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Interview: Florian Sippel, Head of Data Center, noris network AG

Nuremberg, 24.11.2010 – Florian Sippel, Director of data centers in an interview regarding the services and priorities of the noris network AG.

Noris network AG managed IT services provides IT outsourcing services tailored to the needs of medium-sized enterprises. The result is lower costs, greater flexibility and significant performance improvements in IT.

30 November 2010

Interview: Sascha Pollok, IPHH Internet Port Hamburg GmbH

Hamburg, 01.10.2010 – Sascha Pollok, Head of Network Design and Operations -  in an interview about the range of services and the focal points of the IPHH Internet Port data center.

Since the establishment of the Internet Port Hamburg in 1996 the IPHH have been permanently busy with implementing the latest developments of the technology so they are able to make available short-term.  The company does not understand itself to be a  mass-provider, but rather develops jointly with its customers individual solutions that have been completely tailor-made to their requests.

6 October 2010

29.09. Cologne: eco Congress – roads for tomorrow

Cologne, 29.09.2010 – This year’s eco specialty congress offered four exciting expert panels on the trends and subjects of the Internet economy:

The panel “Dater Center” opened with security adviser Rainer A. H. von zur Mühlen with the provocative presentation subject: “the data center is dead – the data center lives”. He currently plans its 565th data center and reports of its long-time experience in the area. In its opinion, the future was and lies in the flexible rubber/balloon DC. Let this be inflatable to the repurposing/increase, but also reduction capable.

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29 September 2010

Interview: Khaled Chaar, Pironet NDH Datacenter GmbH

Cologne, 20.09.2010 – Khaled Chaar, Managing Director of Pironet NDH Datecenter GmbH in an interview about the range of services and the focus areas of its DCSA certified Datacenter.

Besides Software as a Service, PIRONET NDH offers, for example, Online reference models for IT, that are from the deployment of flexible computing power (Capacity on Demand) and storage capacities (Storage on Demand) over managed network services to extensive Security Solutions for all On-Demand-services.  All services will be delivered over high security data center Resources and ITK infrastructures within Germany.

20 September 2010

Interview: Thomas Strohe, Plusserver AG

Strasbourg, 15.09.2010 – The datadock data center came into being by remodeling a former warehouse in the port area of Strasbourg. The planning phase had already begun in 2007 but it wasn’t until 2009 that the operator PlusServer AG started all the necessary rebuilding measures and construction of the infrastructure. The datadock will be finished and in operation by the summer of 2010.

Amongst other things, its excellent connections – resulting from becoming the thoroughfare for all European IT and Telco lines, as well as its central European position, makes Strasbourg the perfect construction site for an operation of this kind. The data center has an optimal location which guarantees the fastest connections to all European regions, thus enabling PlusServer AG to provide all international customers with high quality services.

15 September 2010

Interview: Roland Broch, eco e.V.

Cologne, 30.06.2010 – Cloud computing and Green IT have raised the standards for ICT outsourcing firms and data center operators. The Internet association eco has responded to this by relaunching its certification program.

Pironet NDH Datacenter is the first company to be awarded the highest quality rating with the new eco Datacenter Star Audit.

The data center of the outsourcing specialist and provider of cloud computing services received five stars and fulfilled all of the criteria with regard to quality, performance, service, efficiency and security.

Higher power spectrum at data centers

“Performance benchmarks for the operation of data centers have raised considerably in the last five years, since we first conducted the eco Datacenter Star Audit“, explains Roland Broch, Certification Program Manager at the Internet association eco. “The common market capacity rates around 50 percent are no longer up to date. Increasing cost pressure, customer request for demand-oriented IT resources and ecological, sustainable operation methods are forcing professional cloud vendors and data center operators to intelligently apply their resources“, comments Broch. The result is more densely structured IT services, so data centers are now producing a lot more waste heat. Operators must invest in better climate control in order to prevent their high-performance computers from overheating.

Cloud computing is a driver of innovation

Customer-oriented reference models like cloud computing are also increasing the expectations of management and service processes. eco auditors seek to discover whether or not operators have implemented processes which conform to ITIL, ensuring consistently high service quality, even at peak times. “Cloud computing is currently the key driver of innovation in the data center market”, concludes Roland Broch, “to provide IT resources and software services according to customer needs via Internet, vendors must utilise substantially more complex technologies and service processes. We have based the highest rating category of five stars on these new requirements.“

The data center infrastructure of Pironet NDH Datacenter has achieved the highest eco Datacenter Star Audit rating for the second time since 2005. According to a current market comparison study by the Experton Group, the provider of ICT services is one of the leading vendors of cloud services for small- and medium-sized companies. Dr. Clemens Plieth, Managing Director Service Delivery, responsible for all Pironet NDH Datacenter operational services, views the eco testing criteria, which is oriented around the practical needs of companies, as a major strength to his company: “Auditors look very closely at how architecture concepts and processes affect actual use and customer processes. The eco Datacenter Star Audit reflects real market demand.“

30 June 2010

eco Congress 2009 – Sharpening the image

Cologne, 30.09.2009 – More than 300 experts gathered in Cologne from 29 – 30 September to participate in the industry’s most important event, the eco congress 2009, under the name “Sharpening the image”. The first day was dedicated to broadband, a topic as critical as ever with Germany still far from full ADSL and VDSL coverage and the situation looking unlikely to change anytime soon.

As Dr. Josef Schäfer of Vodafone noted, “The federal Government has abandoned its benchmark of giving every household a 50Mbit/s line by 2014. They would be content with 75 percent now.” Dr. Iris Henseler-Unger, of the German Federal Network Agency, pointed out that there are new partnerships emerging, with Deutsche Telekom forging alliances with other telco providers. The panel “Names & Numbers” saw a lively debate on the merits of new Top-Level Domains (TLD) for cities, with Stéphane Van Gelder, of INDOM, arguing the importance of, for example, a Paris TLD. Matthias Meyer-Schönherr, of Sedo, still saw most demand steering towards classic domains.

The panel on the Digital Dividend discussed the question “How liberal must we be in assigning new frequencies?” The panel on Unified Communications dealt with the necessity of presence amongst other vital questions in that emerging field. Microsoft’s Sven Thimm estimated that employees lose up to 20 hours per week through sub-standard communication processes. He sees big opportunities for solutions that show users which colleagues or clients are currently available – and how to best get a hold of them.

The second day of eco’s congress brought the panel on mobile technologies, presenting several approaches on how to close the digital divide, with diverging opinions on the future costs of mobile computing. John Strand, of Strand Consult, thought that Germany could evolve from one of Europe’s most expensive countries for mobile computing to become one of the cheapest.

The panel on data centers focused on energy efficiency. A consensus emerged that virtualisation was one of the most promising methods of increasing efficiency. Discussions on Cloud Computing indicated that there has been a dramatic increase on the demand side.

The presentations are available for download

1 October 2009