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atNorth announces award win for Iceland at the Tech Capital Awards
its attractiveness and investor-friendly climate when dealing with digital infrastructure investors . atNorth showcased the benefits of investing in Iceland in general , such as the abundance of natural resources and the fact that its energy is 100 % generated by renewable sources , in addition to its stable political situation , circular economy principles and redundant connectivity prowess .
As a result of these factors , Iceland has a reliable power supply and low energy costs , which makes it an ideal location for technology investment specifically .
Furthermore , atNorth was able to demonstrate how pivotal Iceland ’ s climate is for the cooling of high-performance infrastructure by utilising the example of its long-standing client , BNP Paribas , that resulted in a 50 % reduction in energy consumption , an 85 % reduction in CO 2 and significant cost savings .
atNorth , one of the leading Nordic colocation , high-performance computing and Artificial Intelligence service providers , has announced that its Iceland entry has won the Tech Capital Location Award , the only annual prize to recognise a geography for atNorth continues to promote Iceland and the Nordic region in general as best-in-class locations for its state-of-the-art data centres . The company will continue to build additional sites in the region as part of its growth strategy to expand its services sustainably and strategically to support the increasing need for energy efficient , dataintensive computing .
DE-CIX ’ s newest Internet Exchange ready for service in Finland
DE-CIX , one of the world ’ s leading Internet
Exchange ( IX ) operators and home to the largest carrier- and data centre-neutral interconnection ecosystem globally has announced that its newest Internet Exchange in Helsinki , Finland , is ready for service .
The new DE-CIX IX is available in Equinix ’ s data centres in Helsinki ( HE-CIX ) with more enabled sites to be announced . In parallel with the launch of the new digital hub , which will be an important part of the DE-CIX interconnection ecosystem in the Nordics , DE-CIX and Nokia celebrated the 10th anniversary of their trailblazing partnership at Nokia ’ s headquarters in Espoo , close to the Finnish capital .
With the approach of one access , all clouds and every network , DE-CIX is bringing its InterconnectionFLEX service to Finland , which provides enterprises with a complete interconnection package as a holistic solution for cloud connectivity , virtual private network interconnects and direct interconnection between networks , also known as ‘ peering ’.
DE-CIX ’ s and Nokia ’ s long-standing relationship , which is based on joint research and development efforts and standardisation initiatives , has resulted in highly reliable , low-latency and seamless peering and interconnection services for customers around the world for more than 10 years .
Nokia provides innovative hardware – such as the newly developed FP5 network processor , designed to support 800 Gigabit Ethernet . This technology can be found in the latest Nokia 7750 SR-14s models , which DE- CIX uses , for instance , at Europe ’ s largest IX , DE-CIX Frankfurt .
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