by LDeX Blogger | Nov 25, 2014 | Group News
LDeX Group awarded Investors in People accolade for best practice in employee engagement
London, United Kingdom – 25 November 2014:
LDeX Group has today announced that it has been awarded the Investors in People (IIP) accolade for best practice in employee engagement, having developed its internal communications function over the last six months and surpassed all 37 evidence based criterion associated with the prestigious people management standard.
The national datacentre and network connectivity provider has aligned itself to best practice in accordance with Investors in People and has placed a strong emphasis on developing its employee engagement strategy in order to ensure that LDeX Group is an attractive place to work for both existing and new employees.
Investors in People provides a best practice people management standard, offering accreditation to organisations that adhere to the Investors in People framework. Investors in People is owned by the UK government, managed nationally by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills and supported by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. Investors in People assessments are conducted locally through seven local Delivery Centres.
Rob Garbutt, CEO of LDeX Group commented: “We are very proud to be part of the Investors in People programme and we look forward to evolving our employee engagement and people management strategy over the coming years. With a view to expanding the business over the next decade, we want to enable our staff to feel valued and continue to put the resources in place for them to succeed and achieve the group’s organisational objectives.”
He added: “It is imperative for organisations such as ours to develop the skills, knowledge and expertise of their staff in order to enhance the levels of operational effectiveness and customer service within the business.”
David Umpleby, Head of Investors in People, said: “I would like to congratulate LDeX on achieving the Investors in People Standard, it is something that any organisation should be truly proud of. Achieving this standard clearly show’s LDeX’s commitment to its people but also an understanding of the value of employee engagement in the successful delivery of a wider strategy.”
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About LDeX Group
LDeX Group is an independent national datacentre and colocation operator providing best in class colocation, network connectivity and satellite services to an array of customers across the globe.
LDeX own, operate and manage their facilities, providing London and Manchester colocation services to a range of industry sectors to protect the availability of data, applications, ecommerce and online presence.
For further information, please visit the website: www.ldexgroup.co.uk
by LDeX Blogger | Nov 21, 2014 | Group News
LDeX Group announced as 31st fastest growing technology company in the UK at the Deloitte Fast 50 awards- UK colocation provider LDeX Group recognised for achieving 897% revenue growth over the last five years –
London, United Kingdom – 21st November 2014:
LDeX Group has today announced that it has been named as the 31st fastest growing technology company in the United Kingdom at this year’s Deloitte Fast 50 awards, which took place yesterday evening at the Montcalm Hotel in London.
The prestigious accolade was awarded to the independent datacentre and network connectivity provider having achieved an exponential revenue growth of 897% over the last five years. The award highlights the growing success of LDeX as a national datacentre operator in the United Kingdom.
Now in its seventeenth year, the Deloitte Fast 50 awards ranks the country’s 50 fastest growing technology companies, based on revenue growth over the last five years, and includes both public and private companies of all sizes in the technology arena, such as Skyscanner and Just Eat Plc.
Rob Garbutt, CEO at LDeX Group commented: “We are very proud to be recognised as the 31st fastest growing company in the UK. As an expanding datacentre operator, our growth has come as a result of our acute focus on providing best in class customer service as well as the team’s commitment to operational excellence.”
He added: “We believe that this award showcases to the industry how customer service is paramount to successful commercial growth in an otherwise difficult and competitive trading environment.”
David Halstead, Partner leading the Deloitte Technology Fast 50, said: “The Deloitte Technology Fast 50 gives great profile to technology companies and is internationally recognised as being one of the most important business awards in the sector.”
“The 2014 Deloitte Fast 50 shows that tremendous growth rates are still possible, with software sectors showing particular strength, they have had the greatest amount of entries in the past five years. This year’s ranking highlights the importance of being innovative and finding a niche product or service, to beat the recession.”
The colocation provider will automatically be entered in the Deloitte Fast 500 EMEA programme, which ranks the 500 fastest growing technology companies in Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
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About LDeX Group
LDeX Group is an independent national datacentre and colocation operator providing best in class colocation, network connectivity and satellite services to an array of customers across the globe.
LDeX own, operate and manage their facilities, providing London and Manchester colocation services to a range of industry sectors to protect the availability of data, applications, ecommerce and online presence.
