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...

“Powering and Greening IT”: The latest issue of eco's English-language e-magazine, dotmagazine, is now online. How compatible and complementary are the needs to ensure a stable supply to meet IT’s ever growing demand for energy and to find a sustainable and environmentally-friendly approach to energy usage? The April...

A complete eco Team is at the WHD.global from 25 to 31 March in Europa-Park, in Rust. One of the team is Roland Broch, Head of Member Development, who has visited the event regularly since 2009. In this interview, he explains how the WorldHostingDays have changed, what highlights are in store for visitors this year, and...

Speakers sought for four focus topics Conference, exhibition and networking on today’s and tomorrow’s security trends on 28-29 September 2017 German-language conference, but English-language papers also accepted From 28 to 29 September 2017 eco – Association of the Internet Industry and heise Medien invite...

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...

 Summit, Executive Brunch & River Cruise  OX Summit connects the key decision-makers from hoster, telco, cable and mobile carriers to exchange the valued business insight and technology expertise that regional and global providers need to transform their growth. This is the industry & portfolio...

econnect 2016 – Lessons on Doing Business with Germans Cologne, 23 June 2016 – "Be well prepared, be on time, back up what you say with facts, try to build trust, do not be offended by the directness of Germans putting the finger into the wound right away" was how Rolf Claessen, patent lawyer and partner at the...

econnect 2016 – Lessons on Doing Business with Germans Cologne, 23 June 2016 – Preparation, punctuality and getting to the point are the keys to doing business with Germans. The members of the panel discussion on the Do’s & Don’ts of Doing Business in Germany, mentioned these three ‘p’s several times in their...

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...

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....