I gave a presentation on April 3rd as a key note speaker on the financial impact of virtualization on the Netapp Innovation event. I must give my compliments to Theo van Theylingen and his Netapp team for organizing such a major event. It was a pleasure to present in such an outstanding setting and there […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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.
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 […]
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. Enschede’s ‘green’ policy.
“”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 […]
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 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 […]
One of the major problems when operating a datacenter is to cool your serverrooms in the most efficient way. Servers are growing faster, bigger, more power consuming then ever, causing more heat in your racks. Improving the cooling systems will reduce costs, might give your datacenter more capacity (more servers with the same cooling capacity) […]