TelecityGroup, the pan European provider of network independent data centres and value added services, today announces that the International Institute of Information Technology, also called “SUPINFO”, France’s leading international ICT school, has extended its relationship with the company by taking additional hosting space and value added services to cater for the rapid growth of its server housing, network and storage requirements.

Founded in 1965, the Ecole Supérieure d’Informatique, recently renamed as the International Institute of Information Technology and more commonly known as SUPINFO, is an international school that has become the leading higher education establishment in France for the tuition of Information and Communication Technologies. Today, the school has more than 5,000 students at 41 sites across the world, including 28 in France.

With a seven-fold increase in the number of students in the last five years, and an ever-expanding number of commercial services on offer, SUPINFO's in-house solution could no longer meet the hosting and bandwidth requirements of its critical server infrastructure, nor provide the appropriate level of physical security required.

Already a TelecityGroup customer, SUPINFO is now expanded its partnership by outsourcing the entire hosting of its IT systems to the TelecityGroup facility in Aubervilliers, Paris. TelecityGroup's IP-Transit services will assure SUPINFO resilient, scaleable connectivity.

François Fanuel, Systems and Networks Director at SUPINFO, explains: "SUPNIFO has hosted some of its IT systems’ infrastructure with TelecityGroup for a number of years and our experience has been very positive. The staff are highly professional and attentive to our requirements day and night and the technical standards of its data centre infrastructure are excellent. We particularly appreciate its strict cabling standards – quite a departure from what you find in most other data centre companies - and the access to connectivity and peering points.”

"By hosting our entire IT systems’ infrastructure with TelecityGroup, we have cut our Internet connection costs in half while multiplying available bandwidth by an order of magnitude.”

Stephane Duproz, TelecityGroup France Managing Director comments: “I am very pleased that we have extended our agreement with SUPINFO. That such a well-informed organisation should continue to show confidence in our people and services is a clear demonstration of our strengths in this sector, and the level of support we can offer.”

TelecityGroup has recently announced it will build its third data centre in Paris. The data centre is to be launched in phases from the second half of 2009 through to the second quarter of 2011 providing over 3000 square metres of net customer space. Overall data centre power will be approximately 14 megawatts (MW) and total customer power will be approximately 5 MW, with the ability to support high power density requirements of up to 20 kilowatts per rack. Subject to final planning permission for the site, which is expected towards the end of 2008, the Group will invest a total of €48 million in the project,