Iceland Attracts New Business with Clean Energy

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

...nalists in Reykjavik earlier this month while saluting an early catch: British data hosting company Verne Global. Verne recently opened a data center in a sprawling former NATO munitions warehouse on a windswept ......to its private network for companies in 21 countries. Other Verne clients include Jersey City-based Datapipe, an IT services firm that supports financial and technology industries in New York and London; CCP ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Verne Global

Iceland Attracts New Business With Clean Energy

Explore ecomagination (Apr 20 2012)

...nalists in Reykjavik earlier this month while saluting an early catch: British data hosting company Verne Global. Verne recently opened a data center in a sprawling former NATO munitions warehouse on a windswept ......to its private network for companies in 21 countries. Other Verne clients include Jersey City-based Datapipe, an IT services firm that supports financial and technology industries in New York and London; CCP ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Verne Global

Letter to Ballmer, Bezos, Cook: Go to Iceland

Explore SmartPlanet (Apr 20 2012)

...mpletes a new subsea line as soon as this year. That’s why London-based data center hosting company Verne Global recently fired up operations in a converted NATO munitions storehouse outside Reykjavik. IBM has lo......or mill as interested in Iceland. Jeff, one of Amazon’s cloud computing parnters, Jersey City-based Datapipe, recently set up shop there. How about you? And while you’re there, enjoy the place. The fiery ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Amazon.com

Hot Rocks, glaciers to make Iceland green tech hub?

Explore Future of Tech on msnbc.com (Apr 11 2012)

...bial cloud – currently consume upwards of 1.5 percent of total global electricity use, according to Verne Global, a server farm company that opened doors in Iceland this February. Hot rocks, glaciers to make Icel......ctive place for the world’s technology giants to park their server farms. So far, customers include Datapipe, a Jersey City, N.J., provider of disaster recovery services and an online gaming company, noted Bl... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Verne Global   Lisa Rhodes

Iceland, Data-Center Hub?

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

... a convergence of attributes that tick all the boxes,” says Jeff Monroe, chief executive officer of Verne Global, Björgólfsson’s venture. “You have 100 percent renewable energy. We can do 100 percent free cooling......ast one-quarter of a data center’s operating costs are spent on cooling.) So far, customers include Datapipe, a Jersey City (N.J.)-based provider of disaster-recovery services, and CCP Games, the Icelandic co... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Verne Global

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

Explore Bloomberg.com (Mar 21 2012)

...e island and capture a slice of a $41 billion market. Helgi Helgason, senior facility manager at Verne Global, walks past security units housing computer equipment used for data storage at the company's center......he French Riviera. Photographer: Arnaldur Halldorsson/Bloomberg So far, Verne’s customers include Datapipe Inc., a Jersey City, New Jersey-based provider of disaster-recovery services, and CCP Games, the Ic... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Verne Global

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 w...... the Verne data center, though it could happen in the long term. A previously announced customer is Datapipe, a colocation and mission-critical cloud services provider. Currently, within a 500 sq m modular da... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Verne Global

North American/Iceland/European data center mindsets - Doug Mohney

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Feb 22 2012)

...nal latency added when moving from London to Iceland, but that hasn't stopped initial customers for Verne Global's data center such as Datapipe and Greenqloud.  Latency issues are also mitigated with Colt putting a point of presence directly i... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Verne Global

what i learned in iceland. no really! by Doug Mohney

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Feb 16 2012)

By this time, you’ve probably seen lots of stories about Verne Global, clean energy, and how Iceland wants to "export" energy by running data centers.  Hopefully I can o......t in maintenance, and less power used since you don't have to power a big traditional HVAC plant. A Datapipe exec with space in the Verne Iceland facility says that once you roll in climate-appropriate coolin... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Verne Global

The Growing (Green) Power of

Explore Green Technology (Feb 13 2012)

... Since you don't have traditional HVAC, you also don't have the additional power for that overhead. Datapipe (News - Alert) Vice President Sean McAvan said the total cost advantage once you factor in free coo......n said the total cost advantage once you factor in free cooling meant you could operate a server in Verne Global's data center for about one fourth the power bill of a server ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Verne Global

Exporting power in the form of hosting by Peter Judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Feb 12 2012)

... week, I got to visit Iceland, to see the place’s potential as a data hub. The trip was provided by Verne Global, sponsor of this blog, and creator of the country’s first large multi-tenant data center. Readers w......at Verne are either Icelandic (CCP Games, maker of Eve Online) or service providers (GreenQloud and Datapipe) hoping to entice in non-Icelandic players. The decision of partner Colt to locate ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Norway

Verne Global Officially Opens Green Data Center in Iceland

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Feb 10 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Geothermal

...le megawatts. The data center has already signed on a few customers, including web hosting provider Datapipe, and video game developer CCP Games. With 15 employees, Verne Global said it will gradually increase this number to 100 once the other phases of the data center are com... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Cisco

