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Chris Jones Head of Data Centres Bilfinger GVA

As an engineering and services group, Bilfinger develops, builds, maintains and operates plants and buildings for industry, the energy sector and real estate. From hospital to refinery, from Alaska to Australia, from start to finish.

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The Bilfinger data centre services team brings together over 300 of our specialists operating across the breadth of our business.

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• Acquiring and marketing of evaluating facilities and space

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JÜRGEN INTRODUCES BILFINGER’S UNIQUE DATA CENTRE ENGINEERING FRAMEWORK Bilfinger’s 4P Critical Engineering Framework is designed to identify and eliminate potential failures within our client’s infrastructure and processes, improving resilience across systems deemed critical to their core business.

Our 4P Critical Engineering Framework, which represents people; performance, plant and processes, is a highly structured risk management concept that can be applied to the operation and management of engineering systems to ensure the maximum possible uptime of critical facilities.

To download the 4P Critical Engineering Framework click here.

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The Framework is an industry- leading approach that can help ensure uptimes that go beyond industry norms. This unique approach is based on a number of distinct layers, each of which contributes to the defence of our clients’ integrity and business operations. This framework is underpinned and supported by the unique culture that can only come from a German engineering company.

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JÜRGEN BIESER Head of Centre of Competence Data Center/Critical Systems Bilfinger HSG Facility Management GmbH +49 6102 45-3628 juergen.bieser@bilfinger.com

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New research from The Green Grid has uncovered that nearly one in four IT leaders want more time to better understand their resource performance data. So while many organisations have some form of monitoring in place, opportunities to make system improvements are being missed, reported a Company press release.

Roel Castelein, EMEA Marketing Chair for The Green Grid said “With so many people saying that they would like more time to look at their data, we are concerned that data is being left unused – which is the same as not collecting the data in the first place.

For organisations adopting strategies to increase resource efficiency, data holds the answers to many questions. Use of data to evidence base IT decisions should flow through organisations including the board-level.”

The Green Grid, a global consortium dedicated to advancing resource efficiency in IT and data centres, conducted the research in October 2015. The survey studied responses from 150 IT decision makers at end-user organisations, including companies who run their own data centres as well as co-located data centre providers, from across the UK, France, and Germany on data centre resource efficiency.

Key findings include: 38% of respondents would like more time to monitor their data; Only 29% of respondents say that their organisation can entirely quantify environmental footprint of data centre operations; The majority of respondents (97%) claim that monitoring within data centres could be improved for increased energy efficiency; Around two thirds (67%) of respondents say that increasing investment in monitoring measures would be a way of improving their organisation’s data centre and over a quarter (28%) think that using more monitoring measures would improve it.

Roel concluded “Whilst our research suggests that the majority of organisations have measures in place, many are still unable to fully see how their data centre operations are affecting their environmental footprint. This can be altered by changing the mind sets of both IT decision makers and board members on the importance of investigating data, an area on which The Green Grid provides a lot of support to its members.”

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MICROSOFT COMMITS TO GREATER RENEWABLE USE FOR DATA CENTRES A blog post from Brad Smith, Microsoft President and Chief Legal Officer, has detailed the IT giant’s commitment to reduce the impact that its data centres have on the environment.

approach to our work in the future. We need to translate these principles into clear and concrete goals that we can use to hold ourselves accountable in a responsible way. And it will require work with many other important stakeholders and institutions, from environmental groups to utilities to governments themselves.”

GOOGLE DETAIL DATA CENTRE MURAL PROJECT

Smith wrote “When it comes to sustainability, we’ve made important progress as a company since the start of this decade, but even more important work lies ahead.

Across the tech sector we need to recognize that data centres will rank by the middle of the next decade among the large users of electrical power on the planet.

We need to keep working on a sustained basis to build and operate greener data centres that will serve the world well.

Search engine giant are livening up the appearance of their data centres via the launch of their Data Center Mural Project which will see muralists to “reimagine the facades of Google Data Centers.”

For Microsoft, this means moving beyond data centres that are already 100% carbon neutral to also having those data centres rely on a larger percentage of wind, solar and hydropower electricity over time. Today roughly 44% of the electricity used by our data centres comes from these sources. Our goal is to pass the 50% milestone by the end of 2018, top 60% early in the next decade, and then to keep improving from there.”

“To begin to change that,” said Kava, “we created the Data Center Mural Project: a partnership with artists to bring a bit of the magic from the inside of our data centres to the outside. Eventually, we hope to bring the project to more locations around the world.”

He continued “Especially given the magnitude of data centre expansion that will continue throughout this time period, this is not a small goal. It requires that we understand where we’ve come from over the past few years and take a principled

Joe Kava, VP Google Data Centers told Slash Gear, “Because these buildings typically aren’t much to look at, people usually don’t, and rarely learn about the incredible structures and people who make so much of modern life possible.”

In Mayes County, Oklahoma, Jenny Odell created a mural whilst in St. Ghislain, Belgium, there’s a painting by Oli-B depicts clouds on the building that contains digital clouds. In addition, the Dublin facility will shortly support a painting by Fuchsia Macaree in Dublin, as well as a painting by Gary Kelly in Council Bluffs.

The company plans to see more data centres painted soon.

TOP THREE CLOUD DRIVERS ARE COST SAVINGS, DR AND NEED FOR SCALABILITY A new Level 3 Communications study, conducted by HIMSS Analytics and designed to understand cloud use, trends and preferred vendors among healthcare organizations, was released today. The 2016 Cloud Survey is a blinded, web-based quantitative study that includes perspective from more than 100 IT decision makers at medium to large-sized hospital systems and hospital corporate offices across the United States, a Company press release reported.

Key Findings: • The top three cloud adoption motivators are cost savings, more robust disaster recovery solutions and the need for scalable platforms to support internal requirements.

• The likelihood of healthcare providers planning to adopt cloud-based solutions for key use cases such

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as back office solutions, business continuity and disaster recovery, archiving data, health information exchange and HR or financial applications increased 65% in the last two years.

• The most frequently cited cloud implementations address the ability to host patient empowerment tools (73%), the need for compute cycles capable of executing big data analytics (59%) and the need to satisfy business requirements like picture archiving and communication system (PACS) storage (55%), indicating providers are employing cloud solutions for personal health information (PHI) and non-PHI applications, alike.

• The majority of respondents (77%) stated they involve their network provider early in cloud strategy discussions.

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• Cloud service providers Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google are all recognized among healthcare providers as industry leaders.

Brian Hoekelman, VP Business & Cloud Ecosystem Development for Level 3 “Healthcare organizations are tapping into cloudbased solutions to support the transformation to value-based care, from big data analytics that can improve patient outcomes to back office applications, email and record back-up. In our conversations with customers, we also find that security is always top of mind. The network plays a vital role in fulfilling that need, which is why 2,500 healthcare organizations, including eight of the nation’s ten largest hospital systems and payer organizations, trust Level 3 to deploy secure, scalable and high performing communications infrastructure.”

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WORLDWIDE SERVER VIRTUALIZATION MARKET IS REACHING ITS PEAK The worldwide x86 server virtualization markets is expected to reach US$5.6 billion in 2016, an increase of 5.7% from 2015, according to IT research company Gartner. Despite the overall market increase, new software licenses have declined for the first time since this market became mainstream more than a decade ago. Growth is now being driven by maintenance revenue, which indicates a rapidly maturing software market segment, reported a Company press release.

Michael Warrilow, research director at Gartner, said: “The market has matured rapidly over the last few years, with many organizations having server virtualization rates that exceed 75%, illustrating the high level of penetration.”

The market remains dominated by VMware, however, Microsoft has worked its way in as a mainstream contender for enterprise use. There are also several niche players including Citrix, Oracle and Red Hat, in addition to an explosion of vendors in the domestic China market.

While server virtualization remains the most common infrastructure platform for x86 server OS workloads in on-premises data centres, Gartner analysts believe that the impact of new computing styles and approaches will be increasingly significant for this market. This includes OS container-based virtualization and cloud computing.

The trends are varying by organization size more than ever before.

According to Gartner, usage of server virtualization among organizations with larger IT budgets remained stable during 2014 and 2015. It continues to be an important and heavily used technology for these businesses, but this market segment is approaching saturation. In contrast, organizations with smaller IT budgets expect a further decline in usage through to at least 2017. This is causing an overall decline in new spending for on-premises server virtualization.

Gartner believes that organizations are increasing their usage of “physicalisation,” choosing to run servers without virtualization software. More than 20% of these organizations expect to have less than one-third of their x86 server OSs virtualized by 2017 – twice the amount reported for 2015. However, the underlying rationales remain varied.

The rise of software-defined infrastructure and hyperconverged integrated systems are providing new options. It has put pressure on best-of-breed virtualization vendors to add more out-of-the-box functionality and provide a better experience and faster time-to-value.

“What was considered as the best approach to greater infrastructure agility only a few years ago, is becoming challenged by an array of newer infrastructure choices,” said Mr. Warrilow.

EMC + DELL = DELL TECHNOLOGIES Dell CEO Michael Dell has revealed that Once Dell Inc. completes its US$59 billion merger with EMC later this year, the combined company will be known as Dell Technologies.

Speaking at on Monday at EMC World in Las Vegas., Dell told how the new company will be the only one selling everything from edge devices to core data centres and cloud infrastructure, a mission that rival HP backed away from when it split into Hewlett Packard Enterprise and HP Inc., he said, reported PC World.

Dell Technologies will include all of what’s called Dell today, plus EMC’s core Information Infrastructure storage division, Pivotal, Virtustream, the partly public VMware and two security businesses: Dell’s SecureWorks and EMC’s RSA unit.

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New Q1 data from Synergy Research Group shows that revenue growth for the world’s three leading colocation operators far outstripped overall market growth thanks in large part to recent acquisitions. While total colocation revenues grew 9% from the first quarter of 2015, Equinix, Digital Realty and NTT in aggregate grew by over 30%. All three were successfully growing their revenues organically, but recent results have been further boosted by Equinix’s acquisition of Telecity and Bit-isle, Digital Realty’s acquisition of Telx and NTT’s acquisition of e-shelter. Beyond these three companies, the other top ten operators grew their colocation revenues by 7% while the companies ranked 11-20 grew by 12%. Within the top 20 other companies whose growth rates were well above average, included QTS, CyrusOne, CoreSite, China Telecom, DuPont Fabros and KDDI-Telehouse, reported a Company press release.

