Hemel Hempstead, England, 25th October 2010 — Gyron today announced that it ranked Number 17 in the 2010 Deloitte Technology Fast 50, a ranking of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in the UK. Rankings are based on percentage revenue growth over five years. Gyron grew 1,476 percent during this period.

Gyron’s Managing Director, Robin Balen, credits their high specification datacentre facilities and the hard work and dedication of his staff with the company’s 1,476% revenue growth over the past five years. He said, “We are a specialist ‘behind the scenes’ company that support the mission critical business applications of dozens of companies including Adobe, Spotify, Symantec, and Verisign. It’s fantastic to receive this public recognition of how fast we’ve grown over the past five years, and we look forward to building on this foundation and further accelerating our growth and availability of high specification datacentre facilities.”

“Achieving sustained revenue growth of 1,476% over five years is a tremendous accomplishment during challenging times for the technology sector,” said Rob Knight, Deloitte Technology partner for the South East. “Gyron’s exceptional growth puts it in select company.”

David Halstead, Partner leading the Deloitte Technology Fast 50, said: “The Deloitte Technology Fast 50 gives great profile to technology companies and is internationally recognised as being one of the most important business awards in the sector”.

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About Gyron

Gyron was formed in March 2000, and offers colocation and a wide range complimentary managed services from two facilities — the London Hosting Centre in the heart of the London Docklands, and the Centro datacentre in Hemel Hempstead. Both datacentres are supported by 24/7 on-site teams of engineers and offer redundant power, cooling, and connectivity, all covered by 100% uptime service level guarantees.

For more information, visit http://blog.gyron.net/.

About Deloitte:

In this press release references to Deloitte are references to Deloitte LLP, which is among the country’s leading professional services firms. Deloitte LLP is the United Kingdom member firm of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (‘DTT’), a Swiss Verein, whose member firms are legally separate and independent entities. Please see www.deloitte.co.uk/about for a detailed description of the legal structure of DTT and its member firms.

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UK Deloitte Technology Fast 50 The UK Deloitte Technology Fast 50 initiative ranks UK high growth technology companies based on percentage growth in stated revenue over five years. The programme is sponsored by Taylor Wessing, a leading International law firm with a focus on the industries of tomorrow, and Fidelity Growth Partners Europe, a venture and growth capital investor which backs entrepreneurs with aspiration for greatness in the IT and clean technology sectors across Europe.
Frequently asked questions and details of the winning companies, including breakdowns by industry sector and ranking, will be available on www.deloitte.co.uk/fast50.

About Deloitte Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) Group:

The TMT Group is composed of service professionals who have a wealth of experience serving technology, media and telecommunications companies throughout the UK in areas including cable, communications providers, computers and peripherals, entertainment, media and publishing, networking, semiconductors, software, wireless, and related industries. These specialists understand the challenges that these companies face throughout all stages of their business growth cycle and are committed to helping them succeed. Deloitte is a leader in providing strategic, financial and operational assistance to its technology, media and telecommunications clients.

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Centro datacentre

Robin Balen, Managing Director, comments:

The next phase of expansion at the Centro datacentre is an exciting time for Gyron. Our philosophy has always been that customers will respond enthusiastically when presented with a state of the art datacentre, a flexible approach, fantastic customer service and great value for money, and we’ve been bowled over by the volume of positive feedback about our facility from both new and existing customers. The contract figures speak for themselves, especially given the challenging wider economic conditions.

The fit out works will add an additional 360kW of IT capacity within the datacentre at Hemel Hempstead, over 85% of which has already been contracted for. Work on the expansion space is due to complete on the 1st of June, exactly 1 year after the Centro facility first opened its doors to customer equipment.

Ben Miller, Operations Director, continues:

Our approach from day one when designing the Centro facility was to ensure that the datacentre infrastructure was completely modular. This has allowed us to rapidly expand operations at the site to meet unprecedented demand for our services, and also increase the specification of our services when needed to suit specific customer requirements. This next phase is no exception and we look forward to delivering this additional capacity shortly.

State of the art power and cooling systems have been specified for the expansion area, along with a custom hot-aisle containment system designed in-house, allowing a best-in-class target Power usage Effectiveness (PuE) of between 1.3 and 1.4, whilst simultaneously providing enhanced 2N redundancy on the power infrastructure.

For further details on this and future expansion space at the Centro facility, please contact the Gyron sales team.

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About Gyron

Gyron was formed in March 2000, and offers colocation and a wide range complimentary managed services from two facilities — the London Hosting Centre in the heart of the London Docklands, and the Centro datacentre in Hemel Hempstead. Both datacentres are supported by 24/7 on-site teams of engineers and offer redundant power, cooling, and connectivity, all covered by 100% uptime service level guarantees. For more information, visit http://blog.gyron.net/.

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Hot aisle containment in Suite 1 at Centro datacentre facility

The annual awards are organised by DatacenterDynamics, an information provider who host a series of 22 annual popular datacentre industry conference events worldwide. In 2008 alone, nearly 8,000 industry specialists attended the conferences.

