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Press Releases from EvoSwitch (9 total)

EvoSwitch signs EU Code of Conduct on Data Centres Energy Efficiency

‘The EU Code of Conduct will motivate more data centers in Europe to save energy’ Amsterdam September 29, 2009 – EvoSwitch, the Dutch carrier-neutral data center with operations that are fully CO2-neutral, has signed the EU Code of Conduct on Data Centres Energy Efficiency. European data centers that sign this agreement will thus be obliged to reduce their energy consumption by 20 percent by the year 2020. EvoSwitch, however,

EvoSwitch Data Center Appoints Eric Boonstra (44) as Managing Director

Amsterdam, 21 September 2009 – EvoSwitch, the carrier-neutral data center in Amsterdam that operates fully CO2-neutral, has appointed Eric Boonstra (44) to the position of Managing Director as of 1 September 2009. He was initially hired as Commercial Director at the beginning of 2009. His promotion is related to the expansion of EvoSwitch. Since its establishment at the beginning of 2007, general management duties at the energy-efficient data center

EvoSwitch Data Center Acquires Direct Connection with AMS-IX

Amsterdam, July 9, 2009 – EvoSwitch, the Dutch carrier neutral data center whose operations are fully CO2 neutral, has reached an agreement with AMS-IX in Amsterdam, one of the world’s largest Internet exchanges. The partnership allows EvoSwitch to offer its customers a direct connection to AMS-IX. The EvoSwitch data center will be AMS-IX’s 15th partner organization. AMS-IX facilitates the exchange of Internet traffic by, inter alia, telecom carriers, e-businesses, hosting providers,

Wikimedia Selects Green Data Center EvoSwitch as Internet HUB for Europe

Amsterdam, June 22, 2009 – The Wikimedia Foundation, the operator and owner of Wikipedia – one of the world’s five largest websites – has signed a contract with EvoSwitch, the carrier-neutral data center in Amsterdam that operates fully CO2-neutral. As part of the contract, Evoswitch is providing over 300,000 euros of in-kind support in the form of bandwidth and hosting services. Wikimedia will use the Amsterdam site as its

EvoSwitch Data Center To Get Access Point to NDIX Broadband Marketplace

“NDIX will give EvoSwitch customers access to a wealth of potential new customers.” Amsterdam, May 27, 2009 – EvoSwitch, the Amsterdam based carrier-neutral data center with CO2-neutral operations and good connectivity, is going to be connected to the NDIX broadband platform. NDIX is an independent, non-profit marketplace in Germany and the Netherlands. The marketplace separates fiber-optics infrastructure and services in order to accelerate the development of broadband services. The access

Data Center EvoSwitch Named Energy-Efficient Example by German Environment Minis …

Report shows 11 ‘best practices’ for green data centers worldwide Amsterdam, February 3, 2009 – The German Federal Environment Ministry has just recently published a report with ‘best-practices’ in the area of green data-center initiatives in Europe, the U.S. and Asia. Among the eleven energy-efficient data centers worldwide described in the report is EvoSwitch, the Dutch carrier-neutral data center with its CO2-neutral operations. The German Federal Environment Ministry prepared the report

Green data center EvoSwitch raises energy saving to 40 percent

AMSTERDAM, 18 December 2008 – EvoSwitch, the Dutch carrier- and CO2-neutral data center, managed to reduce the average Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of the data center from 1.8 to 1.6. This resulted in a 20 percent increase in energy saving - from 20 to 40 percent - compared to a traditional data center. The ultimate goal of EvoSwitch is to achieve an energy saving of 70 to 80 percent. The

EvoSwitch Doubles Power Capacity CO2-neutral Data Center

Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1 April 2008 – EvoSwitch, the Dutch carrier-neutral data center that operates CO2-neutral, has agreed with network manager Continuon to increase the power capacity for its data centre from 10 MVA to 20 MVA (20 million Watts). New cabling will be laid up to the building to transport the large quantities of power (green electricity: Zeeuws Groen) to the data center. EvoSwitch (www.evoswitch.com) has been working with a power

KEMA awards ISO 9001 certification to carrier neutral data centre EvoSwitch

‘ISO 14001 (environment) is the next step’ Amsterdam, 6 February 2008 – EvoSwitch (evoswitch.com), the Dutch carrier neutral data centre that operates environmentally neutral has been awarded ISO 9001 certification by KEMA (kema.com). “The right first step towards ISO 14001 certification,” according to KEMA. EvoSwitch has definitely moved past the start-up phase, now that it has obtained ISO 9001 certification. “Ever since the opening of EvoSwitch in April 2007, we have organised

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