Unified business communications provider Daisy Group have opened the 12 tonne bomb proof door to its Manchester data centre.

The company has recently completed a £1m investment programme in the subterranean facility, situated within a former Bank of England bullion vault.

This investment has been used to improve Daisy’s infrastructure, increase network capacity and launch its CloudSelect, computing-on-demand offering.

Will Kennedy, Corporate Sales Director at Daisy, said: “We’ve been hosting data for more than 13 years and have seen the market and the demand for secure storage increase dramatically in that time. The new facilities and space that we have created in our Manchester data centre mean that we’re able to open up our world-class hosting solutions to any kind of business, large or small, that require secure and instant access to their data and applications.”

In addition to being 25 feet below ground, the data centre’s raft of security features also includes two metre thick granite walls and a 60 centimetre bomb blast corridor surrounding the data storage area. It is continuously monitored by 70 CCTV cameras and access is granted only to authorised personnel.