Fundaments: Helping Enterprises in the Netherlands Decrease Their Carbon Footprints
With
seven
high-performance
and
high-security
data
centers
located
throughout
the
Netherlands
and
full
array
of
cloud
services
and
solutions,
including
Infrastructure-as-a-Service
(IaaS)
that
enables
customers
to
harness
the
strengths
of
the
private,
pu
With
seven
high-performance
and
high-security
data
centers
located
throughout
the
Netherlands
and
full
array
of
cloud
services
and
solutions,
including
Infrastructure-as-a-Service
(IaaS)
that
enables
customers
to
harness
the
strengths
of
the
private,
public
and
hybrid
cloud
with
ease,
Fundaments
is
trusted
by
enterprises
in
numerous
industries.
The
company
is
equally
well-known
among
independent
software
vendors
for
its
cloud
platform
and
mission-critical
business
and
e-commerce
applications.
Recently,
Fundaments
became
the
first
provider
of
VMware
Cloud
Verified
solutions
and
services
to
earn
the
VMware
Sovereign
Cloud
distinction.
Now
the
company
has
joined
the
elite
rank
of
partners
to
join
VMware’s
Zero
Carbon
committed
initiative.
This
effort
is
one
that
Fundaments’
Chief
Technology
Officer
Larik-Jan
Verschuren
says
is
important
to
him
personally.
“The
changing
climate
is
clearly
visible
in
our
day-to-day
lives,”
he
says.
“We
must
make
a
collective
effort
to
get
energy
consumption
down.”
He
stresses
the
need
to
view
this
effort
not
just
as
it
relates
to
the
impact
of
global
warming
on
people
and
businesses
today,
but
on
future
generations.
For
Verschuren,
who
has
two
young
kids,
that’s
a
significant
motivator.
“I
want
them
to
have
a
promising
future,
to
enjoy
our
beautiful
world,
and
to
enjoy
the
simple
pleasure
of
skiing,”
he
says.
“We
must
set
the
stage
to
lower
emissions,
set
the
right
example
and
educate
others.
The
more
we
do
now,
the
more
future
generations
can
do
to
improve
these
kinds
of
initiatives.”
Verschuren
is
quick
to
note
that
being
environmentally
friendly
and
genuinely
dedicated
to
efforts
that
minimize
reliance
on
fossil
fuels
is
also
good
business.
Enterprises,
he
says,
increasingly
want
to
partner
with
organizations
that
make
it
easy
for
them
to
immediately
decrease
their
carbon
footprints.
It
made
good
sense
to
partner
with
VMware
in
the
effort
to
achieve
net
zero
carbon
emissions.
Not
only
is
the
Fundaments
IaaS
based
on
VMware
technologies,
but
the
company’s
wide
array
of
cloud
offerings
such
as
Backup-as-a-Service,
Disaster
Recovery-as-a-Service,
and
Security-as-a-Service
draw
on
many
VMware
innovations,
for
example
Kubernetes
clusters
based
on
VMware
Tanzu.
“Fundaments’
own
Carbon
footprint
is
in
the
datacenters,
so
we
make
sure
that
everything
we
do
within
them
is
done
in
the
most
efficient
way,”
explains
Verschuren.
“Joining
the
VMware
Zero
Carbon
Committed
Initiative
provides
a
clear
statement
about
our
commitment
to
the
environment
in
a
concrete
format.”
Not
only
has
Fundaments
committed
to
run
all
of
its
data
centers
off
of
renewable
sources
of
energy
for
a
net
Zero
Carbon
footprint
by
2030,
but
it
also
has
a
number
of
initiatives
on
tap
for
2023.
These
include
steering
all
of
its
data
centers
to
an
even
great
PUE
level,
completing
the
energy
use
labeling
of
its
services,
mapping
the
power
used
per
gigabyte
of
RAM
and
decreasing
it,
reducing
the
percentage
use
of
spinning
disks
in
the
terabytes
of
storage
it
sells,
using
only
the
most
efficient
hardware
and
creating
more
cold
and
hot
corridors
in
data
centers
to
decrease
heating
and
cooling
requirements.
Fundaments
employees
are
also
committed
to
dramatically
decreasing
the
use
of
paper
in
the
company’s
offices,
encouraging
the
use
of
electric
vehicles,
implementing
car-free
working
days,
decreasing
the
use
of
shipping
and
freight
services,
and
minimizing
corporate
travel.
Learn
more
about
Fundaments
and
its
partnership
with
VMware
here.
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