For further information, please visit the website: www.ldexgroup.co.uk
by LDeX Blogger | Oct 7, 2014 | Group News
LDeX Group adds TeleData UK to its growing customer base
London, United Kingdom – 7th October 2014 –
LDeX Group has today announced the addition of TeleData UK, an independent datacentre operator based in Manchester, to its growing customer base having signed a three year contract with the company for London based colocation, IP transit and network connectivity services at the group’s LDeX1 data centre facility.
Providing colocation and disaster recovery workspace solutions to customers operating in multiple verticals including the financial services sector from its 70,000 sq. ft. Delta House data centre facility, TeleData will benefit from faster and scalable IP transit and network services over diverse dark fibre between LDeX1 in London and the Manchester based facility ensuring ultra-low latency connectivity for its customers in both cities.
Commenting on the news, LDeX Group CEO said: ‘‘We are delighted that TeleData has chosen LDeX as a trusted colocation and network services provider in order to expand its point of presence both in London and the UK. This move will offer TeleData customers the flexibility of having additional data centre space in London from the company’s six rack cage situated in our 22,000 sq. ft LDeX1 facility supplemented with superior connectivity services between both cities.”
Matt Edgley, Sales Director at TeleData added: “As a data centre operator in Manchester, it’s key for us to form strong strategic partnerships with providers elsewhere in the UK to satisfy certain client requirements. We demand that TeleData partners demonstrate a commitment to quality and operational excellence that mirrors our own. The high level of technical resilience that we offer at our own site also has to be matched which certainly narrows the field. LDeX proved to be a supplier meeting these high standards and we look forward to working together with this new deployment and our expansion into the Capital.”
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About LDeX Group
LDeX Group is an independent national datacentre and colocation operator providing best in class colocation, network connectivity and satellite services to an array of customers across the globe.
LDeX own, operate and manage their facilities, providing London and Manchester colocation services to a range of industry sectors to protect the availability of data, applications, ecommerce and online presence.
For further information, please visit the website: www.ldexgroup.co.uk
About Teledata
TeleData UK Ltd is an independent data centre operator based in Manchester. Since 2007, TeleData have been providing data centre and disaster recovery workspace solutions to enable organisations to protect against the potentially damaging effects of downtime. TeleData’s specialist Disaster Recovery facility, the 70,000sqft Delta House, offers over 300 racks worth of colocation space and workspace recovery for up to 500 seats.
Press contact
Matt Edgley (Sales Director), [email protected], +44 (0) 161 499 6101
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by LDeX Blogger | Oct 6, 2014 | Group News
LDeX Group shortlisted for Colocation services offering of the Year at the 2014 SVC awards
The team at LDeX Group is delighted to announce that we have been shortlisted for the ‘Colocation services offering of the Year’ accolade at this year’s Storage, Virtualisation and Cloud Awards 2014.
This prestigious award recognises the hard work which goes on behind the scenes in delivering dedicated colocation solutions to customers. Amongst those nominated in the category are LDeX Group, C4L and Pulsant.
About the awards
The Storage, Virtualization, Cloud (SVC) Awards reward the products, projects and services as well as honour companies and teams operating in the cloud, virtualization and storage sectors. The SVC Awards recognise the achievements of end-users, channel partners and vendors alike and in the case of the end-user category there will also be an award made to the supplier who nominated the winning organisation.
The SVC Awards categories provide a wide range of options for organisations involved in the IT industry to participate. Nominate your organisation for categories that you think that it deserves to win. http://www.svcawards.com/index.php
About LDeX Group
As a datacentre and network connectivity provider, LDeX has gone from strength to strength in offering best in class colocation facilities in London since operations began in early 2012. Situated 6km from the city centre on Staples Corner, the company recently expanded it’s colocation offering with the acquisition of Ping Networks, a successful managed communications services provider. Over the last two years, the company has attracted many high profile tier 1, tier 2 and Internet Exchange Points such as LINX enhancing connectivity by enabling them to peer on the LINX Juniper LAN.
LDeX has attracted an array of clients in the managed services, media, telecoms and financial sectors to date. With an onsite satellite farm and extensive experience in streaming satellites over IP, the company lends its expertise to media clients by ensuring that content is delivered at ultra-fast low latency speeds and also offers services to those looking for a centralised media hub based in London.
