Datasource September 2017

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WORLD World’s Top 10 Largest Data Centres Combined, the current area of these ten giants amounts to 18.8 million sqf, however, this is set to grow to more than 30 million sqf in the near future.

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Range International Information Hub – Langfang, China –> 6.3 million sqf

2. Switch SuperNAP – Las Vegas, US –> 2.2 million sqf (expandable

to 2.4 million sqf)

Just like many global cities around the world that seek to build the tallest skyscraper to show economic power and a the ability to innovate, in the data centre space sometimes the bigger the better and the world’s mega facilities are becoming ever bigger.

3. Switch Pyramid – Grand Rapids, US –> 1.8 million sqf (under construction)

However, the ranking is in constant change and as Norway readies for the construction of what will be one of the biggest sites on the planet at 6.46 million sqf, which sites are today in the top spot for the largest data centre?

5. DFT Data Center – Ashburn, US -> 1.6 million sqf

Data Economy lists today’s largest data centres by area.

4. Microsoft Iowa – West Des Moines, US –> 1.7 million sqf (under construction) 6. Switch Citadel – Reno, US –> 1.3 million sqf (expandable to

7.2 million sqf) 7. Utah Data Center – Bluffdale, US -> 1+ million sqf 8. Digital Realty Lakeside Technology – Chicago, US ->

1.1 million sqf 9. QTS Metro Data Center – Atlanta, US –> 990,000 sqf 10. Tulip Data Centre – Bangalore,, India –> 900,000 sqf

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‘Hopeless Data Centre Industry’ Urged To Share Information Before Killing Outages Hit Hard Independent confidential reporting programme of data centre failures and significant incidents globally launches to address failure miscommunication.

The reporting process consists of four main processes, each with containing two stages.

The data centre industry has been urged to start reporting incidents information, in a movement that has gained new strength in the wake of British Airways’ data centre PR-fiasco that brought the airliner to a standstill in May this year.

The call has been made by the UK Data Centre Interest Group which has now launched the Data Center Incident Reporting Network (DCIRN), an independent confidential reporting programme of data centre failures and significant incidents globally.

The last part of the process is the “Final Review”. Here, the secretariat reviews the Draft Bulletin for anomalies. Lastly, the secretariat publishes the Bulleting to DCiRN members. Incident Bulletins will be available every three months.

During the launch of the programme in London attended by Data Economy, Ansett accused the industry of being “profoundly hopeless” when it comes to sharing information, something that most of the times is not the industry’s fault as he explained. “We are bounded by regulation,” he said.

Simon Allen, Membership Secretary at theUK Data Centre Interest Group, told Data Economy: “Learning from mistakes is an inherent and essential human ability – denying the data centre industry this single, most important development channel, is simply absurd.

DCIRN will fix this.

“It is only a matter of time for governments to step in. We are in a trajectory that our dependence on technology is becoming so profound and important that it is a matter of time until it starts killing people.

“The aviation industry is highly regulated because when they fail they have a heavy impact on society. The government steeped in, and said ‘you will share data’. “[The DCIRN] is not a name and shame system; we will not point at company X and say they did this. If this works, this probably the most important thing this industry has ever done.”

The group will address three main questions around data centre failures: why did a facility fail and what can the industry learn and how can it prevent from happening again.

Ansett said: “We will start off with just the power cooling side, because we do not know if [the DCIRN] will work. If it works, we will move to the other areas [including servers and storage, networking and applications].”

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The second stage corresponds to “Dis-Identification”, where the secretariat will review the report for anomalies and remove any information that could lead to the identification of the those submitting the report. The dis-identified report is then sent to the Advisory Council.

Thirdly, a technical analysis is carried out by the council, which will determine if the report is suitable. If approved, the Advisory Council is in charge of preparing a Draft Incident Bulletin.

“This is about making data centres safer and more reliable by sharing knowledge,” said Ed Ansett, chairman of i3 Solutions and director at the DCIRN.

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First, a “2 stage encrypted” reporting is done to the DCIRN, which in stage one includes the sending of the report to the group’s secretariat and then on to the second stage, where it get authenticated by the secretariat.

“DCIRN is modelled on an initiative called CHIRP set up many yeas ago in the aviation industry to share information on incidents (and near misses) in that industry.

“The elephant in the room is NDAs – folk think they cannot share information because it will infringe the NDA they signed. This is a genuine issue. Eversheds Sutherland and other prominent and respected legal authorities working in the data centre industry have given their opinion – it’s a tricky subject but “If the information is anonymous and the underlying parties / data centre in question truly cannot be identified (and without a risk that a third party could “put 2 and 2 together” and work out which data centre or parties it concerns), this would not have the necessary quality of confidence to be “Confidential Information” under the terms of a typical NDA”. ”Looking ahead, the DCIRN is expected to be converted into a charitable trust, the same path the CHIRP took, in the next year or so, Allen said.

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Law Firm Forms Data Centre, Cloud Army Across North America, Europe And Asia New team of lawyers to work on data privacy and security, intellectual property, licensing, and IT outsourcing.

The team’s leader, Jim Grice, partner in the Kansas City office, said: “We are excited to make available to our clients a team of lawyers with such diverse experience within the data centre and cloud infrastructure field.

Global law firm Bryan Cave has set a data centre and cloud infrastructure team amid the exponential growth in the data centre and cloud industries which is being followed by a series of legal hardships as data privacy and other regulations are rapidly changing.

“Our team is composed of nearly 40 lawyers from a variety of transactional, litigation and regulatory practice backgrounds who collectively can offer the full spectrum of legal services and advice that our clients have come to expect and depend on.

Bryan Cave, which has more than 900 lawyers in 26 offices in North America, Europe and Asia, said the new team will work within its Real Estate Client Service Group.

The multidisciplinary team will draw from diverse practice areas such as data privacy and security, intellectual property, licensing, and IT outsourcing.

“We recognise that the complexity and the stakes of this industry have continued to grow, and so too has the need for sophisticated counsel who have a true understanding of the issues that matter to our clients, the experience necessary to help them achieve their goals, and a track record of delivering results on the matters that mean the most to them.”

In addition, it will also represent clients across the full range of unique projects that fall within the data centre and cloud infrastructure realm.

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Equinix And SAP Unite To Bring The Power Of Cloud To Enterprises Worldwide

Powering Data Centres Will Be Worth Nearly $11bn

Colocation giant eyes growing demand for enterprise hybrid architectures.

Equinix and SAP have entered into a collaboration which will see the data centre provider offer direct connectivity to the SAP’s suite of cloud services as enterprises survival depends ever more on their diversified cloud architecture.

Customers at some of Equinix’s major global hubs are to get access to services including flagship products such as SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud and SAP Cloud Platform.

The regions included at launch are Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Los Angeles, New York, Silicon Valley, Sydney, Toronto and Washington, D.C. International Business Exchange (IBX) data centres elsewhere are set to be added later this year.

The companies believe that through this connectivity, enterprise customers will be able to benefit from high-performance and secure access to SAP cloud services as part of a hybrid or multicloud strategy.

The addition of SAP’s cloud suite to the Equinix IBX data centres comes as enterprise adoption of cloud continues to accelerate and the usage of multi-cloud architectures continues to rise.

According to IDC’s CloudView Survey released in April 2017, 85% of the more than 6,000 respondents are either currently using a multi-cloud strategy or plan to do so in the near-term.

Christoph Boehm senior vice president and head of Cloud Delivery Services, SAP, said: “SAP joined the Equinix Cloud Exchange platform to address customer requirements for enterprise hybrid architecture in an environment that lends itself to the very highest levels of performance and reliability.

“With SAP’s traditional base of more than 300,000 software customers seeking ways to take the next step in a cloudenabled world, SAP has established efficient capabilities to deliver on those requirements.”

Charles Meyers, president of strategy, services and innovation, Equinix, said: “With more than 130 million cloud subscribers, SAP has a strong foothold in the enterprise market, and by providing these customers and more with dedicated connectivity to their SAP software environments simply, securely and costeffectively from Equinix Cloud Exchange, we help customers connect and build a hybrid cloud solution that works for them.”

APAC is set to take the podium with the boom of energy-hungry sites making it the fastest growing region in the world.

Data centres account today for 3% of the world’s electricity usage which hides a multi-billion Dollar industry delivering the necessary technology to keep lights on.

According to analysts, the global data centre power market value is expected to top $10.77bn by 2025, a 6% compound annual growth rate (CAGR).

That is according to Grand View Research which has also found that the global data centre power market is majorly driven by the shift of various end-users towards hyper-scale and colocation data centres.

“The increase of such data centre facilities is anticipated to result in an increasing demand for data centre power equipment in the coming years,” the company said.

Regionally, North America, which counts with some of the largest data centres in the world, accounts today to one of the largest shares of the market at 35%.

However the region is predicted to dominate the market over the forecast period, Asia Pacific is projected to be the highest growing region owing to the increasing number of colocation data centres in developing countries such as India and China.