The Q1 data, which covers both retail and wholesale colocation, shows that the market is expanding steadily across all regions, though APAC has the highest growth rate. The major countries with the highest growth rates in Q1 were China, Japan and Germany. Historically wholesale colocation revenues have been growing more rapidly than retail colocation, though in Q1 the growth rates were broadly similar. Equinix continues to have a strong lead in retail colocation while Digital Realty holds a similar position in wholesale colocation.

Notably, Digital Realty and NTT now have significant market shares in both the retail and wholesale sectors.

“Acquisitions by the big three and a few other players are helping to slowly concentrate colocation market power in the hands of operators that can afford to build and support huge data centre footprints spanning multiple regions,” said John Dinsdale, a Chief Analyst and Research Director at Synergy Research Group. “We’ve seen a constant stream of M&A activity over the past five years and several more big deals are in the pipeline – and yet there remains a very long tail of independent small-to-medium sized colocation operators. Many of these will continue to operate successfully by focusing on specific metros or countries, while others will inevitably succumb to market consolidation.”

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LARGEST DATA CENTRE IN FINLAND UNDERWAY

Sonera, the Finnish Operator has seen the foundation stone laid on what will eventually become the largest data centre in Finland, reported Datacentres.com.

The foundation stone was laid by Minister of Transport and Communications Anne Berner, Mayor of Helsinki Jussi Pajunen and CEO Valdur Laid of Sonera at the Helsinki site.

From 2017 it will be the largest open data centre in Finland, offering services for businesses. With an area of 30,000 sq m, it will be vital in promoting digitalisation in Finland and will enable Sonera to help clients digitalise their business.

Sonera’s future data centre will house up to 200,000 servers, with a capacity of 24 MW and according to the company will also be the most modern and energy-efficient data centre in Finland.

The data centre will use only “green” electricity generated from renewable energy sources, and the aim is that all waste heat generated by the cooling process would be collected and reused.

“This is an important investment for us, helping us meet our clients’ future needs. The demand for data centres is high, as data centres house most of the communications, server and storage equipment of the digital infrastructure, management included. We want to help our clients digitalise their business,” says Valdur Laid.

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83% OF BUSINESSES TO INCREASE CLOUD USAGE ING BANK DATA CENTRE ACHIEVES TIA942 ACCREDITATION ING Belgium has two data centres located in Brussels which have been recently audited by Capitoline to the latest TIA942 data centre standard and have been certified to the Rating system described in that standard, reported EIN. ING Belgium NV offers all customer segments, retail as well as private banking customers, small, medium-sized and large enterprises, a wide range of financial products and services via the distribution channel of their choice.

Barry Elliott of Capitoline said, “TIA942, first published in 2005, was the first data centre standard and is today still the most widely used data centre standard in the world. ING Belgium has made a commitment to raising its IT operations to the highest levels of best practice in the industry and demonstrates that by regular auditing of its facilities at both a technical and an operational management level.

Capitoline has been pleased to assist ING in this process with data centre auditing and management training for their staff.”

The TIA 942 standard covers Telecommunications, Electrical systems, Architectural requirements and Mechanical systems. From the first letters of each section we can thus derive a TEAM rating for the site or design. TIA942 utilises four levels of Ratings to describe the resilience and redundancy of the design and installation. Ratings 3 and 4 are the highest levels which describe Concurrently Maintainable facilities systems which never need to be shut down for routine maintenance.

TIA942 is an ANSI (American National Standards Institute) approved standard and unlike some ‘tier’ based private standards, which only look at power and cooling, TIA942 looks in detail at power, cooling, structured cabling, location and building requirements, security and fire safety systems.

APPLE TO FACE HEARING OVER GALWAY DATA CENTRE The ongoing planning process that Apple faces with regard to their plans to build a major new data centre facility in the West of Ireland continues. The latest, according to the Irish Independent, will see Apple is to face an oral hearing with planning authority - the An Bord Pleanála - over its proposed 25,000 sq m data centre on a 500 acre site near Athenry in Co Galway.

The facility – which was expected to be operational in 2017 – will help run online services, including the iTunes store, App store and Siri.

Planning permission was granted for the centre in September; however, that decision was appealed by various sources including residents of Lisheenkyle and Athenry Golf Club with objections to the project range from traffic congestion and the location of the site entrance to concerns over any potential impact on the local bat population.

According to the Irish Independent, a hearing now planned by An Bord Pleanála is set to revolve around environmental and powerconsumption issues.

Cloud requirements are on the rise and businesses are set to increase usage – so say 83% of respondents in the latest Pulsant–commissioned research.

Of that number, almost half (39%) said this increase would be significant. The cloud computing, managed hosting and colocation expert also found that while colocation and cloud continue to co-exist, only 61% of respondents said their need for colocation would increase, reported a Company press release.

The research was carried out by Customer Satisfaction UK, an independent specialist consultancy. The objective of the study was to understand and investigate the needs, expectations, opinions and experiences of the sample with regards to cloud, IT and service providers. The sample comprised senior IT decision makers and C-level executives across UK-based organisations in a host of different industries.

The survey also found that this difference in growth between cloud and colocation wasn’t reflected in IT budgets – respondents said 22% of their IT spend was on colocation, while cloud only accounted for 15% of budget.

“We’ve all been in the industry long enough to know that cloud migration isn’t new. Instead, what organisations are focusing on is the way in which cloud is being used within their IT estates, and how they can properly leverage its benefits,” says Matt Lovell, CTO, Pulsant.

ENTATECH OPENS NEW SLOUGH DATA CENTRE UK IT distributor Entatech has announced the opening of the company’s first UK based data centre based within the new LD6 building at Equinix data centre, in Slough. All customer data will now reside within the UK at this centre, meaning customers will have no issues with data sovereignty. It also means that Entacloud can guarantee all customers that their data will remain in a UK based data centre and will remain in the UK, reported a Company press release.

The company made the announcement as it outlined further developments within its white label cloud service, Entacloud.

Officially launched in January of this year, Entacloud provides resellers with a one-stop-shop solution for cloud, cloud management, infrastructure, business applications, security, backup and storage as a service. Developed in conjunction with Egenera’s Xterity Cloud Services, Entacloud delivers a full range of dedicated, managed, private and hybrid cloud services including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Disaster Recovery as a Service (DaaS) and Backup as a Service (BaaS) exclusively through the channel.

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NNIT SECURES DANSKE BANK DATA CENTRE DEAL

GERMAN SYSTEMS INTEGRATOR SELECTS ZENIUM FRANKFURT ONE

The Danish IT Services company NNIT has announced that it has entered into significant agreement with Danske Bank on delivery of data centre capacity.

One consequence of the deal will see NNIT build a new data centre in Ejby, reported Datacentres.com.

Zenium has announced that a leading German Systems Integrator (SI) has taken space in Zenium’s Frankfurt One facility thereby increasing the number of locations from which it will be able to offer its services across Germany, a Company press release reported.

The company has signed a ten-year agreement, with the option of extension, with Danske Bank on delivery of Tier III data centre capacity at two different locations, one being NNIT’s existing data centre and the other being a data centre with one of NNIT’s sub vendors. The agreement will become effective from Q1 2017 and represents a medium-size three-digit DKK million amount.

The scalability and quality of Zenium’s Frankfurt One facility were key to its selection and will enable the company to expand both its space and power requirements in line with customer demands.

As a result of this agreement with Danske Bank, NNIT has decided to expand its data centre capacity by building an additional data centre. For this purpose NNIT has bought a plot in Ejby. The new data centre is expected to be ready for use in Q1 2018.

The building of the data centre, including the acquisition of the plot, will lead to an investment of around DKK 250 million over the period 2016-2018. The expected and announced level of re-investments and new client investments in 2016 is thus revised from 5-6% to 7-8%, including the new data centre.

Achim Weinacker, Client Solutions Manager, Zenium Germany, added: “Our continued success in attracting some of the leading SI’s to relocate to Frankfurt One is proof positive that Frankfurt One stands out from the crowd in a competitive marketplace. We are delighted to be partnering with a wellrespected SI in Germany which will expand the services available to all of our customers at Frankfurt One.” Located in Sossenheim, Zenium Frankfurt One is one of the newest data centres in the region and offers market-leading energy efficiencies (a PUE of 1.3 at full design load) coupled with two diverse 110kV power feeds, robust physical security and resilience levels of Tier 3+. In addition, the facility is carrier neutral and provides access to the full range of telecom operators available in Frankfurt.

GREEN MOUNTAIN RECEIVES SECOND TIER III CERTIFICATION Green Mountain again sets the standard in the Nordic data centre market when DC2-Telemark is awarded Uptime Institute Tier III certification. This means that both Green Mountains data centres are now Uptime Institute Tier III certified and they are the only certified colocation data centres in the Nordics, reported a Company press release.

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The DC2-Telemark data centre is located at Rjukan in the centre of southern Norway. The data centre opened for business in May 2014 after a building period of only 5 months. An experienced operational team was employed by Green Mountain to manage the day to day operations. The high quality design and build together with the strong operational team has secured flawless operations since the opening.

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“We started the certification process of DC2Telemark immediately after achieving Tier III certification of our DC1-Stavanger facility in April 2015”, says Chief Operating Officer Tor Kristian Gyland. “We are proud to, yet again lead the way in the data centre market by securing certification for our second data centre, he continues.”

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FUJITSU SIGNS NEW DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION DEAL WITH CENTRICA Fujitsu has announced it has signed a new 5 year partnership with Centrica to deliver its digital end user transformation, reported a Company press release.

