No Images? Click here Weekly Newsletter Sponsored By:RagingWire operates 1.5 million square feet of data center space with 113 megawatts of power on its campuses in Ashburn, Dallas, and Sacramento. As part of NTT Communications, RagingWire is one of the largest and most financially strong data center companies in the world with 140 data centers in 20 countries and regions. HOW AMSTERDAM BECAME THE KING OF THE DATA CENTERBY MICHAEL VAN DEN ASSEM, MANAGING DIRECTOR, INTERXION As one of the oldest cities in the industrial world, Amsterdam has a rich history when it comes to business and commerce. From as far back as the 1600s, the capital city of the Netherlands has been a thriving international business hub. Dutch merchants established trade routes to bring back various exotic goods from Asia, which were then distributed more broadly throughout the rest of Europe. SOFTWARE-DEFINED STORAGE: FACTORS TO CONSIDERBY STEFAN BERNBO, CEO, COMPUVERDE Research firm MarketsandMarkets forecasts that the software-defined storage (SDS) market will be worth $22.56 billion by 2021, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 36.7 percent. BIG DATA, IOT AND THE NEED FOR HIGH DENSITY AND ULTRA HIGH DENSITY COMPUTINGBY DARREN WATKINS, MANAGING DIRECTOR, VIRTUS DATA CENTRES Big Data and IoT have long been heralded as the next revolution within the IT world. Beyond the headlines of connected devices – and customer behavior analysis – IoT and Big Data are being used to solve increasingly complex business problems. THE INTERNET IS THE NEW GRID AND ENERGY OF HUMANITY:TELECOMNEWSROOM INTERVIEW WITH PAUL IKE, MANAGING DIRECTOR OF UNICA DATACENTERS Paul Ike is Managing Director of Unica Datacenters. Paul is an IT specialist focused on helping customers find the best solution for every challenge. He was born and raised in Amsterdam, lived and worked in the United States, and feels most at home in a technologically complex, international environment. Paul has always been interested in new technological developments and has been working in the data center world for the last 14 years. GROWING COLOCATION DEMAND OPENS OPPORTUNITY FOR EXPERIENCED DATA CENTER SALES DIRECTORSDemand is surging for data center and colocation services in North America. The market is growing at a CAGR of 11.72 percent, and over the next two years 57 percent of digital businesses plan to increase their data center outsourcing. |