Dato: Tuesday, 29. June, 2010

With the acquisition of the housing company PointZero, GlobalConnect now runs data centres in all parts of Denmark, further cementing its status a one of the nation's largest providers of IT infrastructure.

"We are extremely happy with this deal," says Niels Zibrandtsen, CEO at GlobalConnect. "PointZero is an important step in our development towards becoming the business sector's preferred partner in IT infrastructure and co-location." In addition to the headquarters in Taastrup, GlobalConnect owns and operates 14 data centres in Kolding, Copenhagen, Hamburg and now also in Odense on Funen.  This is a total of more than 4,500 sq m of professional data centre floor space, housing equipment from a number of Danish and foreign service providers and companies.

By acquiring PointZero, GlobalConnect increases its data centre capacity by 350 sq m which were already connected to GlobalConnect's nationwide fibre network. This gives the existing customer group at PointZero full utilisation of GlobalConnect's setup, in which transmission and housing come together in a natural environment. GlobalConnect will take over operations at PointZero on 1 August 2010, but the day-to-day management and business development will still be handled by Peter Stoffer.