PRODUCTS LOCATIONS SECTORS ABOUT US CONTACT CLIENT PORTAL NEWS AND INSIGHTS Our latest news, thinking and insights. THE FORGOTTEN ART OF CUSTOMER SERVICE by Stuart Harrison , 29th September 2021 An awful lot of time is given in business to talking about providing the best possible customer experience, and in a digital world, that invariably means a bot doing its level best to answer a set of predetermined, commonly asked questions – I can tell you this for free, that… READ MORE ‘OUTSMART, OUTWIT, OUTTHINK, OUTMANOEUVRE’ BY JONATHAN EVANS, LORD EVANS OF WEARDALE by Jonathan Evans, Lord Evans of Weardale, 19th August 2021 I have been interested in cyber security since I was running MI5. We were actively looking to attack our adversaries’ systems. It didn’t take long for the penny to drop that if we could infiltrate someone else’s defences, then they could do the same to us. Fast-forward to today and… READ MORE LONGCROSS PRESS RELEASE by Lee Harris, 20th July 2021 New Data Centre shows Ark’s commitment to deliver zero carbon data centres in the UK Longcross Park is a significant step on the journey of dynamic continuous improvement enabling organisations to meet aggressive sustainability targets Corsham, England – July 21, 2021 — Ark Data Centres is proud to announce that… READ MORE PARK ROYAL'S VA-VA-VOOM FACTOR by Rob Silvester, 7th July 2021 For many people, the Renault Show Room at Park Royal is a very familiar sight. It lies just East of the Hanger Lane Gyratory system and has been home to Renault for over 100 years – This is the story of how one of the most infamous sights on the… READ MORE 'ORCHESTRATING UNION' - A GUEST BLOG BY RENNIE DALRYMPLE, MANAGING DIRECTOR OF CONCERT by Rennie Dalrymple, 10th March 2021 If you’re on a beach in Kenya and your phone rings, most people would agree that it’s perfectly acceptable to ignore it and continue looking at the cocktail menu. The name flashing up on the screen however was Andy Garvin, Director of Design, Build and Operations at Ark Data Centres,… READ MORE GUEST BLOG - 'HOW TECHNOLOGY CAN HELP CONTRIBUTE TO YOUR CARBON NET ZERO TARGETS' by Jason Liggins - Guest Blog, 5th January 2021 The professionalism and speed at which the public sector has adapted to cope with the Covid-19 pandemic has been and continues to be impressive and inspiring. One of the many strategies employed was the rapid deployment of modular buildings. The advancements made in such manufactured facilities are astonishing and are… READ MORE THE GREEN FEAT by Tim Coxon, 20th November 2020 Although it’s difficult to imagine a headline which doesn’t include the effects of the pandemic, you only have to go back a couple of weeks before lockdown and Climate Change was both dominating the news and gathering some serious momentum. Cities the world over were being brought to a standstill by protestors… READ MORE PEOPLE, PANDEMICS AND PLATINUM by Lindsey Sherar, 5th November 2020 There’s nothing quite like the feeling of potentially waving 3 years of hard work goodbye – and that’s precisely what happened to me, the moment lockdown was announced. Anyone who has undertaken an Investors in People (IIP) process will tell you, it’s tough and I mean, really tough. When we… READ MORE THE DATA DILEMMA by Roy Gibbens, 23rd October 2020 By the time you’ve read this sentence, at least half a million Google searches would have taken place. As someone who works in the data centre industry, you’d like to think I’d be pretty happy with that particular statistic. After all, so far, those very searches have led to roughly… READ MORE BUILDING THE POSSIBLE by Andy Garvin, 18th September 2020 It was Monday, March and after a long list of lockdown measures had turned the UK upside down, every major newspaper in the country had its eyes firmly fixed on construction sites – whether or not they should be kept open, the risks they may pose, as well as the… READ MORE ARK DATA CENTRES BUYS RENAULT RETAIL GROUP’S WEST LONDON SITE, TO FURTHER ITS LEADERSHIP IN ENERGY EFFICIENT DATA CENTRES by Ark Data Centres, 10th September 2020 Ark Data Centres has bought Renault Retail Group’s West London site on Western Avenue, Park Royal to create a state-of-the-art energy efficient data centre powered by renewable electricity, occupying one of the most sought-after locations in London. The building is the existing 92,000 square foot showroom which has been the… READ MORE REINVENTING THE OFFICE by Simon Burrage, 24th August 2020 Of all the learnings to be taken from this pandemic, the radical reassessment of  ‘where’ and ‘how’  we spend our time, is squarely back at the top of the agenda, right where it belongs. For those who decide that their teams have clearly flourished in a remote culture, there really… READ MORE THE IMPORTANCE OF POSSIBILITY by Huw Owen, 14th August 2020 As any CEO will tell you, one of the most important relationships you will ever develop, is the one with ‘Change’. It attends every meeting, is present on every agenda, informs every decision and is unwavering in its commitment to keep you on your toes. 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