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Websiteracktivity.com
Blogresources.racktiv...
Twitter@racktivity
CategoryEnterprise
Phone650-361-9700
Email
Employees25
Founded1/08
DescriptionDatacenter Intelligent Power Management

Offices

Racktivity NV
Antwerpsesteenweg 19
Lochristi, 9080, BEL
HQ
2100 Seaport Blvd.
Suite 400
Redwood City, CA, 94063
USA

People

Board Director

Funding

TOTAL $9.75M
VENTURE FUNDING TOTAL $9.75M
Venture Round, 9/09
Big Bang Ventures
$1.75M
Series B, 12/10
Partech International
Big Bang Ventures
$8M

Tags

intelligent-power-distribution, pdu

Racktivity

Racktivity reduces datacenter energy consumption and maximizes uptime.

The company was founded in 2008 by a management team that has extensive experience in the datacenter and hosting industry.

Racktivity focuses on optimizing the physical infrastructure layer. Our customers save money through reduced power consumption and CO2 emissions. They also benefit from increased uptime, through our focus on disaster prevention and, if need be, substantially faster recovery. Racktivity’s Rack Controller replaces dumb power distribution units with a smart device that tracks energy use, temperature, humidity, airflow and rack security. It helps IT managers prevent and diagnose problems at the power and environmental layer.

Racktivity’s RackController device, including PCBs, schematics, firmware, case and software, was designed in-house in the company’s research labs in Ghent.

The company was founded in 2008 by Wilbert Ingels, CTO, who held senior management roles at Level 3 and Terremark. Serial entrepreneur Kristof De Spiegeleer seeded the company and is its CEO. De Spiegeleer and the Racktivity team have a proven track record in developing and bringing innovative technologies to commercial successes, including Datacenter Technologies (acquired by Symantec), Hostbasket (acquired by Telenet), Dedigate (acquired by Terremark) and Q-Layer (acquired by SUN Microsystems). The Belgian company received its first round of venture capital funding in 2009 from Big Bang Ventures.

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Sources

  1. Racktivity completes 1.2 Million euro funding round (businesscomputingworld.co.uk) [edit]
  2. TechCrunch Green Tech (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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