INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Green Technology
Fagdata migrates its cloud to
Green Mountain
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agdata, one of Scandinavia’s
technology-leading cloud companies,
has signed an agreement on data
centre services with Green Mountain,
Norway’s leading data centre operator, to
provide secure cloud services to its customers
to promote growth and meet increased
demand from customers. The data centre,
which is located deep inside the mountain in
a former NATO ammunition storage facility
at Rennesøy, will provide safe and reliable
services to Fagdatas’ customers.
The agreement becomes a key component
of Fagdata’s cloud offer in Norway, where
the company has built a service concept to
meet most needs. Fagdata especially focuses
on the SMB market, as well as verticals
within, particularly graphics-intensive
application solutions. Its services and
solutions are delivered under its own brand
name FRONTDESK.
“Fagdata is looking ahead and betting
big. A change in customer needs, new
security requirements and certifications in
connection with GDPR and the new privacy
laws, have actualised the importance of
great data centre facilities. When we started
our process adapting to these challenges one
year ago, it was logical and natural for us to
find the ultimate data centre. A larger focus
on super modern technological solutions for
the production of IT infrastructure-services,
with hyper-converged computer platform
and virtualisation from Nutanix and the
latest in Virtual-Desktop Infrastructure
from Citrix, needed matching data centre
facilities,” said Werner M Neurauter, Chief
Technical Officer of Fagdata.
Further, Neurauter commented: “We mean
that with the choice of Green Mountain as
our new primary site, we not only match our
state-of-the-art technology service platform
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A look inside the DC1-
Stavanger data centre
for service production with the equivalent
quality level on the data centre, but we
can also rest assured that we are optimally
equipped to meet future needs and
challenges in terms of accessibility, safety
and environment.”
“This solution gives us the opportunity
to produce and deliver services also to
customers with very strict security and
uptime requirements. Our latest initiative
towards the construction industry with the
Workstation Online service, delivered from
Green Mountain, is one o f many new focus
areas that benefit from this collaboration,”
said Neurauter.
Fagdata’s cloud services will be operated
from Green Mountain`s data centre DC1-
Stavanger. The data centre has a cooling
source from the adjacent fjord and uses
gravity to bring cold water into the cooling
station without using any energy. Green
Mountain offers the highest level of security
for storage of sensitive data and information
in Scandinavia. Furthermore, Green
Mountains’ data centres operate solely on
renewable energy which supports Fagdata’s
ambitions of sustainable development.
“It is a great pleasure to welcome Fagdata
as a customer. We have been working for
a while to get this agreement in place
and it is very satisfying to achieve the
trust of a technology leading company
within cloud services such as Fagdata. This
agreement helps Fagdata’s ambition to
offer its customers secure storage in one of
the world’s most efficient and green data
centres,” said Svein Atle Hagaseth, Chief
Sales Officer of Green Mountain.
Smarter use of data is becoming one of the
top priorities for today’s companies. Company
data is so important that it wouldn’t be able
to succeed without it. This makes the quality
of the underlying infrastructure even more
critical. Green Mountain was the first data
centre provider in Scandinavia to offer Tier
III-certified data centre services that ensures
sensitive data and information is stored
safely. This will give Fagdata’s customers the
best availability and security of data that is
available in the market. n
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