Robin Balen, Managing Director of Gyron stated:

We’re extremely proud to have been shortlisted for this prestigious leadership award. We have received incredible feedback from both existing and new customers who have toured our state-of-the-art Centro facility, which has been designed from the ground up to host a wide range of customer equipment in the most efficient and scalable way possible. This level of recognition from industry insiders is icing on the cake for all the hard work our team have put in to developing the Centro datacentre.

For more details regarding the other awards and finalists, the DatacentreDynamics press release can be found here.

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High density colocation racks at Centro following successful relocation

Relocating even a small number of servers between datacentres is a task fraught with potential disaster. When such a project scales up to moving hundreds of servers and dozens of network switches from a live production environment, with strict time frames for acceptable downtime and zero tolerance for hardware failure, the project becomes even more challenging.

Fortunately, in recent years Gyron’s in-house team of engineers have relocated thousands of servers, plus hundreds of storage appliances, network switches, routers, firewalls and KVM units for a wide range of high profile clients.

Craig Robinson, Managing Director of UKDedicated, continues:

When we started the process of exploring new facilities to meet our rapidly expanding datacentre hosting requirements, the viability of the relocation project to move the considerable amount of existing live equipment from our two old locations to the new Centro datacentre was absolutely critical. Gyron were able to offer us everything we needed, from the high specification colocation facility itself, all the way through to the detailed planning and execution of the complex relocation project.

The project was complicated by the fact that during the relocation exercise, equipment was consolidated from two entirely separate datacentres, each with very different procedures and goods handling facilities. Ben Miller, Operations Director of Gyron, stated:

We started the project by thoroughly auditing the equipment hosted at both legacy datacentres, then sat down with UKDedicated and worked through various different relocation strategies. After reviewing UKDedicated’s priorities for the relocation and the types of equipment in use, and comparing this with our previous experience carrying out similar relocation projects, we agreed on a hybrid approach.

The older equipment in both legacy facilities was de-racked, transported to Centro on pallets then re-racked in to new cabinets in their new location. This had the added benefit of allowing UKDedicated to consolidate their older equipment in to fewer racks in order to take advantage of the high density hosting available at the Centro facility.

The newer servers were relocated by mounting the entire rack enclosures with all servers in-place on to a custom designed shock pallet, then crating the rack up and securely transporting it to their new home in the Centro datacentre.

The equipment was fully insured thoughout the relocation project by Gyron, and all hardware was escorted by a datacentre security guard during the move. Downtime was restricted to between midnight and 6AM at weekends only throughout the project in order to minimise the impact on UKDedicated’s clients.

Robin Balen, Managing Director of Gyron, concluded:

Completing this kind of complex datacentre relocation project on-time, on-budget, and with zero hardware failures really demonstrates our strength in providing integrated datacentre services. I’m proud of our team for their hard work over an extended period of time to pull this entire project together for UKDedicated.

Testing the shock pallet and ramp during dry run at Centro

Custom designed shock pallet with rack secured in place

Unloading rack crates at Centro, straight in to the loading dock

Unpacking server racks at their new home in the Centro datacentre facility

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Built by Gyron, this data centre offers connectivity right out to the last mile, as a result of Fluidata’s broad range of connectivity products such as ADSL2+, SDSL and Fibre.

Robin Balen, Managing Director at Gyron states:

Our Centro datacentre in Hemel Hempstead has been built from the ground up with high density power and cooling systems, along with diverse dark fibre connectivity. This, coupled with our location just outside of the M25, makes the facility an ideal choice for disaster recovery and cloud computing applications. Connectivity to the end user’s premises is a key part of any such outsourcing strategy, and one which many datacentres overlook. We look forward to working with Fluidata and their wide range of connectivity services to meet this need.

Piers Daniell, Managing Director of Fluidata states:

In today’s climate, it is increasingly important for businesses to consider hosting and virtualisation in the cloud as a viable business initiative.

At Fluidata, our offering includes multiple data centres across the UK operating on a dark fibre network, configured to operate as one: This is a significant development and an important requirement for businesses looking to host key applications within the cloud. Coupled with national last mile coverage it is a compelling business case for virtualisation.

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About Gyron

Gyron was formed in March 2000, and offers colocation and a wide range complimentary managed services from two facilities — the London Hosting Centre in the heart of the London Docklands, and the Centro datacentre in Hemel Hempstead. Both datacentres are supported by 24/7 on-site teams of engineers and offer redundant power, cooling, and connectivity, all covered by 100% uptime service level guarantees. For more information, visit http://blog.gyron.net/.

About Fluidata

Fluidata is a leading, independent telecommunications provider offering flexible, innovative and high speed internet solutions for all sectors across the B2B market. The firm has a strong product and service portfolio, providing companies of all sizes (in particular SME’s) with bespoke, cost effective, highly robust and extremely reliable internet connections and support. For more information, visit http://www.fluidata.co.uk/.

