This is our story
Founded in 2009, with a genesis story stretching back further still, Netwise started life as a passion project by two school friends with a love for technology. Fast forward nearly a decade, and we are now one of the UK's leading colocation service providers, with private facilities designed and built entirely in-house, delivering end-user content on a truly global scale.

In just 10 short years, Netwise has grown from a simple dream into one of the UK's most applauded multi award-winning data centre operators.
Here's how we did it...
In the summer of 2005, high school friends and founders of Netwise, Matthew Butt and Matt Seaton, decided to give game server hosting a try.
Starting life as an after-school passion project, Matthew sourced 12 old IBM servers from a clearance company and created a small hosting platform in the loft of his parents home.
After securing private commercial premises, we evolved into a credible hosting services business and fully-featured service provider.
Netwise became a limited company in 2009. This marked an era of real traction for us – developing the brand and the service set, and building a solid base of high-quality enterprise customers.
In order to maintain total end to end control over our service set, we elected to build our first private data centre in 2011.
This bespoke facility, named London South, enabled us to grow dramatically over the following three years, with the facility reaching capacity in 2013. Our first proof of concept facility proved an enormous success.
After reaching capacity in our London South facility, we began the design and build of data centre two; London Central.
We upscaled enormously, moving to an 11,000ft² facility in Bermondsey, our new flagship data centre and HQ.
After a two year design and build phase, London Central opened to new and existing customers in early 2016.
As our second fully-featured build project, London Central quickly became one of the UK's most applauded privately operated data centres.
In early 2020, we began the build of our third private data centre, Netwise London East.
Constructed in Canning Town - a short distance from the major Docklands data centre hub - London East will be the largest facility designed and deployed by Netwise to date, set to house 256 racks.
After reaching completion on phase one, London East soft-opened to a waiting list of clients in early 2022.
London East represents our most state-of-the-art facility to date, using only the very latest in super-efficient technology, culminating in a capacity PUE of 1.05.
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Our people
We're a company that believes in having a good time while doing what we love, and we really do love what we do.



Alex
Facilities Manager

Graham
Data Centre Manager

Katie
Office Manager

Valentin
Support Supervisor

John
Support Engineer

Nigel
Support Engineer

Simeon
Support Engineer
Company news

Build Blog Weeks
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With the final utility connections now upon us, and the last elements of our stage one internal fit-out now reaching completion...
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Build Blog Weeks
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We’ve had a busy start to the year as final stage works continue, taking us towards close-out on phase one at London East...
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A look back at 2021
London East has turned from a basic envelope with free-standing equipment to an energised data centre...
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We’re not ones to gloat, but we’re proud as punch to have been recognised for our hard work and achievements in the industry over the years.
Best Business
for Tech & Innovation
SBEA, 2018
Colocation Provider
of the Year
DCS Awards, 2018
Entrepreneur
of the Year
LBA, 2014
Best Green
Business
SLBA, 2013

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