Photo: Michael Winterson, Managing Director of Equinix Services Ltd.  Voices from the eco LocalTalk & CINIA launch event in Frankfurt – Part 1/3  CINIA Group successfully celebrated their launch of the new cable system C-Lion 1 at 19 May 2016 in Frankfurt. Read more about the stories about the world fastest...

Photo: Arnold Nipper, Chief Technology Evangelist, DE-CIX  Voices from the eco LocalTalk & CINIA launch event in Frankfurt – Part 2/3  CINIA Group successfully celebrated their launch of the new cable system C-Lion 1 at 19 May 2016 in Frankfurt. Read more about the stories about the world fastest undersea...

Photo: Béla Waldhauser, CEO Telehouse Deutschland GmbH  Voices from the eco LocalTalk & CINIA launch event in Frankfurt – Part 3/3  CINIA Group successfully celebrated their launch of the new cable system C-Lion 1 at 19 May 2016 in Frankfurt. Read more about the stories about the world fastest undersea...

 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...

A limited number of 40 tickets available for eco and EuroCloud members at a reduction of around 70% Datacloud Europe 2016 (8-9 June 2016) is Europe’s foremost networking and business deal making forum for data center and cloud players, their customers, investors and suppliers. Attended by 1800+ executives from...

 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...

eco Sessions at the WHD.global provided international visitors with insight into surviving in a tough market Rust, 16 March 2016 – What should you NOT do when you try to do business with Germans? With a little bit of self-deprecating humor, Dr. Rolf Claessen from FREISCHEM Patentanwälte kicked off the eco Sessions...

 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...

Broadgroup Business Lunch in Frankfurt Frankfurt, 19 January 2016 – eco played host to it's member Broadgroup for a business lunch at the DE-CIX MeetingCenter in Frankfurt. Around 20 participants came to hear the presentations and network during the lunch. The subjects of the presentations were, firstly, the developments...

New Fiber Optic Backbone Links the East and the West, Attracts Data Centers to the North Rostock, 12 January 2016 – Another important data link bringing continents and countries closer together and reducing latency times was celebrated in North Germany in January. Hetzner Online played host to visitors from Germany...

Co-location evolving from supplying rack space to providing services Organisations are increasingly relying on cloud-based enterprise IT solutions. As a result, data centres are increasingly becoming the engine that drives an organisation's business operations, with implications for the range of services they offer. Although...

 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,...

Successful premiere for econnect on Tour 2015 Cologne, 25 June 2015 – The two-day exclusive executive-level international event econnect took place on 24 to 25 June in Cologne. The focus of this event was offering our International members and contacts insight into the German IT market – for companies who wish to...

 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...

 Direct Submarine Cable will connect Germany and Finland  How to continue to remain competitive on the international market in the face of ever increasing energy prices is an important issue facing energy-efficient data center operators in Germany today. The Nordic region is proving an increasingly attractive...

 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....