NTT Communications has bought a big stake in Germany-based e-shelter, a data centre service operator. This puts NTT into the third place in terms of data centre space in Europe, it claims.
e-shelter is currently managing nearly 90,000 square meters of data centre space in four major cities in Germany, as well as Zurich, Switzerland and Vienna, Austria. One of its main facilities, Campus Frankfurt 1, Europe’s largest data centre with some 60,000 square meters of data center space, comprises five free-standing buildings constructed specifically as data centres.
NTT Com currently operates data centres in the UK, France, Germany and Spain which e-shelter’s six locations in central Europe will complement. NTT Com President and CEO Akira Arima said: "e-shelter is a growing company offering high-quality, highly extensible data center capabilities. We have been impressed by their ability, under the strong leadership of CEO Rupprecht Rittweger, to maintain their position as a leading data centre operator not only in Germany, but the competitive EU market as a whole. We look forward to expanding our share of the EU’s overall ICT market in partnership with this potent company.”
As a new member of the NTT Com group, e-shelter will get "enhanced financing capabilities for accelerated capital investment" in the continental EU region, where it aims at the diverse ICT needs of its large customers.
According to e-shelter CEO Rupprecht Rittweger: "As our multinational customers expand beyond EU borders, and undergo rapid ICT evolutions, they are increasingly demanding globally seamless ICT solutions. To meet their demands ahead of our competitors, we believe that the best way to ensure e-shelter’s growth and development is in partnership with NTT Com, which has a commanding presence in Asia and is a leading provider of ICT services worldwide. At the same time, we look forward to strengthening NTT Com’s global ICT infrastructure and market share with our strong presence in Europe