The EvoSwitch Green Fan: Helping businesses demonstrate corporate environmental responsibility to their stakeholders through ICT
January 23, 2012 | 
Author We use the latest technology to reduce our energy use, from minimizing hot-spots to motion-sensor lighting, and do everything we can to make a significant, positive contribution to a climate-neutral environment. All these innovations together enable us to be a 100% carbon-neutral datacenter. But we’re not the only ones – many of our customers have the same sentiment, and as a result have begun to form a collective of like-minded organizations. These businesses are committed to corporate environmental responsibility and are working towards helping to reduce the 4.3 million tonnes of CO2 emissions that Europe generates each year. This is a huge figure and given that the IT industry accounts for 2% of global CO2 emissions – as much as global air traffic – it’s vital that we support our customers in working towards these targets.
EvoSwitch Datacenter first 100GE AMS-IX backbone location
Amsterdam, January 10 2012 - EvoSwitch Datacenter has today officially been added to the list of colocation providers with an AMS-IX Point of Presence (PoP). In addition to being an AMS-IX collocation connecting with multiple 10GE, EvoSwitch will be the first datacenter of its kind for which AMS-IX uses a single 100GE backbone connection.
EvoSwitch, who became an AMS-IX reselling partner in 2010, already has connected numerous networks and built a solid reputation and experience in the interconnection market. The state-of-the-art and energy-efficient site has 10,000 m² of space and is located in the Amsterdam region, with close proximity to the main airport of the Netherlands. Today, EvoSwitch serves more than 35 regional carriers and thousands of hosting, telecom, IT and enterprise customers.
Tags: 100GB, 100GE, 10GE, AMS ix, Amsterdam, co-location, Colocation, connectivity, Datacenter, Ethernet, EvoSwitch, first, Marketing, port, PR | 
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Happy holidays from EvoSwitch!
We would like to present you this gift,
we didn’t have enough wrapping paper for all of the environment we saved,
so it might seem small, but the effect is great!
Thoughts from the Gartner Data Center and IT Operations Summit
This week saw some really exciting insights come out of the Gartner Data Center & IT Operations Summit. The buzzwords from the conference were: ITaaS, Management, Service Catalog, Convergence, Fabric, Efficiency, Agility, BigData, Virtual, Cloud and Next-Generation.
We, at EvoSwitch like to stay on top of the latest industry trends and what’s happening in the industry so we can make sure we take the key learnings and compare them to our own practices. So, what are the trends from this year’s conference?
Tags: Cisco, CO2, data center, Datacenter, David Cappucio, Gartner, HP, IBM, IT, ITaaS, PUE, server, Storage, TNO | No Comments »
Inside EvoSwitch a behind-the-scenes look at our colocation implementation process
There are many different steps we take here at EvoSwitch to help our customers get their datacenter service up-and-running, from the initial consultation right through to installation, always supported by our friendly customer service team.
At EvoSwitch, delivering a quality colocation service is dependent on the requirements of the individual customer. All our customers have different IT requirements; from financial services customers that look for certification and reliability, to hosting providers that want strong, quality bandwidth and enabled flexibility.
This process of identifying customer requirements starts with an initial consultation to really get under the skin of what the customer is looking for in terms of their IT environment. We make every effort to get to know the companies we work with, and draw on our experience to support our recommendations. We ideally like to invite new customers to visit our datacenters for an initial face-to-face meeting; this helps engagement with the process and allows customers to raise any questions or queries first hand.
An example of this process is the consultation that took place between EvoSwitch and Codemasters, the developer and worldwide publisher of entertainment software. When Codemasters appointed EvoSwitch, our first step was to invite them to our datacenter in Haarlem for a face-to-face meeting, where we had a chance to ask Codemasters everything we needed to know about their infrastructure requirements. We soon learnt that these requirements were hugely influenced by the demands of gamers, and therefore included features such as a reliable uptime, connectivity and redundancy.
Tags: bandwith, co-location, Codemasters, Colocation, Datacenter, EvoSwitch, Haarlem, implementation, quality, rack, rackspace, resellers | No Comments »
Cloud- and Telecom- expo brings hosting, cloud, telecom and datacenter topics together
Over 2500 IT- and telecom professionals will gather in the RAI in Utrecht this week.
Its all about synergy in energy
All hosting, cloud, telecom and datacenter topics are combined during this two day event on Wednesday December 7 and Thursday December 8 in exhibition center the Jaarbeurs in Utrecht.