The UPS product segment dominated the global data centre power market in 2016. Additionally, most data centres use the smart UPS system, battery monitoring devices, and intelligent power distribution systems in a bid to reduce the PUE ratio.

The increasing penetration of these new devices is further expected to boost the demand for UPS over the forecast period.

Analysts added that since the energy prices are rising, the need to reduce PUE ratios is also growing.

“Data centre designers are currently adopting advanced power distribution and management solutions to attain energy efficiency at lesser PUE ratios.

“This goal of reducing the PUE ratio is further expected to spur the demand for advanced and intelligent data centre power products over the forecast period.”

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World’s Largest Data Centre Operators Profit On Q2 $1.6bn Revenues

Google Signals End Of One Cloud Fits All With World’s First Tiered Cloud Network Global private fiber network with over 100 points of presence is put to work to help customers deliver their digital projects while saving money.

Google has plans to shake-up the public cloud market with the introduction of the world’s first tiered cloud network.

The company has unveiled Network Service Tiers Alpha for the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), a tiers scheme in which users can use its cloud network for cheaper prices if they are willing to operate with slightly less network performance and availability in some cases.

For the launch, the company has created two different tiers: a Premium and a Standard.

The Premium Tier delivers traffic over Google’s global private fiber network with over 100 points of presence (POPs), which the provider claims to be the largest of any public cloud provider.

Acquisitions, mergers and strong market uptake drive the business for some of the world’s biggest players.

The world’s largest data centre services providers Equinix and Digital Realty have reported combined revenues of more than $1.63bn in Q2 2017.

Equinix represents the largest part of the sum at $1,066m, with revenues jumping 12% from Q1 this year and 18% when compared to the same quarter in 2016.

The company has had an operating income of $185m, representing an increase of 11% over the previous quarter. Net income from continuing operations toped $46m.

Steve Smith, President and CEO, Equinix, said: “Q2 was another strong quarter for Equinix, surpassing the milestone of $1bn in quarterly revenues for the first time in the company’s history.

“A key highlight in the quarter was the completion of the acquisition of 29 facilities from the Verizon’s Americas data centre portfolio, strengthening our global market leadership and providing additional capacity to meet customer demand.

However, the true market shaker is the Standard Tier, which delivers network connectivity at a lower price than the Premium Tier by delivering outbound traffic from GCP to the internet over transit (ISP) networks instead of Google’s network.

“Similarly, we deliver your inbound traffic, from end user to GCP, on Google’s network only within the region where your GCP destination resides,” Prajakta Joshi, Product Manager, Cloud Networking, said in a company blog post.

“If your user traffic originates from a different region, their traffic will first travel over transit (ISP) network(s) until it reaches the region of the GCP destination.”

However, the lower cost also means that users will experience a lower network performance and availability when compared to the Premium Tier.

Urs Hölzle, SVP Technical Infrastructure, Google, said: “Over the last 18 years, we built the world’s largest network, which by some accounts delivers 25-30% of all internet traffic.

“You enjoy the same infrastructure with Premium Tier. But for some use cases, you may prefer a cheaper, lower-performance alternative. With Network Service Tiers, you can choose the network that’s right for you, for each application.”

“As the shift to digital impacts businesses across all segments, private, secure and distributed interconnection continues to grow as a core design principle of IT, resulting in key new customer wins, and healthy and growing market share for Equinix.”

As for Digital Realty, the provider has reported Q2 2017 revenues of $566m, a 3% increase from the previous quarter and a 10% increase from the same quarter last year. The company delivered a net income of $80m.

Digital Realty’s Chief Executive Officer A. William Stein, said: “During the second quarter of 2017, we signed total bookings representing $34 million of annualized GAAP rental revenue, including an $8 million contribution from interconnection.

“We further strengthened the balance sheet through opportunistic financings, and we reached an agreement to merge with DuPont Fabros, setting the stage for continued future value creation.”

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EMEA European Colocation Data Centres Set For Record 20% Growth In 2017 London, Paris, Frankfurt and Amsterdam have now a combined colocation supply capacity surpassing the 1000MW. The Big 4 European data centre hubs of London, Paris, Frankfurt and Amsterdam are expected to deliver their biggest supply growth in history with nearly 20% of all supply coming online this year alone.

According to CBRE’s “Europe Data Centres, Q2 2017” market report, the first half of 2017 delivered a combined supply growth of 74MW, with a further 120MW of supply expected to be brought online by the end of 2017.

“This unprecedented level of new supply in driven by enormous confidence in European take-up, exemplified by a combined 31MW of transactions across the four key markets during Q2,” researchers said.

When split, the 1,032 MW correspond to 516MW of retail let power, 349MW for wholesale let and 167MW of available power (102MW in wholesale centres and 65MW in retail providers).

For the period between July and December 2017, CBRE predicts the market will see 57MW more supply than take-up, pushing the total vacant supply to 223MW, pushing vacancy rates to 19.7%, from 14.9% at the beginning of the year.

In Q2, London registered 33MW of take-up, which brings its share of YTD take-up across the four markets to 57%.

Amsterdam sold 10MW of power in Q2, while Frankfurt and Paris again suffered from the cyclical nature of current demand, researchers notes, “but CBRE expects that both markets will pick up in the next year”.

CBRE defines take-up as the data centre space sold at retail price and wholesale colocation facilities.

Mitul Patel, Head of EMEA Data Centre Research, EMEA at CBR, said: “Confidence in the European colocation sector is higher than ever and Q2 delivered another blockbuster performance. The cloud companies that are driving recent growth in Europe show no signs of decelerating in their procurement of colocation space and developers are responding in-kind with an unprecedented level of build activity.

Based on Q2 figures alone, colocation supply has increased by 3.6% with power availability also going up by 4.5% and colocation take-up 16.9%.

“The continued increase in our use of IT and reliance on the digital world, and thus the increased need for processing power, has led to record-breaking levels of new supply and take-up since 2016.

For the first time, London, Paris, Frankfurt and Amsterdam have also reached a combined supply power of 1,032 MW, with the addition of 36MW in Q2 mostly driven by Digital Realty’s new 12MW Amsterdam facility and Gyron’s 10MW expansion of its London footprint.

“In context, in the six quarters prior to 2016 we saw 90MW of new supply and 91MW of take-up. In the six quarters since, we have seen 204MW of new supply and 212MW of new take-up.”

“This brings total take-up in H1 2017 to 58MW, “a new record for the first-half of any year”, with 31MW delivered in Q2. The market is expected to close the year with 120MW of take-up.

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‘UK Cloud Services Are Strong And Ready To Compete With The World’s Best Tech Economies’, Cloudreach CEO Says As Company Makes First Acquisition Company sets out “substantial investment plans” for new software business unit to develop an independent partner ecosystem, increase partner resources, and accelerate product development.

Building on that, the company said it has “substantial investment plans” for the new software business unit to develop an independent Cloudamize partner ecosystem, increase partner resources, and accelerate product development.

Cloudamize’s customer include companies such as BP, Volkswagen Financial Services and Hearst.

London-based cloud services company Cloudreach has made its first acquisition by investing in a majority stake of Philadelphiabased cloud computing analytics and migration automation Cloudamize.

The company has not disclosed financial details, however it said the combined entity has a “major presence” in North America and the UK as well as operations in six other countries.

The acquisition has taken place months into negotiations between the UK and the European Union (EU) which will lead to the UK’s departure from the EU. Recent reports suggest that Brexit, as the process is known for, has had an impact on decision making in nine out of ten companies based in the UK. However, speaking to Data Economy, Cloudreach CEO Pontus Noren defended that his company’s deal is proof that UK businesses are still “strong and ready” to take a leading position on the global stage.

He said: “With so much uncertainty for businesses hovering around Brexit, this deal helps prove that UK tech, especially around cloud services, is still strong and ready to compete with the world’s best tech economies.

Noren said: “Combining Cloudamize’s industry leading cloud analytics and migration automation with Cloudreach’s expertise will make it easier for our customers to adopt cloud quickly, efficiently, and at scale.

“Ultimately it is all about enabling enterprises to innovate using the power provided by hyperscale cloud platforms either through Cloudreach’s services or via our growing independent partner ecosystem.”

Khushboo Shah, Cloudamize founder and chairman, said: “When we first launched Cloudamize, we saw an opportunity to automate the tedious and manual process of discovering applications and infrastructure, building migration plans, and determining best possible cloud configurations for optimal performance.

“I am thrilled to combine efforts with Cloudreach as it is time we move the market beyond the brute-force manpower-intensive processes of the past and help our customers focus instead on maximizing the value of their cloud deployments.”

“The technology industry is borderless and will continue to thrive amidst geo-political divisions.”

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Interxion To Invest €211m In New Data Centres Across Europe Three markets are set for expansion as cloud and connectivity demand booms across Southern and Central Europe.

Colocation services operator Interxion has set out plans worth €211m to build 123,000 sqf of new data centre space in Europe answering strong market demand.

