Our Approach

Data Centre Colocation is the physical foundation and starting point for digital strategies. For over 20 years, BT Ireland has been providing secure colocation services in our own data centres, where our strength is recognising that every customer is unique. World-class facilities in Dublin and Belfast are built to Tier III specifications and managed to ISO and ITIL standards by engineers and service teams with the highest professional certifications.

A cloud platform is only as strong as the data centre it is built in and the network it's connected to. Here in Ireland, BT operate world-class carrier neutral data centre facilities, that are connected to our global network, providing proven uninterrupted availability and performance, guaranteeing a competitive edge in today's digital age

Mark Fagan, Head of Data Centre Business, BT Ireland

BT Ireland Data Centres

Dublin is a leading hub for data centre in Europe. BT Ireland has two data centre facilities in Dublin, located in Citywest and Ballycoolin.

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Citywest

Citywest is one of the most renowned locations for data centre facilities in Ireland. Citywest is a Tier III carrier neutral prupose-built facility operating over 20 years, made up of two independent data centre buildings (Block A and B), covering 120,000 sq. ft. in Citywest Business Park. It provides a full range of data centre services, all wrapped up in BT's world-class network, security and IT service management capabilities.

Ballycoolin

Ballycoolin is our newest data centre, where we upgrade the facility to the latest infrastructure, blending high efficiency with availability and performance. This data centre offers our customers multiple benefits for their IT needs, including the unique ability to obtain total end to end security, hosting, and network services from a single provider in Dublin that can offer meaningful geo diversity for high performance or disaster recovery.

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We have expanded our data centre capabilities with our new unit

We are delighted to announce that we have expanded our data centre facilities with the addition of a new unit in Ballycoolin in Dublin.

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Why use BT Ireland Data Centres?

Our Data Centre features

Onsite 24x7x365 support

Experienced onsite helpdesk, technical teams & physical security personnel providing around the clock support

Carrier neutral

Interconnections options available between multiple ISP and network providers enabling redundancy, optimal uptime and cost-efficiency

Compliance

Regular audits through Lloyd's of London ensures continuous compliance and improvement with mature certifications in place

Highest availability

100% uptime SLAs ensure we always provide the highest uninterrupted performance

Professional IT & cloud skills

Access to over 300 accredited and certified network and IT professionals including critical cloud migration services

Our Data Centre benefits

Sustainability

Experienced onsite helpdesk, technical teams and physical security personnel providing around the clock support

Trusted partner

Concentrate on your core business and leave Data Centre Management to a trusted partner with a proven track record

Value add services

End-to-end value add solutions available that leverage our network, security, cloud and IT capabilities

Cloud connectivity

Connect to a high-performance, secure and flexible cloud infrastructure of your choice. Experience cost savings and performance benefits of cloud interconnection solutions


Proven track record

Our longevity and proven track record ensures a consistent, high-quality customer experience

Our related products & services

Quick, Easy, Reliable Internet Service

Internet connectivity is now fundamental to every organisation, which is why BT is so focussed on delivering competitive premium business grade services.

Benefits to You:

  • Streamlined management – one combined bill for internet and your data centre solutions
  • High performance with direct links into the BT ISP core – better redundancy, bandwidth, improved latency
  • Quick setup –activation within days
  • Flexible – fully burstable to line speed with no contention
  • Reliable, SLA-backed service
  • Fully Redundant service provide on dual access circuits
  • Support 24x7x365 service monitoring and management
  • Optional integrated range of DDOS mitigations services available

We provide a range of services provided as options to the standard colocation offering. Delivering competitively priced rack space is no longer sufficient. Customers are looking for value add Data Centre Services that offer a range of support services that enable them to get on with running their business.

BT’s value add Data Centre services include:

Rack services

BT offers a variety of secure rack solutions including anything from cabinets to cages or private suites with installation Services available supporting a range of low and high density power as required.

Cabling Services

High-performance connectivity to clouds, networks, and partners of your choice. With BT, provisioning cross connects is fast and easy - allowing you instant access to the networks, cloud providers and the IT providers you need within our data centre facility on-demand.

Hardware Procurement

We have been working for more than 30 years, providing industry leading and award-winning IT hardware and software supply. We hold strategic partnerships and leading accreditations with key vendors. This can result in:

  • Reduced costs through single supply chain management
  • Increased business efficiencies through effective procurement strategy
  • Delivering best practice around supply solutions
  • Reduced procurement cycle
  • Hardware Break-Fix

BT offers a market leading break-fix service to clients hosted within our Data Centre. We will undertake support, maintenance and repair of client servers and associated equipment in line with the Service Levels offered to our existing field clients. To provide services in a cost-effective manner, we can provide the break-fix service in a blend of service levels to suit a client’s needs.

BT has onsite technical support 24x7x365 and will provide Remote Hands services, designed to provide an onsite presence for routine support and maintenance and for emergency situations. Remote Hands can include tape-changing and customer-led troubleshooting services to ensure the customer can minimise associated costs of dispatching either outside contractors or internal resource for such tasks, leaving them free to focus on core business.