TELE Greenland, Eastlink and Hibernia Atlantic Investigate Low Latency Route to Iceland

Explore Home | SYS-CON MEDIA (May 14 2012)

... for Greenland, TELE Greenland operates an existing cable system, Greenland Connect, which connects Europe and Halifax, Nova Scotia via Iceland, Greenland and Newfoundland. The new build in conjunction with Hibernia Atlantic and Eastlink, a ke... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Hibernia Atlantic

Cisco Helps Iceland’s Farice Play a Key Role in Green Cloud Computing

Explore Home | SYS-CON MEDIA (May 12 2012)

... its storage and compute resources. Farice, the primary provider of networking services to and from Iceland and operator of two submarine cable links to Europe has sought to address this issue by evaluating solutions which can increase the capacity on its und... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Cisco

Updated: Nordics emerge as top green datacentre location

Explore businessgreen.com (Apr 30 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Geothermal

...t, which found that Nordic countries are proving an increasingly popular location for server farms. Iceland takes fourth spot in new risk index ranking countries' attractiveness to datacentre developers Busi......ise of the Nordics, which may in the future dilute the market share from the traditional centres in Europe," said Keith Inglis, partner in the European datacentre advisory group at Cushman & Wakefield. "Goo... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Google

Nordic Countries Increasingly Attractive as Sites for Data Centers

Explore The New York Times (Apr 30 2012)

...his is just the beginning,” Mr. Engman said. “What we want is to be the hub for all data traffic in Europe.”As computing moves to the cloud, where music, photos and other data are stored on remote computers......d Germany were ranked as the top European locations for data centers, they were closely followed by Iceland, Sweden, Finland and Norway, based on an evaluation of risk factors including energy ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   The New York Times   Iceland

Green Data Centers: Is It Worth Running a “Losing” Race?

Explore Triple Pundit (Apr 26 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

...l to realize its ambition, Landsvirkjun figures. Key to the effort is the fact that power prices in Iceland, even though they’re renewable, are the “most competitive in Europe. “Recent public quotes from the company offer fixed real rates of $43/MWh in 12 year contracts. In ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Amazon.com

U.S. Still Best Data Center Location, But Nordics Gaining

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Apr 25 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling

...ons, a trend driven by the focus on cool climates and renewable energy sourcing.Leading the way was Iceland,which was the fourth most popular location, followed by Sweden (eighth) and Norway (12th). The cold......ise of the Nordics, which may in the future dilute the market share from the traditional centres in Europe,” said Keith Inglis, partner in the EMEA Data Centre Advisory Group at Cushman & Wakefield. “Google... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Norway

Running Green by Tate Cantrell

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Apr 24 2012)

...bon-related pain to future sufferers on the Boston Marathon course. And that solution is unique. In Iceland not only is there a robust power grid that is built to an industrial standard that far exceeds the ...... cost. However, there are other options for power sources that are renewable and are ready to serve Europe’s growing computational requirements. Just look North. Green and affordable energy: I can feel my h... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Tate Cantrell

Iceland Attracts New Business with Clean Energy

Explore Renewable Energy World (Apr 23 2012) Fossil Fuel , Geothermal , Cloud Computing

...wept lava plain in Keflavik, 29 miles southwest of the capital, connected via subsea fiber lines to Europe and the U.S. Verne is just the sort of foreign presence that Iceland hopes will alleviate an unemployment rate of six percent — astronomical in a land accustomed to one... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Verne Global

Iceland Attracts New Business With Clean Energy

Explore ecomagination (Apr 20 2012)

...wept lava plain in Keflavik, 29 miles southwest of the capital, connected via subsea fiber lines to Europe and the U.S. Verne is just the sort of foreign presence that Iceland hopes will alleviate an unemployment rate of six percent—astronomical in a land accustomed to one p... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Verne Global

Innovative Nordic Supercomputer in Iceland

Explore icenews.is (Apr 20 2012) Construction , Geothermal , Cloud Computing , Supercomputer

... only at low cost but also from CO-neutral renewable hydro- and geothermal energy sources. Due to Iceland’s geographical location, it is not feasible to transfer electricity to Europe. Hardware, however, can be moved, and so can data, via the trans-Atlantic fibre optic data-network... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Norway

Letter to Ballmer, Bezos, Cook: Go to Iceland

Explore SmartPlanet (Apr 20 2012)

...r publications including Time magazine, the North Atlantic island is a perfect place to “go green.” Iceland’s runs entirely on renewable electricity - 75 percent from hydro, and the rest from geothermal. The......rd of in a world of volatile fossil fuel energy prices. It has good high-speed fiber connections to Europe and North America, which are set to get even better when League City, Texas-based Emerald Atlantis ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Amazon.com