Firstly, the company will erect buildings in Frankfurt and Marseille, two hubs which have over the last few years grown as an important financial centre and inter-continental interconnection spots, respectively.

The Frankfurt data centre, FRA13, will amount to 4,800 sqm of technical space, and will be built in two phases with a power capacity of up to 10MW.

The capital expenditure associated with MRS2 is expected to be approximately €76m.

Ruberg said: “Since Interxion entered the market in 2014, Marseille has experienced significant growth and evolved into a crucial regional connectivity hub, with the number of connectivity providers resident in our data centre more than doubling in that time.

“The globally strategic location of the city, combined with the strong communities of interest that are forming in our data centre, is attracting new cloud and content providers to Marseille. We are adding capacity to meet that strong demand.”

Lastly, Interxion has unveiled plans to expand its presence in Vienna, where connectivity into markets across Central and Eastern Europe are proving to be in strong demand, as reported by Data Economy earlier this Summer.

The first phase of FRA13, is expected to provide approximately 2,300 sqm, and is planned to open in 4Q 2018. The second phase, which is expected to provide approximately 2,500 sqm, is scheduled to open in 1Q 2019. The capital expenditure associated with FRA13 is expected to be approximately €90m.

The operator will add another two phases (“VIE2.7” and “VIE2.8”) together with upgraded power for its VIE2 data centre.

David Ruberg, Interxion’s CEO, said: “Together with FRA11 and FRA12, which are already under construction, we are expanding our Frankfurt campus by over 10,000 sqm or 50% in the next seven quarters.

“Interxion’s Frankfurt campus is one of the largest internet hubs in Europe. Demand for our services in Frankfurt continues to outpace supply, and we are expanding our campus to meet our customers’ growing needs.”

Elsewhere in France, the company’s Marseille data centre is also posed for the addition of a new facility, MRS2, with a total capacity of 4,300 sqm and 7MW of power, all built in two phases as well.

When completed, these phases will add approximately 2,300 sqm and approximately 6 MW of customer power to VIE2. The initial 300 sqm is expected to become available in 4Q 2017, with another 700 sqm becoming available in 2Q 2018 and another 600 sqm becoming available in 3Q 2018.

The capital expenditure associated with this further expansion of VIE2 is expected to be approximately €45m.

Ruberg said: “Interxion has experienced strong growth in Vienna since 2014, more than doubling our equipped capacity, driven by the expansion of global cloud platforms that are leveraging our densely connected network community to efficiently access key markets from this strategic location.”

The first phase will add approximately 900 sqm and is scheduled to open in 1Q 2018, and the second phase will add approximately 1,800 sqm and is scheduled to open in 3Q 2018.

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Telehouse Multi-Cloud Connectivity Exchange Now Includes Two Of The World’s Largest Cloud Providers

OVH Grows Cloud Business In Europe And Expands In The US Move comes days after the company opened its fifth facility in Europe with the addition of one site in London.

French cloud services provider OVH has carried out a series of portfolio and company expansions in Europe and the US. In Europe, the company has launched a suite of cloud services from its Polish data centre in Warsaw based on OpenStack solutions.

The Warsaw data centre was officially announced in October 2016, by the company’s CTO Octave Kabla during OVH’s annual summit held in Paris.

Robert Paszkiewicz, director of sales at the Polish branch of OVH, said: “Many customers are interested in storing data in the country – for example, due to the processing of personal data or the reduced latency between the data centre and its users.

Enterprise demand for more cloud connectivity and ease in moving applications continues to drive giants’ expansion of cloud architectures.

Data centre operator Telehouse has expanded the portfolio of cloud services providers involved it its recently launched Cloud Link exchange.

The company has added the availability of Amazon Web Services (AWS) which joins Microsoft and its Azure Express Route suite.

The Cloud Link exchange was launched in March 2017 and built to allow customers to link to multiple cloud service providers through private connections and simplify their overall hybrid cloud infrastructure. The service is currently available to customers sitting in Telehouse’s London Docklands campus.

The now added AWS connectivity includes the cloud giant’s Direct Connect solution which allows customers to establish a dedicated network connection from your premises to AWS. It provides access to the full suite of Amazon cloud computing services including Simple Storage Service (S3), Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2), Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) and Relational Database Service (RDS).

“Now they can benefit from the flexibility offered by the cloud and easily extend their business from Poland to other countries or continents with OVH data centres. This, in turn, allows easy access to new user groups and customers.”

Elsewhere, the operator’s US business arm, OVH US, has expanded its presence in Reston, Virginia.

OVH US is dual-headquartered in Vint Hill, the site of the company’s first US-based data centre, and Reston.

The unit has added 20,000 sqf of office space in Reston which will be used to accommodate the US team and future members of staff.

Since its launch in March this year, the company has created approximately 30 local jobs, with more than 70 additional places estimated in the next 12 months.

Russell P. Reeder, President and CEO of OVH US, said: “We have grown our team to include some of the brightest minds in the cloud infrastructure industry.

“There is a reason that Northern Virginia is deemed the Silicon Valley of the East. There is an excellent source of talent here and we look forward to continued growth as we disrupt the cloud market through a combination of proven leadership and true technology differentiation.”

Through Telehouse’s Cloud Link, Direct Connect can be accessed via a dedicated 1 Gbps or 10 Gbps connections.

Telehouse also offers connectivity to AWS from its Paris Voltaire data centre, which the company claims to be a first in the French Capital.

Ken Sakai, Managing Director of Telehouse Europe, who took to the office in April this year, said: “Telehouse continues to meet the demands of its enterprise customers by offering services that deliver speed to market, flexibility and scalability through its extensive network of service providers located at its Docklands campus.

“Providing secure and private access to the leading cloud service provider Amazon Web Services through Telehouse Cloud Link, further extends the choice and ease with which our customers can manage their hybrid IT solutions with Telehouse.”

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Marseille Data Centre Now Bridge Between Europe And 1,500 Indian Cities More than 9,000 enterprises in the Indian subcontinent are expected to benefit from a new point of presence on European soil.

“The large and growing community of network and content providers available to partner with in Marseille accelerates our ability to cater to the burgeoning demands of our clients.”

Mike Hollands, Director of Market Development and Strategy at Interxion, said: “Sify will provide our customers with effective solutions to efficiently handle the large increase in content that is being exchanged between Europe and India.

Telecommunications and data centre services provider Sify Technologies has opened a point of presence (PoP) at Interxion’s Marseille data centre in a bid to expand its business reach in Europe and Asia.

“Sify’s connectivity to 1500 cities and 45 data centres in India over a common data telecom infrastructure provides huge value to the community of interest present in our Marseille facility.”

The company operates telecom data network infrastructure that reaches more than 1,400 cities and towns in India which connects 43 data centres across India, including Sify’s six Tier-3 facilities across the cities of Chennai, Mumbai, Delhi and Bengaluru.

The PoP at the MRS1 data centre will now enhance Sify’s ability to provide international services to its more than 9,000 enterprise customers on the Indian sub-continent.

In addition, Sify can now enable interconnections for wholesale partners wanting to reach India from Marseille, which acts as an European gateway to Asia, the Middle East and Africa.

Mark Ryder, Managing Director, Europe at Sify, said: “With four submarine cable systems from India landing directly in Marseille, it was the logical location for us to expand our network presence.

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Norway Lands ‘World’s Largest’ Data Centre At 1,000 MW, 6.5 Million Sq Ft Site expected to create up 3,000 jobs and support up to 15,000 more.

A giant data centre, which will be the “world’s largest”, is making its way to Ballangen, a Norwegian municipality of just over 2,600 inhabitants in the Nordic region.

Kolos’s specifications reveal that the data centre will operate at a 60% reduction in energy costs, “making it the most competitive data centre in the world,” the company claims.

The site will be cooled down using natural cooling based on the region’s cool climate and the development’s proximity to water.

The project is being developed by Kolos and the data centre will be known as Kolos. Kolos, the group, is a Norwegian and American company with offices in Norway, the US and Europe.

Developers have also labelled the future data centre as a “fortress for data” as the site will be surrounded by water and hills, providing a natural moat to protect against any physical risks.

The data centre is projected to initially draw in 70MW of power, and at full build will measure as much as 6.46 million sqf and have the ability to process 1,000 MW.

“Kolos will deploy the latest technology in data center security, employing the most innovative engineers and technology experts, who will constantly monitor and manage new cyber-security risks,” the company has said.

Kolos has already conducted a series A capital funding round, partnered with HDR, and engineering and design company, and acquired the land to build the data centre.

Building on from previous projects in the Nordic region, the data centre in Ballangen is being backed by a up to five local mayors.

Kolos founder and co-CEO Håvard Lillebo, said: “The plan is to build a large, cost-effective data centre that has access to cheap green energy.”

Projectors estimate the new Kolos centre will directly create 2,000 to 3,000 jobs and support 10,000 to 15,000 jobs as a result of people moving to Ballangen.

