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During the past Datacenter Dynamics, I had the opportunity to participate in a round table on the theme: Madrid, new European data center hub? Challenges and opportunities. Obviously in a round table shared with five more people, we didn’t have time to develop some topics. In one of my speeches I said: “Madrid is in… Continue reading THE OPPORTUNITY OF SPAIN THANKS TO ITS FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS

I encourage myself to capture these reflections, after being spurred by my friend José Antonio Jaquete to be more prolific and share more with the whole sector, those things that are happening and I think will happen in our beloved sector of the Data Center. DCD Madrid is for me perhaps the most important day… Continue reading REFLECTIONS THE DAY AFTER DCD MADRID 2019

As anticipated by its management team during 2017, the company has broken all its records in 2018, carrying out projects for the Data Center sector that add up to an IT power of 45 MW. This figure has never been reached by any Spanish engineering company in a single fiscal year and places Quark among… Continue reading QUARK CLOSES 2018 AS THE BEST YEAR IN THE COMPANY’S HISTORY

Datacenter Dynamics has told me that, as President of the DCD Awards Latam 2018 jury, I must prepare a short speech to welcome the attendees to the ceremony and give them my point of view of the momentum of the sector. In these, I was documenting myself, when I came across a document generated at… Continue reading THE FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: THE GREATEST ACT IN THE HISTORY OF HUMANITY

Those who know me better on a personal level know that I love to read books on personal development applicable to professional life. The first book I read of this kind years ago was “Who moved my cheese?” by Spencer Johnson, which through a story, where mice are the protagonists, teaches us the importance of… Continue reading WHO MOVED MY CHEESE?….IN THE DATA CENTER SECTOR

BroadGroup, the information media technology and professional services company, today announced the winners of the prestigious 11th Datacloud Awards.  Recognised as the annual bellwether for the data centre and cloud industry, the awards recognise the leading individuals and companies shaping the global data economy and honour innovation, service excellence and diversity. A precursor to the Datacloud… Continue reading ALTICE DATA CENTER PORTUGAL DESIGNED BY QUARK AWARDED AT THE DATACLOUD EUROPE AWARDS 2018

Last May 23th, during the DCD Madrid celebration, Raquel Figueruelo, Interxion Marketing Director and Ricardo Abad, Quark Managing Director, gave us their vision about the situation of the Data Center sector in Madrid, the impact of the Cloud business on it and introduced as Case Study the new Interxion MAD3 center, the first Data Center… Continue reading INTERXION AND QUARK INTRODUCE MAD3 AT DCD MADRID

I have been saying publicly for a few months that it is possible that 2018 will be the best year in history for the Data Centers market in Spain and the truth is that I always see people who receive this message, faces of disbelief and skepticism. Because of the workload that Quark has, I… Continue reading Data Center Market in Spain 2018

In the ceremony held at the Secretary of State for the Information Society and Digital Agenda and inaugurated by Secretary of State Jose Maria Lassalle Ruiz, Ricardo Abad, Managing Director of Quark, was awarded as Data Center Executive of the year 2017 in recognition of the work and involvement during his career in the implementation… Continue reading RICARDO ABAD AWARDED AS DATA CENTER EXECUTIVE OF THE YEAR 2017 IN THE enerTIC AWARDS.

The Data Center located in Santana de Parnaiba, São Paulo, wins the DCD Award LATAM 2017 in the category “Best Data Center of Service Provider”. The building of more than 20,000 sqm built and more than 8,000 sqm of IT Room can accommodate more than 2,800 racks. It has in its facilities a substation of… Continue reading EQUINIX IBX + SP3 DESIGNED BY QUARK WINS THE DCD AWARD LATAM 2017