Data centre and wireless sales led growth at Cisco Systems in its fiscal third quarter, as it saw customers spending more in the U.S. and developing countries but reported continuing weakness in Southern Europe. 

Amsterdam continues to stake a claim as a leading European data centre hub, with companies attracted there by good connectivity to the rest of the world and relatively cheap power. Data centre provider Securus Fund has just bought its first facility there, the Almere Data Centre, is now Securus Fund's sixth data centre which it purchased last month. The Tier 3 facility will be used to provide colocation and business contingency services to its clients.

With the goal of putting in place resilient electrical infrastructure and achieving low power usage effectiveness, Datum, a business class data centre provider, has deployed Active Power’s CleanSource 1000 kVA uninterruptible power supply system at its new colocation facility in QinetiQ Cody Technology Park in Farnborough, United Kingdom, according to a press release.

NetSuite has become the latest firm to confirm its intention to open a data centre in the UK in order to expand its footprint for data storage, following on from similar announcements from Salesforce and Oracle. The firm's chief executive Zach Nelson said NetSuite intends to open the location within the next 12 months and the UK is the most likely location, although he admitted other areas such as Amsterdam were still in consideration.