While many multinational and pan-European businesses have their co-location centres in Amsterdam, Frankfurt, London or Paris, IT managers should think about moving their datacentres to Norway or Sweden.
That’s according to analysts at the Gartner Group and there’s a number of reasons why Sweden and Norway are attractive.
Tiny Haynes, a research director at Gartner, said that power costs in Norway and Sweden have fallen by five percent since 2010. That contrasts with the EU average power costs that have risen 13 percent in the same period.
Also it’s cold in Norway and Sweden and that can give datacentres efficiencies by using outside air cooling.
Gartner believes that managers can save up to 50 percent by moving their infrastructure lock, stock and barrel.
Haynes said: “It’s likely that most organisations will find some workloads that can be moved to a lower cost location without impacting performance.”
