The local Dutch newspaper Parool published an interesting article on the increased regulations for datacenters in the Amsterdam area. The city of Amsterdam has taken a leading role in bringing together datacenter operators, IT companies and environmental experts as part of their Climate Program. The goal is to reduce carbon emissions by 40% in 2025 compared to 1990 levels.

Amsterdam contains many high tech companies and datacenters account for 6% of total CO2 emissions of the city. Therefore the city is organizing a Green IT project. The objective of this project is to facilitate the exchange of best practices from the leading players in order to improve efficiencies. In fact the article in Parool is based on a report of the Energy research Center of the Netherlands which was based on the first results of among others our new climate neutral datacenter. Based on this report the city is planning to impose a Energy Usage Efficiency (EUE) factor of 1.3.

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Investment in Cisco CRS-1s nearly 2.4 million US Dollars

LeaseWeb, international business hosting provider that counts Starbucks among its customers, is set to restructure its large global hosting network. The acquisition of two Cisco CRS-1s makes the network infrastructure more hierarchical and scaleable and enables a bandwidth capacity increase to 1900 Gigabits per second (1.9 Terabits).

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‘Web hosting with high uptime is important for our website’

Relatieplanet (www.relatieplanet.nl), the biggest dating site in the Netherlands and Belgium with over 2.3 million members, has placed its hosting environment with international business web hosting service provider LeaseWeb (www.leaseweb.com). Relatieplanet opts for LeaseWeb because uptime is vital for the site.

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90% of its 500 Carbon Neutral cabinets at EvoSwitch Data Center already filled

LeaseWeb, the largest corporate hosting provider in the Netherlands that counts Starbucks among its corporate clients, has identified a strong Carbon Neutral market demand. Last year, LeaseWeb put 500 racks into use at once in the new carrier-independent and Carbon Neutral Data Center EvoSwitch (www.evoswitch.com). There is a great deal of interest in Green Hosting, with 450 cabinets filled already.

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Server park housed in LeaseWeb’s ‘green’ data center environment

Koninklijke Joh. Enschedé has chosen to house its new virtualised server park for the IT & Consultancy division at LeaseWeb, the largest business hosting provider in the Netherlands. LeaseWeb houses its server park in the climate-neutral EvoSwitch data center, which complements Koninklijke Joh. Enschedé’s ‘green’ policy.

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Today I did a presentation during the IDC conference in Amsterdam regarding our experiences in the field of virtualization with our new VMWare platform. Please refer to the IDC site for more information. I also enclose a copy of our presentation: IDC Presentation Virtualization. Let me summarize by saying that we have a lot of confidence in virtualization and think that this is a disruptive technology. I will talk more on the subject during the Innovation 2008 conference on April 3rd in Rotterdam.

“Early Bird” promotion is possible thanks to its privileged partnership with Microsoft

LeaseWeb, the largest business hosting provider in the Netherlands, is confident that Windows Server 2008 will offer important improvements for its customers that currently use Windows Server 2003. This is the reason why LeaseWeb has already configured 2,000 Dedicated Servers at their EvoSwitch facility, their “green” data center. Dedicated Servers are the most versatile and powerful solution for heavy-duty hosting tasks. The 2,000 Dedicated Servers have been prepared for hosting customers that want to take advantage of the new operating system as soon as it is available.|

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A good source of information on the latest developments in the tech space is the blog of Nick Carr. He is the acclaimed author of the article “Does IT matter” which made him sort of a guru on IT and cloud computing in the US. Carr just made a new post where he shares with the reader a few rumors on Microsoft’s imminent strategy announcement of the building of 20 new datacenters around the world.

I do not consider myself to be such an authority as Carr with special contacts but I was at a Microsoft Round Table discussion in December 07 for the Dutch hosting industry when this point was openly discussed by Microsoft executives.

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The hosting business is still very young and many people in society do not really understand what we do. Some in my immediate surrounding still think of 16 year old teenagers toying around with computers when they think of the hosting industry. My mother still does not understand what I do. If I look at Leaseweb, then I think that the hosting business is not older than 10 years.

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