The Open Compute Project (OCP) is a collaborative community founded in 2011 to focus on redesigning hardware and software technology to support the scalability benefits of open source and open collaboration within data centers and the IT industry. Expanding on the internal work initiated by Facebook in 2009, the OCP’s mission is to provide a…
Several of Europe’s flagship data center industry events fall into the first few months of 2023, kickstarting the new year with insights, trend reports and networking opportunities. In February, Host in Ireland brought all their partners together in Dublin and the Dutch Data Center Association hosted over 1200 delegates at the Kickstart Europe Conference in…
In November, Irish data center group, Host in Ireland, organized a data center industry tour for partners in Virginia, US. Chief commercial officer, Sean Magann and Commercial director, Jelle Slenters represented SLS on the week-long tour that included a day at Data Center Dynamics (DCD) Connect Virginia conference which took place in the stunning Landsdowne…
Host in Ireland’s EcoSystem Report looks at the data center scene in Ireland Alongside Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam and Paris, Ireland’s capital, Dublin, dominates the data center market in Europe. All the hyperscale cloud service providers have a significant presence in the region, either owned facilities, or through colocation arrangements with the main data center operators.…
The Data Centres Ireland 2022 exhibition took place in sunny Dublin on the 16th and 17th of November. The event was hosted at RDS Arena in Ballsbridge, south of Dublin. Sims Lifecycle Services (SLS) attended the event and met key people from the booming Irish data center industry. Kicking off the event, Garry Connolly, founder…
The German Datacenter Association hosted the 2022 German Datacenter Conference this past September in Frankfurt. The annual conference was attended by operators, owners and partners of data centers of all sizes, and over two days attendees discussed strategies and digital infrastructure. On the second day of the conference, Jelle Slenters, Commercial Director, had the opportunity…
Europe’s data center market is evolving. FLAP (Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam, Paris) is still dominant but is seeing competition from “tier two” locations which offer vast amounts of land and energy required by data center operators at a lower cost than FLAP. While no single factor is driving growth in these cities, each has a something…
SLS’ Circular Center expansion is key to delivering sustainable data center services As data center use explodes across the globe, so has the demand for sustainable decommissioning, resale and recycling services for data center equipment. Sims Lifecyle Services (SLS) is meeting that challenge by ramping up our capacity to provide local decommissioning and repurposing of…
Refurbished semiconductors come to the rescue of data center providers and OEMs As we become more reliant on technology in our everyday lives, the demand for semiconductors is surging. These small chips power everything from digital devices to data centers, and today, they are in short supply across the globe due to COVID-19-related production and supply chain issues. To meet this demand, Sims Lifecyle Services (SLS) is helping customers to recover and redeploy their used semiconductors,…
Each year data centers around the Netherlands open their doors to visitors as part of National Data Center Day. Organized by the Dutch Data Center Association, the seventh annual event took place on November 9th. Bart-Jan Smit, a Global Account Manager for Sims Lifecycle Services, joined other members of the Association for tours at BIT and ITB2 facilities. BIT offers tailed colocation services at three data…