London, 21 August 2007

Independent Virtual Network Operator (VNO), adapt, today announces it has signed a deal with CSC, a leading global information technology services company to provide data centre services with a deal will worth £8.8m over 6 years.

Computer Sciences Corporation is a global IT services company whose mission is to provide customers in industry and government with solutions crafted to meet their specific challenges and enable them to profit from the advanced use of technology.

By partnering with adapt, it will benefit from a flexible contract and while gaining access to valuable technical real estate portfolio in central London and M25 Periphery and Europe.

“There is an increasing demand for managed data centre services from our customers, in central London and beyond, and the solution adapt proposed to us matched our requirement very well,” said Mark Anstey, Account Director at CSC. “Unlike traditional co-location providers, adapt is able to offer a range of options, with high power & cooling density, across multiple geographies. Combined with its flexible contract terms and industry leading SLAs, it makes an ideal partner for us.”

“adapt has numerous relationships with a number of key data centre providers including both traditional collocation providers and Real Estate Developers. By designing, building, project managing and creating bespoke services, we can simplify and optimise our clients’ network infrastructure,” explained Peter Knight, CEO, adapt. “Our broad depth of knowledge, key partners and contract flexibility make us the ideal partner for CSC. Furthermore, the Network to Network Interface’s in place with leading Global Tier 1 carriers enable us to bolt on the telecom infrastructure components which are often essential with projects of this nature.”

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