atNorth has introduced its plans to help Nokia’s cloud infrastructure with a multi megawatt deployment at its FIN02 web site in Finland. The contract spans over 12 years and contains potential extensions totaling over 10MW.
Nokia, one of many world’s main telecommunications and networking know-how firms, is headquartered in Finland and has lengthy utilized Finnish information facilities, leveraging the nation’s cool local weather and renewable vitality sources to make sure the sustainability of its workloads. In truth, the enterprise was ranked as probably the most sustainable telecoms and communications firm on this planet earlier this 12 months.
Nokia and atNorth have constructed a long-standing relationship via atNorth’s use of Nokia information heart switches that energy its HPCaaS providing, which at present runs from its information facilities in Iceland and Sweden.
Nicely versed within the evolving information heart panorama, Nokia was searching for a knowledge heart associate that would accommodate its high-density infrastructure wants with out compromising its environmental credentials. The enterprise required capability appropriate for high-density workloads of greater than 130kw per rack, accessible at pace and with the potential for future scalability.
Positioned in Espoo, Larger Helsinki, atNorth’s latest information heart, FIN02, runs on renewable vitality and options sturdy energy and liquid cooling capabilities. Constructed for scalability, its modular design helps high-performance workloads. A collaboration with Kesko Company permits waste warmth recycling to warmth a close-by retailer, additional decreasing its carbon footprint.
“atNorth was in a position to meet our complicated technical necessities at pace with out compromising on our sustainability objectives,” stated Marika Mentula, Vice President for Community Infrastructure North Europe at Nokia. By serving to help our cloud infrastructure at atNorth’s FIN02 information heart, we will ship high-performance infrastructure that helps our most demanding functions.”
“As the info heart business continues to develop at document pace, it’s clear that companies are more and more in search of the complete bundle—sustainable, safe, infrastructure that may scale quickly,” stated Eyjólfur Magnús Kristinsson, CEO of atNorth. “Our longstanding partnership with Nokia—rooted within the {hardware} calls for of our HPCaaS providing and constructed on a shared dedication to sustainability—is a testomony to that. It provides to a rising record of worldwide acknowledged firms that belief atNorth with their mission-critical information and depend on us to ship best-in-class service.”