Lillebo shares the board with San Francisco-based Mark Robinson, also founder and co-CEO of Kolos and VP of product management and business development for Innovation Norway & Executive in Residence.

Knut Einar Hanssen, Counsel Representative for Ballangen, said: “The data centre could lead to many new jobs and have a great effect on the city of Ballangen and many positive changes for the local community. We must plan in advance.”

New York-based Daniel Hodges, executive, sales, and marketing at Fortune 500 companies including Discovery, Nokia, and Associated Press and start-ups such as Enpocket and Verve, is acting as Kolos’ president.

Data Economy has contacted the executives which at the time of publishing were not available to comment.

The data centre is designed to be powered using 100% renewable energy sourced from hydropower stations and wind farms.

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Pulsant Acquires Compliance, Security And Cloud Automation Provider

Oslo Hyperscale Data Centre Site Lands 45MW Blockchain Contract

Acquisition comes one year after Onyx’s deal and usage of AWS and Azure continues to build momentum for those operating in this space.

Hybrid cloud operator Pulsant has acquired public cloud solution integration company LayerV to evolve its portfolio around regulations.

In particular, Pulsant’s move has been designed to increase multi-cloud capabilities around continuous compliance and security, as well as its AWS offering.

The compliance solutions are targeted mostly to customers in the public sector, retail, legal and financial services where statutory compliance and data governance are critical, and where regulations such as PCI, ISO, GDPR and those set out by the FCA, must be adhered to.

LayerV launched in 2013 and employs more than 30 staff across the UK and Lithuania, all of whom will be integrated into the Pulsant business, including the company’s two founders, James Letley, CEO, and Javid Khan, CTO. The company established its first AWS Advanced Tier Partnership in November 2014, and began 24×7 operations also that month.

A year later, in November 2015, it reported a 350% business grow. In March 2016, LayerV became a Microsoft Silver Cloud Platform Partner, whilst obtaining a certification as an AWS Managed Service Partners.

Pulsant’s acquisition of LayerV follows the company acquisition of IT services company Onyx in June 2016.

Mark Howling, CEO, Pulsant, said: “LayerV has an excellent reputation for providing advice to customers on public cloud solutions, and helping them migrate into cloud environments.

“It also provides industry-leading managed compliance, security and DevOps services across multiple clouds, including AWS, Azure and Google. These services are particularly important in regulated industries.

“LayerV’s capabilities will bolster Pulsant’s offering in public cloud services, complementing our own in Azure Public cloud, private clouds, hosting and colocation. This will enable us to deliver more comprehensive solutions to our existing customer base, while expanding the services we can offer new customers.”

LayerV’s CEO Letley, said: “We are delighted to be joining Pulsant. There is great synergy between our two companies and being part of an established organisation like Pulsant means we’re able to truly benefit from its wide industry knowledge, broad customer base, mature datacentre offerings and focus on hybrid cloud solutions.”

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Site sits on a piece of flat land of 100 hectares and has a potential maximum capacity of 300 MW of renewable energy power.

Oslo Data Center Location has signed Crypto One as a user of the large data centre development in the Oslo region, Norway, as the “rapidly growing blockchain economy” defies traditional financal services IT infrastructures.

CryptoOne is to start its deployment with on the data centre land with 1.5MW in a modular pilot centre.

The pilot phase will last from three to six months and following its successful completion CryptoOne is expected to grow its footprint at the site in the Oslo Region to 30-45MW. Oslo Data Center Location is a regional initiative that commercialises land for data centre developments and sits on a piece of flat land with 100 hectares and has a potential maximum capacity of 300 MW of renewable energy power.

The company is currently conducting the zoning plan for the Greenfield on which the data centre will be built. Final political assessment is expected for fall 2017.

Oslo Data Center Location is one of Invest In Norway’s selected data centre sites for international development.

Crypto One CEO Kristian Osestad, said: “In global competition, Oslo DCLO stood out in terms of green renewable power cost and availability, accessibility and existing Capex-reducing infrastructure from former paper production near the site.

“Proximity to the regions district heating plant gives potential for exceptionally power effective data centres.”

Crypto One’s investment into Norway comes days after Norway made headlines worldwide after the largest data centre in world was announced for the north of the country.

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Rackspace Takes On Data Privacy And Data Protection With New GDPR-Compliant Cybersecurity Portfolio Understanding, protecting and complying with data regulations will be crucial to any business with digital assets.

Christy Schumann, general manager of Rackspace Managed Security, said: “Cyber-attacks are becoming more sophisticated and breaches involving unauthorised access to customer data are more common, but many businesses lack the in-house resources and expertise to deal with these threats.

Rackspace has launched a cybersecurity suite built to help identify and protect sensitive data as data privacy and data protection conversations intensify over the introduction of GDPR in 2018.

“The PDP offering is an ideal fit for these organisations, as it allows Rackspace experts to manage the process for helping to ensure data is protected, while helping businesses meet increasingly strict compliance requirements for securing data in different regions.”

The Privacy and Data Protection (PDP) offering has been designed to work in a customer’s environment such as intellectual property, customer payment information and personally identifiable information.

As part of the PDP solution, Rackspace worked with security company Thales and used its Vormetric Transparent Data Encryption platform.

The solution helps businesses understand the risk associated with data, enhance data protection overall and produces compliance reports containing information on a user’s data usage and how it is being protected.

Dee Richartz, Director, Managed Security and Compliance Services at Rackspace, said: “With the threat of fines of up to £18.2 million or 4% of annual global turnover [as ruled by GDPR], whichever works out higher, for failing to comply, it’s now imperative for organisations to have a clear understanding of the profile of personal data they hold and have clear policies and controls to safeguard the same.

Peter Galvin, vice president of strategy for Thales eSecurity, said: “Businesses need to invest in privacy-by-design defense mechanisms – such as encryption with access controls – to protect valuable data and intellectual property and view security as a business enabler that facilitates digital transformation and builds trust between partners and customers.”

“Only then can they ensure any risk is mitigated through compliance; avoiding major pay-outs and potentially damaging their reputation.”

However, 49% of global network security decision-makers have experienced at least one breach during the past 12 months despite the growing concerns around cyber security, according to a Forrester Research report.

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‘Cash Constraints’ Throw UK Cloud Data Centre Business Into Administration, Business For Sale “Business remained loss making and is not viable in its current form,” administrators say as they begin assessment works to find root cause of cash constraints.

Administrators have walked into Manchester-based data centre and cloud company DataCentred after the company failed to generate enough cash flow to sustain the current business roadmap.

FRP Advisory has been tasked with assessing the company’s situation and selling the business which today employs 15 staff.

Based in Media City, Salford, DataCentred, has traded for four years, operating both a physical data centre and cloud business.

The company provides software-defined and cloud-native infrastructure services in the form of public and private clouds.

DataCentred was not available to comment when contacted by Data Economy.

The cloud operator is to continue to trade whilst assessment works are carried out on its financials and restructuring options are explored.

FRP Advisory’s partners Anthony Collier and Geoff Rowley have been tasked with carrying out the works and searching for buyers for the business and its assets.

Speaking to Data Economy, Manchester-based Collier said: “We are currently starting our preliminary investigation. They are continuing to trade and looking to sell the business.

“The reasons to why the business has entered into administration other than the symptom of cash constraints, but in terms of understanding what the root causes of those cash constraints are, I am not yet in a position to say.

He added that he is not aware of any other data centres or technology businesses that have failed in or around Manchester.

“It is a sector generally on the up, particularly in the Manchester and the Northern region. I do not quite know what the anomalies are that have led to this position [with DataCentred],” Collier said.

Also speaking to Data Economy, former EUDCA’s board member and industry expert Derek Webster, said the fact DataCentred has been put into administration, does not mean this is an industry trend for the UK. “It could just be a company that has not obtained the market volumes to meet tits growth plans,” he said.

Webster continued: “The UK is such a competitive place. The way we do things in the UK is more competitive than other places around the world.

“We have seen some big activity in the M&A market and I think this actually makes it more difficult for new comers to establish themselves in this space. Unless you are well established, with a strong balance sheet, with a good market offer and market proposition, I think it is more difficult for new entrants to enter the market place unless you are doing something disruptive or at scale.”

He also said that generally, after four years of operation any company has to look at deploying something disruptive, offer segment focused SLAs, or they will be to catch the local markets.

Webster said: “The Manchester scene is quite busy, and is a vibrant scene. Most of these things [administrations] are about sales volumes meeting balance sheet expectations. If you look at some of the new entrants in the market, they have to do something very disruptive or have higher certainty sales pipelines meeting market/ segment need.

“In terms of understanding the background, that is something that will take a couple of days to untangle.”

“To be a cloud provider with one site can be a bit niche. Normally, you would build your local market, bring your revenues in and then expand your market into cloud.

Collier continued to say that the “business has had some challenges”, however, being Manchester a digital hub, he said that that “gives us some optimism that we can salvage the business from this position”.

