Savvas Bout helps organizations grow to big digital infrastructure. Savvas Bout brings over 20 years of experience designing, operating and maintaining data center infrastructure for service providers, enterprises and cloud hosters. His expertise spans network engineering, data center design and operations as well as pure bare-metal cloud infrastructure.
20+ years in infrastructureGlobal network expansionAutomation-first IaaS vision
Primary focus
Scalable, resilient distributed infrastructure
Core domains
Networking, data centers, bare-metal cloud
Approach
Long-term reliability, efficiency, and automation
Selected Experience
Founder, Netrouting
Founder, Data Facilities
Founder, Prefixx
Founder, LSIX (Netherlands initiative)
Topics Covered
Digital infrastructure architecture
Bare metal and cloud hybrid operations
Colocation and interconnection strategy
Capacity planning and infrastructure automation
Editorial Integrity
Last updated: April 2026
This profile is reviewed periodically to reflect current roles, initiatives, and published infrastructure insights.
Savvas Bout is a Founder and CEO in the digital infrastructure space with over 20 years of experience in the industry. He leads a number of businesses which have turned capacity to hardware and turned them into scalable platforms for customers. Savvas has a background in network design and build, data center development, automation and product strategy and seeks to create long-term performing infrastructure.
Founder of Netrouting, a global provider of bare metal servers and cloud hosting, advanced connection opportunities and intelligent automation. In addition he is the founder of Data Facilities, one of the largest supplier of capacity and colocation space for carrier neutral data centers. Savvas founded Prefixx, the market leader for brokerage of IPv4 and AS Numbers and recently also founded the open initiative LSIX for the Netherlands. Throughout his companies Savvas focuses on building infrastructure, that is cost-effective, efficient and predictable on a large scale.
Over 20 years of IT experience focused on designing and implementing Data Center Network Architecture, strategic hardware purchases, pricing models, capacity planning, automation, and long-term strategic platform engineering. He also served in a leadership role at ColoHouse and fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty helping clients find world-class hosting and data center solutions.
Savvas is responsible for expanding Netrouting's global footprint, developing and releasing IaaS-type infrastructure to customers using automation, and integrating Netroutings's network, compute and facilities infrastructure. On this blog, Savvas will cover topics related to building out digital infrastructure, building bare metal and cloud hybrid infrastructure, colocation and interconnection, and lessons learned running a platform in production.