Fujitsu will transform the end user IT services to create a more secure, scalable and flexible service, with mobility at its heart, through embracing Windows 10, Office 365 and Fujitsu’s trusted best in class digital hybrid – on-premise and cloud – end user IT services. Centrica currently has around 39,000 employees globally, including office workers and field engineers, who will be able to benefit from the new systems.

“We are excited to be supporting Centrica’s drive for value, service excellence and innovation to increase customer engagement with a growing range of services such as Hive and HomeCare,” said Regina Moran, CEO, UK & Ireland, Fujitsu. “We are committed to being a partner to Centrica, working closely with them to continue to advise and implement new strategic and innovative programmes as they continue to grow their customer facing businesses.”

BT IRELAND SEES REVENUE RISE AMID DATA CENTRE INVESTMENT BT Ireland, the Irish subsidiary of the UK telco giant, has reported that its results saw underlying revenue increase by 7% last year with growth in call volumes and data use in the Republic increasing in the final quarter of the year, the Irish Independent.

Over the course of the year the company made a multi-million euro investment in its data centres in Dublin and Belfast.

BT major business managing director for the UK and Ireland Colm O’Neill told the Irish Independent the firm delivered “good financial performance” in a “challenging and competitive” market.

“Sales were boosted by investments in network reach, data centres, and product development, as multinationals and domestic multi-site organisations seeks an ICT company that provides local and global capabilities to underpin their expansion plans and growth ambitions,” Mr O’Neill said.

During the year BT Ireland secured deals with Three, Sky and Blacknight Internet Solutions, the latter of who signed a long-term deal with BT for the provision of data centre, network, and infrastructure services.

POULINA OPENS THE LARGEST TIER 3+ DATA CENTRE IN TUNISIA The Tunisian industrial and services group, Poulina has partnered with the Schneider Electric group to build the largest data centre in Tunisia, reported Datacentres.com.

The company has recently opened DataXion. Which it claims with a capacity of 1200 m2 of cleanrooms is the largest Tier 3+ data centre in the country.

Maincubes, the German data centre operator has acquired to buy an existing Amsterdam based facility form Interoute. No financial details of the transaction were divulged, reported Datacentres.com.

The Capronilaan 2 Amsterdam facility – located near Schiphol, currently offers approximately 10,000 sq ft of data centre space but presents a lot of expansion potential for additional customers. At full capacity, the data centre can provide more than 45,000 sq ft.

Maincubes was attracted to the facility partly by its location which it believes is one of the most sought-after locations for data centres in Europe. The proximity to one of the most important and high-performance Internet hubs in Europe, the high concentration of carriers and the international connections of a major airport represent only some of the factors confirming high demand.

Maincubes say they “will make massive short-term investments in order to create a better performing technical and operational infrastructure. Talks with key tenants have already begun.”

“Maincubes is well-known due to its innovative high-performance data centre that is currently being built in the Rhine-Main area near Frankfurt. Planning and constructing a new generation of data centres is part of our strategy.

Maincubes is a company that follows an international strategy. In order to achieve our goals, we will take over existing data centres in addition to constructing new ones“, explains Oliver Menzel, Director of Maincubes one.

Strategically located 15 minutes from Tunis Carthage airport, DataXion offers a high level of security and efficiency. All stages of the construction and equipment of this site have been made in compliance with international standards TIER 3 +, a real reference in the design and management of data centres worldwide.

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KEYSOURCE TO DESIGN AND BUILD NEW NORTH OF ENGLAND DATA CENTRE The critical environment specialists Keysource, has been appointed to design and build a new data centre for a leading pharmaceutical company at its production site in the North of England. It will replace an existing, ageing facility and will underpin the critical services being delivered to the business for the next 10 to 15 years, saving over £250k in energy costs, reported datacentres.com.

The location for the new data centre will be an existing IT services office. The Keysource team will strip this room and make any health and safety, as well as aesthetic refurbishments, before installation commences. The project will be completed under live conditions so that the existing data centre and staff working at the campus are not disturbed while construction takes place.

Designed to be concurrently maintainable, with N+1 critical cooling and power the new data centre will also be highly efficient, fully utilising the ASHRAE recommended temperature range. In addition, an environmental monitoring system will also be deployed. This system will allow provided real time insight across the data centre environment allowing cooling to be further optimised.

Mike West, Managing Director at Keysource commented “This new data centre will be developed in line with the latest regulations and industry standards.

It will not only guarantee long term reliability and availability of critical services to the business but ensure they are delivered in a sustainable and efficient way, thereby maximising the return on investment.”

NATO TO CREATE LUXEMBOURG DATA CENTRE The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) is to create a data centre in Luxembourg, reported Datacentres.com.

The Organization’s Support and Procurement Agency General Manager Mike Lyden and Etienne Schneider, Luxembourg’s Economy Minister, signed a fiveyear Supplementary Arrangement under which Luxembourg will implement a Tier IV data centre.

The new facility will help boost the Agency‘s disaster recovery capability.

The facility will be established at the existing NSPA site in Capellen and it is expected that the data centre will be operational by the end of 2016.

“The project is the culmination of extensive consultation with Luxembourg since early 2015. From project conception, we have been honoured to be able to work closely with Luxembourg Centre Des Technologies de l‘Information de l‘Etat (CTIE) and Ministry of Defence to scope the requirement for this data centre, “explained General Manager Mike Lyden.

SIX DEGREES GROUP COMMITTED TO DATA CENTRE EFFICIENCY Six Degrees Group has become one of the first UK organisations to be accepted as a participant in the 2016 EU Code of Conduct for Energy Efficiency in Data Centres, reported a Company press release.

The code is designed to reduce the environmental, economic and energy supply impact of data centres, focusing on the reduction of energy consumption in a cost effective manner. It also promotes the use of energy efficiency KPIs, measures which have now been deployed in the management of 6DG data centres in London and Birmingham.

6DG worked with IT sustainability consultancy Carbon3IT to review all of their UK data centres for energy efficiency best practices and their alignment

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with the EU Code of Conduct. The review revealed that 6DG’s data centres were already functioning in line with these standards.

John Booth, MD of Carbon3IT Ltd stated “It’s really important that companies with a high IT usage follow best practice to use only the energy that is necessary, reducing their environmental impact.

It’s not only great for the environment but also the bottom line as the cost of energy is only going to keep going up. By using the European Code of Conduct to examine their practices, 6DG have a great resource to guide them in how to do that.”

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participation in the EU Code of Conduct underlines our determination to act as an industry leader,” confirmed Mike Ing, COO at 6DG. “Internationally recognised standards play an important role in ensuring businesses can prove their approach to energy conservation is working – we are very pleased that our efforts have been recognised.”

Timothy Arnold, Technology Director of Colocation for 6DG, concluded, “The EU Code of Conduct is not just about the electrical and mechanical infrastructure within the data centre. Customers also need to utilise their IT hardware to optimum energy performance and follow best practices in our highly efficient data centres, something that we are now best placed to help them achieve.”

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INTEROUTE LAUNCHES NEW VIRTUAL DATA CENTRE ZONE IN ISTANBUL Interoute, owner operator of a global cloud services platform and one of Europe‘s largest networks, has extended its networked cloud platform further into Asia with the opening of an Interoute Virtual Data Centre (VDC) zone in Istanbul. Interoute’s global integrated cloud and network platform is now available in 15 locations globally across 3 continents. The new zone in Istanbul further demonstrates Interoute’s ongoing expansion of its cloud platform and makes it the only cloud provider to offer local cloud in Turkey connected to global cloud zones across the rest of Europe, Asia and North America, from the same platform, a Company press release reported.

This new Turkish zone creates an opportunity for European businesses to access new users and opportunities for growth in the dynamic business hub that is Istanbul, while businesses in the Middle East and south west Asian markets can easily reach new customers through the low latency, high throughput Interoute Networked cloud. The new Interoute VDC zone also offers local business in Istanbul an alternative to other cloud providers whose zones are solely in the US or Western Europe. This proximity enables applications to be hosted much closer to users in the region, eliminating the need to send data thousands of kilometres back and forth for processing.

Matthew Finnie, Interoute CTO, commented: “Istanbul is major market and a key strategic digital bridge between the Europe, the Middle East and south west Asia. 6 years ago, we expanded our pan European fibre backbone into the heart of Istanbul’s dynamic business hub. This is the foundation we’ve built on to extend our global cloud platform into the region. Businesses, entrepreneurs and developers using Interoute VDC can enjoy the benefits of a high performance cloud close their users, whilst having instant access as part of Interoute’s globally networked cloud platform, to Europe, USA and Asia.”

MICROSOFT GIVEN DUBLIN DATA CENTRES PERMISSION The US software giant Microsoft has been granted permission to construct four data centres in Dublin that could see the company invest some €900 million, the Irish Independent reported.

Approval for the scheme which will be built at Grange Castle in Clondalkin has been granted by the local council, a site where the company already has a data centre presence, the Irish Intendent reported.

Microsoft has already built four data centre facilities at Grange Castle, the first of which was constructed in 2008.

“These data centre facilities were originally designed to meet Microsoft Ireland’s data centre server requirements based on projections completed in 2007,” the company told the council in its latest planning application.

“Since that time, the demand for online services has expanded exponentially and additional data centre development is required to allow Microsoft Ireland to meet an ever-growing worldwide demand for the services it offers over the internet,” it added.

The Dutch Datacenter Association, an industry group covering the data centre industry, has voiced its opposition to the Privacy Shield – the proposed replacement for the EU‘s ‚safe harbour‘ agreement with the US, Telecom Paper reported.

Last October the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that the transfer of personal data from Europe to the United States made under the US Safe Harbor scheme were invalid as those transfers did not ensure an adequate level of protection under European data protection law. The proposed new EUUS Privacy Shield is a new agreement reached between the EU and US and we are currently in a transition period prior to its the implementation.

The Dutch lobby group – comprising some of the biggest names in the industry - said it backs the position of the Article 29 Working Party, a regulatory group that consists of data protection officials from all EU member states. The Working Party earlier criticised the Privacy Shield proposal, saying it does not adequately secure the privacy of European data and may expose EU residents to mass surveillance by US intelligence services.

