A leading global domain name registration company has opened a new data centre in Wellingborough, creating 25 jobs in the process.
Safenames recently acquired the former Nationwide Building Society data centre on the Park Farm Industrial Estate and has plans to improve the broadband services in the town.
The company has been renovating and refurbishing the Wellingborough data centre and when completely finished it will aim to offer high speed internet to Wellingborough.
Maddasar Azim, Director of Business Development at Safenames said: “We deliver a range of co-location, managed services, dedicated server hosting and virtual cloud hosting solutions to businesses nationwide with a vast interest from companies located within a 100-mile or two-hour drive from the Wellingborough data centre.
“Additionally, the resilience, security and location of the facility provides the basis for a fully featured disaster recovery-as-a-service offering.
“We are proud to be able to provide local businesses in north and East Northamptonshire and beyond with the option of a highly specified data centre with good high speed connectivity when considering how to modernise and develop their IT infrastructure.
“A focus on providing flexibility and strong customer support, directly or through partnerships should help customers who may be looking to move away from running their own IT facilities or even bring their IT closer to home if they are using a data centre that is far away.
“We have a close relationship with both the local Chamber of Commerce and a local carrier which offers the prospect of Safenames becoming an internet service provider, bringing high speed connectivity, resilience and a secure facility to an area starved of such facilities in the past. Being a local champion offers a somewhat different vision of regional data centres moving forward.”
The centre will also have the additional ability to provide private suites within walled areas served by separate power feeds that can be configured to specific customer requirements and will also provide a back-up and disaster recovery service.
The old building has already undergone a transformation inside with power feeds designed and installed to ensure maximum density and flexibility when provisioning racks and suites.
A new free-air cooling system is being installed to replace the innovative, but less efficient 1980s system, and the design of the new halls has focused on delivering energy efficiency through the use of hot aisle containment and detailed attention to airflows.
Founded in 1997, Safenames specialises in corporate domain portfolio management and online trademark infringement protection services, as well as domain name registrations. Their headquarters is situated in Milton Keynes and it has regional offices in the USA, Australia and India.