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NEWS IN BRIEF
DigiPlex data centre wins international design awards
DigiPlex received a Gold award in the commercial building cate-
gory and a Silver award for sustainable living/green architectural
design in an acknowledgement of the company’s visionary design
and sustainable approach to energy use at its Fetsund data centre
near Oslo, Norway. DigiPlex was praised for “bucking the trend” and
achieving a “world-leading, low-energy, zero-emissions data centre,
that is sympathetic to its surroundings.”
The 4,200m² Fetsund state of the art colocation data centre
was opened in January 2015 with a range of leading technology
Switch Datacenter
Group sells AMS1 Data
Centre
Switch Datacenter Group has sold its AMS1
data centre and operations to Equinix, Inc. in
an all-cash transaction for €30 million. Switch
Datacenter Group sees it as a logical next step
on its path to strengthening their focus on the
colocation wholesale market and customer-specific
site development for enterprises and hyperscale
customers.
Over the last couple of years, Switch Datacenter
Group has evolved from a classical retail colocation
provider into a professional designer, developer
and operator of wholesale data centres. Switch
Datacenters has made significant investments in
R&D and the development of state-of-the-art data
centre infrastructure technologies including patented
indirect adiabatic cooling technology and OCP ready
data centre infrastructure.
‘’As the Amsterdam data centre market is
booming and many new companies are entering
the local playing field, we see there is a strong need
for a flexible, experienced data centre development
& operations company in this Amsterdam market
to assist customers in finding the right location,
assuring connectivity and power, while also offering
a full data centre services portfolio around a proven
concept of long term SLA based DCaaS sites.” Said
Gregor Snip, CEO and founder of Switch Datacenter
Group. n
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The innovative infrastructure incorporates a low-energy indirect air
cooling system designed specifically to take advantage of Norway’s
cool climate.
The MUSE Design Awards identify and recognise professional ex-
cellence in international and domestic design, honouring businesses
and design talent committed to a sustainable future. As data use
grows further over the coming decades, non-green data is set to be
among the world’s biggest pollution sources. n
Colt expands On Demand SDN
to more regions globally
Colt Technology Services has announced a significant expansion to its SDN
enabled On Demand portfolio, with the introduction of new high bandwidth
solutions options available for enterprise and service provider customers.
The latest enhancements will see the introduction of 100G ports in critical
data centres, end-to-end connections up to 20Gbps and the number of data
centres where customers can benefit from a real-time delivery increase to
over 250 locations globally – resulting in a significant improvement to the
overall On Demand customer experience. As part of this expansion, Colt’s On
Demand offering is now available in the United States, Hong Kong, Portugal
and Austria in addition to the existing locations across Europe and Asia
Pacific.
The On Demand expansion means that customers in these locations can
now take full control over their network, flexing bandwidth up and down in
near-real-time, bypassing legacy service delivery processes and lead times.
Colt’s On Demand offering launched in Europe in 2017 and Asia Pacific
in 2018, and now businesses across three continents can benefit from ad-
vanced network flexibility and agility accessible via a self-service portal.
The extension of Colt’s On Demand offering in the US marks a significant
milestone for Colt in the region. Colt launched in the US in June 2018, with
the expansion seeing the organisation connect 13 major telecoms and cloud
hub cities in the US and Canada, enabling multinational enterprises in the
region to take advantage of the reach and density of the Colt IQ Network in
both Europe and Asia. n
Westcon-Comstor offers
Ribbon’s Network Edge
Orchestration solution to
resellers in Europe
Westcon-Comstor has added Ribbon’s Network Edge Orchestration, a
hybrid Cloud/Edge solution, to its European resale portfolio. Ribbon’s
Network Edge Orchestration solution combines the award-winning, cloud-
based Edgeview Service Control Center (SCS) and EdgeMarc Intelligent
Edge.
EdgeView SCS provisions, configures and manages Intelligent Edge
solutions at the customer premises and provides real-time visibility into
performance and service quality while Intelligent Edge actively monitors,
secures and optimises service quality for voice, data and video traffic.
Based on sales data and projected churn, Ribbon estimates that there
are more than 500,000 Intelligent Edge devices under management. The
Network Edge Orchestration platform enables users to rapidly scale to
meet market demand, reduce capital and operational costs and provide a
high-quality customer experience while reducing customer churn. n
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