“The Netherlands thrives on international trade and logistics. With its many data centres, the nation is an important landing and distribution point for the data of numerous US firms,“ said Stijn Grove, managing director of the Dutch Datacenter Association. “Confidence, through sound agreements and frameworks on how we deal with data and specific personal information, forms the basis for trade and transit. Agreements on personal data are absolutely essential for this.” The DDA said it expects that the agreement can be amended in order to provide a better replacement for safe harbour.

The company received planning permission in 2013 and 2015 for two more phases of its data centre expansion. The first phase of that expansion has been completed and the second phase is just about to get under way.

Microsoft said that the “increasing move” of social and business life to the cloud means that current facilities are approaching their capacity “ahead of the most conservative predictions of five years ago”.

The current application that has just been approved by the council is phase three of Microsoft’s data centre development at Grange Castle.

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LAMDA HELLIX’S ATHENS-1, THE FIRST DATA CENTRE IN THE WORLD CERTIFIED FOR GREEN OPERATION LAMDA HELLIX, the leading data centre services provider of SE Europe, has announced that Athens-1 is the first data centre in the world certified with LEED v4 Gold O+M for its green operation and maintenance, reported a Company press release.

Athens-1 is located within LAMDA HELLIX’s Data Center Campus in the outskirts of Athens and since its launch in 2003, has achieved remarkable scores for availability and energy savings. Striving to minimize the carbon footprint of Athens-1, LAMDA HELLIX has improved the energy efficiency of the facility alongside regular monitoring and control of power systems. Similarly, a significant reduction of water consumption has been achieved and “green” procurement and waste management policies have been implemented.

LAMDA HELLIX‘s Director of Data Center Operations, Dimitris Kantaros, commented, “The world‘s first green certification of Athens-1 demonstrates that the innovative and sustainable practices of our data centres reduce our carbon footprint, protect the environment and deliver significant economic benefits to our customers. We are proud that the efforts of our Operations Team position LAMDA HELLIX and Greece among the green technology pioneers of the data centre market“.

TERACO CONSIDERING FURTHER DATA CENTRE EXPANSION With a brand new 9,000 sq m Isando facility first phase set for completion by the end of this year, Teraco, the South African based data centre company is considering further expansion in a few years. The company wants to build a new data centre facility in Gauteng, most likely somewhere in the corridor between Johannesburg and Centurion.

Teraco CEO Lex van Wyk told TechCentral that it will need this additional space within the next three or four years as demand surges for data centre capacity.

The primary factor in choosing the next site will be the availability of power.

Existing fibre infrastructure is a secondary consideration.

The Isando facility when complete will be the largest such facility in Africa, drawing some 16MVA of power and dwarfing the Centurion data centre, which is owned and operated by Standard Bank, which is reportedly South Africa’s second largest data centre at some 6,000 sq m.

Teraco also operates data centres in Cape Town and Durban.

AQUA COMMS JOIN TELEHOUSE CARRIER-INTERCONNECT Telehouse, a global provider of data centre services, has announced that it has been selected by Aqua Comms, a provider of scalable, subsea capacitybased network solutions, to provide a European hub for its next-generation transatlantic network, reported a Company press release.

Aqua Comms’ America Europe Connect (AEConnect) subsea fibre optic cable system, connecting New York to London via Dublin and beyond to greater Europe, went live and has been handing over commercial service to customers since January of this year. Featuring more than 52 Tbps of available capacity, as well as the latest technology of 130 x 100 Gbps per fibre pair, it is designed to meet the exponential surge in bandwidth demand from

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carriers, global data centres, financial services companies, global media, and cloud and content providers that require exceptional network reliability, scalability and performance. Aqua Comms is the latest network provider to join Telehouse Carrier-Interconnect, which comprises of more than 750 Carriers, Mobile providers, Internet Exchanges and broad band providers.

There are multiple diverse routes from the Telehouse London Docklands campus across EMEA and the decision by Aqua Comms further strengthens connectivity to New York. With Telehouse at the epicentre, it is the ideal location for companies reliant on diverse connectivity to

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extend their reach and accelerate performance, to host their mission critical IT infrastructure.

“Telehouse Carrier-Interconnect, located at Europe’s leading connectivity hub, empowers our customers to connect with an unlimited number of business partners whose services align with their strategic objectives,” states Greg Varisco, Chief Operations Officer, Aqua Comms. “In addition to further enabling reliable, secure, and low latency global connections for our customers, this partnership provides Aqua Comms with a host of business opportunities on either side of the Atlantic as well as at Telehouse North Two, Europe’s most advanced data centre.”

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DIGITAL REALTY TO ACQUIRE EIGHT EQUINIX EUROPEAN DATA CENTRES The Global data centre provider Digital Realty Trust has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a portfolio of eight carrierneutral data centres in Europe, five in London, two in Amsterdam and one in Frankfurt, from Equinix.

The total purchase price is approximately US$874 million, reported Datacentres.com.

Equinix‘s divesture of the eight assets is a condition of the European Commission‘s approval of Equinix‘s acquisition of Telecity, which closed in January 2016. As a condition of obtaining clearance from the European Commission, Equinix selected and agreed to divest the following facilities: TelecityGroup‘s Bonnington House, Sovereign House, Meridian Gate and Oliver‘s Yard data centres and Equinix‘s West Drayton data centre in London; TelecityGroup‘s Science Park and Amstel Business Park I in Amsterdam; and TelecityGroup‘s Lyonerstrasse data centre in Frankfurt.

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grow and extend our footprint across the continent for years to come.“

In connection with this transaction, Digital Realty has granted Equinix an option to acquire the company‘s facility at 114 rue Ambroise Croizat in Paris and its associated business, for a purchase price of approximately US$215 million. The option remains subject to certain conditions, including confirmatory due diligence, any mandatory governmental or local authority approval, and any required employee consultation processes. Digital Realty cannot assure when, or if, the option will be exercised.

The portfolio of eight facilities contains approximately 213,000 net sellable sq ft and 24.4 megawatts of IT load, serving a large base of over 650 blue-chip clients. These clients are predominantly concentrated in the network, cloud and IT services, content and digital media and financial services verticals, and are expected to be highly complementary to Digital Realty‘s target customer verticals. The properties are 72% utilized, based on available power.

“The acquisition of this portfolio of eight highly attractive facilities will enhance Digital Realty‘s strong global presence and offer us even greater scale on the increasingly important European data centre landscape,“ said A. William Stein, Digital Realty‘s Chief Executive Officer. “We have made several recent strategic investments in Europe, and this new portfolio – which is concentrated in three of the most strategically important data centre and interconnection hubs in Europe – will immediately bring on board a large, diversified customer base and will also provide significant opportunities to

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The portfolio also provides substantial available capacity, with approximately 6.9 megawatts of fully-installed power and 62,700 net sellable sq ft immediately available for lease, as of March 31, 2016. Entitled expansions in the London and Amsterdam facilities could add up to another 14.9 megawatts of power capacity and 88,900 net sellable sq ft to support future growth.

The European portfolio acquisition is expected to close in the second half of 2016 and is subject to customary closing conditions, including approval by the European Commission, as well as completion of the works council consultation process in the Netherlands.

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TIETO SIGNS NORWEGIAN DATA CENTRE DEAL WITH GREEN MOUNTAIN Nordic IT services company Tieto is investing to support growth and increased demand for secure data centre and cloud environments in the Nordics, including starting operations in a Norwegian data centre, reported Datacentres.com.

To be able to meet increased demand for local services, Tieto has signed an agreement with data centre operator Green Mountain to offer local, secure and high-quality data centre services to customers in Norway. The data centre located in a former high security NATO ammunition storage deep inside a mountain in Stavanger, will provide secure and reliable services for both public and private sector customers.

“In many ways, data is the “new oil” and we can clearly see that demand for local and secure data centre and cloud solutions are increasing. Our delivery is based on a hybrid cloud model, where secure local private cloud services and global public cloud services are combined to drive the modernization of IT applications and infrastructure. Tieto delivers green, high-quality data centre and cloud services to the public and private sectors across the Nordic

countries. This is an important step for helping our customers to renew their business and for strengthening our growth in the region”, says Ari Karppinen, Head of Managed Services, Tieto.

The services are part of Tieto´s secure data centre and cloud offering in the Nordic countries. Tieto´s cloud services are currently used by more than 150 large enterprises and organizations in the region. The data centres offer highest level of security for storage of sensitive data and information.

Furthermore, they rely heavily on green IT and energy solutions – the data centre in Stavanger operates solely on renewable energy by using the adjacent fjord for cooling.

As customers across industries seek new ways to reduce costs, improve agility and innovate at a faster pace, the market for transferring infrastructure, business platforms and applications into scalable and flexible cloud environments continues to grow rapidly. In the first quarter of 2016, Tieto revenues from cloud services grew by 72%, making it the fastest growing area within the company.

The company’s annual capital expenditure, mainly related to data centres, is anticipated to remain in the range of 3-4% of revenue.

SAFE COMPUTING LAUNCHES EXPANSION FROM INTEROUTE’S LONDON DATA CENTRE Safe Computing, a Spanish cloud computing and virtualisation solutions provider, has selected the London data centre of Interoute, owner-operator of a global cloud services platform and one of Europe‘s largest networks, as the launch pad for its international expansion plan in Europe, reported a Company press release.

Safe Computing started operating as a provider of specialised IT support for Andalusian SMEs with particular focus on the implementation of on-premise virtualised environments. The company is now launching an ambitious growth and evolution programme aimed at setting up a professional cloud-based environment and continuing to offer the same virtualisation services, but as an outsourced activity.

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The need to broaden its capacity and nationwide footprint led the company to choose Interoute’s Distributed Data Centre in Madrid in 2014. Now, for its international expansion project, Safe Computing has selected Interoute’s Data Centre in London, from which the company will operate on a worldwide basis, with a direct link to the Madrid Data Centre through Interoute’s pan European fibre network. The capacity increase required by Safe Computing has also prompted the company to plan another new expansion step into Interoute’s Data Centre in Berlin, slated to take place later this year.

