Reasons to Choose Data Center Colocation in The Netherlands
Digital Gateway to Europe
For over a 1000 years the Netherlands has been the gateway to the European market and, in fact, is the Digital Gateway to Europe at present. The Digital Gateway to Europe organization promotes the Netherlands as data hub and offers you a source of information to prepare your launch or expansion in the Netherlands with facts, links and events. The Netherlands’ excellent digital infrastructure is attracting more and more international IT companies to the country, fuelling the growth of more than 200 data centers across the Netherlands, and making the country the true digital gateway to Europe.
The data hub right in the heart of Europe’s Single Market and in between the largest economies UK, Germany, France and Scandinavia.
One of the most advanced digital infrastructures in Europe
The Netherlands provides a unique tech infrastructure and ecosystem for the data driven economy. The Netherlands has grown into a leading country for digital infrastructure. The Netherlands has one of the most advanced data center markets in Europe: 11 out of 15 sea cables for digital traffic between the US and Europe come in through the Netherlands. The high quality of the digital infrastructure here attracts foreign investment and sparks entrepreneurship, startups and creativity.
The world’s leading digital players choose the Netherlands
Many tech giants in the digital space, such as Microsoft, Cisco, Twitter, Tata, Infosys, Huawei, Oracle, Intel, IBM, Verizon, Google etc. have chosen the Netherlands for their activities. Google, for example, is currently building a new €600 million data center in Eemshaven, in the northern Netherlands, for its European operations. The accessibility of large-scale Internet capacity and the good business climate make the Netherlands a preferred location for digital services.
With a leading position in internet exchanges, colocation and hosting, the Amsterdam colocation market is one of the most developed which makes the Netherlands an attractive solution for those seeking a key European Base. Other Dutch hotbeds for data centers include Eindhoven, Groningen, and Rotterdam.
Today’s data centers are transforming so that they meet new needs in a more distributed and efficient way and are no longer just a collection of physical assets. In addition to space and power, the physical location needs to offer a highly connected infrastructure, with access to strong connectivity hubs so that data centers can deliver and receive data between networks, businesses, internet exchanges and end-users.
Data centers are crucial enablers of the digital economy and underpin a wide range of activities across government, business and society. As such, they form an important part of a nation’s critical infrastructure.
Amsterdam’s leading digital infrastructure
The Netherlands fast and reliable digital infrastructure offers businesses access to Europe and beyond. Amsterdam is where it all started over 25 years ago. Amsterdam is outperforming many larger European locations such as London, Paris and Frankfurt.
The capital of the Netherlands is the heart of the AMS-IX which stands for Amsterdam Internet Exchange, one of the world’s leading internet exchanges point. AMS-IX is not available in the Hague, Rotterdam or other ‘’well-connected’’ cities in the Netherlands, only through our partners. Our partners’ network is connected to the largest internet exchange points in the world including AMS-IX, DE-CIX, LINX and Netnod.
Colocation in Amsterdam
Considered as one of the most connected cities worldwide and one of the fastest growing tech hubs in Europe – Amsterdam, a major European data center hub. The Netherlands, and in particular Amsterdam is the fourth biggest data center hub in Europe with 30% of all most advanced data centers in Europe. Amsterdam’s AMS-IX (Amsterdam Internet Exchange) is the largest data transport hub in the world, and as a result, there has been a steep increase in the number of data centre being built nearby.
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