German technology and services company Bechtle AG had launched a new data center in Mutterstadt, outside Mannheim, inside a PFALZKOM facility.
Bechtle said the new facility has “significantly expanded” its existing Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) capacities and enables the scalable operation of private cloud services for its SME, large corporation, and public-sector customers. The company said the facility is up and running with the first customer environments already having been successfully migrated.
“We are seeing a growing demand for hosted private cloud environments, which will be able to operate long into the future at the Rhine-Neckar Campus data center. Our customers will benefit from a combination of highly available and stable IT systems with a focus on sustainable resource use,” said Dirk Müller-Niessner, Managing Director, Bechtle Hosting & Operations.
The new facility was developed in collaboration with a colocation provider, PFALZKOM, which operates twin data centers Rhine-Neckar I and II (DCRN I & II) in the Mutterstadt area. Bechtle has seemingly taken space in DCRN II.
Launched in 2010 and 2017, the two sister data centers are around 20 kilometers apart and offer additional capacities for colocation space totaling around 3,000 sqm. DCRN I provides two server rooms, each with 350 sqm / 300 racks of capacity; DCRN II offers 2,340 sqm across four data halls, equating to around 1,000 racks.
Founded in 1998, PFALZKOM is part of the German energy company PFALZWERKE Group. It operates three data centers around the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region and has partner data centers in the Ludwigshafen area of Mannheim and Munich (the 7,000 sqm EMC Home of Data facility).
