The new data centre service will benefit Codemasters Online’s customers as well as boost its green credentials. Using EvoSwitch’s energy-efficient data centre, which is powered by green energy, will help Codemasters reduce energy consumption improving the company’s carbon footprint. EvoSwitch also boasts 99.99 percent uptime, which is the most important aspect of the ultimate online gaming experience, alongside speed.

EvoSwitch was part of an initial trial period which resulted in the games developer deciding to use the data centre to host its servers for European online operations. “EvoSwitch met all the criteria required to deliver resilient and efficient services to our Online Environment, ensuring our customer reap the benefit of our decision”, said Stephen Brown, MMO technical services manager at Codemasters. “Added value to Codemasters is also the ability of delivering quality services at a lower cost to the environment. EvoSwitch data centre design using green energy, consumes up to 50 percent less energy than its closest competitors without compromising the service, which was appealing.”

Eric Boonstra, managing director of EvoSwitch, commented: “We are proud to have been selected by Codemasters and look forward to delivering technically improved and more environmentally sound data centre services to their customers. Our aim is to provide a robust IT environment for companies who wish to reduce their carbon footprint and offer round-the-clock support to ensure a continuously available service to their customers.”

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About EvoSwitch

Established in 2006, EvoSwitch is a next generation, climate neutral data centre in the Amsterdam region as a subsidiary of OCOM BV. It provides housing space and IT infrastructure solutions for organisations, peering and connectivity and in-house cabling. Customers can make use of single racks to full cabinets, custom cages and private rooms. EvoSwitch also offers managed services with 24/7 customer support from engineers and technicians.

EvoSwitch delivers the energy-efficient “green” framework within which clients can design their own green data infrastructures. The data centre is 50% - 80% (50% in existing datahalls and 80% in the new phase) more energy-efficient than traditional data centres which means customers can make substantial savings. It uses 100% green power and invests in CO2-compensation projects worldwide in collaboration with the Climate Neutral Group.

EvoSwitch offers housing solutions to all industries including accounting, banking and financial services, engineering, health care, manufacturing, internet/hosting and technology. Customers include Wikimedia, Codemasters and Logica.

Customers of EvoSwitch can make use of the Green Fan logo, a partnership of leading IT companies committed to environmentally friendly outcomes. This allows companies to demonstrate their facilities are housed utilising the most environmentally sustainable environmental methods.
For further information visit www.evoswitch.com

About Codemasters

Codemasters, the award winning games developer and publisher, has a 24-year heritage and annual revenues in excess of US$ 150 Million. The company’s dominant brands include Colin McRae DiRT, Race Driver GRID, Cricket and Operation Flashpoint; the company retains the exclusive worldwide video game rights to FORMULA ONE.

Codemasters operates three UK development studios – one at its Warwickshire HQ with further sites at Guildford and Birmingham. An additional art studio is based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

In 2009 Codemasters won the coveted Grand Prix Award at the 2009 Develop Industry Excellence Awards, an award bestowed on the company felt by Develop to have contributed the most to the games medium in recent times.

Across the group, Codemasters employs over 450 people. In March 2010, Reliance Big Entertainment Ltd. (RBEL), a part of India’s Reliance ADA group, acquired a 50 per cent shareholding in the company, alongside existing investor, Balderton Capital, the leading European venture capital firm that first invested in Codemasters in 2005.
For more information on Codemasters’ product portfolio, please visit www.codemasters.com

For further information contact:
Sophie Mackenzie / Denise Fraser
Firefly Communications
+44 (0)207 025 8204
evoswitch@fireflycomms.com