Dutch cloud service provider Nouvite BV has formed a partnership with NEC Enterprise Solutions aimed at constructing a network of sustainable data centers across the Netherlands.

Nouvite said it will offer its “unique” Cloud as a Service (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS) services from these data centers to organizations in the Benelux.

The first data center under the partnership will be realised at telecommunication services provider Alticom's Gerbrandy tower in IJsselstein. It will use equipment from NEC and applications from VMware, Veaam and Microsoft.

NEC’s equipment consists of modular solutions, which the company said can cater for maximum redundancy and optimized energy consumption.

The first Nouvite-NEC data center is located “at a safe altitude” in the radio tower in IJsselstein, and has a 372m-high mast that is “the tallest structure” in the Netherlands. 

Nouvite said the energy and biodiesel power supplies used to fuel the data centers will be “100% green”, and support cooling will be “needed but very limited” in the data centers because of the free air cooling concept that will be applied.

The combination of free air cooling and NEC solutions ensures an “extremely sustainable” data center (PUE <1.1). The maximum data centers will be protected by at least three security peels.

Bram van de Ven, director general of Nouvite, said NEC is “a global player” in the ICT field with “innovation and sustainability in its DNA”.

Tonko Wedda, managing director of Benelux NEC, said he was “immediately struck” by the power of Nouvite’s Cloud as a Service concept, adding the partnership is a platform for NEC to prove itself.