Digital Infrastructure

Feature "Digital Infrastructure"

Luxembourg – The Digital Nation in the Green Heart of Europe

Christine De Ridder from LuxConnect, on the importance of energy efficiency & the need for infrastructure providers to also transform digitally.

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Feature "Cloud Computing"

A BIT of Support: Empowering FCBU Amidst the War in Ukraine

Els de Jong from Dutch BIT highlights how her company has forged a resilient alliance in IT infrastructure with the First Credit Bureau of Ukraine.

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Feature "Data Center"

Toward Green Digitalization: How Data Centers Help Create a Sustainable IT Infrastructure

To meet their own sustainability targets, businesses want digital infrastructure and services from sustainable suppliers, explains Jens-Peter Feidner from Equinix.

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Feature "Connectivity"

Upgraded Digital Products at the Kick-Off of the 2023 Rugby World Cup

Network connectivity is increasingly up and running at sporting events, as exhibited by Alexander Mager from FOLAN in a case study on the 2023 Rugby World Cup.

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Feature "Digital Infrastructure"

IoT – Innovations, Obstacles & Trends

Frank Zachmann from innovIT360 explains the infrastructure challenges for developing the innovative power of the Internet of Things and offers a solution for the future of digital infrastructure.

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Feature "Digital Infrastructure"

Hello Car

Ivo Ivanov from DE-CIX, on providing car makers with high-performance, reliable & secure interconnection to enhance their cars and protect their customers.

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Feature "Digital Infrastructure"

Cyber-Resilience – A Major Challenge for the 21st Century

Our dependence on the digital world requires a behavioral change to increase not only security, but also resilience through anticipating threats. Yves Reding from EBRC explains the concept of “cyber-resilience” and its impact on business continuity.

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Feature "Digital Infrastructure"

Infrastructure and Cloud Services: What Makes a Client Project Successful

Andre Reitenbach, CEO at Gcore discusses the impact of a provider’s infrastructure on critical aspects of cloud services, and how that affects clients’ businesses.

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Feature "Edge Computing"

Leveraging Edge Computing and Optimization for Improved Website Performance

In a relentless online services’ race, milliseconds can make all the difference. Enter edge computing & optimization, recommends Dmitry Samoshkin, CPO at Gcore.

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Feature "Digital Infrastructure"

Fixing systems since 1995 – Interview with Dr. Thomas King

How Dr. Thomas King, CTO of DE-CIX, built his first networks and chose his vocation as a "doctor of the Internet."

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Feature "Networks"

Why Fixed and Mobile Networks are Merging

The promotion of broadband in Germany is enabling us to enter the digital age, with all its opportunities: a smart infrastructure and the transformation of the economy. What role does convergence play in this and what challenges must be overcome?

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Feature "Connectivity"

What is Driving the Growth in Connectivity?

Wolfram Rinner, CEO of GasLINE, gives an overview of the current demand for connectivity and what is needed to enable edge computing.

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Feature "Digital Infrastructure"

Infrastructure for the Evolution of the City

Spencer Hinzen from Ruckus, on the need for connectivity infrastructure in order for cities to evolve into the smart cities they want to become.

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Feature "Digital Transformation"

Digital Everywhere, for Everyone

Digital business has definitively become the backbone of economic growth for the future, and no sector can afford not to be on the path to digitalization, says Ivo Ivanov, CEO of DE-CIX International.

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Feature "Digital Infrastructure"

Industrial Internet of Things: How the Right Infrastructure Boosts Growth and Innovation

Donald Badoux, Managing Director of Equinix Germany, on how the right IoT Infrastructure can help companies fully monetize previously unavailable or inaccessible enterprise- and machine-generated data in the industrial Internet of Things.

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Feature "Digital Infrastructure"

The Internet was Built for This

John Graham-Cumming, CTO of Cloudflare, offers insight into the changing traffic patterns and changing online behavior through the COVID-19 crisis and beyond.

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Feature "Digital Infrastructure"

Making Interconnection Easy

Joanna Hahn, Public Relations Trainee at DE-CIX, shows how tailored digital infrastructure solutions and flawless interconnection can meet the constantly changing requirements of the market.