Environmental Monitoring: Europe Data Centers to Turn to Renewable Energy for Power by 2020

Explore Information Technology (Apr 19 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing , Servers

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Verne Global

Iceland's National Power Company Offers Data Centers the Most Competitive Power Prices in Europe

Explore MarketWatch.com (Apr 17 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Geothermal

...as recently been singled out by the World Economic Forum as being among the top three in the world. Iceland's National Power Company Offers Data Centers the Most Competitive Power Prices in Europe Landsvirkjun aims at capturing 1% of the total European Datacenter market by the year 2020 REYKJAV... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Verne Global

Debunking the Carbon Reduction Myth

Explore kernelmag.com (Apr 16 2012) Carbon Footprint , Carbon Reduction Commitment

...ts. For example, hydro-electric and geothermal energy are virtually carbon free and, in places like Iceland where this clean power is abundant, they provide companies with a long-term, sustainable, and most-......facilities close to clean power supplies (and therefore away from the metropolitan areas of Western Europe), network improvements have rendered these concerns obsolete; now all but the very latency-sensitiv... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Greenpeace   Iceland   Europe

Iceland Bets on Green Data Centers

Explore Pike Research (Apr 13 2012)

...a center is based on a former NATO facility west of Reykjavik, near Keflavik International Airport. Iceland’s advantages as a staging post between North America and Europe are important, but it’s the availability of a dual-sourced renewable energy supply that makes the p... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Verne Global

Iceland Exports Energy as Data

Explore Technology Review (Apr 11 2012) Cloud Computing

Iceland's main exports are aluminum and fish. Now the isolated nation is hoping to offer the world a new co......rs. Every decade or so, someone runs the numbers to see what it would cost to plug the country into Europe's electricity grid. Depending on where it made land, the cable would have to be around twice the le... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Greenpeace   Iceland   Europe

Iceland, Data-Center Hub?

Explore BusinessWeek (Mar 29 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Geothermal

...ity. “You’ve got a tremendous opportunity for centralizing data that would need to be replicated in Europe and North America,” he says. The bottom line: With a new $700 million data center, Iceland is plunging headlong into the Nordic competition for tech investment. Browning is a reporter for Bl... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Verne Global

High-speed transatlantic cable to pitch Ireland against Iceland as data haven

Explore Irish Independent (Mar 25 2012)

... "explore new regions where infrastructure may be needed", declining to discuss specific locations. Iceland has sought to reinvent itself as a safe and secure data haven halfway between Europe and North America as it recovers from the economic meltdown after the failure of the country's top ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Iceland   Europe

Iceland woos microsoft for part of $41 billion data market: tech- bloomberg news

Explore Bloomberg.com (Mar 21 2012)

On the southwestern tip of Iceland, housed in a former NATO air command base, a new data center is waiting to host the world’s informa...... The Atlantic island has sought to reinvent itself as a safe and secure data haven halfway between Europe and North America as it recovers from the economic meltdown after the failure of the country’s top ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Verne Global

Cloud computing = green it....right?!

Explore Billing and OSS World (Mar 21 2012)

...percent less energy than typical data centers. One especially interesting project is GreenQloud. In Iceland the data center is powered 100 percent by geothermal and hydropower energy, delivering hosting and ......ight?! 39 minutes ago Comments Posted in Blog, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Data Centers, North America, Europe Print Peter Caron By Peter Caron We all know that green IT can only be built with cloud technology.... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Google

Land of Vikings and modular data centers

Explore DatacenterDynamics (Mar 20 2012) Construction , Geothermal

Verne Global built in Iceland where it is being hailed as a pioneer. Also revealed is a deepening relationship with Colt 20 March......ers and distributors pushing branded and unbranded services into the telecoms and IT markets across Europe. Unbranded is typically wholesale and involves connecting the last mile for major telecoms carriers... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Verne Global

Maximising the use of our Network Resources

Explore blogs.techworld.com (Mar 8 2012)

...ns are designed to accommodate latencies much larger than the latencies that our customers see from Iceland to North America and Europe and beyond, especially now that most of today's applications are configured to run smoothly over bo... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Verne Global

Engineer Q&A: Tate Cantrell, CTO of Verne Global

Explore DatacenterDynamics (Mar 2 2012)

Verne Global officially opened its Iceland data center in February. The company's CTO Tate Cantrell answers our questions about the project an... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Verne Global

Colt Technology and Verne Global's dual renewably sourced data centre in Iceland

Explore GreenMonk (Feb 23 2012)

Iceland’s a funny place. Despite the name, it never actually gets very cold there. The average low temperat......reezes and the Gulf Stream push volcanic effects away from the Verne Global site and toward Western Europe. Read more: http://greenmonk.net/colt-telecom-and-verne-globals-dual-renewably-sourced-data-centre... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Verne Global