Welcome

4
Nov
2006

Hi and welcome to the Cork Internet eXchange (CIX) blog.

Over the next few months we will be charting the progress of the development of our data centre here.

The CIX Data Centre will be Cork’s first professional data centre, something we believe is long overdue for Cork.

I hope you’ll join us on this exciting journey and see how a data centre is built.

5 Responses to “Welcome”

  1. Andrew Says:

    What connectivity is planned for this datacenter? Is all transit via Dublin?

  2. Sascha Luck Says:

    Not decided yet. We are in negotiations with various carriers on that matter.

  3. traftery Says:

    Andrew,

    thanks for stopping by and commenting.

    As Sascha said above, we are still talking with potential suppliers on this.

    But we are open to advice/suggestions from interested parties – if you were building a data centre, how would you organise the connectivity?

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    [...] Back in 2006 I was the co-founder of a Data Centre in Cork called Cork Internet eXchange. We decided, when building it out, that we would design and build it as a hyper energy-efficient data centre. At the time, I was also heavily involved in social media, so I had the crazy idea, well, if we are building out this data centre to be extremely energy-efficient, why not open source it? So we did. [...]

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    [...] Back in 2006 I was the co-founder of a Data Centre in Cork called Cork Internet eXchange. We decided, when building it out, that we would design and build it as a hyper energy-efficient data centre. At the time, I was also heavily involved in social media, so I had the crazy idea, well, if we are building out this data centre to be extremely energy-efficient, why not open source it? So we did. [...]

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