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Feature "Multi Cloud"

IG BCE Bonus Agency and x-ion Interconnect an Entire Industry

Christopher Bittles from x-ion shows how collective industry solutions can be implemented in the care insurance industry to meet changing customer expectations.

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Feature "Internet Industry"

The Next-Generation Internet Exchange – DE-CIX Paves the Way for the Immersive Internet

Dr. Thomas King, CTO of DE-CIX, spells out what steps Internet Exchange operators need to take to pioneer the seamless future of the immersive Internet.

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Feature "Digital Infrastructure"

The Car as a Driver for Data Growth Needing New Infrastructure Solutions

What does the “data footprint” of a modern car look like? Frank Zachmann from Innovit360 explains how to manage the masses of data generated by the modern car at the modular edge of the Internet.

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Feature "Connectivity"

The Arctic is Growing into the Business Power of the Future

The world is changing, and the Arctic north is becoming more accessible and opening up new business potential. But first, investment in digital and physical infrastructure is needed, explains Ari-Jussi Knaapila from Cinia.

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Feature "Artificial Intelligence"

Artificial Intelligence – Present and Future

AI is a key trend in the digital age, says Dietmar Kessler from Equinix, and handling the data and connecting the players are challenges here for infrastructure.

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Feature "Gaia-X"

The Finance Sector Embraces Technical Innovation with GAIA-X

The financial industry is building a strong use case for the European data infrastructure project GAIA-X based on the benefits of digital ecosystems, comments Harald A. Summa from DE-CIX.

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Feature "Blockchain"

Creating a Federated Blockchain as a Service Platform

Kevin Wittek from if(is) outlines the possibilities for creating a federated blockchain operated by infrastructure providers who are eco members.

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Feature "Data Center"

A Day Without Data Centers

As data centers are essentially the foundation of interconnected life, what would a day without those actually look like? A concept explored by Jens-Peter Feidner, Managing Director at Equinix Germany.

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Feature "Digital Infrastructure"

Digital Infrastructure – The Unsung Hero

Digital infrastructure, like data centers, networks, and the domain name system, is the unseen enabler of modern digital life and business. A look at how the eco Association is working to raise digital infrastructure to center stage in 2018.

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Feature "Gaia-X"

The Tellus Project: Giving the Internet an Upgrade

DE-CIX’s Alina Rubina outlines how Tellus is creating a more powerful network infrastructure for the Gaia-X data-infrastructure ecosystem.

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Feature "Digital Infrastructure"

Designing 5G Networks for the Mobility Challenge

Gerd Simon from the Data Center Group, on how to build 5G networks that are reliable and energy-efficient and will meet the needs of the future of mobility.

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Feature "5G Networks"

5G: Much More Than Just “Ultrafast Internet” on the Smartphone – New Requirements for Industry of the Future

Dr. Christoph Dietzel from DE-CIX sheds light on interesting 5G use-cases from business and industry, and examines to what extent 5G will revolutionize industry.

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Feature "Connectivity"

When Time Stands Still: Why Redundant Connectivity Is Essential in the Digital Age

Dr. Thomas King, CTO at DE-CIX, explains why companies should secure their IT infrastructure via redundant lines, and what exactly lies behind the term redundancy.

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Feature "Data Center"

Finding Specialist Staff to Power Data Center Growth

Demand is growing worldwide so fast that data centers can’t be built and staffed fast enough. Dr. Béla Waldhauser from KDDI Deutschland explains the challenges and provides a perspective for the future of data center operations.

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Feature "Online Gaming"

Game Streaming Supporting Madrid Data Center Growth

Strong growth in the gaming sector in Spain will result in increased demand for digital infrastructure in the Spanish capital, writes Theresa Bobis, Regional Director for Southern Europe at DE-CIX.

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Feature "Data Center"

Multi-Tenant Data Centers: Managing Data for Less

Lauren Fahey & Tony Robinson from Corning on the benefits of outsourcing data center needs to multi-tenant facilities, & finding the right DC for your needs

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Feature "Digital Education"

Building a Digital Future Through Education

For the successful transition to a full digital economy, there need to be changes in the way young people are educated and prepared for the challenges of a rapidly changing working environment. dotmagazine talked to Alexander Rabe, Managing Director of the eco Association, about how education needs to be transformed.

