that sustained growth in the third party data centre sector will occur over the next four years, and take 21% of all data centre space by 2015. Frankfurt has established itself as the major data centre hub in Germany and represents some 70% of current third party demand. Frankfurt remains the major co-location hub for international connectivity, local demand in other cities across Germany is building momentum as users develop BC/DR strategies and as new Internet-centric companies enter the market. Companies of all sizes are showing an increased willingness to ‘out-task’ business applications and use of third party co-location data centre services. The report, Data Centres Germany by BroadGroup says Germany has started to close the 5 year+ gap that exists at a national level between customers’ approach to outsourcing in Germany and in other major European data centre markets such as the UK, France or the Netherlands. to the German Ministry of the Environment, German data centres could slash their electricity costs by roughly 3.6 billion euros by 2013 by consistently using energy-efficient technologies.

According to CBRE quarterly report, Demand for data centre space in Frankfurt has shown improvement when compared to the second half of 2010, albeit take-up levels last year were well below the longer term average.  Total take-up for the first 6 months of 2011, has now reached 82% of that received for the whole of last year, with requirements from Eastern European businesses supplementing the demand arising from cloud adoption. This is providing some renewed demand in the Frankfurt market, although it is uncertain whether this will be sustained. Total supply has largely been unchanged since 2008. Consequently, Frankfurt retains a low level of available space at present, with a vacancy rate of around 19%.Several of major operators are already progressing projects to expand their portfolios in Frankfurt, which will boost supply going forward. The scale of future demand however remains less clear, particularly for this year, in light of current economic concerns.

Frankfurt and Dusseldorf will remain major data center hubs for financial services within Germany. The government also has a wide-reaching broadband strategy supporting the nationwide expansion of high-speed broadband access with transmission rates of at least 50MB/sec in urban and rural areas alike. OECD figures show Germany has 17 nuclear power stations connected to the grid generating 127.8 net TWh making up approximately 23% of its energy production. Complementary to these acts and ordinances, several incentive programs promote efficient and renewable heating and cooling technologies. The creation of an efficient grid infrastructure for electricity and integration of renewable energy sources and energy upgrades for buildings and energy efficient new buildings offer a good location for data centers.

Major Data Center Players in Germany

Interxion is a leading provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services in Europe, serving over 1,200 customers through 28 data centres in 11 European countries. Interxion’s uniformly designed, energy-efficient data centres offer customers extensive security and uptime for their mission-critical applications. With connectivity provided by 350 carriers and ISPs and 18 European Internet exchanges across its footprint, Interxion has created content and connectivity hubs that foster growing customer communities of interest.

Website: www.interxion.com 

wusys data centers are situated in the center of the digital economy of Europe in Frankfurt am Main* metro area directly connected with 150 carriers that are present on the main DE-CIX (the Internet-node of Europe) campus and thus prepared in quality and service for future challenges. Since 2008 wusys GmbH is a member of the [RIPE NCC] and since then operates an own autonomous system [AS47777] as part of the Internet.

Website: http://www.wusys.com/en/company/data_center/rechenzentrum.html  

Equinix, Inc. (EQIX) is a global provider of network-neutral data centers and Internet exchange services for enterprises, content companies, systems integrators, and network service providers. The company was incorporated on June 22, 1998, and has U.S. headquarters in Foster City, California. Equinix operates in 38 strategic markets across the Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific and continually invests in expanding its platform to power customer growth.

Website: http://www.equinix.com/

TelecityGroup specialises in the design, build and management of highly connected, resilient and secure environments in which customers can house their telecoms, internet and IT infrastructure. Headquartered in London, we operate 27 data centres in prime city centre positions in Amsterdam, Dublin, Frankfurt, London, Manchester, Milan, Paris and Stockholm. We have an extensive and highly-targeted programme of capacity expansion and since 2008 we have opened new facilities in London, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Milan and most recently Paris.

Website: http://www.telecitygroup.com/

WiTCOM operates in Wiesbaden a modern data center, which opened in September 2009. Die vom TÜV Rheinland zertifizierten ca. 300 qm Technikflächen sind in zwei Brandschutzbereiche aufgeteilt und bieten einen gesicherten Zugang rund um die Uhr. The certified by TÜV Rheinland about 300 square technology areas are divided into two areas of fire protection and provide secure access around the clock. Für Notfallkonzepte oder befristete Projekte stehen Räumlichkeiten als Notfall- bzw. Büroarbeitsplätze zur Verfügung. Contingency plans for temporary projects or facilities are available as an emergency and office work spaces. Ergänzend kann im WiTCOM DataCenter 2 (ebenfalls in Wiesbaden) Backup-Fläche für die Realisierung von Notfalllösungen zur Verfügung gestellt werden. Additionally, in WiTCOM DataCenter 2 are made (also in Wiesbaden) backup area for the implementation of emergency solutions.

Website: http://witcom.de/

Level 3 Communications, Inc. engages in the communications business in North America and Europe. It offers network and Internet services, including transport services, high speed Internet protocol services, dedicated Internet access, virtual private network services, and dark fiber services, as well as managed modem, an outsourced, turn-key infrastructure solution; and colocation services. As of December 31, 2010, its network encompassed approximately 68,000 intercity route miles in North America and an intercity network covering approximately 13,000 miles across Europe. Further, it sells coal primarily through long-term contracts with public utilities. The company was founded in 1884 and is headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado.

Website: http://www.level3.com/en/

Interoute Communications Ltd is the owner operator of Europe's largest cloud services platform, which encompasses over 60,000 km of lit fibre, 8 hosting data centres and 32 collocation centres, with connections to 140 additional third-party data centres across Europe. Its full-service Unified ICT platform serves international enterprises, as well as every major European telecommunications incumbent and the major operators of North America, East and South Asia, governments and universities.

Website: www.interoute.com