“If you have one site and you are in the cloud business that means you may need to be cutting data backup and resilience deals with other providers undermining your own margin.”

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Abu Dhabi Investment Group To Invest $5bn In Subsea Cables Company makes large acquisition of a telecommunications provider transforming the company into a $10bn subsea, IT and telecom giant.

UAE’s private investment group Abu Dhabi Investment Group has acquired Fiber Prime Telecommunication (FPT) and consequently announced $5bn in investment for new subsea cables.

The company has bought 62.5% of FPT’s shares. No financial details have been disclosed.

Abu Dhabi Investment Group said in a statement that following the acquisition and the subsea cables investment, the group wants to transform FPT into the “top tier worldwide subsea cable company”.

The combined entity generated by ABDIG and FPT is set to create a market giant managing more than $10bn of subsea, IT and telecom assets worldwide.

Luiz Fuschini, who will serve as the President & Chairman of FPT, said: “We look forward to partnering with the Abu Dhabi Investment Group management team to invest in critical global communications infrastructure.

“This transaction provides the opportunity for immediate and substantial value to FPT, while also allowing FPT greater flexibility to execute on its long-term strategic vision.”

Also commenting, Omar Jawhal, president of the Abu Dhabi Investment Group, said he looks forward to working closely with FPT’s leadership “to develop world-class solutions and drive customer success”.

The new company will operate under the FPT brand with Samir Auedd as CEO. Auedd said: “We are excited about the opportunity to partner with FPT and see tremendous benefit in ABDIG’s acquisition and comprehensive offering heritage of technological innovation.

“The breadth and depth of our combined product and service capabilities, delivered on a global scale, should enable us to provide a compelling value proposition to our customers.”

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AMERICAS Nasdaq Expands Services With Two Data Centers Sites are expected to open before the end of 2017 and have been audited against CSAE 3416 Type 2 standards.

Boardvantage is also sponsor of the Governance Professionals of Canada Annual Corporate Governance Conference, in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, August 20-23, 2017.

Nasdaq’s Nasdaq Corporate Solutions has announced the expansion of its Boardvantage board portal and leadership collaboration software into Canada through access to two data centres in Ontario.

The two data centres are expected to open before the end of 2017 and have been audited against CSAE 3416 Type 2 standards, equivalent to SSAE 16 level II standards in the US. Boardvantage is designed for boards and leadership teams to help streamline meeting processes, accelerate decision-making, and strengthen governance.

Nasdaq Corporate Solutions acquired Boardvantage in May 2016 and has since invested in upgrades to the portal and leadership collaboration platforms, including both Boardvantage and Directors Desk, offered through Boardvantage.

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Nasdaq Corporate Solutions’ products are used by more than 100,000 users, including CEOs, CFOs, Chief Risk Officers, corporate secretaries, general counsels, directors, and board chairs in over 70 countries.

Stacie Swanstrom, Executive Vice President and Head of Nasdaq Corporate Solutions, said: “We are incredibly proud to extend our presence in Canada and to offer corporate clients in the region a platform to improve efficiencies around the governance and collaboration processes.

The solution is used by board members, corporate secretaries and C-level executives at public, private and non-profit organisations worldwide, and increasingly across Canada, according to Nasdaq.

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In June 2017, Nasdaq Corporate Solutions announced a partnership with the Center for Board Excellence to offer board assessments and compliance questionnaires.

“We are committed to improving our clients’ experience by offering solutions that have the potential to enhance their productivity both in the boardroom and beyond.”

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One Of The USA’s Largest Southern Data Centres Is About To Become An Infrastructure Giant

DataSite Opens 24/7 Nerve Centre To Mitigate Data Centre Outages Centre will monitor facilities as well as the company’s recently launched network service.

Colocation services provider DataSite has opened a central Network Operations Center (NOC) at its Boise data centre to monitor all its facilities and keep outages and service disruption at bay.

The NOC will not only control the company’s entire fleet of data centres in Atlanta, Boise and Orlando, but also monitor its recent launched network service.

Customers will also be able to leverage the NOC team for first level support.

Jeff Burges, President and Founder of DataSite, said: “DataSite Boise provides a trifecta of value and serves as the perfect data center location.

A shell of 700,000 sqf, of which 300,000 sqf are already operational, is set to be filled up with more server halls.

QTS, one of the most active data centre real estate investment trusts (REIT) in the US today, is planning to expand its 300,000 sqf data centre in Dallas, Texas.

According to Dallas News, the company has put forward plans worth $78m to expand its hub in Las Colinas by building out two data halls within the existing 700,000 sqf shell and constructing a new data centre building. The shell was bought by QTS back in 2013 from Maxim which used the site as a semiconductor manufacturing plant.

With the asset, QTS became also the owner of the 40-acre land plot owned by Maxim. The site is powered by an on-site 140MW dual-fed substation.

Other nearby data centres include CyrusOne Carrollton facility which amounts to 670,000 sqf and 60MW of power, Digital Realty’s Dallas 365,647 sqf data centre and Cyxtera’s two data centres comprising 263,700 sqf and 24MW of power.

“With Idaho’s exceptionally low risk of natural disasters, low cost renewable hydroelectric power, and natural free cooling availability, DataSite Boise provides the hyper efficient, flexible and scalable environment for your most mission critical systems.”

DataSite manages today more than 260,000 sqf of data centre floor. In addition to colocation and network services, the company has also recently launched DataSite Atmosphere, its cloud and IT enablement division to drive adoption of hybrid colocation environments.

Reed Disney, Principal of DataSite Atmosphere, said: “DataSite has evolved beyond being a highly coveted provider of exceptional hybrid wholesale colocation.

“Our NOC, in conjunction with DataSite Atmosphere, ensures our customers are fully supported across their hybrid IT environments. We not only help architect and deploy the holistic solution, we ensure it performs optimally throughout its lifecycle.”

Chad Giddings, QTS’s vice president of marketing, said: “Due to success in leasing our existing capacity in Irving, we are developing preliminary plans for adding capacity in land adjacent to our current site [in Las Colinas].”

QTS has recently released its financial results for Q2 2017 which saw a net income of $4.6m, a decrease of 20.6% compared to the second quarter of 2016. Revenues hit $107.9m in Q2 2017, an increase of 9.3% compared to Q2 2016.

Chad Williams, Chairman and CEO of QTS, said: “We remain focused on building strength and capacity within QTS to continue to deliver valuable solutions for larger C1-hyperscale customers while executing on the strong growth opportunity with our C2 and C3 customers enabling their diverse hybrid IT strategies.”

The company is expecting 2017 year-over-year revenue growth to be at the low end of its previously provided range of 11 – 13%, due to lower than expected utility recovery revenue, which passes through directly to lower operating costs, as well as lighter leasing volume earlier in the year.

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Data Centre M&A Set For Record ‘Wild Year’ As Deals Top Over $13bn More activity is expected until the end of the year as companies will also look into competing – on a smaller scale – with AWS and Azure via acquisitions.

Equinix’s Big Apple Data Centres Linked Into AWS Direct Connect To Boost CIOs’ Cloud Strategies

The first half of 2017 has been one of the most active in the data centre history as North American M&As surged to more than $13.1bn.

The large sum of money is made mostly of a single transaction which saw wholesale data centre provider Digital Realty acquire rival DuPont Fabros for $7.6bn.

Another multi-billion Dollar transaction contributing to a recordbreaking H1 included the $2.8bn deal which saw the creation of Cyxtera Technologies following the sale of CenturyLink’s assets to BC Partners and Medina Capital.

In addition, ViaWest’s acquisition by Peak 10 at $1.7bn and Digital Bridge acquisition of Vantage Data Centers for $1bn.

In comparison to the heavy activity in the sector in H1 2017, the full year of 2016 “only” delivered $2bn in M&A transactions across North America.

In a recent report by JLL named “Shifting Cloud, Surging M&A”, researchers have highlighted that 2017 is on pace to top the charts “in a massive way” as providers continue to spend large sums of money to build out their portfolios.

“We are already set for a wild year, with over $10bn spoken for in the last six months,” researchers said.

“This M&A activity comes at a time when the industry is headed towards larger, more efficient facilities which offer comprehensive and flexible product to users looking for a consistent global vendor.”

In the report, JLL highlights that however the beginning of the year has unveiled some of the largest deals seen in recent years, the second half of 2017 “promises to be just as vibrant”.

“Consolidation is the name of the game within any industry, and even more so with data centres.

“Expect large scale providers to continue on acquisition sprees as they look to broaden services they offer, enter new markets and move towards offering comprehensive, yet specialised products.

“Tenured large-scale providers will move towards capacity plays, expanding their footprints through real estate based purchases.

“Also expect to see inspired M&As in the coming months driven by companies looking to compete (on a smaller scale) with AWS and Azure via acquisitions.”

As public cloud spending soars with CAGR of 21%, hybrid cloud offerings have become a key business driver to many providers.

