Datum reinforces its commitment to clients in appointing a new Data Centre Site Co-ordinator

Farnborough – 23 August 2016 – Datum Datacentres today announced that Ian Mace has joined the company as Data Centre Site Co-ordinator to further ensure the smooth running of Datum’s secure and resilient facility in Farnborough. Ian brings a wealth of experience having spent the last 24 years with Vodafone where he was responsible for data centre selection, data centre operation, infrastructure and project delivery in various roles across the organisation.

As Datum continues to grow, Ian will co-ordinate operations and infrastructure projects to ensure the Farnborough facility and all supporting services deliver on the Datum promise to clients. Ian comments: “I am looking forward to working with the Datum team who have demonstrated a truly strong client-service ethic. The facility itself stands out above the crowd, using leading-edge technology and best practices and I am excited to be part of its future.”

Ian will report to Liam Mitchell, Data Centre Manager, who adds: “Ian’s experience and knowledge will be invaluable as we further develop. We continuously strive to grow and perfect our processes to best serve our clients’ needs and to deliver a different kind of co-location service. Ian will be pivotal in ensuring that we remain ahead of the field.”

About Datum

Datum delivers service-enhanced co-location from its highly engineered secure FRN1 data centre within the ListX Cody Technology Park in Farnborough. The connection-rich facility is carrier and cloud neutral with latency to the City of London of less than one millisecond. 

Part of the Attenda Services IT group, Datum data centres are trusted by enterprise and service provider clients as secure environments for content, data and business critical IT.

The environmentally efficient data centre supports hybrid compute, high power densities and connected DR. 2N power infrastructure delivers always-on availability whilst enterprise class service ensures client peace of mind. 

Datum FRN1 has capacity for more than 1,000 co-location racks within a high security campus in Farnborough, which is fast developing as a strategic London-edge data centre hub. The facility incorporates a pressurised free cooling design that delivers enhanced environmental efficiencies and supports high density computing to 30kW per rack as standard. Always on availability is supported by resilience in both design and operations underwritten by a 100% uptime SLA with helpdesk and remote hands services which are available 24×365.