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Smartdc invited Managing Director Richard Boogaard and Dutch Data Center Association MD Stijn Grove to discuss the sustainability efforts in place in the Dutch data center industry, with a special focus on innovative practices such as Smartdc Rotterdam’s heat pump project.

These days we can’t imagine being without the internet. We use it for business apps, financial transactions, data sharing, gaming, online shopping, and much more. But how to stay online for all that?

All companies have different kinds of needs when it comes down to hosting. Colocation and dedicated servers are two types of services offered by a hosting provider.

As an organization, you want to experience as little downtime as possible to guarantee the continuity of business processes. How can you make sure that the downtime is kept to a minimum? The answer is simple: reduce the risks and prepare a plan B.

Several crucial factors determine the success of a company. In the current digital economy, having reliable systems is key. Downtime of systems seriously affects business success, depending on the frequency and duration.

Nowadays, more and more corporate devices and systems are connected via the internet to exchange information. The “internet of things” is becoming an increasingly significant and almost tangible matter, including business applications, cloud infrastructure, and data storage.

Today, securing your data is more critical than ever. Data centers offer different solutions to protect networks against cyber threats.

When you want to host a new game, installing new servers and maintaining their security is essential.

Amsterdam has the largest cluster of data centers in Europe, putting a big load on the electricity grid and forcing the local government to put a hold on further expansions.

The digital revolution has caused explosive growth in the amount of data traffic – welcome to the digital economy!

In the face of growing problems with congestion on Amsterdam networks, the digital data hub in Rotterdam is becoming one of the most important connectivity nodes in the world.

Companies don’t always have the resources to house and maintain their hardware internally. Is colocation the right choice for you?

This year, Smartdc celebrates its 10th anniversary. In this interview, Richard Boogaard looks back on the history of Smartdc.

Over the past decade, the force of digitalization has significantly changed our economy and society. Consequently, the world today is strongly dependent on digital services.

With the growing number of data centers, energy consumption and CO2 emissions are increasing too. Data centers use energy 24 hours a day, so data centers must handle their energy consumption better with sustainable cooling systems and reusable residual heat.

It might seem an innocuous detail: three or four nines after the decimal point. But in the data center world, that extra nine is critical.

Lately, we’ve seen the issue of power cuts due to UPS disruptions pop up in the news regularly. In this article, Managing Director Richard Boogaard explains how UPS clusters are set up in our data centers and what is our approach to minimizing disruptions.

The energy used by data centers generates heat. At the moment, this heat is hardly being reused.