Equinix’s New York data centres are now connected to Amazon Web Services (AWS) Direct Connect, joining 16 other Equinix regions worldwide.

The connectivity into the cloud service is designed to give to the collocation provider’s more than 800 customers in New York the ability to access AWS Direct Connect at all available speeds via Equinix Cloud Exchange or Equinix-provided metro connectivity options.

The addition of the AWS service has been done, according to Equinix, to “enable enterprise CIOs to advance cloud strategies by seamlessly and safely incorporating public cloud services into their existing architectures”.

Such hybrid cloud architectures are growing in demand and importance with IDC forecasting that over the 2016-2021 period, overall public cloud spending will experience a 21% compound annual growth rate (CAGR).

Kaushik Joshi, Global Managing Director, Strategic Alliances, said: “Companies with latency-sensitive applications and workloads – and specifically financial services firms – require predicable performance to ensure a consistent, high-quality user experience.

“AWS Direct Connect combined with the Equinix interconnection platform is an ideal combination that enables these customers to deploy hybrid cloud architectures and achieve this level of performance and security.”

The other Equinix regions also offering the AWS Direct Connect service are Amsterdam, Chicago, Dallas, Frankfurt, Los Angeles, London, Munich, New York, Osaka, Sao Paulo, Seattle, Silicon Valley, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, Warsaw and Washington, D.C./Northern Virginia.

Equinix’s bet on AWS Direct Connect comes days after the operator entered into a collaboration with SAP to similarly expand its portfolio of available cloud services to address customer’s demand for more hybrid environments.

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HPE Enters Mars Race By Sending Supercomputer Into Space IT infrastructure will follow humans wherever we go and HPE, together with NASA, wants to be where no human has been before.

Humans have longed to reach Mars for many years. The idea of setting a human colony on the red planet has ignited much debate as well as the acceleration of technology development to make that dream come true.

However, while humans on Earth wait to become a multi-planetary species, at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, a spacecraft is scheduled to take off to space in a Mars related trip on August 14.

The Dragon Spacecraft is the SpaceX CRS-12 rocket, developed

by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, and will be sent to the International Space Station (ISS) National Lab. Musk has been an active voice in the space race, and has also shared his views on how one million humans could live on Mars.

Taking a leading role in the aforementioned launch is HPE, which will place a supercomputer on board of the rocket, called Spaceborne Computer.

“A mission to Mars will require sophisticated onboard computing resources that are capable of extended periods of uptime.”

Andreoli’s point on the need to have IT power closer to the source where it is needed reflects the same idea put forward by other industry giants in the past such as Emerson.

In a 2016 interview, Jack Pouchet, VP for market development at Emerson Network Power, defended that supercomputers and data centres will have to follow human life, wherever humans go.

“Though there are no hardware modifications to these components, we created a unique water-cooled enclosure for the hardware and developed purpose-built system software to address the environmental constraints and reliability requirements of supercomputing in space,” Andreoli said.

He said: “The goal is for the system to operate seamlessly in the harsh conditions of space for one year – roughly the amount of time it will take to travel to Mars.”

The testing of the system in the same conditions the deployment would be faced with in a potential future trip to Mars is designed to help create the right IT infrastructure that will allow those travelling beyond Earth’s low orbit to carry out the necessary calculations for research projects.

Andreoli explained: “Many of the calculations needed for space research projects are still done on Earth due to the limited computing capabilities in space, which creates a challenge when transmitting data to and from space.

HPE’s system software will manage real time throttling of the computer systems based on current conditions and can mitigate environmentally induced errors.

Andreoli said: “We see the Spaceborne Computer experiment as a fitting extension to our HPE Apollo portfolio, purpose-built for supercomputing.

“HPE is excited to expand its relationship with NASA, pioneering HPC in space and taking one step closer to a mission to Mars.”

“While this approach works for space exploration on the moon or in low Earth orbit (LEO) when astronauts can be in near real-time communication with Earth, once they travel farther out and closer to Mars, they will experience larger communication latencies.”

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“Such a long communication lag would make any on-the-ground exploration challenging and potentially dangerous if astronauts are met with any mission critical scenarios that they’re not able to solve themselves.

As for the Spaceborne Computer, this will include the HPE Apollo 40 class systems with a high speed HPC interconnect running an open-source Linux operating system. It contains compute nodes of the same class as NASA’s premier supercomputer, Pleiades.

The computer is part of a year-long experiment conducted by HPE and NASA to run a high performance commercial off-theshelf (COTS) computer system in space, “which has never been done before”, according to Alain Andreoli, Senior Vice President & General Manager, HPE Data Center Infrastructure Group.

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According to the executive, these latencies could be of as much as 20 minutes each way, meaning that the exchange of a single message and consequent reply between astronauts and Earth could take up to 40 minutes.

He also added that future phases of this experiment will eventually involve sending other new technologies and advanced computing systems, “like Memory-Driven Computing, to the ISS once we learn more about how the Spaceborne Computer reacts in space”.

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Facebook To Build $750m Ohio Data Centre

Rackspace, VMware Eclipse Cloud Migration Hardships With Software Defined Data Centre Integration VMware Cloud Foundation sets the basis for a new private cloud built to make it data migrations simpler and faster.

Rackspace has made available a new cloud family powered by VMware aimed at the software defined data centre.

The Rackspace Private Cloud powered by VMware, which will now be built on VMware Cloud Foundation, has been designed to ease data migrations between data centres and the cloud.

With 2 billion users worldwide, Facebook has never before seen so much demand to bulk up its IT infrastructure stack.

Social media giant Facebook has confirmed plans to build a $750m data centre in central Ohio as its reach grows and the need to expand IT capabilities demands more server power.

The data centre will be built in the New Albany International Business Park, New Albany, close to Columbus, and sit in a piece of land measuring 345 acres.

On phase one, the data centre will amount to 900,000 sqf of hosting space, expected to be operational by 2019.

Data Economy first reported on the development last Friday.

John Kasich, Ohio Governor, said: “This is a $750m investment in technologies and jobs of the future that will further diversify our state’s economy.

“And, with other leading-edge innovators locating here, [the Facebook data centre will] help put Ohio front and centre in the Knowledge Belt of the 21st century,”

The company said the solution will enable full software defined data centre (SDDC) capabilities including compute, storage and networking that span the public and private cloud.

The VMware Cloud Foundation accelerates IT’s time-to-market by providing a factory-integrated cloud infrastructure stack that includes a set of software-defined services for compute, storage, networking and security.

The Rackspace Private Cloud services include a standardised architecture, continuous status updates, lifecycle management, the leveraging of existing VMware deployments, and offload of physical and virtual infrastructure operations.

Peter FitzGibbon, VP and GM of VMware at Rackspace, said: “Provisioning hardware quickly is no longer considered a value for customers, it’s expected.

“The enhancement in our VMware private cloud delivery model through VMware Cloud Foundation will provide further value to new and existing Rackspace Private Cloud powered by VMware customers by giving them access to the most streamlined and innovative VMware SDDC capabilities and lifecycle management.”

The data centre is expected to generate 100 permanent jobs. It will run solely on renewable energy, similarly to Facebook’s other sites.

Geoffrey Waters, vice president, Global Cloud Sales, VMware, said: “VMware Cloud Foundation is the industry’s most advanced cloud infrastructure platform that unlocks the benefits hybrid cloud by establishing a common, simple operational model across private and public.

Erin Egan, Facebook’s US vice president for public policy, said: “We are thrilled to have found a home in Ohio and to embark on this exciting partnership.

“Combined with Rackspace and its renowned Fanatical Support, together we will add great value to mutual customers in their digital transformation journey.”

“Everything here has been as advertised — from a committed set of community partners and strong pool of talent to the opportunity to power our facility with 100 percent renewable energy. The Buckeye State is a great place to do business.”

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Texas Readies For New 11-Acre Data Center With Robotics R&D Hub Building to house an R&D lab to develop servers, robotics technology and virtual reality solutions.

Behrouz Movahhed Nouri, CEO of Bitmova, LLC, said: “Temple EDC is a great partner, and Temple is a fantastic location.

Texas has secured yet another data centre development this time in Temple where a facility sitting on an 11-acre piece of land is set to generate 56 jobs.

“Temple Industrial Park offers a unique opportunity to develop a state-of-the-art data centre on a site that has access to low cost, reliable power, infrastructure in place, an excellent network of roads and an available skilled workforce.”

The hub is to be built by Bitmova, LLC, who is to spend $8m in capital investments over the next five years, according to the Temple Economic Development Corporation (Temple EDC),a non-profit organisation that serves as the designated economic development entity for the City of Temple.

The data centre development is the second investment Temple EDC has closely worked with. The other company was R&L Carriers which is expected to invest $5m and create 30 jobs in Temple.

The data centre will be located in the Temple Industrial Park and has been given a land grant included in an economic development agreement approved by the Temple EDC board of directors.