Why should you vote for us?
- Exceptional customer service and onsite support with numerous industry accolades to our name
- Robust and resilient multi-tiered approach to physical and network security
- Extensive expertise in providing agile colocation, network connectivity and streaming media solutions
- Growing organisation which treats each customer as a valuable client as opposed to just a ticket number
- Offering tailored solutions to clients of varying sizes
Vote for us today
To vote for us today – click here. Voting will cease at 5pm on the 9th November and the awards ceremony will take place on the 27th November.
Best of luck to all the finalists.
For further information, please contact [email protected]
by LDeX Blogger | Jan 8, 2014 | Group News
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Press Release – 08/01/2014
Fast growing London-based Data Centre and Network operator London Data Exchange (LDeX) have today announced the merger of London Data Exchange Limited (LDeX) and Ping Networks Limited to form the LDeX Group Limited
LDeX Group have acquired 100% of the share capital of both LDeX and Ping Networks to create a new brand that will focus on developing the core strengths of both entities in the areas of high quality colocation services and intelligent networks.
Commenting on the merger, Rob Garbutt, CEO & Co-Founder of LDeX Group, said: “I am very excited about the creation of the LDeX Group and combining our product sets under one consistent brand. By combining our in-house talent, we are better placed to serve our growing customers’ needs going forward. Our ability to link people, places and clouds has been boosted significantly with the flexible service creation capability that the combined group can now offer to the market”
LDeX group welcomes Simon Chamberlain onto the board of directors as new CTO. Patrick Doyle (Co-founder of LDeX) will become COO of the new Group. LDeX continues to be a privately, well-funded organisation that is cash generative and EBITDA positive with year on year double digit growth. The creation of the group gives further financial strength going forward and will enable LDeX group to better serve its’ existing customer base, new clients and expand its’ data centre foot print and IP network across multiple regions.
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About LDeX Group
LDeX Group (LDeX) provides energy efficient data centres and intelligent networks from its enterprise grade, carrier neutral, London facility. Located within the M25 and in close proximity to Central London, LDeX, own, operate and manage their facilities, providing London colocation services to a range of industry sectors to protect the availability of data, applications, ecommerce and online presence.
As well as high quality colocation solutions, LDeX deliver a range of network services including IP Transit, Layer 2 and MPLS solutions. Utilising best of breed Juniper kit, LDeX are able to deliver high capacity and low latency IP Transit and Layer 2 connectivity from multiple points-of-presence (PoPS) across London and Manchester Data Centres including LDeX 1, Telehouse, Telecity, Interxion and Level 3 sites. LDeX’s diverse London metro ring, linking every major data centre in the city, means clients can also connect between data centres over completely diverse routes.
For more information please visit: www.ldexgroup.co.uk
Press Contact: LDeX Group Ltd – Arpen Tucker
[email protected], +44 (0)207 183 3129
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by LDeX Blogger | Mar 26, 2013 | Group News
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Ping Networks are pleased to announce that we have expanded our data centre footprint and network capacity at one of the best connected sites in the UK – Telehouse North, thus enabling 10Gbps of immediate network capacity, with scope to increase this to 100Gbps, as well as additional data centre footprint to serve colocation requirement within this sought after facility.
Utilising best of breed Juniper kit to hand off to customers we are now able to deliver much higher capacity and lowest latency IP Transit and layer 2 connectivity from this location. Our diverse London metro ring, linking every major data centre in the city, means Clients can also connect between data centres over completely diverse routes.
From any point on this fibre based London network ring, clients are also able to join our diverse 10Gbps London to Manchester network which terminates in and connects all of the Telecity Manchester sites, including the new Joule House data centre, where we are now delivering our full range of network services including IP Transit, Layer 2 and MPLS solutions.
Our colocation solutions available in Telehouse North range from 1u up to multiple full rack solutions within the Ping Networks space, located within a secure private room. All solutions provide dual power supplies with UPS and generator backed mains power supply.
This is an important step forward in Ping’s network expansion program which continues to increase capacity within and between all leading data centres in the UK to meet the demand of our client base.
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