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3/9/2010

By Sophie Baker

Hitachi Europe and GREEN DATA SYSTEMS (GDS) are to open a highly energy efficient data centre in the Netherlands, following a strategic partnership for the collaboration and deployment of energy efficient data centres.

The data centre will be in Deventer.

GDS is an investor in the ECO2DC initiative, and is planning to develop the most energy efficient data centre in Europe. Hitachi’s modular type data centres are viewed as an effective solution for energy efficiency, and the partnership was entered into earlier in 2010 to initiate further development in this field.

“We are very enthusiastic about the opening of this unique and highly energy efficient data centre,” commented Wessel Graatsma, CEO of GDS. “We believe Hitachi’s cooling technology and operating know-how for data centres contribute to our green data centre business. It has potential to increase energy efficiency, which is a key requirement for our customers.”

Hitachi Group launched its energy efficient data centre project in 2007, driven by increasing demand to decrease the environmental impact of data centre technology.

Hitachi’s cooling system, based on its modular data centre which allows the highest level of power efficiency in a high-density arranged data centre to be achieved, will be housed in Deventer, and the new centre will act as a showcase of Hitachi’s technologies for energy efficient data centres to customers throughout Continental Europe.

Akira Shimizu, managing director of Hitachi Europe, added: “We are very pleased with the opening of the facility and the strategic partnership with Green Data Systems. GDS is one of our excellent distributors in the EMEA region and the contribution to reducing environmental impact is remarkable. As part of this partnership, we will contribute to society by decreasing our customers’ ecological footprint. Further progress in our data centre technology will enable the expansion of Hitachi’s modular data centre business in Europe.”

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