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added-value services, with improved security, higher redundancy and centralised management, bringing substantial cost savings with no quality of service compromise.

Jorge Casto, Safe Computing’s COO, said: “After our excellent experience with Interoute in its Madrid Data Centre, when making our international expansion plans, we decided to add the Interoute London data centre and will extend our infrastructure to Interoute’s Berlin data centre later in 2016, to successfully manage our growth.”

Safe Computing plans to relocate its headquarters to Oxford and manage its international operations in Europe from there.

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VIRTUS DATA CENTRES CONTINUES RAPID GROWTH VIRTUS Data Centres, the UK’s fastest growing data centre provider, is well on its way to becoming one of the largest in London, with annual recurring revenues having doubled again in the past 12 months. This was fuelled by recent customer wins at its LONDON2 and LONDON4 locations, and continuing its progress in 2015 when VIRTUS recorded the highest total colocation MW sales of any operator in the London market, according to CBRE, reported a Company press release.

Through 2015 and 2016 VIRTUS has added a significant number of new customers across its data centre estates in Enfield, Hayes and Slough in addition to seeing continued expansion from existing customers. These new customers include global leading ICT provider T-Systems, who will join the existing 30+ Cloud providers within the VIRTUS Cloud Connect ecosystem; cybersecurity firm Symantec; Global Cloud Xchange, the owner of the world’s largest privately owned fibre optic network, and specialist cloud operators Vnetrix and AccessPoint taking additional capacity across the VIRTUS portfolio. The JISC relationship continues to grow with three new customers making a total of 16 education and research establishments now using the facility to interconnect, share data and enhance their research capabilities.

to have achieved Tier III design certification from the Uptime Institute and the only one certified using Excool technology, delivering a PUE of less than 1.2 and London’s lowest total cost of service.

UKFAST SETTING UP DC SUPPORT HUB Colocation and cloud provider UKFast is set to build a state of the art support and security hub, complete with accommodation for clients’ technical staff, at its data centre complex following a successful planning application with Trafford City Council, reported a Company press release.

Plans for the DC Support Hub facility, which is the first of its kind in the industry, include plush bedrooms, relaxation areas, a working office space and Sky TV. In addition to providing an extra layer of security for UKFast’s data centres, DC Support Hub offers colocation clients the opportunity to accommodate technical staff, free of charge, while they carry out essential maintenance work during periods of low traffic during the night.

T-Systems, the IT services arm of Deutsche Telekom has reached an agreement to run its private and public cloud operations from VIRTUS’ LONDON2 facility, as part of a five year plan to close its private data centre in Feltham.

UKFast CEO Lawrence Jones said: “The colocation market is changing. Many organisations are looking to house kit away from London for disaster recovery or geographical separation. We understand that this creates a pain point with engineers having to work anti-social hours far from home. That’s why we’re building the DC Support Hub.

Mark Turner, Vice-President IT Delivery, T-Systems, commented: “We are very pleased to be joining the first-class cloud ecosystem of a company that understands the applications, solutions and needs of providers like us and our clients. LONDON2 is a leading UK facility and one which we believe will help our offering grow, and we look forward to a long-term successful relationship with VIRTUS.”

“UKFast is the first provider in the industry to provide this kind of facility. Providing great service is about surprising people. To excel in any business you have to deliver great service at every stage of the journey and give customers things they would never normally expect as part of the deal. That’s what we do and that’s why we’re one of the fastest growing colocation providers in the UK.

VIRTUS is one of the largest hybrid colocation providers in London, having increased its portfolio of high quality, cloud centric metro data centres with the acquisition of LONDON4 located in Slough in late 2015. VIRTUS have over 40MW of capacity across its 3 locations and are continuing to lead the market with its innovative, agile colocation services. VIRTUS is also one of only four data centre operators in London

“Our motto is ‘Think Faster’ and this is just another part of that. We’re making it as simple as possible for clients to get their people in the right place. We don’t want our clients having to check in to a Premier Inn at short notice. We want to make everything and everyone connect faster.”

NEW GLOUCESTER DATA CENTRE UNDERWAY Construction is underway on a new data centre located in a former dilapidated building in Gloucester. Shield House in Barnwood is getting a makeover as data centre operator Indectron looks to transform it into a leading edge facility.

The site will deliver 1.5megawatts of power and have 20,000 sq ft available to customers across three data halls.

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Andrew Bence, Managing Director at Indectron told the Gloucester Citizen “After a thorough site selection, design and planning process we have started construction of one of the most advanced data centres in the UK. This design will allow us to deliver cost-efficient, accredited and environmentally friendly data centre solutions, offering significant cost reductions to our clients in power, cooling, connectivity and services charges.

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“Shield House will help customers provide innovative and flexible digital IT services at lower cost by benefiting from its highly connected, resilient and secure infrastructure.“ The centre, which will employ 10 people, is expected to be opened at the beginning of 2017.

Designers Keysource are helping build the centre, which is being funded by HSBC Corporate Banking.

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ORACLE SPENDS OVER US$1 BILLION ON CLOUD EXPANSION

In the past week or so Oracle has added to its portfolio of cloud services providers by entering into definitive agreements to acquire two new companies: Textura provider of construction contracts and payment management cloud services in a transaction valued at approximately US$663 million, net of Textura’s cash; and Opower a provider of customer engagement and energy efficiency cloud services to utilities. The transaction is valued at approximately US$532 million, net of Opower’s cash, reported Datacentres.com.

Textura’s cloud services process US$3.4 billion in payments for over 6,000 projects each month, helping keep projects on time and under budget while reducing risk for developers, contractors and subcontractors. Textura offers its cloud services in a consumption model preferred by the engineering and construction industry whereby the companies involved pay based on project activity.

Further, usage of Textura’s cloud services creates a network effect that benefits all participants as more than 85,000 general and subcontractors are connected to the platform.

Oracle Primavera offers a complete suite of cloud solutions for project, cost, time and risk management. The Oracle Primavera flagship products have been completely re-architected for the Cloud, and the result is a set of cloud services that are growing rapidly as construction and engineering companies embrace digital transformation. Together, Oracle Primavera and Textura will form the Oracle Engineering and Construction Global Business Unit offering a comprehensive cloud-based project control and execution platform that manages all phases of engineering and construction projects.

Opower’s solutions enable over 100 global utilities, such as PG&E, Exelon and National Grid, to deliver a modern digital customer experience. Opower’s big data platform stores and analyses over 600 billion meter reads from 60 million utility end customers, enabling utilities to proactively meet regulatory requirements, decrease the cost to serve, and improve customer satisfaction.

“Utilities want modern technology solutions that work together to meet their evolving customer, operational and compliance needs,” said Rodger Smith, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Oracle Utilities Global Business Unit. “Together, Oracle Utilities and Opower will be the largest provider of mission-critical cloud services to utilities.”

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RAGINGWIRE OPENS SECOND ASHBURN DATA CENTRE RagingWire Data Centers, a US data centre provider and NTT Communications Group Company, has cut the ribbon on its new data centre known as Ashburn VA2. The ribbon cutting took place at a gala event, one of the biggest in the industry this year, attended by over 600 business, technology, and civic leaders from around the world, reported Datacentres.com.

VA2, with 140,000 sq ft of data centre space and 14 megawatts of critical IT power, is designed for large-footprint deployments. The facility features seven turn-key vaults and highly flexible colocation configurations tailored for wholesale data centre buyers. One and two megawatt private suites are available, as well as multi-rack cages. The site is fully secured, has multiple conference rooms and a customer lounge, and includes 10,000 sq ft of office space which can be included as part of a data centre solution. VA2 is fully integrated and fibre connected with RagingWire‘s Ashburn VA1 Data Center, expanding the campus to 290,000 sq ft and 28 megawatts of power.

“Ashburn has become a ‚must have‘ location in the data centre portfolios of enterprises seeking to maximize application performance,“ said George Macricostas, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of RagingWire. “We designed our new VA2 Data Center and our Ashburn Data Center Campus to be a preferred computing site for the top companies in the world.“ RagingWire operates nearly 1,000,000 sq ft of data centre space in the United States. The Sacramento Data Center Campus is the largest commercial data centre in the state of California with 680,000 sq ft and 53 megawatts of critical IT power. In Ashburn, Virginia, in addition to the VA1 and VA2 data centres,

the company has broken ground on a massive 2,000,000 sq ft data centre campus on 78 acres of land. In the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, RagingWire has begun construction on a new 1,000,000 sq ft data centre campus on 42 acres of land with plans for the first customers by the end of 2016.

TELX OPENS SAN FRANCISCO DATA CENTRE Telx, the US data centre provider, that Digital Realty Trust bought from ABRY Partners and Berkshire Partners in a transaction valued at US$1.886 billion last autumn, has opened a second data centre at 365 Main Street in San Francisco, reported Waters Technology.

The new 227,000 sq ft facility – branded SFR2 - provides 8.6 Megawatts of critical IT power load, and provides customers access to a data centre environment within walking distance of San Francisco’s financial district.

Originally built as a military tank assembly plant, the building features solid steel and concrete construction, as well as extensive security capabilities.

The building underwent upgrades for its friction pendulum system, which isolates the base of the building from its floors, ensuring critical operations are maintained throughout and after a major seismic event. As a result, the building has achieved “essential facility” designation according to applicable building codes.

SFR2 also operates as a carrier-neutral facility, enabling access to major carriers, internet exchanges, and cloud hubs within the region. Connectivity is facilitated within its meet me room, atop a neighbouring roof with significant line of sight, and via Telx Metro Connect service to other Telx and Digital Realty facilities in the Bay Area.

EQUINIX BUYS LAND IN SAN JOSE FOR DATA CENTRE Global data centre provider Equinix has bought just over 11 acres of land in San Jose, California in which it plans to build up to 386,000 sq ft of data centre space.

Public records show that Equinix, purchased the site from Star Financial and paid about US$12 million for the land, located adjacent to its existing data centre

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Equinix is going through the approval process for a data centre project there that would include two, two-story data centre buildings, public records show.

