The Nuremberg data center market place Dcorbis at the start line

Dcorbis now offers a marketplace for products and services in the data center market from Nuremberg. The provider wants to be neutral and offer easy market access for providers. There are: search filters, price and performance comparisons and trees.

The accommodation of IT in external data centers is one of the fast growing markets alongside the cloud market. In times of 5G, Industry 4.0, IoT, Edge and Fog computing, the geographical proximity of the data center to the location of the data creation plays an increasingly significant role.

Look for closeness

The "Co-Location Finder" is part of Dcorbis ' offer, behind which the personally liable partner Datacenter Orbis Ltd., based in Dublin, is based. With this, seekers should be able to find suitable offers from providers, for example with regard to location, certification, connection, security, redundancy, equipment and energy efficiency ( PUE ).

Providers, in turn, are offered the option of managing available areas or racks via the platform, combining additional service options with co-location space, or also offering data connectivity in a bundle.

On the platform website, for example, a quote from Holger Nickel, Managing Director of software manufacturer Aixpertsoft GmbH, advertises: "Data center services and network services are no longer 'just an' economic factor", but rather, as the 'basic infrastructure of digitization', will determine our social change in the future, ecologically and economically. It is therefore high time that we got a neutral platform with Dcorbis, which enables all actors more transparency, speed and progress. "

Generate discounts

Another idea that can be realized via the platform is based on the insight that many products and services are required in a data center again and again and leads to the acceleration and simplification of the purchasing and sales process. Users can save their favorite partners, suppliers, products and services here and reorder articles or services in just a few steps. In return, the stored data allow providers to give their customers individual terms that are taken into account with every order.

The green conscience

In the course of the realization that data centers are responsible for a growing share of the likewise increasing CO ₂ emissions - and not the operation of data centers, but also in the manufacture of products and components or the provision of services that are necessary for the operation - The platform offers all providers the option of voluntarily compensating for all or part of their CO ₂ emissions - for every product, service or component in the marketplace.

Planting trees via a data center transaction: This is what it looks like in the marketplace. (Image: Dcorbis)

The resulting income is passed on by Dcorbis 1: 1 to global reforestation programs. Users can see what level of compensation the provider provides with its performance and how much compensation the provider has already implemented with the platform provider. The company's total profile shows the total number of trees previously planted by a provider.

The company profile on the website of the platform provider states: "In this way, we hope to motivate a large number of providers to offer appropriate compensation for their services and thus a signimake a fictional and sustainable contribution to climate protection. Basically, Dcorbis plants a tree from its own funds for each transaction , regardless of the commitment of the provider. ”

And otherwise?

The user interface and the service descriptions are available in German and English. “In the medium term, the languages French, Italian and Spanish will be added.

The start date is in 46 days. There is early bird access for providers until December 31 of this year.