The data center and colocation hosting service provider Telehouse has opened a new data center in Istanbul, Turkey. The new facility is operated in partnership with the Turkish telecommunication company Teknotel. The facility named “Telehouse Istanbul” start operating this month. It is the first Telehouse’s data center in South Eastern Europe. It is a carrier neutral data centre facility, which is located in the Asian side of Istanbul. Teknotel will operate, support and maintain the telecommunication facility by applying Telehouse’s operating standards.
The new Istanbul facility is supplied by dual power feeds and will be able to provide 4–5 KW per rack. Telehouse offers managed hosting services and remote hands to company’s Istanbul clients. the company will be working on a second Istanbul data center in 2012, again in partnership with Teknotel.
“Opening a Telehouse facility in Istanbul is a superb opportunity for us to extend our range of products and services in the Turkish market. We are well-known for delivering communication solutions to our corporate customers and, with our Telehouse facility, we can now offer carrier neutral colocation too. Telehouse is the very best name in the international data centre and colocation market and the opening of Telehouse Istanbul comes at an important time when Turkey is opening up rapidly and connectivity, security and continuity are vital to companies located in the City”, said Alper Selcuk, General Manager of Teknotel.
According to Telehouse Turkey is an extremely important market for the company, because it is in the crossroad between Europe and Asia. Telehouse executives said that Teknotel is a reliable partner with the expertise, focus and willingness to carry the Telehouse brand.
Telehouse says it will continue to open data centers in countries in which the company can find a local partner with the capability to run high class facilities.
Reference: Telehouse is one of the world’s premier data center service providers. Its American entity operates the New York International Internet Exchange. The company has recently expanded its New York data center space. See article “New York Internet Exchange Expanded Into New Data Center”
Another excellent facility in the region of South-Eastern Europe is 3DC, a state-of-the-art carrier neutral data center based out of Sofia, Bulgaria. Among tenants which provide Colocation Hosting is Rax.bg, the longest running Bulgarian IT hosting provider. It operates fully redundant network and provide customers with a choice of global IP bandwidth providers and local peering for South Eastern Europe with direct connectivity to Turkish market.
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