The Cloud- and Telecom- expo is a conference for people who are responsible for centralized IT infrastructure and the subsequent IT costs management, IT investments and the quality of IT services. The summit welcomes IT coordinators, Directors of Operations, IT architects, controllers, managers, directors and owners, and server, storage and network controllers.
Tags: adiabatic, Cloud, Datacenter, development, expo, green energy, Security, telecom, Virtualization | No Comments »
Thoughts ahead of the Gartner Data Center and IT Operations Summit
Gartner will open its doors to the latest Gartner Data Center & IT Operations Summit next Monday and Tuesday 28th & 29th November). This is one of the most prestigious and well-known IT conferences out there, discussing up-to-the-minute emerging technology including cloud computing, fabric computing networking, outsourcing and virtualization.
The conference looks at the opportunity these disruptive and revolutionary technologies bring to datacenter professionals.
We, at EvoSwitch, will be interested to take key learnings from the summit and compare it to our own practices – to find out more about these opportunities, emerging trends and how they will impact our datacenters and strategy.
As you know, we are always looking for ways in which to make the lives of our customers easier and staying on top of the latest industry insights will ensure we do that. Were always keen to hear your thoughts on new technologies, so if you have any questions or comments or even if you would like to visit us all here at EvoSwitch please feel free to get in touch!
EvoSwitch Carriers & Partners Event opens today!
EvoSwitch is really excited to play host to an array of customers on the 23rd of November at the Jopenkerk in Haarlem. At our Carriers & Partner event, we will bring together over 80 of the most successful IT / Telecommunications companies in the industry. During this event (the unofficial Capacity Europe after party if you will) we will give you a short update on the current technical and commercial credentials within EvoSwitch and other subjects (sustainability and modular datacenter building).
We will tell about what we are working on and the commercial possibilities with datacenters. The event will involve the chance for carriers to intensify the relationship with the EvoSwitch team, learn how to use the EvoSwitch datacenter to win bids, network with other customers and listen to presentations from representatives across the business.
EvoSwitch at the Storage Expo 2011
EvoSwitch, a next generation and carbon-neutral datacenter, is participating in the Storage- and Security exhibition on the 2nd and 3rd November 2011 at the Jaarbeurs in Utrecht, Netherlands. This event allows EvoSwitch to demonstrate its ability to support customers with storage requirements, both simple and complicated.
The Storage Expo is organized in the same hall as Infosecurity.nl and the Tooling Event, and is an important event for our industry. We expect to speak to IT managers and CIOs looking for advice or debates about storage, access and data security issues. We are more than happy to discuss our experience with datacenter building, tackling key issues such as CAPEX and OPEX, as well as flexible power and cooling processes. The team members manning our stand and who are eager to meet you include Stijn Grove (Sales Manager), Ronald van Muijden and Olivia Blanco from the sales department, and Steve Ramdharie, our Carrier-Relationship Manager.
As referred to in previous blogs, innovation is always at the forefront of our operations. During the event, we aim to talk to customers and prospects about their experience and future plans relating to cloud storage, archiving, backup and data duplication, data protection, virtualization and storage resource management. Another driving force behind the company is the way we handle connectivity requirements. We are carrier neutral, but Steve helps our clients to make the right choices with regards to their connectivity requirements. By providing these types of services – and not losing our neutrality – we have managed continuous growth over the last years.
Would you like to know more, but dont have the time to come to Utrecht? Find us on Twitter (@EvoSwitch) or our facebook page! If you would like to schedule a meet and greet or just want to drop by for a coffee send an email to sales@evoswitch.com!
Come and see us at Stand #A051
Tags: Amsterdam, connectivity, Datacenter, expo, facebook, growth, power, PUE, Security, sollution, Storage, twitter, Utrecht | No Comments »
Day 1: Green Data Center Conference, London Cloud computing, site selection and buzz!
From Jan Wiersma, Technical Director, EvoSwitch at GDCON, London
Datacenter discussions have begun, meetings are taking place and there was a cloud computing buzz in the air as the pre-summit workshops took place yesterday at Green Data Center Conference in London. It was a hardcore of industry enthusiasts, including myself, who yesterday attended the first 3 hour workshop of the day, on Cloud 101, with Tim Crawford at All Covered. The content largely resonated with what I have spoken about before on this blog, which is that the hype around cloud computing and virtualisation is now dying out the industry and its clients are getting realistic. In my view, theres a mixed reaction among datacenter companies. Some are worried about the effect on traditional colocation services, while others see it as an opportunity to provide additional services in provisioning for the cloud. Either way you look at it, the market is definitely moving!
Tags: Cloud 101, Datacenter, green, green grid, Hosting, London, Tim Crawford, virtualisation | No Comments »