New Tenants for Verne’s Modular Colo in Iceland

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 9 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Geothermal

...oday marked a coming-out party for the leading player in the nascent Iceland data center market, as Verne Global unveiled its new “modular colo” data center in Keflavik, along with three new tenants. Today’s even......o address customer demand in a rapid timeframe.” Last fall Verne announced managed hosting provider Datapipe as the first tenant for its facility. Today Verne announced three new customers: + Game develop... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Cisco

Colt and Verne Global Introduce World’s First Dual Sourced 100% Renewably Powered Data Centre in Iceland inShare

Explore Telecom Review (Dec 10 2011)

Verne Global, an innovative, UK-based developer of power conscious data centre campuses, has recently announced ......nmental advantage in the marketplace for companies looking to expand their data centre operations." Datapipe – Early Customers Datapipe, a leading provider of managed services and infrastructure for mission critical IT and cloud comput... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Verne Global

Cool, Green, Data In Iceland - By Sean McAvan, Vice President EMEA Sales, Datapipe

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Nov 16 2011)

...ing a green cloud and business continuity infrastructure. There were a number of factors that made Verne Global’s 18-hectare campus in Keflavik an attractive location:   -->-->-->In terms of geography, Datapipe currently services some of the world’s most important financial and technology markets. Iceland sit... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Verne Global   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Can an IT Snowball Grow in Iceland?

Explore The New York Times (Oct 20 2011) Fossil Fuel , Geothermal

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Verne Global

Can Iceland's Renewables Power the Web?

Explore Science News, Articles and Information (Oct 17 2011) Fossil Fuel , Geothermal , Servers

...t believe to exist anywhere else," explained Jeff Monroe, CEO of three-year-old data center company Verne Global. At least, that is what Iceland's IT pros are counting on. They see their nation becoming a player ......egawatts of server power capacity will be filled with server modules as needed. One client, IT firm Datapipe, has already signed on. The second Iceland facility, Thor Data Center, opened last year in Hafnarfj... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Verne Global

What's behind Iceland's first major data center

Explore ITworld (Oct 14 2011)

...ter facility. I had the chance to interview executives – Lisa Rhodes, VP of marketing and sales for Verne Global, and Sean McAvan, Datapipe’s VP of Sales for Europe and the Middle East – and thought I’d share some excerpts of those intervi... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Iceland

Silicon Geyser: put your datacentres here

Explore ZDNet UK (Oct 14 2011)

...yser might be more appropriate. I spent some time at NetEvents in Frascati last week speaking to Verne Global, which has the Wellcome Trust as its majority investor and which has built a datacentre on that isl......eothermal and hydro-electric means. According to CEO Jeff Monroe, customers -- the first of whom is DataPipe -- save money because there's no premium for being green. Back office What's going on in ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Verne Global   Jeff Monroe

green cloud from iceland: Datapipe partners with Verne Global

Explore The Datapipe Blog (Oct 11 2011)

...th disaster recovery, business continuity, and cloud computing solutions. Green Cloud from Iceland: Datapipe Partners with Verne Global Datapipe Iceland Datapipe chose Iceland for it's strategic location between New York and London It is no secret that Datapipe is committed to supporting long-term sustainability – Datapipe Green is part of our culture. Sustainability is a key part of our strategy regarding our facilitie... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Verne Global   Datapipe

UK firm opens carbon neutral datacentre in Iceland

Explore Insight for IT leaders (Oct 10 2011) Power and Cooling , Emissions , Cloud Computing , Servers

A carbon neutral datacentre has opened in Keflavik, Iceland, which the owner, UK-based Verne Global, claims is the first of its kind. The company claimed it provides a Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE......d in addition to the free cooling from the Icelandic cold air. IT and cloud computing services firm Datapipe will be the first customer of the datacentre. Robb Allen, chief executive of Datapipe, said he believes the position ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Verne Global   Jeff Monroe

InTechnology to power data centre with human waste

Explore comms-express.com (Oct 10 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

...f companies fail to upgrade their data centres sufficiently. This comes after managed services firm DataPipe announced that it plans to use equipment at Verne Global's data centre in Iceland because it runs using green energy and offers good value for money. News p... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Verne Global   Datapipe

Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of Oct. 8

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Oct 8 2011) Cloud Computing

...facilities on its Las Vegas campus that will add 600,000 square feet of data center space in 2012. Datapipe Goes Modular With Verne in Iceland – Managed hosting provider Datapipe will be the first tenant in Verne Global’s new data center in Iceland, deploying customer servers in a factory-built modular design housed w... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Iceland   Verne Global

Datapipe signs up for green data centre

Explore comms-express.com (Oct 7 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

Managed services company Datapipe has revealed that it will be utilising equipment at the Verne Global data centre in Iceland, which will be powered by renewable energy. It is set to use the server r... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Verne Global