Reading Data centre is in a prime location for those travelling from London and surrounding cities. Those travelling by car can join the M4 and take the A3290. This takes around an hour from Central London. Reading Railway Station is a 10-minute drive from our facilities. If you’d rather travel via public transport, you can take a bus from Blagrave Street to Liverpool Road. From here it’s a 5-minute walk away. The closest airport to our Reading data centre is London Heathrow (LHR), which is a 30-minute drive via M4.
Pre-built and pre-configured for the rapid installation of your hardware
Our Reading Data centre is conveniently located close to the M4 Junction 10. Ideal for infrastructure and server hosting, each of the two buildings on our site are designed for optimum efficiency, availability and performance. The Reading colocation space is “move-in ready”, pre-built and pre-configured for the rapid installation of your hardware, and offers footprints ranging from part of a single rack to a secure cage housing multiple racks.
Data centre features
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470 rack capacity across two buildings
Available in 42U or 48U, 600mm x 1000mm ¼ rack, ½ rack, full rack, private cage.
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Reliability
Redundant mains feeds backed up by UPS and diesel generators, with dual feeds to each rack provide a guaranteed level of committed power.
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24x7 environment monitoring
By automated management systems, with Pulsant’s engineers on standby to deal with any alerts.
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Dark fibre connections
Multi-gigabyte transit can be provided through our network of reliable, high-speed diverse-routed dark fibre connections.
Location
Superb access from road, rail and air.
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City Centre
2.8 miles
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M4 Motorway
5.1 miles
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London Heathrow
28.0 miles
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Southampton airport
47.2 miles
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Reading Train Station
2.3 miles
Suttons Business Park
Reading
Berkshire
RG6 1AZ
Specification
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Dimensions
- 2 buildings of 7,500 and 6,500 square feet
- 470 total rack capacity
Credentials
- ISO/IEC 27001:2013 Information Security Management
- ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management
- European Data Centre Code of Conduct Participant
- PCI-DSS Compliant
Security
- Steel perimeter fence
- Swipe card access, with access recorded
- CCTV with minimum 45-day retention
- Intrusion alarm system
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Power
- 1.5 MW total power provisioning to each building
- 1.2 MW and 0.8 MW total UPS provision providing N+1 coverage
- 1.5 and 1.0 MW generator providing N+N coverage
- Dual 16A or 32A feed to racks
Environmental
- 24×7 environment monitoring
- 1,100 kW cooling providing N+1 coverage in each building
- Floor and ceiling fire protection sensors with VESDA system and FM200 fire suppression
- Raised flooring
Connectivity
- Diverse-routed resilient multi-Gbps internet connection
- Telecommunications provision with 9 carriers
- Dark fibre connections available
The benefits of Pulsant colocation
With our colocation service, you simply move your equipment into our data centre and we will look after the costly supporting infrastructure: building fabric, power, cooling, connectivity, and physical security. As your IT needs grow, your data centre footprint can scale accordingly.
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We’ll take care of your systems and data so you can take care of your business
We appreciate that maintaining high levels of uptime is essential: in business-critical or customer-facing IT systems any downtime will result in loss of business and reputation. That’s why we have multiple levels of equipment redundancy to maintain a functioning data centre environment even in the face of major disruptions to IT operations such as power outages.
Every Pulsant data centre is designed from the ground up to be secure and reliable.
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Multiple UPS banks
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Diverse N+1 power supply
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Equipment redundancy
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On-site diesel generators
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Multiple redundant cooling systems
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Multiple diverse network connections
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A local facility for maximum convenience
We recognise that you want your own engineers to have access to your servers, so we have data centres across the UK, allowing you to choose a location that is convenient for you. Your equipment will always be available to your engineers, subject to the access protocols of our data centre security.
Our expert data centre engineers are available and can perform many routine or emergency tasks for you. We call this “remote hands”, where our engineers act on your behalf.
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Ten facilities located across the UK
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Ideally located to major road & rail links
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24-hour access
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Full range of supplementary services
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Looking after your systems and data is our prime concern
Our datacentres offer a high level of physical security for your systems. With multiple levels of access control, internal and external CCTV, on-site staff, perimeter fencing, escorted visitors, you can be sure that your servers are well protected. Pulsant’s ISO 27001 accreditation for IT security covers all of our datacentre facilities.
Where you have heightened security needs, we can provide secure cages to isolate your racks or even dedicated private rooms with their own secure access controls.
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Secure access controls
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Internal and external CCTV
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ISO 27001 accreditation for IT security
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Cages and private suites
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Trusted to deliver by leading UK brands
We work with our customers as an extension of their team, implementing secure, innovative and creative IT solutions to deliver performance.
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"Pulsant has been critical in the setup and hosting of our Cloud infrastructure for this complex and secure project materials."
Elaine Reid, IT Project Manager
Queen's University Belfast, The Centre for Data Digitisation and Analysis
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Colocation FAQs
How can Pulsant help me secure my data and operations, helping to achieve compliance today, during and after Brexit?
We have vast knowledge of and experience in the data centre and hosting market. We have the right staff, accreditations and understanding of compliance and regulation to guide you through the change and help you minimise the impact on your business.
My business can’t afford downtime as a result of poor connectivity; how do you ensure resilience?
We are carrier neutral, with relationships with more than 30 carriers and ISPs. This means there are diverse connections out of our data centres, so there is no compromise on performance, speed or availability.
I need a data centre close to my business. Where is Pulsant located?
We have a network of 10 data centres located across the UK, ranging from London to Sheffield, and Newcastle to Edinburgh. Take a look at our data centre map to find a site near you.
How flexible / scalable are your data centres?
We work with you and your team to determine the space you require within a data hall, rack or suite. Based on our experience, we are also able to help you plan for your growth requirements, and can help you scale up quickly, easily and cost-effectively, when the need arises.
How do I know where my data is?
If you’re concerned about data sovereignty, you can host your data in one of our 10 UK data centres. Our colocation service means you choose the data centre that will host your equipment so that you can access it as needed and meet any regulatory requirements when it comes to location.
Will my servers be safe outside of my premises?
Your servers will be safe in one of our data centres. We take the safety of our customers’ infrastructure seriously. We have the highest levels of physical security in our enterprise data centres, with access control, and 24/7 manned and monitored security.
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