With DC Smarter, founder and CEO Jörg Hesselink ensures that service technicians in the data centre receive more important information and recommendations even more efficiently – at the right time and in the right place.

From Working Group to Expert Network – An Outlook on the Industry’s Future The eco Datacenter Expert Group can now look back on ten extremely successful years. Established as the Datacenter Working Group on 8 November 2007 by Patrick Pulvermüller, SVP Head of GoDaddy EMEA, the committee set itself the goal of promoting...

The enduring attractiveness of Germany as a location will depend, among other factors, on its digital infrastructure. The question of digital sovereignty also plays an important role, maintains Dr. Béla Waldhauser, Leader of the eco Competence Group Datacenter Infrastructure. In a short interview, he also expounds on the...

Independent consultant Gerd Simon in conversation with Dr. Béla Waldhauser, CEO of Telehouse and KDDI Deutschland, on the booming colocation market in Frankfurt, declarations of war, and keeping up with demand for data center capacities. © VObada | istockphoto.com

 Alexander Frese, Strategic Marketing Manager ITENOS GmbH, about IoT and Industry 4.0  All communication services from one single source and via one single port – a practical solution to the growing data volume thanks to Internet of Things (IoT) and Industry 4.0. The volume of digital data generated worldwide...

 Interview with Andy Long from Nordic Colocation Provider Hydro66  Testing, modelling, simulations – innovations in fields as disparate as blood circulation and aviation depend on high-powered computing applications to crunch the numbers and analyze the vast quantities of data produced in the development...

 Interview with Bruno Fery, Head of Data Centre Services, EBRC  Judith Ellis from dotmagazine.online talks to ebrc's Bruno Fery about the advantages of going green. Making a data center environmentally friendly and energy efficient offers a range of advantages for the operator. The reduction in power consumption...

Interview with Roland Broch, eco e.V.  Roland Broch, the administrator of the eco Data Center Expert Group and the eco Data Center Star Audit, talks to dotmagazine.online about innovative approaches to energy efficiency in data centers; from water cooling to Kyoto wheels.  What different aspects of the...

Gerd J. Simon, Independent Management Consulting and Senior Analyst for Crisp Research  How can we build the digital society of the future? How does connectivity influence economic growth and the employment market? And what investments need to be made today to enable the transformation of tomorrow’s business...

Recent major deals, like the takeover of Host Europe Group by GoDaddy demonstrate the consolidation trends in the Housing and Hosting sector Providers want to exploit economies of scale and expand geographically The beginning of December 2016 has seen two major deals in the Housing and Hosting sector: GoDaddy...

Interview with Dean Belev, NetIX  In this Podcast Dean Belev, Vice President Sales NetIX, talks to Judith Ellis about he main security threats, network security and distributed peering. NetIX is an internet pioneer based in Sofia (Bulgaria). The company is specialized in offering carrier-grade network security...

Interview with Ken Lefkowitz, CEO of NetIX  For the relative peering-newcomer Ken Lefkowitz, the peering landscape “is more of a community than an industry", and he sees it as very important to be active and take part in this community. In this interview, Ken talks about the changing peering and interconnection...

 Interview with Donald Badoux, Managing Director of Equinix Germany GmbH  Digital transformation is having a profound effect on industry worldwide, and this in turn is driving the further evolution of the data center market. As enterprises bring their data centers “out of the cellars into a professional environment”,...

 Interview with Donald Badoux, Managing Director of Equinix Germany GmbH  Digital transformation is having a profound effect on industry worldwide, and this in turn is driving the further evolution of the data center market. As enterprises bring their data centers “out of the cellars into a professional...

 Interview with Staffan Reveman, Revemann Energy Academy and Eeva Liljanto, Cinia Cloud Oy  Frankfurt, 9 May 2016 – The Cinia Group and Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks (ASN) have successfully completed tests on the C-Lion1 submarine cable system between Helsinki and Rostock, demonstrating a record-breaking...

 Interview with Ari-Jussi Knaapila, CEO of Cinia Group  In January 2016, the Cinia Group made news by connecting Germany to Finland via a new-generation high-capacity, low latency submarine cable. From Finland, data traffic comes in close proximity to Russia, and beyond that to Asia. Cinia’s submarine...

 Interview with Albrecht Kraas, CTO of Maincubes one, Initiator of the Industry 4.0 initiative IT -Experts - “ITEX”  What exactly is Industry 4.0 – the newest industrial revolution? How does it differ from the Internet of Things? And what makes an object truly smart? With the advent of interconnected...

 An article from Rafael Laguna, CEO of Open Xchange  Internet services providers have some thinking to do when it comes to the topic of encryption. Does encryption help you to build your business or does its complexity drive customers away? There’s an increasing awareness that encryption is hugely important,...

 Interview with Grzegorz Paszka, 3S Group  Mr. Paszka already supported Pik Net with his knowledge, and then TDC Internet. He has been connected with 3S from the beginning. For many years he was a Director of the Transmission Department, appreciated in the industry and with wide technical experience, and...

 Peering into the future  There are more than 400 Internet Exchanges (IXPs) around the world and, thanks to peering, interconnections between networks couldn’t be easier. Peering has typically had a cost benefit for many networks, but this isn’t the only reason network operators have a desire to peer....