A NEW data storage centre has opened in Elland to help local companies keep confidential and sensitive information secure.
SunGard Availability Services has opened the new centre to meet the needs of up to 4,000 businesses across the north.
The centre provides local businesses with a range of managed IT services, including data storage and retrieval and business consultancy.
The move comes as a survey highlighted a “critical” shortage of data centre facilities in Yorkshire.
Manchester Enterprises, the economic development agency for Greater Manchester, said many businesses were struggling to find locations with enough power to meet their growing needs.
A separate report by AFCOMS Data Centre Institute warned that by 2010 more than half of all data centres will have to move to new facilities or outsource some applications – while over the next five years power failures and limits on power supply will hit data centre operations at more than 90% of companies.
SunGard Availability Services, based in the USA, has 14 centres in the UK, including four in London and others in Leicester, Coventry and Bristol. It also has centres in France, Germany, Belgium, Norway and Sweden.
