Colocation Sales Professional, Matthew Edgley Joins the UK Grid Team as Northern Sales Manager

MANCHESTER, U.K. — Jun. 30th, 2011 — UK Grid, one of the UK’s leading colocation providers, today announced that Matthew Edgley has joined the company's Management team as their Northern Sales Manager.

Reporting to the UK Grid Board of Directors, Edgley will be responsible for building and maintaining UK Grid’s new and installed client base throughout the Northern region via direct client relationships and a developing partner channel.

"We are delighted that Matt has chosen to join our team. He has a rich and varied background in business to business sales, accompanied by a highly competent and knowledgeable consultative approach. His recent and successful positions at IFL and Telecity has given him a great understanding of the colocation, telecommunications and data centre outsourcing industries where he is held in particularly high regard, and this will help to underpin our considerable growth and aggressive targets in these areas," said Garbutt. "Matt’s proven business development expertise and professional reputation will be a huge asset as we continue to expand our presence in Manchester and other areas of the UK."

Prior to joining UK Grid, Edgley worked as Sales Manager for IFL where he was solely responsible for whole of UK sales, marketing strategy and revenue delivery, building turnover from less than 500k through to the company’s sale for more than £20million 5 years later. Edgley subsequently worked as Account Director for TelecityGroup, where he was directly responsible for revenues and client retention within their Manchester market and beyond.

Matt has also served as a security solutions sales executive for Comodo Group, and has previously held positions with Compaq, Fujitsu and Hewlett Packard. Edgley also holds a (CIM) Professional Diploma in Marketing.

"It's an exciting time to be joining UK Grid at the start of a huge expansion program as momentum continues to build for the company's highly respected data centres and colocation solutions," said Edgley. "I look forward to working with the UK Grid Board and sales team and our direct and partner networks as we continue to help clients achieve maximum certainty, performance, availability and efficiencies for their IT operations."

Contact:

Matt Edgley

m.edgley@ukgrid.net

0161 850 1693

UK Grid Complete 300 Rack Upgrade at Synergy House

Manchester, 28th June 2011

UK Grid (www.ukgrid.net), a leading provider of UK carrier neutral colocation solutions, has today announced that expansion work has been completed at one of their Manchester data centre facilities, known as ‘Manchester One’ at Synergy House on Manchester Science Park.

The expansion project sees the commissioning of an additional 6000sq ft of colocation space to accommodate 300 server racks within two new data halls. A second substation along with dedicated N+1 UPS and N+1 Generator infrastructure provides mains power and backup to the new space that is independent from other areas of the data centre. The total power availability at the site is now 4MW.

Full racks are available at the facility starting from £450 per month, with power densities of up to 7kw per rack available.

In order to expand connectivity options into the new zones, a number of telecommunications providers have brought their fibre networks and IP Transit services into the new area to satisfy client connectivity requirements.

Matt Edgley, UK Grid’s Sales Manager comments;

“This expansion project ensures that we can continue to accommodate the high levels of demand we’re seeing for high quality data centre space in the North until our new Parkway 2 data centre comes online in Q4 2011.

In Synergy House we offer a data centre that’s truly fit for business, carrying ISO27001, ISO14001 and ISO9001 accreditations. The colocation facility has also been rubber stamped as being compliant with the EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres, so any organisation considering UK Grid can be sure we’re doing the right things in the right way.”

The overall target PUE for the new data halls is 1.32 making the colocation facility one of the most efficient data centres in the UK. To continue with their ‘Environmentally Responsible’ approach UK Grid state that Synergy House is and will continue to be completely carbon neutral owing to their forestry projects that offset all carbon emissions from their data centres.

About UK Grid

UK Grid provides carbon neutral, carrier neutral colocation solutions across four data centre facilities in London and Manchester. With over 300 clients and 75,000sq ft total data centre space, this makes UK Grid one of the largest independent colocation suppliers in the United Kingdom. UK Grid offset all CO2 emissions through environmental projects, are members of the Green Grid and are certified to ISO27001, IS09001 and ISO14001. UK Grid were named in the UK’s top 10 fastest growing technology companies by Deloitte (Fast 50).

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UK Grid, to Host Manchester Internet Networking Event with sponsors Vaioni and Geo Networks

Manchester, Monday 20th June 2011

UK Grid, to Host Manchester Internet Networking Event with sponsors Vaioni and Geo Networks.

UK Grid, leading providers of carrier neutral colocation solutions and data centres, will be holding the next in the regular series of networking events for Internet professionals on the 7th July 2011 in conjunction with Vaioni and Geo Networks.

The regular networking events, called ‘Re-Connected’, are hosted at popular venues in Manchester and are focused on bringing business leaders together in a relaxed environment to discuss Internet business opportunities, forge new partnerships and make valuable new connections within the industry.

The nest event will be held on 7th July, in ‘The Gallery bar’ at the popular nightspot Dukes 92 between 6pm and 9pm. A complementary bar and canapés will be provided for all attendees as the events aim to create a relaxed environment, promoting conversation with no rigid agendas and hard selling to a minimum.

Rob Garbutt, CEO at UK Grid comments, “Our aim is to create an informal yet focused atmosphere where business leaders and professionals can come together for mutual benefit. Many of the attendees that have registered are from the Internet industry directly, but we also have a number of attendees from outside the industry attending the event to discover how Internet services can benefit their business.”

Registration for the forthcoming event is still open. For further information contact Vicki Edgley, v.edgley@ukgrid, 0161 850 1528

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