Last Summer Equinix revealed plans for expansion in the city that could add almost 1 million sq ft of space in five new buildings in south San Jose.

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Stuart Thompson, Equinix‘s director of real estate told the Silicon Valley Business Journal “We’ve had really strong fill rates in our core markets, and we have a lot of cloud companies that have come into our data centres. This is one of our best submarkets, and we want to make sure we plan for the future.“

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FBI TO EXPAND IDAHO DATA CENTRE

DIGITAL REALTY AND TATA COMMUNICATIONS PARTNER ON CONNECTIVITY SERVICES EXPANSION IN HILLSBORO

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is set to expand its data centre in the Idaho city of Pocatello.

The planned expansion is detailed in a government request for a proposal asking for bids to build a 100,000 sq ft data centre and to expand the existing administration building, KPVI reported.

Pocatello City Councilman Steve Brown told local new sources that the city in conjunction with Bannock Development Corporation has been working with the FBI on the proposed data centre for nearly two years.

A project synopsis describes the data centre as a single story 100,000 sq ft building with an approximate 25,000 sq ft data hall. The project will also expand the current FBI administration building.

The cost of the Project is expected to exceed US$10 million and create over 80 construction jobs with work on the new facility is expected to begin in the summer of 2017.

FORMER AUGUSTA MILL SITE TO BECOME A CYBER-CAMPUS The Augusta Canal Authority has announced that it has granted a 75-year ground lease of its Sibley Mill property to Cape Augusta Digital Properties, which will see the company develop a cyber-technology park on the site of Sibley Mill in Augusta, Georgia.

Over the past two years Cape Augusta has been planning to create a data centre inside of the 136-year-old mill. Now following a cleanup programme undertaken by The Canal Authority, the company has finalised the design. Developers are looking to sublease parts of the mill to data centre operators and users and, technology companies and cybereducators, WRDW reported.

The Authority will continue to operate the hydropower plant inside of the mill and provide Cape Augusta with water and electricity to cool the data centre’s computers.

Phase 1’s ground breaking is planned within a matter of weeks.

DELAWARE DATA CENTRE GETS US$7.5 MILLION GRANT The state government of Delaware has given approval for a US$7.5 million public grant to build a proposed data centre and natural gas power plant in the town of Middletown.

According to local media reports including The Wilmington News Journal, the state Infrastructure Investment Committee voted to give the grant to Cirrus Delaware LLC, on condition that the company receive an approved environmental permit and provides information to the state about who will be behind the funding and operation of the facility.

Cirrus wants to build an estimated US$350 million data centre and a natural gas electricity generator facility on a 49-acre parcel of land within the Middletown Autopark on the west side of town.

The approved grant would fund the construction of electrical and fibreoptic upgrades for the facility.

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Global data centre company Digital Realty Trust, has announced that it is partnering with Tata Communications, a leading provider of A New World of Communications, to offer customers a new state-of-the-art connectivity solution in Digital Realty‘s data centre in Hillsboro, Oregon. This facility is widely recognized as a hub for major submarine cables, and the partnership is expected to enable both organizations to meet enhanced customer demand for high-bandwidth services and enterprise-grade applications across the U.S. and Asia, reported a Company press release.

“Hillsboro is a growing hotspot for businesses, both large and small,“ said Genius Wong, President, Global Network, Cloud and Data Center Services at Tata Communications. “We are happy to extend our international transmission and IP network point-of-presence in Hillsboro, Oregon. This partnership will support the broadening of the customer base for both organizations. The facility will enable service providers and large enterprise customers in the U.S. and in Asia to get direct access to Tata Communications‘ full suite of network services.“ The 52,000 sq ft Hillsboro data centre is located 15 miles from downtown Portland and is unique in both its resiliency and efficiency. With a full 2N+1 UPS design, it can support client loads of 325 watts per sq ft to accommodate power-intensive applications. In addition, the facility is part of Digital Realty‘s West Coast portfolio that consists of 32 data centres across Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles, Sacramento, Oakland, San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Many of the company‘s West Coast campuses are connected by Telx Metro Connect and the introduction of this new solution is expected to provide enterprises with a global connectivity bridge to a unique network of densely connected ecosystems.

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CENTURYLINK JOINS G2G MARKETPLACE CenturyLink has announced that its colocation, cloud and security solutions are available through G2G Marketplace, an online technology procurement centre for U.S. state and local government agencies, reported a Company press release.

G2G Marketplace is a simple, user-friendly procurement marketplace launched in 2014 by government IT officials from Oakland County, Michigan as a “government-to-government“ resource to make it easier for agencies to purchase high-quality technology services. Government customers use the website to research, purchase and implement technology solutions and professional services using pre-negotiated blanket purchase agreements.

“CenturyLink is pleased to be working with G2G Marketplace to help our government and public sector customers implement new technologies to quickly and efficiently solve their business problems,“ said Rick Buyens, regional sales vice president, CenturyLink. “The G2G Marketplace streamlines the contracting, licensing and purchasing process for agencies that want to take their hybrid IT strategy to the next level using CenturyLink‘s colocation, cloud and security solutions.“ With G2G Marketplace, government agencies, including states, counties, municipalities, courts, schools, libraries, police departments and fire departments, can reduce the time and costs associated with evaluating technology vendors and negotiating complex contracts.

“Oakland County‘s G2G Marketplace has been nationally recognized by the National Association of Counties and the Center for Digital Government

because it gives local governments a way to improve customer service while reducing costs,“ said Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson. “We are pleased to add CenturyLink to the list of companies that provide government technology solutions in the cloud.“

US DEPARTMENT OF STATE OPENS MODULAR DATA CENTER The US Department of State, in collaboration with Chenega Decision Sciences, have held a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Department’s Modular Data Center (MDC), located within the compound of the Beltsville Information Messaging Center. The ceremony brought together Department employees, State of Maryland Officials, and private sector employees who together have contributed to the success of the MDC, Newsroom America reported.

The MDC provides the ability to expand and contract data centre capabilities based upon the needs of the Department. It also includes an innovative, adaptive cooling technology that helps reduce the carbon footprint of the data centre while maintaining peak performance.

Through the “virtualization first” policy, the Department is focused on containing the physical footprint of IT. Fewer physical servers translate into significant environmental impact through containment of environmentally harmful materials, decreased energy costs per server, decreased packaging materials, and transportation services. This accelerates the Department’s ability to meet Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) and Data Center Optimization Initiative (DCOI) mandates.

US GROUPS BACK RENEWABLE ENERGY ALLIANCE A new initiative has been launched in the US to help companies secure deals for wind and solar power, with the aim of adding 60 gigawatts of capacity to the US grid by 2025.

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Institute, is to help companies secure deals for wind and solar power, with the aim of adding 60 gigawatts of capacity to the US grid by 2025.

If successful, it would add about 60% to existing US wind and solar power capacity.

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PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY SOLIDIFIES DATA CENTRE OPPORTUNITIES

TELEFÓNICA TO BUILD VIRGINIA BEACH DATA CENTRE

Prince William County in Virginia has experienced tremendous economic growth in the data centre market over the past five years, with more than US$2.4 billion in capital investment and 370 new jobs in the county. To further seize upon the economic development opportunities data centres provide, the Board of County Supervisors designated nearly 10,000 acres of land as a Data Center Opportunity Zone Overlay District during its May 17 meeting, reported a press release from the County.

The Virginia Beach Development Authority approved the sale of a 3.5-acre site in Corporate Landing to Telefónica International for US$735,000. Telefónica will build a 20,000 to 23,000-sq ft data centre on the site that will house the first transoceanic fibre cable station in the Mid-Atlantic. The fibre cables will connect Brazil to North America at the installation planned in Virginia Beach, reported Datacentres.com.

This new zoning district permits the development and operation of data centres in all industrial, office and commercial zoning districts. It also promotes fast-track rezoning approvals for data centres within the Data Center Opportunity Zone.

“Data centres are vital to our community,” said Chairman Corey A. Stewart.

“They provide significant revenue to help offset the residential tax burden for our residents. We asked our Planning Office to develop a strategy, by working with the industry, to help us better identify where the opportunities exist in the community to support future data centres development.”

Following direction from the Board of County Supervisors to amend the zoning text to clarify data centres use, the Planning Office worked with members of the data centre community, utility companies and community leaders to develop what ultimately was presented as the Data Center Opportunity Zone Overlay District.

The Data Center Opportunity Zone was established over properties where supporting infrastructure is readily available or easily provided with minimal impact to residential properties. Also taken into consideration were the current zoning and long-range planning designations for properties.

The Board also voted to implement an expedited review process for electrical substations required to support data centres developments. This allows the same opportunity for citizen feedback on the location and development of electrical substations that will occur with any such application, but assures rapid turnaround if the substation is affiliated with a data centres or other targeted industry.

Telefónica officially announced the deployment of BRUSA, a new submarine cable nearly 11,000 km in length linking Rio de Janeiro and Fortaleza (Brazil) with San Juan (Puerto Rico) and Virginia Beach (USA) in March. The cable is expected to begin operations in early 2018 reinforcing Telefónica’s infrastructure leadership in the Americas.

“This project significantly advances Virginia Beach’s potential for future projects of this kind,” said Virginia Beach Economic Development Director Warren D. Harris.

“These companies cluster, and we plan to leverage the Telefónica announcement to bring more data centres to the City. Additionally, we anticipate even more interest because the stronger telecom infrastructure will have great appeal to businesses that require big data.”

This new infrastructure will improve communication reliability and deliver enhanced resilience by increasing the number of USA landing points, overall network performance and end-to-end security. BRUSA will also provide one of the lowest latency communication links between the two large economies, Brazil and USA, and it will offer a greater flexibility and scalability than previously deployed systems.

BRUSA will become part of Telxius, the global company recently created by Telefónica to best optimise its infrastructure asset portfolio, and that will gradually integrate certain of these assets including part of its tower and submarine fibre optic cable networks.