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Feature "Digital Infrastructure"

Digital Inclusion

Oliver Süme, Chair of the Board at the eco Association, reports on the challenge of giving millions of people world-wide access to information online.

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Feature "Digital Infrastructure"

Unlocking a New Digital Age

In a time of crisis, a global lockdown needs a digital unlocking, explains Ivo Ivanov, CEO of DE-CIX International.

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Feature "Connectivity"

The Economic Potential of Madrid as a Digital Hub

An analysis by Delfos Research, commissioned by Interxion and DE-CIX, reveals that an investment of 500 million Euros in digital infrastructure would create more than 1,800 jobs, inject 6 billion Euros into the local economy, and would allow Madrid to become a competitive digital hub in the face of the growing need for interconnection in Southern Europe. Theresa Bobis explains.

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Feature "Digital Infrastructure"

Leveraging Digital Ecosystems in the New Normal

Ivo Ivanov from DE-CIX, on how data gravity and diversity in ecosystems, together with secure interconnection, provide the ideal breeding ground for digital business.

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Feature "Digital Infrastructure"

Future of Connected Mobility

The mobility of the future is connected, and offering the right vehicle, in the right place, and for every need is only possible and sustainable with the help of the Internet industry, says Alexander Rabe of the eco Association.

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Feature "Digitalization"

Industry as a Driver for the Digitalization of the European Economy?

Why the “old economy” is driving the digital transformation in the Old World, reveals Ernst Stöckl-Pukall, German Economics Ministry, in an interview with Andreas Weiss and Thomas Sprenger, GXFS-DE.

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Feature "Digital Infrastructure"

doteditorial: Creating the Conditions for IoT Business

IoT is transforming markets, revolutionizing service provision, and opening up potential for new business models. Andreas Weiss, Director of Digital Business Models at eco, explores where IoT is, where it’s going, and what it needs to thrive.

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Feature "Digital Infrastructure"

Leveraging Infrastructure Diversity for Business Success

Diversity is key for technical resilience. Where to start? Alleviate cloud concentration through a multi-cloud approach, advises Ivo Ivanov from DE-CIX.

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Feature "IoT"

doteditorial: Data-Driven Mobility & The Connected Car Market

Data is the unlimited resource powering the future of driving. A look at the conditions needed for connected and self-driving cars, and the potential to harness and monetize the power of data.

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Feature "Multi Cloud"

Direct and Secure Interconnections to the Clouds: How Enterprises can Future-Proof their IT

Mareike Jacobshagen from DE-CIX, on creating a productive virtual office anywhere via DE-CIX and their many partners.

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Feature "Digital Infrastructure"

Why the Internet Holds Firm: Internet Infrastructure in Times of Covid-19

Dr. Christoph Dietzel from DE-CIX investigates how much short-term growth the Internet can actually sustain, and what the limiting factors are.

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Feature "Digital Transformation"

Digital Trade Routes: Everything Always Available Immediately

Companies and industries that depend on reliable digital trade routes should invest in their own and sovereign digital infrastructure, according to Harald A. Summa, CEO of eco and DE-CIX.

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Feature "Digital Infrastructure"

doteditorial: Our Digital Future Shaped by the Digital Infrastructure Choices Made Today

Dr. Béla Waldhauser, CEO of Telehouse Germany and Leader of the eco Competence Group Datacenter Infrastructure, looks at finding the right infrastructure for your needs, the impact of the 5G rollout, and why digital infrastructure is as important to a country as physical infrastructure.

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Feature "Digital Infrastructure"

Digital Infrastructure is Fundamental to Economic Growth in Europe - doteditorial

Dr. Béla Waldhauser from the eco Association looks at the digital infrastructure requirements for Europe to remain competitive in the global digital economy

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Feature "Digital Infrastructure"

doteditorial: Economic Engine – Digital Infrastructure

Digital infrastructures encourage growth and employment on location and have a comparable economic importance to streets, public transportation networks, and water and power supply. Data centers in particular form the basis of the digitalization of society and the economy and provide the foundations for successful metropolitan areas.

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Feature "Digital Infrastructure"

Latency – The Physical Necessity of Getting Closer to Users

Dr. Christoph Dietzel from DE-CIX looks at why interconnection needs are moving closer to the user, and what the next steps in the interconnection future will be.

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