Temple EDC Vice President Charley Ayres said: “Welcoming Bitmova, LLC to Temple further diversifies our industry base.

“Bitmova will create high wage jobs in a highly technical job, with a significant level of capital investment in our local economy.”

Bitmova’s move to deploy IT infrastructure in Temple comes as the company is in need to expand its digital capacity to cope with growing demand for their online services.

The company also plans to dedicate part of the data centre building to research and development work related to Berberry servers and other technologies related to robotics and virtual reality.

According to Temple EDC, in the future, Bitmova plans to also set up an accelerator program on more robotics-related projects.

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Apple Moving Into Iowa With Data Center Investment Against Microsoft, Google

‘24x7xForever’. IO To Break Ground On 600,000 Sqf Data Center In October

‘Project Morgan’ is gearing up for formal approvals from local authorities as demand for iCloud and other Apple’s digital services continues to grow.

Apple could be hours away from coming out with yet another data centre expansion this time in Iowa, where rival companies Microsoft, Google and Facebook also have facilities operating.

The new project codenamed Project Morgan, which if of the same size as Apple’s other hubs will represent an investment of several hundreds of million Dollars, is expected to be approved this Thursday at an Iowa Economic Development Authority board meeting.

In the meeting’s agenda, released today by the Iowa Economic Development Authority, Apple is set to be subject to a “review of application for investment” in Waukee – the same address of Facebook, Microsoft and Google.

However, stronger evidence the iPhone maker is set to break ground in Waukee has come from local media which has reported the board will consider an “undisclosed amount of incentives” so Apple builds the hub, sources told The Des Moines Register.

Adding to this, the City Council of Waukee has itself posted an agenda for a “special meeting” starting 45 minutes before the Iowa Economic Development Authority meeting.

In the Council’s gathering, the city will hold a public hearing to “consider the approval of a resolution approving and authorising execution of an Agreement for Private Development and a Public Improvement Agreement and Fund by and between the City of Waukee and the Developer of Project Morgan.”

The council explains that ‘Project Morgan’ has been used to withheld the name of the contracting party, otherwise known as the developer, whilst negotiations between ‘Project Morgan’ and the Iowa Economic Development Authority take place.

Data centre operators are known for adoption “Project” names while carrying out negotiations with the necessary parties before coming out in public to announce their investment.

New facility will put the operator on the 2 million sqf club with data centres operating in the US and Asia.

Arizona-based IO Data Centers, LLC, is gearing up to break ground on yet another large facility in Phoenix, which will push the company’s footprint in the region to 1.14 million sqf of data centre floor.

The private colocation firm is to host a ceremony in October this year to officially kick off construction of a 600,000 sqf, 60MW data centre in Phoenix, according to IO’s CEO, Founder and Product Architect George Slessman.

In a LinkedIn post he said: “IO.Phoenix 2 official ground-breaking ceremony will be held in October 2017. IO’s latest data centre will feature our Generation 6 Cloud Data Center Design and BASELAYER X series data centre module.”

Slessman continued to describe the site adding that it will incorporate “100s of networks”, will have a grid level energy storage system and will be operable “24x7xForever”.

“Services available at IO.Phoenix 2; Modular and Traditional Colocation, Cloud OnRamp, Dedicated Suites, Build-to-Suit and Powered Shell,” said Slessman.

For example, Facebook has nicknamed ‘Project Raven’ its data centre in Nebraska and Amazon is building ‘Project G’ in Dublin.

IO.Phoenix 2 will join the company’s existing data centre in Phoenix which measures 538,000 sqf and sits on a piece of land of 30 acres with a power capacity of 65.5 MW.

As for Apple, if Iowa becomes indeed its latest ground for investment, the data centre will be joining a growing global network of sites in the USA, Europe and Asia.

The company also operates data centres in New Jersey, Ohio, Scottsdale and Singapore.

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When combined, the data centres amount to nearly 1.6 million sqf of space.

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ASIA PACIFIC Huawei Is Building A Giant 4.3 Million Sq Ft Data Centre In China Hub to be based in the province of Guizhou, which “offers an ideal climate for operating data centres”.

One of the world’s largest ICT companies, Huawei, has broken ground on what will become one of the largest data centres in the APAC region.

The effort to build up its global presence comes as the company has been placed 83 in the Fortune 500, representing its best place ever, up from 129 in 2016, 228 in 2015, and 397 in 2010 when the company first featured in the ranking.

Headquartered in Shenzhen, Huawei employs 180,000 people globally and is today a company with revenues in excess of $78.5bn and a profit of $5.58bn, as of 2016.

The reason? To make Huawei even more prominent on the global stage.

Situated in the Guizhou province, the data centre will have capacity for 600,000 servers which will run Huawei’s management data applications from across the globe.

Up to 800 engineers are expected to help keep the lights on at the site which will be also used to train new staff.

The Chinese multinational has recently reported its H1 2017 results with revenues increasing 15% when compared to H1 2016. However, the growth was the slowest in four years cashing in $42.03bn in revenues.

The company’s operating margin was 11% in the first six months of the year.

Ren Shulu, Huawei’s SVP said: “Guizhou province offers an ideal climate for operating data centres. It is also an important energy base in China, alongside its favourable data centre polices.

“Taking these advantages, we aim to build an industrial park, which serves as a global management data storage centre and a base to train the talents.”

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China’s First Self-Financed Data Centre Revealed China’s First Self-Financed Data Centre Revealed 133,000 sqf of data centre floor will soon make China’s first selffinance and self-operated data centre project as the country demand for cloud services continues to drive the opening of new facilities.

The site will be funded through a joint investment scheme headed

by Huade and Guangzhou Nowtop, a big data infrastructure service provider.

The first phase of the Guangzhou (Nanxiang) Cloud Services Data Center, otherwise known as Nanxiang Data Center, is expected to become operational before the end of 2017.

Phase One proposes a total constructed floor area of 71,000 sqf with 1,200 cabinets and 10,760 sqf. for customer requirements.

Phase Two entails a further 64,580 sqf and 1,500 cabinets, with construction starting in the second half of 2018.

“Nanxiang Data Center aims to provide high-speed internet and secure data centre services, along with disaster recovery services for customers whose occupancy rate should reach 70% by the end of 2018,” developers said.

The site has also been designed to use natural cooling technology, which developers said will be one of the first in Southern China to do so.

“This technology will enable Nanxiang Data Center to save up to 30% in energy compared with traditional data centres, thus helping the community to reduce energy consumption and mitigate pollution as well as enhance operational efficiencies.”

The data centre will be used to answer demand for cloud computing technologies which has grown across Mainland China and the Guangdong province where the data centre sits.

Developers said: “The Group believes that with the application of cloud computing on the rise, Nanxiang Data Center will generate new business and profit growth drivers that further strengthen its presence in the big data industry chain and generate satisfactory returns for its shareholders.”

‘Major Incident’ Declared At Fujitsu Data Centre Company activates internal crisis management processes for outage that may have left thousands of virtual machines unusable.

“We are treating this matter as a major incident and we have activated our internal crisis management processes.

“The operation of the unit was reinstated at 3:00AM on Sunday morning and resolution activity is continuing to restore services to affected systems and customers. In line with predefined processes Fujitsu is working closely with customers for resolution.”

Fujitsu’s Australian customers have been victim of a data centre outage which caused the provider’s cloud services to be disrupted by up to five hours.

The data centre sits on a piece of land measuring 9,000 sqm. The building is 5,500 sqm with raised data halls comprising 2,300 sqm in addition to 3,500 sqm of multi-level plant and equipment area.

Opened in 2008, the data centre in Sydney’s Homebush Bay went offline at 9:24PM of Saturday, August 19 and service was only resumed on Sunday, at 3AM.

According to Fujitsu’s specifications of the site, the data centre has 2 x 11kV ring-mains feeds via diverse entry points and pathways, 2250kVA Diesel Generators in a minimum N+1 configuration, and a multiple UPS in a minimum N+1 configuration.

The outage has reportedly caused “massive data loss”, according to The Register, which cities people familiar with the matter at a major Australian financial body.

According to the sources, the Fujitsu data centre outage brought down a test and development environment resulting in 1,000 unrecoverable virtual machines.

A Fujitsu spokesperson said: “A storage array in Fujitsu’s Homebush data centre became unavailable at 9:24PM on Saturday night and has affected services to customers.

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In addition, the centre houses dual fuel tanks and a redundant pumping system, on-site fuel storage sufficient for 72 hours nonstop operations, and a power allocation design of minimum 1000W per sqm.

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Microsoft Azure To Launch Gov’t Cloud Data Centres In Australia

NextDC Makes Strong Bid To Takeover APAC Data Centre REIT

Provider sets up strategic partnership with local data centre operator Canberra Data Centres.

Hyperscale cloud provider Microsoft has announced the launch of two cloud regions in Australia designed to be used by the country’s government to handle Unclassified and Protected government data.