QUINTILLION SUBSEA HOLDINGS ACQUIRES ASSETS OF ARCTIC FIBRE Quintillion Subsea Holdings, the Alaska based company majority owned by New York-based private investment firm Cooper Investment Partners, has said that it has acquired the assets of Canadian telecoms firm Arctic Fibre, as part of a

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FUJITSU TO BUILD INDUSTRY-FIRST MARITIME BIG DATA PLATFORM FOR NIPPON KAIJI KYOKAI

Fujitsu has announced that it has built a maritime big data platform for Nippon Kaiji Kyokai, an international ship classification society also known as ClassNK, reported a Company press release.

Fujitsu has now built a platform with ClassNK that collects and accumulates machinery operational data from moving vessels, such as engine data, as well as marine weather information, as big data. This enables maritime businesses such as ship operators and shipyards to extract data about vessels under navigation, as needed. This will enable, for example, operations personnel to predict malfunctions using engine operations data, or to achieve more energy-efficient operations using voyage data and marine weather data.

This maritime big data platform, the first shared platform in the maritime industry, will be operated as a data centre service by Ship Data Center Co., Ltd. a subsidiary of ClassNK established in December 2015. Fujitsu will support the further effective use of ship data by expanding the functionality of this maritime big data platform, contributing to the further development of the maritime industry.

With the development of broadband communications at sea, it has become possible to collect and monitor navigational information and information from sensors mounted on ship equipment and machinery. There has also been a focus on new efforts using data, such as energy-efficient operations and malfunction diagnosis. When these systems are built separately, however, their use is restricted to a few ships and maritime businesses due to the burden of cost and effort, such as data use agreements and strong security measures.

This new ship data centre, operated by Ship Data Center, is the industry’s first effort that provides collected data as a shared platform to promote broad data use in the maritime industry.

The ship data centre aggregates and stores navigational information sent from individual ships, such as from a VDR, operational and measurement information for engines and all manner of ship-mounted equipment (machinery data), and worldwide marine weather information. Previously, in order to use ship data, maritime businesses had to individually collect the necessary data and integrate it as unified data, but now, because a wide variety of data is all collected together in the ship data centre, and is provided through a web API that can generate a specialized data format for each business, they no longer need to prepare their own system from scratch to make use of big data. In addition, all sorts of data, collected in a variety of formats, can be converted to a variety of easier-to-use formats, such as CSV or JSON, when provided to users.

Because ship data is collected, stored, and transmitted through the internet, the ship data centre features security functionality, such as data virus checking and user authentication.

Fujitsu will continue to expand the functionality of the ship data centre, such as through the use of AI-based data analysis technology.

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GOOGLE CHANGHUA DATA CENTRE EXPANSION PLANS UNCHANGED Google, the search engine giant has refuted stories that the company is facing water supply issues in its planned expansion of a data centre in located in the Changhua Coastal Industrial Park, Taiwan.

In a statement form the company it said that its plan to expand the data centres, the first phase of which opened in late 2013, remains unchanged, and the project is a long-term commitment, Focus Taiwan reported.

The statement was issued in response to a United Daily News report that the company halted the third phase of the data centre project in Changhua over insufficient water supply.

The Water Resources Agency – the state department with responsibility for such matters - rebutted the report, saying that the park‘s water supply was adequate at present and would increase substantially when a water purification station is completed in late 2017.

NETSUITE EXPECTS TO SET UP ASIA DATA CENTRES The US software company NetSuite has said that it will look to set up two data centres in Asia in 2017 to serve regional customers of its cloud-based business software, reported Techoondu.

Late last year the company announced the opening of two major data centre deployments in Europe, one in Amsterdam, the other in Dublin, to support NetSuite’s growth in Europe and meet the needs of the increasing number of European companies that are adopting NetSuite’s cloud business management platform to more efficiently manage and transform their businesses.

According to Zach Nelson, the company’s CEO The new data centres are expected to be in Singapore, though the company is also evaluating if Hong Kong is suitable.

Nelson told reporters at the company’s annual SuiteWorld show in San Jose that the expansion into Asia will cost between US$2 million to US$3 million for the equipment and manpower involved, with one of the sites acting as a failover or backup, he added.

TENCENT AND ZTE ANNOUNCE GREEN DATA CENTRE SOLUTION

The Australian data centre provider NEXTDC has announced a second data centre expansion plan within a number of days. Earlier in the week, the company it has finalised agreement to acquire a site for the construction of B2, its second data centre in Brisbane, Queensland, now it has said it will acquire a site for the construction of M2, its second data centre in Melbourne, Victoria, reported Datacentres.com.

Tencent, the Chinese cloud and Internet services provider, and ZTE, an international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions, have announced a new containerised data centre solution called Tencent West Lab, reported Infotech Lead.

This represents an investment of up to AU$85 million into the Victorian digital economy over the next 12 to 18 months, which includes the land, base building and associated infrastructure to support the facility’s initial capacity of 2MW of IT load at launch, and its ability to dramatically scale up to a target capacity of 25MW at full fit-out.

According to the company’s the data centre has a power usage effectiveness (PUE) level of 1.0665 as measured by the China Academy of Telecommunication Research (CATR). This compares favourably to the majority of China’s data centres who have a PUE rating of 2.2 – while global average for data centres is around 1.7 according to the 2014 data from the Uptime Institute.

The construction of M2 is expected to support up to 200 jobs on and off-site, with another 100 jobs supported deeper in the supply chain of prefabricated elements. Wherever possible, NEXTDC will engage Australian or Victorianbased suppliers for the facility construction and production of pre-fabricated materials.

According to China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the annual power consumption of China’s data centre industry exceeds 1.5% of the total power consumption of the whole of China. This is creating an urgency to initiate further industry-leading green and energy-saving data centre projects.

ZTE and Tencent claim that the West Lab data centre uses a unique power supply combination of solar photovoltaic & high-voltage, direct current & mains power. With respect to cooling, the project is the first in China to put indirect evaporative free cooling technology into a business application.

The energy efficiency ratio achieved by this method can reach 16.0, which is five times the efficiency of conventional mechanical compression cooling air-conditioning systems.

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NEXTDC CEO Craig Scroggie said, “With Australian businesses currently focused on growth and innovation through the application of the latest technologies, M2 will deliver significant new capacity for organisations to access world-class colocation facilities and the benefits of cloud computing.

“Our strategic new location in Tullamarine provides customers with a resilient, highly connected facility to host their mission critical infrastructure and connect to a choice of cloud services. This investment into Victoria’s growing IT industry and Australia’s wider business economy reflects the ongoing customer demand we’re experiencing for NEXTDC’s premium data centre services.”

As with the new Brisbane facility, NEXTDC expects practical completion of M2 towards the end of 2017.

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ST TELEMEDIA BUYS 74% STAKE IN TATA COMMUNICATIONS DATA CENTRE BUSINESS Singapore Technologies Telemedia is set to buy a 74% stake in the data centre business owned by Tata Communications Ltd., the Indian telecom conglomerate in a transaction which values the entire business at about US$640 million, reported Bloomberg.

ST Telemedia - part of the Singapore owned investment firm Temasek Holdings – will then have a majority stake in 14 data centres in India including Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore and three Singapore facilities. Tata Communications will hold the remaining 26% stake.

Tata Communications, which provides telecom and data services infrastructure through its network of undersea and terrestrial cables, has been reportedly looking to sell non-core assets to reduce debt.

Tata Communications Chief Executive Vinod Kumar said “Our new partnership also gives us the opportunity to redeploy capital behind other areas of our business to further broaden the portfolio of services we can offer to meet our customers’ current and future requirements,” Tata Communications Chief Executive Vinod Kumar said.

The transaction will allow ST Telemedia, to expand and strengthen its global data centre network to span four geographies including China and India.

ST Telemedia chief executive Sio Tat Hiang said “The latest addition of India to the ST Telemedia Global Data Center will be a major impetus to advance the company’s ambition to be a significant global data centre provider,” ST Telemedia chief executive Sio Tat Hiang said.

CHINA UNICOM TO INVEST US$2.1BILLION IN SHANGHAI Earlier this year, the Chinese telecom carrier China Unicom has said that it is building a nationwide network of data centres. Now the company has outlined a major investment project to expand and upgrade its telecoms infrastructure, building new an IoT platform and data centres in Shanghai.

The operator recently signed an “Internet+” cooperation agreement with the Shanghai municipal government. As part of the agreement,

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Unicom has committed to invest US$2.15 billion to expand and upgrade its fixed optical network and wireless infrastructure in Shanghai over the next five years, reported Telecom Asia.

The company also plans to build new data centres and big data infrastructure to provide could computing applications and services for urban management and social services.

The operator said it plans to deploy tri-band carrier aggregation on its 4G network to boost network speeds and aims to offer high-speed fibre and mobile broadband services at speeds of up to 1Gpbs in some key areas in the city.

China Unicom‘s has already built up a portfolio of six national-level data centres and a dozen smaller data centres, which now are hosting roughly 1 million servers and cover 31 provinces.

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DIGITAL REALTY TRUST PRELEASE OSAKA FACILITY TO CLOUD PROVIDER Following the release of its financial results for the first quarter of 2016, Global data centre company Digital Realty Trust, has revealed, that it has pre-leased the entirety of its first data centre in Japan to an un-named cloud service provider, reported Data Center Knowledge.

The company’s Chief Executive Officer A. William Stein. Said “Leasing activity included a multi-megawatt lease with a hyper-scale cloud service provider in Osaka, fully leasing phase one of our first project in Japan. We also announced that we entered Germany, with the acquisition of a six-acre land parcel.“ In 2013, Digital announced that it paid some US$10.5 million for the 15,000-sq m site which at that time was scheduled to open in the fourth quarter of 2014, however, the company broke ground in Osaka in April this year and is expecting to deliver the facility to the customer in the Autumn.

INTERNAP PARTNERS WITH EQUINIX Global data centre company Equinix, has announced that Internap, a provider of high-performance Internet infrastructure services, has joined the Equinix Channel Partner Program as well as the Equinix Cloud Exchange to expand its global reach and provide high-performance connectivity to its portfolio of cloud services, a Company press release reported.

