TELEHOUSE GLOBAL SPOTLIGHT: ALL DIGITAL ROADS LEAD TO FRANKFURT

Strong Economy and Strict Privacy Laws Make Frankfurt a Global Epicenter for Colocation

After the Second World War, Frankfurt am Main was rebuilt and soon emerged as a leading financial and commercial hub in West Germany. The city experienced strong economic development due to its central position on the Main River and its expansion into neighboring domestic markets.

Fast-forward to present day and Frankfurt, now a bustling international metropolis and the financial capital of Europe, is still experiencing strong growth, particularly on the digital front. Germany is now one of the four leading colocation markets in Europe, and the largest population of its data centers can be found around the city of Frankfurt where the majority of internet traffic from Germany and many other countries is routed.

The Place to Be in Germany 

Two decades ago, Frankfurt had a reputation for bing a somewhat lackluster metropolis. But now, the city —referred to as “Mainhattan” for its downtown skyscrapers— is on a cultural, technological and economic upswing, and rapidly becoming a top destination for colocation providers.

Frankfurt also plays host to a thriving startup community and the second-largest internet exchange in Europe, DE-CIX, with over 500 ISPs and carriers. Startup growth around the Frankfurt region is occurring at a rate of 22 percent annually, while the rest of Germany is hovering around 13 percent. Meanwhile, its financial technology industry is second only to the UK in terms of overall investment and German fintech business is expected to top $2 billion by 2020. Curious to know more view original source...


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STORM PREPARATIONS

Please be advised: Telehouse Facilities Department has been actively tracking the Nor’easter and are taking precautionary measures to mitigate risk in the event that the storm affects the New York City Area.

Staten Island’s 7 Teleport and Chelsea 85 10th Avenue both have been notified of the possible inclement weather conditions and will be maintaining consistent operation for our customers throughout the upcoming days.

At this time, Telehouse has taken proactive measures for this work and has made accommodations for additional coverage with engineers and operation technicians in the event that storm conditions hit the tristate area.

Telehouse has already conducted full inspections of all critical equipment including UPS, generator, chiller, and switch gear to be in normal working conditions before the weekend. We have also prepared spare parts kits for emergency equipment as a proactive measure. In addition, our fueling companies and vendors have been notified to place their teams on a stand by condition. Original Source

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7 Teleport Drive,

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Phone No: 718–355–2500

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Telehouse Global Spotlight: Telehouse Paris Data Centers

C’est Magnifique! The Paris Data Center and Colocation Market Is Thriving

Given a growing population of approximately 2.3 million inhabitants, with surrounding suburbs that are home to around 10.5 million, Paris, the most populous urban area in the European Union, offers enough opportunity to keep its multi-tenant data center and hosting markets growing. A large number of multinational corporations are headquartered in the city, among these, 29 of the Fortune 500, including Sanofi, BNP Paribas and Orange. Paris is home to many other healthcare, financial services, and telecommunications companies, as well as some of the world’s most recognized luxury retail brands, pushing greater and greater demand for colocation, hosting and cloud services to meet French business requirements. Indeed, Paris is the third-largest multi-tenant data center and fourth-largest hosting market in Europe.

While some Paris-based companies seek to lower costs through renewable energy as well as cheaper land prices that would necessitate a move away from the highly competitive city center, many businesses find a presence there is still required for connectivity into Paris’ major carrier hotels. So much so that Paris dominates as France’s data center hub, accounting for over 70 percent of the country’s total data center footprint. Click here for more details.

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Telehouse for Technophiles: Robots Enter the Data Center

Robots Promise Energy and Operational Cost Reduction

The word ‘robot’ was first heard in a 1920 Czechoslovakian theater production to describe human-like machines that were created to work in a factory. Thereafter, including Fritz Lang’s 1927 sci-fi masterpiece, “Metropolis,” with its female robot ‘Hel,’ to Steven Spielberg’s 2001 movie, “A.I.,” and its Mecha, advanced androids capable of emulating human thoughts and emotions, to Arnold Schwarzenegger’s “Terminator” franchise, robots have appeared in films, on television and in literature as agents of good and evil.

While the definition of the word robot means “drudgery” or “hard work” in Czech, organizations today are applying robotics to specialized data center applications in an effort to eliminate the sweat, cost and toil associated with day-to-day facility administration.

The biggest business driver to deploying robotics in the data center is the need for greater levels of efficiency. Companies are always looking for ways to make their IT infrastructures more agile and less costly, and robotics has been identified as a means to add more automation to achieve these goals. Additional potential benefits include IT staff head-count reduction, improved security and the increased accuracy of monitoring that automation brings. Click here for more details.


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Telehouse Green: Any Way the Wind Blows

Data Centers are Harnessing the Power of Wind Energy

More than eight million data centers exist around the world, using upwards of 30GW of energy each year, an amount that is steadily increasing. A study by the National Resource Defense Council (NRDC) revealed that if planet’s data centers were a country, they would represent the world’s 12th-largest consumer of electricity, ranking somewhere between Spain and Italy.

The carbon footprint of a mid-sized, 10 MW data center can range from three million to over 130 million kilograms of CO2, according to Green House Data. However, the good news is that this environmental impact can be significantly reduced through the adoption of renewable and sustainable energy resources, such as wind energy.

According to Data Center Knowledge, the generation of power through on-site wind turbines has gained traction across the data center community over the past few years. The latest AFCOM State of the Data Center survey showed that 34 percent of respondents have either deployed or are planning to deploy a renewable energy source for their data center, of which half are or will be using wind energy. As a testament to its effectiveness, various hyper-scale organizations including Microsoft, Google and Apple are now relying upon wind energy as a source of power at some of their facilities.
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