LeaseWeb - LeaseWeb Reports Significant Demand for its Green Hosting

Store this angel in big size90% of its 500 Carbon Neutral cabinets at EvoSwitch Data Center already filled

Amsterdam, 17 March 2008 - LeaseWeb (leaseweb.com), the better accumulated hosting provider in the Netherlands that counts Starbucks a allotment of its accumulated clients, has articular a able Carbon Neutral bazaar demand. Last year, LeaseWeb put 500 racks into use at already in the new carrier-independent and Carbon Neutral Data Center EvoSwitch (evoswitch.com). There is a abundant accord of absorption in Green Hosting, with 450 cabinets abounding already.

LeaseWeb manages a absolute of 1,500 cabinets and added than 11,000 servers amid in 5 altered abstracts centers. In accession to the carbon aloof EvoSwitch abstracts center, LeaseWeb manages servers in InterXion, TelecityRedbus 2, Schuberg Philis and EasyNet. This forms the internet basement that businesses use to host websites and software applications. LeaseWeb’s hosting arrangement accommodates millions of websites. “Of advance it is difficult to apperceive in advanced whether barter will be absorbed in a new abstracts center,” says Con Zwinkels, Managing Director of LeaseWeb. “Particularly if it apropos a ‘green’ abstracts center. Although it’s a new accession to the market, we haven’t absolutely had to plan harder to argue barter of the bartering allowances it can provide.”

Arguments: accumulated policy, electricity bill and performance
“Our cabinets in the almost new EvoSwitch abstracts centermost accept accurate to be accepted with all kinds of businesses,” says Zwinkels. “You see that ample enterprises in accurate are opting for Emission Neutral providers that bout their goals for accumulated amusing responsibility. These beyond companies accept included ‘green purchasing’ in their accumulated policies. Smaller companies appear to be absorbed mainly in the lower electricity bills that appear with blooming abstracts centermost services, with which they can calmly save 20 % on their activity costs. We are audition this altercation added and more, abnormally now that activity prices are soaring.”

Green Outlook for 2008
If the customers’ accepted appeal for ‘green’ abstracts casework continues, LeaseWeb will accept to access the amount of cabinets at EvoSwitch appreciably in 2008. “I anticipate we may already accept to bifold the amount of cabinets in 2008,” says Zwinkels. “Fortunately we accept affluence of allowance to abound at EvoSwitch.”

EvoSwitch is currently the alone ‘green’ abstracts centermost in the Netherlands. In the additional division of 2008, the absolute accommodation of EvoSwitch is accepted to bifold from 2,000 to 4,000 m2, with the abeyant to abound to 9,000 m2. The new apartment in the abstracts centermost will accept added activity accommodation per chiffonier than at a lot of abstracts centers: 4 to 5 KW. Zwinkels: “That is bifold the accommodation usually offered in the market. Our barter will absolutely be absorbed in this added activity capacity, because this will accredit them to use the chiffonier amplitude added assiduously and appropriately added efficiently.”

Media contact:

LeaseWeb
Koen Stegeman
+31 (0)6 - 30491407
press.nl@leaseweb.com

About LeaseWeb
LeaseWeb (www.leaseweb.com) is an all-embracing supplier of hosting articles and casework that specializes in both Microsoft and Linux, and focuses primarily on the able market. The aggregation is a allotment of the top 30 hosting providers in the apple and provides casework such as web hosting, committed hosting, colocated hosting, VPS, streaming, and abstruse support. LeaseWeb owns a capital Cisco-powered arrangement alms a bandwidth of over 160 Gbps, which extends above 5 abstracts centers in the Amsterdam arena via the above telecom carriers. LeaseWeb is aswell present on internet exchanges in Amsterdam, Brussels, London, Frankfurt, New York, Vienna, Stockholm, Warsaw, Zurich, Prague and Madrid. Through this network, LeaseWeb enables companies all over the apple to actualize and advance an online attendance in an affordable and reliable manner. The believability of the LeaseWeb arrangement has been broadly confirmed, as apparent in a abstraction conducted by WebHostingStuff.com, in which the arrangement enjoys an uptime altitude of 99.99 percent. Founded in 1997, hosting provider LeaseWeb now manages 11,000 servers. Its barter cover Starbucks, Hyves, Telegraaf Media Groep, Royal Dutch Joh. Enschedé, PricewaterhouseCoopers, AVRO, Direct Wonen, and Univé.

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About EvoSwitch
EvoSwitch (www.evoswitch.com) is a carrier-neutral, ‘green’ abstracts centermost (CO2-neutral). Located in the Amsterdam region, it has an across of over 9,000 aboveboard meters in which businesses can cautiously axle their IT infrastructure. The abstracts centermost has a absolute accommodation of 10 Megawatts, with a advance abeyant of up to 20 Megawatts. With this ability accommodation EvoSwitch can agreement that its barter will consistently accept abundant energy. EvoSwitch has 30 employees, including engineers who proactively administer customers’ equipment. EvoSwitch operates on a absolutely climate-neutral basis. In cooperation with the Climate Neutral Group, we advance in common projects to restore the CO2 antithesis in the atmosphere (www.climateneutralgroup.com). Companies that abode their accessories at EvoSwitch can appearance that they are application a climate-neutral abstracts centermost by agreement the logos of our accomplice affairs The Green Fan (www.thegreenfan.com) on their websites.