A blog post from Takeshi Numoto CVP, Cloud + Enterprise at Microsoft has revealed that the U.S. tech giant plans to open two data centres in South Korea, in line with its efforts to expand cloud computing services in the region, reported Datacentres.com.

As part of this partnership, Internap will be offering its China Performance IPTM solution via Equinix data centres in Hong Kong. China Performance IP leverages Internap’s patented Managed Internet Route Optimizer (MIRO) technology to identify the fastest route into China across multiple carriers. By offering this solution via Platform Equinix, Internap is able to deliver latency improvements of 2-10X over traditional IP.

Numoto wrote “As one of the largest cloud operators in the world, Microsoft has invested more than US$15 billion in building a resilient cloud infrastructure and cloud services that are highly available and secure while lowering overall costs. With the introduction of new regions in Korea, Microsoft has now announced 32 Azure regions around the world with 24 generally available today – more than any other major cloud provider.

By providing direct, route-optimized connection between Hong Kong and China, Equinix and Internap enable enterprises to gain low latency access to mainland China’s fast-growing markets, removing the complexity, cost and time required to set up operations on the mainland or engage directly with China’s Internet providers. Latency improvements of 2X over Internap’s traditional Hong Kong IP offering is typical, and some mainland China destinations experience latency improvements of up to 10X.

This latest investment is further proof of Microsoft‘s commitment to empower customers to embrace a cloud-first world on their terms and is expected to accelerate public and hybrid cloud adoption within Korea. Businesses in Korea and throughout Asia Pacific will be able use the massive computing power available locally to fuel growth, spur innovation and accelerate digital transformation”.

Steve Orchard, SVP and GM of data centre and network services, Internap said “Our 14-year relationship with Equinix has allowed us to continually offer expanded services, worldwide. By joining the Equinix Cloud Exchange and offering our China Performance IP via Platform Equinix in Asia, we continue to provide the highest performance solutions for our growing enterprise customer base, whether they are in Asia, or anywhere across the globe. And now, under the Equinix channel program, our relationship will continue to grow, providing cloud-based services to the market.”

Microsoft said it will open data centres in Seoul and Busan, respectively, in the first half of 2017.

The post also revealed that Microsoft Azure is generally available from local data centre regions located in Toronto and Quebec City in Canada.

NCELL INVESTS US$120 MILLION IN CONNECTIVITY AND DATA CENTRES The Nepal based privately owned mobile network operator, Ncell has announced that it is committed to spend approximately US$120 million for the development of telecommunications infrastructure in the country this year, the Himalayan Times reported.

Simon Perkins, managing director of Ncell, said “We will be investing around US$120 million for the remainder of 2016. We will focus the investment in Nepal where it matters — building telecommunications infrastructure for better network and quality coverage, in our aim to serve the people of Nepal for the longer-term,” Ncell will be expanding its footprint into remote and rural areas, aiming to bolster connectivity in those regions, as well as enhancing network capacity in cities to deliver high-speed internet.

The company also said it will invest a significant amount in building quakeresistant data centres in the Kathmandu Valley, which lies in highly sensitive earthquake-prone zone. Ncell presently has data centres in Kathmandu and Biratnagar, as well as containerised data centres in Pokhara and Hetauda.

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6th – 7th June 2016 Gartner CIO and IT Executive Summit, Munich http://www.gartner.com/events/emea/cio-de

8th June 2016 Invest in Data Centre Africa Summit, Monaco http://www.datacloudcongress.com/africa

9th June 2016 IDC Financial Services Forum, London http://www.cvent.com/events/idc-s-financial-services-forum-2016/eventsummary-c42e381358c3452c8ca88439815e395e.aspx

13th – 14th June 2016 Gartner PPM & IT Governance Summit, London http://www.gartner.com/events/emea/ppm

7th June 2016 Datacloud Awards, Monaco “9th Annual Awards Ceremony The all new Datacloud Awards 2016 introduces new experts to the Judges Panel, expanding its reputation for new insight, market and technical knowledge.” http://www.datacloudawards.com/

8th – 9th June 2016 Datacloud Europe, Monaco “Now in its 3rd year in Monaco, and twelfth year for the European event, Datacloud is the bellweather for cloud and data centres.

Hosted in an outstanding backdrop, the event offers a professional range of services for sponsor and exhibitor ROI. Over 180 of the highest calibre speakers, experts and enterprise infrastructure leaders will join forces over the two day conference to present a powerful not-to-be missed agenda including keynotes, panel sessions and discussion sessions.” http://www.datacloudcongress.com/

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14th – 15th June 2016 Gartner IT Infrastructure & Operations Management Summit, Berlin http://www.gartner.com/events/emea/infrastructure-operations-management

15th – 16th June 2016 Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summit, London http://www.gartner.com/events/emea/enterprise-architecture

21st – 22nd June 2016 Interop, London http://www.interop.co.uk/

29th June 2016 IDC IT Security Virtualization & Infrastructure Efficiency Roadshow 2016, Minsk http://idc-cema.com/eng/events/62793-idc-it-securityvirtualizationinfrastructure-efficiency-roadshow-2016-minsk”

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6th – 8th June 2016 Gartner Tech Growth & Innovation Conference, Los Angeles CA http://www.gartner.com/events/na/tech-growth

7th – 9th June 2016 Cloud Expo, New York http://www.cloudcomputingexpo.com/

13th – 16th June 2016 Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit, National Harbor MD http://www.gartner.com/events/na/security

14th – 16th June 2016 Gartner CIO and IT Executive Summit, Toronto http://www.gartner.com/events/na/cio-canada

28th – 29th June 2016 Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Data Centre Summit, Mexico City http://www.gartner.com/events/es/la/data-center-mexico

2nd June 2016 DatacenterDynamics Converged, Bogota “Colombia continues to lead economic growth in Latin America. The country is extremely attractive for IT service providers due to its geographical location and the quality of its human resources. The data center market in Colombia has evolved considerably in recent years . So much so that the country already has eight certifications in design and construction Tier III and Tier IV , thereby aligning itself to global trends .

According to data from the Division of Intelligence of DatacenterDynamcis it is expected that the technology market data center in Colombia reach 2.4 billion dollars in 2016. In this context DCD Converged Colombia , the most important users encounter , operators and service providers and products data center , returns to the scene in its 7th edition .” http://www.dcdconverged.com/conferences/colombia-2016

19th – 20th July 2016 DatacenterDynamics Converged Webscale, San Jose CA “SDN, Hyper Converged, Open Architecture, NFV, Web Scale, Disaggregation…

The data center stack keeps on getting more complicated. DCD Webscale brings together 1,200+ senior business, operations and technology professionals from the world’s largest internet companies to discuss the future of digital infrastructure in the Zettabyte era.

From “”mud to cloud””, this event covers the full ecosystem for how enterprise data centers are being re-defined and how the economics of digital business, IT and data center service delivery is being re-shaped.

With 100+ hours of expert panels, keynote presentations, interactive workshops and roundtables, not to mention an expo showcasing 100 of the latest technologies - This really is the event not to be missed! In less than 48 hours you will network, learn and share your way to a more decisive 2016.” http://www.dcdconverged.com/conferences/webscale

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2nd – 3rd August 2016 Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit, Sao Paulo http://www.gartner.com/events/pt/la/security

15th – 18th August 2016 Gartner Catalyst Conference, San Diego CA http://www.gartner.com/events/na/catalyst

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8th – 10th June 2016 Interop Tokyo http://www.interop.jp/?itc=we_ilv_le_ilv_hdr_glonav

20th – 21st June 2016 Gartner Business Transformation & Process Management Summit, Sydney

15th June 2016 DatacenterDynamics Converged, Shanghai

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24th June 2016 Gartner Sourcing & Strategic Vendor Relationships Summit, Tokyo http://gartner-em.jp/ss2016/

11th – 13th July 2016 Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit, Tokyo http://gartner-em.jp/srm2016/

“Beyond facility management and energy efficiency, the landscape for IT infrastructure is being transformed by concepts like hybrid cloud, hyperconverged, open architecture, IoT, and big data. It is this transformation that is driving the future growth in the industry, but also increasing the complexity of the data center stack.

With nearly 650 million regular Internet users and 557 million active mobile phones, China is fully embracing the digital era resulting in an exponential uptake of cloud and data services.

DCD Enterprise China 2016 will bring together international and domestic experts who are defining the future of data centers. Discussions around the world’s best practices from global leaders will shape the direction of innovation in the Chinese data center industry and how we can maximise the efficiency and profitability of data centers, capable of supporting China’s rapid transition to a service economy. “ http://www.dcdconverged.com/conferences/shanghai-2016

21st June 2016 DatacenterDynamics Converged, Melbourne Returning for its 7th year, refreshed and better than ever, DCD’s annual Australia event will include thought-leading content across new conference tracks, data center tours, private roundtable discussions, and more networking activities in pursuit of excellence and high-level conversations for the carefully selected audience of 400 top data center and IT professionals. Be at the forefront of the industry! Join us to drive greater environmental sustainability, and the optimization of your data center and IT strategy through best practices and innovations shared by our international speakers and industry leaders. http://www.dcdconverged.com/conferences/australia-2016

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25th – 26th July 2016 Gartner Application, Architecture, Development & Integration Summit, Sydney http://www.gartner.com/events/apac/applications

22nd – 23rd August 2016 Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit, Sydney http://www.gartner.com/events/apac/security

20th – 21st July 2016 DatacenterDynamics Converged, Bangalore The annual Datacenter Dynamics Converged conference returns for it’s 6th year running. This year’s conference will once again bring the community together to discuss the latest trends, technologies and developments in the market. India’s story, where data centre’s are concerned have so far been a mixture of growth and a “stop-start” situation. However, as outlined in our annual research report, India’s service based economy is large, we employ more people in service sectors than any other nation. This has driven data centre build and investments to complete the service cycle. Larger organisations are now looking at infrastructure replacement and growth related projects covering mobility, cloud and big data. Whereas small and medium sized enterprises are increasingly moving towards hosting and colocation services. http://www.dcdconverged.com/conferences/india-2016

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