The regions to be available from Canberra in H1 2018 will be operational through a strategic partnership with local data centre operator Canberra Data Centres (CDC).

CDC operates today two data centre campus which include a combined total of four facilities, one in Flyshwick and three in Hume. Together, the sites offer nearly 95,000 sqf of hosting space and 22.5 MW of power.

The two Azure regions, named Australian Central 1 and 2, will complement Microsoft’s existing cloud services currently delivered from Sydney and Melbourne.

The Hon. Angus Taylor, Minister for Cities and Digital Transformation, said: “The Australian Government has embarked on a sweeping program of change to bring digital innovation to the transformation of the Australian public sector to ensure we meet the expectations and needs of all citizens.

Portfolio boosts of 46,893 sqm of combined gross lettable area and a value price of $185.5m. services to enterprises and government.

Australian data centre services provider NextDC has put forward an unconditional all-cash off-market takeover offer to acquire all the securities of Asia Pacific Data Centre Group (APDC).

“Combining the global innovation of Microsoft Azure with the confidence and expertise of Canberra Data Centres, it creates an essential foundation for our transformation. So too the local software ecosystem, which can build its skills and innovate rapidly to first serve our local needs, and then expand into global markets.”

The offer has been made three months after 360 Capital announced its intention to acquire 19.82% of APDC.

Also commenting, Tom Keane, Head of Global Infrastructure at Microsoft Azure, said that Australia is a critical cloud market for the company. “We are delighted to be partnering with a locally owned provider with deep roots across government to further extend the reach of our cloud, and to provide the full innovation of Azure to Australian and New Zealand Government customers and partners,” he said.

NEXTDC currently has a 19.99% relevant interest in APDC and will fund the Offer from its existing cash reserves.

Microsoft’s Canberra regions come at a time when the company continues to invest into is cloud infrastructure footprint.

Craig Scroggie, NextDC CEO, said: “The offer is highly attractive and represents compelling value for APDC securityholders with the additional benefit of certainty.

The provider has announced 42 regions globally, with the availability of cloud services from new regions in the UK, Germany and South Korea having recently come online.

The Azure operator has also revealed plans to deliver the Microsoft Cloud from new data centres in South Africa and France.

Microsoft has recently released its quarterly results for its cloud business with revenues Q4 2017 figures topping $24.7bn, up from $22.6bn in Q4 2016.

The offer price is AUS$1.87 cash per security, with payment made within seven business days of acceptance by APDC securityholders.

The APDC is a REIT headquartered in Sidney which currently manages three properties in Melbourne, Sydney and Perth.

The properties boost 46,893 sqm of combined gross lettable area and a valued price of $185.5m.

“We are making this offer to APDC security holders because we believe that we are the logical owner of the APDC data centres in the current circumstances.

“Consistent with our strategy since 2015, we intend to own a greater proportion of the properties we operate.”

Cadence Advisory is acting as financial adviser and Herbert Smith Freehills as legal adviser to NEXTDC in relation to the offer.

Operating income and net income were also both up at $7bn and $7.67bn respectively, up from $6.2bn and $5.48bn in Q4 2016 respectively.

The company returned $4.6bn to shareholders in the form of share repurchases and dividends in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2017.

Globally, Microsoft Corporation closed the FY 2017 with revenues of $90bn, up $5bn from the previous year.

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Equinix Grows Hong Kong Data Center Footprint To Answer City’s Fintech Demand Operator answers to the lack of supporting ICT infrastructure seen as a major barrier to digital transformation in the region.

“Our ongoing growth signifies our commitment to the region and to developing our global footprint to benefit our customers and support growing digital business needs.

“The launch of HK5 will enable our customers in Hong Kong and beyond to have access to the vast interconnection opportunities needed to innovate and grow.”

Equinix has unveiled plans to expand its data centre fleet in Hong Kong with the addition of a fifth site designed to meet demand for interconnection from the city’s financial services firms, FinTech companies and other industries.

With a capital expenditure of $32m, the 48,000 sqf, 1,200 cabinets data centre is scheduled to be brought online by Q4 2017 and will be known as HK5.

The eight-story facility facility, part of the operator’s International Business Exchange (IBX) family, will sit close to subsea landing stations in the financial data centre nexus of Tseung Kwan O.

Alex Tam, Managing Director, Equinix Hong Kong, said: “With companies in Hong Kong rapidly embracing the multiple opportunities offered by the digital economy, the demand for interconnection continues to rise.

As for power, HK5 employs green features including granular temperature monitoring, cold aisle containment and optimised lighting control to deliver a high degree of energy efficiency.

The new data centre’s annual average power usage efficiency (PUE) has been calculated at 1.45.

Equinix serves today 425 customers in Hong Kong alone. The Hong Kong data centres are business hubs for more than 125 financial ecosystem participants, such as FXecosystem, a provider of outsourced connectivity services to the FX and bond markets.

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That is according to Microsoft’s Asia Digital Transformation Study which has also found that 60% agree that new data insights can lead to new revenue streams for their organisations.

However, the study also cited a lack of supporting Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure as one of the major barriers to digital transformation.

HK5 will also be connected to the neighbouring Equinix data centres – HK1, HK2 and HK3 – via path fiber connections.

Samuel Lee, President, Equinix Asia-Pacific, said: “With the recent data centre expansions in Singapore and Sydney, and now the opening of HK5, Equinix continues to expand its presence across Asia-Pacific.

The HK5 data centre comes at a time when 66% of Hong Kong’s business leaders say they believe they need to transform their business to a digital business to enable future growth.

“ With the opening of HK5, we will continue to deliver the level of excellence and interconnection that industry regulators expect and which our customers demand.”

With the addition of HK5, Equinix will have 30 IBX data centres in Asia-Pacific, and its total global footprint will cover more than 180 IBX data centres across 44 markets.

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Is IBM Going To Abandon Its Sydney Data Centre?

China’s Gov’t Sets Up Work Group To Get Apple’s $1bn Data Centre Off The Ground Facility has been designed to not only push Apple’s products in the country as well as abide by the strict data privacy and protection laws.

The Chinese government has announced the setting up of a “leading small group” tasked with working closely with Apple as the company prepares to invest $1bn in a new data centre.

The working group now set up by authorities in the Guizhou province where the data centre is set to be built, will be headed

by Qin Rupei, Executive Vice Governor of Guizhou and Member of the Standing Committee of the Guizhou CPC Provincial Committee.

Company has stopped taking new clients and has started to migrate customers’ data into other local facilities.

Global cloud provider IBM is reportedly looking into shutting down one of its data centres in Sydney by 2019 which sits on a wider 270,000 sqf IBM campus.

That is according to documents seen and sources who have spoken to The Register who reports that IBM ought not to consider the data centre for current clients as the company expects to leave the hub in less than two years.

In a statement, the government said the group has been put together “to speed up the construction of Apple’s iCloud project”.

It continues: “The provincial government has decided to form a development and coordination working committee to quicken the setting up of Apple’s iCloud project.”

In addition, the group will also be expected to raise questions and make suggestions posed and made during group meetings.

It will also work on the preparatory, organisational and conference information for those same group meetings.

However, a spokesperson has said no final decision has been made about leaving the building in Cumberland Forest.

“In principle, every month and a half [the group will] convene and urge the members to actively promote the implementation of the work,” it reads in the document.

The same spokesperson confirmed that clients are, nonetheless, already being migrated to other physical environments.

Apple announced it would build the IT facility in July 2017 as the company tries to expand its services in China.

Sources have said that ongoing job cuts “mean the offices attached to the data centre will likely be surplus to requirements come 2019”.

The data centre will also be used to abide by China’s new cybersecurity laws which require that any organisation defined as having “critical information infrastructure” must securely store and manage all personal data collected from Chinese citizens within the borders of China.

According to Australia’s IT News, a large development scheme for the same piece-of-land has recently received the first approval to build “600 dwellings”, comprising 400 units and 200 houses.

The company behind the project is Mirvac, which is now waiting for a final decision from the New South Wales government and the outcome of a potential public consultation later this year.

As for IBM, the Cumberland Forest campus is not used today to provide its cloud service and is mostly used for managed hosting operations and IT provisioning services usually outsourced from a third party.

The company has two other data centres in Sydney from where it providers its cloud.

IBM has also recently established a point-of-presence at Digital Realty’s Sydney data centre to boost its Bluemix hosted cloud service and Watson cognitive computing.

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The data centre comes at a time when Apple’s revenues in Greater China have dropped from $8.8bn in Q3 2016 to $8bn in Q3 2017, according to the company’s latest results released on August 1.

Compared to Q2 2017, the revenue drop was even deeper from $10.7bn.

When combining all regions, the company’s revenues for Q3 2017 hit $45.4bn, up from $42.36bn in Q3 2016, however, down from $52.89bn in Q2 2017.

Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, said: “With revenue up 7% year-overyear, we are happy to report our third consecutive quarter of accelerating growth and an all-time quarterly record for Services revenue.”

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