Friday was a big day for us technical guys at Cobweb as we hit the first milestone in a project that will deliver the next generation of technical platform for us.
We've just signed the deal to take some data centre space in a leading data centre that's not in central/east London. Good data centres are hard to come by outside of Docklands, but we found one in the Equinix LD4 facility. It's a leading data centre, one of the latest generation (with which only opened fully in 2008. Importantly for Cobweb, this location has connectivity to the internet and peering networks that is diverse from the data centre hub of Docklands, giving independence and resilience from any major London DC incident.
Also on Friday, we announced that the BIG-IP solutions from F5 Networks will become our platform of choice for load-balancing and application management. This is a big step forward for us and we'll develop beyond simple load-balancing of HTTP/S connection to improve performance and responsiveness for our Managed Services, especially for connection-critical applications such as Hosted Exchange and Hosted SharePoint
All in all, this is a very significant investment by Cobweb and one we are certainly going to make the most of!
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