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Gyron Internet Ltd
3 Centro
Boundary Way
Hemel Hempstead
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All other contact details, including phone numbers, remain the same. We also continue to operate a 24/7 NOC at our on-site offices in the LHC, in London Docklands, to support our customers there.

Please note that the Registered Office for Gyron Internet Ltd has also been updated to the above address.

If you have any queries regarding this change please contact our accounts team on billing@gyron.net or 0845 888 6900 during office hours.

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Centro feature in HotLINX 18

Gyron, a leading UK provider of colocation services, have announced that their new Hemel Hempstead based Centro data centre facility opened for business on the 1st of June 2009 with over 70% of the initial capacity pre-sold.

Conveniently located close to the M1 and M25, the facility is set within a secure 50,000 sq ft compound and has 3MVA of HV power through redundant supplies, and multiple fibre providers on-site. The facility has been fitted out to a high specification, with all infrastructure installed with a minimum of N+1 redundancy, and certain key elements at 2N. A state-of-the-art IP CCTV system and access control system provides security, including man-traps and biometric iris scanners.

The facility uses highly energy efficient design principles, with enclosed rack hot aisle containment and economical chilled water cooling allowing standard rack densities of 4kW, rising up to a maximum of 24kW. Colocation space is available from individual racks up to private suites, complemented by a wide range of connectivity and management services. All power, cooling and connectivity services are covered by comprehensive 100% uptime Service Level Agreements.

“Gyron has been providing colocation services for over nine years now, with five of those as a member of LINX. We have established a wide reputation for our high specification, no-nonsense services and look forward to building on this at our new Centro facility in Hemel Hempstead” said Gyron Director, Robin Balen. “We’re very pleased with both the level interest and number of agreements already signed with both existing and new customers at the new facility”.

For more information on Gyron’s new data centre and other services please visit www.gyron.net, call +44 845 888 6900, or email sales@gyron.net. Centro Data Centre

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We’re pleased to announce that today is Gyron’s 9th birthday! It couldn’t come at a more exciting time, particularly with our new Centro datacentre facility opening soon and ushering in a new era for the company. Myself and the other Directors would like to thank all of our dedicated and enthusiastic staff for their hard work getting us to this point, and also our customers’ support and encouragement for making our continued growth possible. We look forward to working together for years to come!

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To keep up with increasing demand for its co-location, managed hosting and connectivity services, Gyron Internet Ltd has chosen Imtech Telecom Global and partner Juniper Networks to upgrade its core network. The new equipment for its state-of-the-art hosting site in London Docklands will allow Gyron to maintain the highest possible levels of service for its customers as the company expands nationally.

Gyron, established 8 years ago, has become a key player at the Docklands London Hosting Centre, with over 5,000sq ft of high specification hosting space, and is now expanding its high speed fibre network outside of the M25 to a new datacentre in Hemel Hempstead. Initially with a handful of customers and five racks, Gyron’s customer base has now grown to over a hundred customers. These include government departments, IT consultancies, global enterprises, banks, recruitment agencies and internet companies; all serviced by over 160 racks of equipment at Gyron’s London data centre.

With its services in high demand, Gyron required a new strategy to sell additional high capacity services within their existing hosting space, whilst also being able to support significant expansion at their new site. Drawing on Imtech’s established consultancy and support services, Gyron has chosen to upgrade its core London network with two additional Juniper MX240s, and EX-series Ethernet switches. The solution uses JUNOS software and neatly integrates routing, switching and security across Gyron’s high-performance network infrastructure.

Gyron are installing and integrating the new routers to function as a redundant pair, handling all BGP traffic on the network .

Robin Balen, Director for Gyron, stated: “Imtech has always provided a wealth of knowledge and support for our chosen Juniper platforms. Following their advice, we have selected the MX240 routers for our London site where space is at an absolute premium; whilst the MX 960 platform gives us excellent expansion potential at our new datacentre in Hemel Hempstead. I have been impressed with the Imtech’s technical ability and capabilities in implementing Juniper technologies and its proven track record in successful network deployments, both to the smaller ISPs and larger global carriers.“ Gyron are also undertaking upgrades to its 300gbps DWDM fibre ring which now connects its London Docklands hosting site and its new data centre which will house over 400 racks when it opens in mid-2009.

James Morgan, MD Imtech Telecom Global, said “it is good to see UK entrepreneurs such as the Gyron team achieving so much in such a short time; undoubtedly the Juniper platforms coupled with the easy adoption of JUNOS have helped to enable this growth and we welcome working with forward thinking innovative organisations such as Gyron.”

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Notes for Editors:

About Gyron

Gyron Internet Ltd is a privately owned company founded in 2000, which provides connectivity and outsourced managed hosting for the critical business infrastructure of around 100 small and medium companies, as well as an extensive range of wholesale services to the ISP industry.

Gyron operate their own London metro dark fibre ring, which is capable of delivering over 300Gbps of diverse connectivity. Their main hosting suites and 24/7 NOC are at the London Hosting Centre in the Docklands, with additional POPs in all of the major London hosting facilities, and a new 400 rack facility called “Centro” opening up mid-2009 in Hemel Hempstead.

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