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HUAWEI VOWS TO BUILD DATA CENTRES ACROSS ALL WORLD REGIONS, IN ALL MAJOR COUNTRIES

Company reiterates primarily focus in public cloud services and private cloud construction.

Huawei has shed some light on its plans to become a cloud world power by unveiling its plans to build dozens of data centres outside the APAC region.

Speaking to Data Economy, Ma Yue, VP of Huawei’s Enterprise Business Group, said: “We have a roadmap to build data centres across Asia-Pacific and in addition to that, we are actively working with partners around the world to build data centres.

“We have plans for data centres across the world including Asia-Pacific and the regions outside of it in all major countries.

“We will build data centres in all key regions around the world.”

Asked to specify which regions the company was mostly focusing on, Yue jokingly responded: “Specifically in Europe, Africa, Middle East, Commonwealth countries, and North America and Latin America.”

Huawei has this week announced it will open a data centre in New Zealand to help build the country’s digital infrastructure as more business turn to cloud computing.

The company has also deployed a data centre in Abu Dhabi, and is currently building a facility at Dubai’s airport.

Yue said: “Our R&D primarily focuses on cloud computing, big data, internet of things, global networks, software defined networks, and we hope that based on these long term, sustainable and robust technologies. We will continue to invest and drive a leading ICT platform at Huawei.

“Cloud is a buzzword and Huawei is able to provide an ICT platform pulling a synergy across cloud level, the hype level and the device level.

“Various data transmitted through devices will be able to, through the network, be computed on the cloud. And in cloud computing our primarily focus is public cloud services and private cloud construction.

“Together with our partners, and this includes our partnerships with telcos, we are actively expanding the cloud computing business.

“Data centres are a key focus, key direction of our endeavours.”

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EQUINIX EN ROUTE TO $18BN CAPEX WITH FIVE DATA CENTRE OPENINGS IN THE PIPELINE

$140M TO ‘RESHAPE NATO’S NERVOUS SYSTEM’ Alliance is moving towards the cloud in “the most significant upgrade to the organisation’s technical infrastructure in decades”.

NATO has entered a period of IT infrastructure modernisation and awarded General Dynamics Information Technology a contract with a potential value of $140m over five years to carry out the works.

The contract, signed by the NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency), specifies the alliance’s need to upgrade its infrastructure in what the body has labelled as “the most significant upgrade to the organisation’s technical infrastructure in decades”.

General Dynamics has been tasked with to implementing a private cloud-based infrastructure in partnership with the NCI Agency.

The private cloud is expected to improve the operational efficiency and effectiveness of NATO’s IT enterprise.

This will be accomplished through a series of IT modernisation phases, including the updating obsolete IT infrastructure, implementing NATO-wide continuity and disaster recovery capabilities and clarifying service levels in cloud computing terms.

In addition, other works to be carried out include enhancing information security measures, increasing operational agility by enabling the dynamic reallocation of resources, and reducing O&M costs through the streamlining of management and operations.

Additionally, the General Dynamics will implement multiple Service Operations Centers that will enable real-time command and control of NATO-provided IT services.

NATO’s contract with General Dynamics will see the provider perform its tasks across many of the 28 NATO member nations with Belgium as the control centre.

Koen Gijsbers, NCI Agency General Manager, said: “This contract will fundamentally reshape NATO’s nervous system and allow us to reduce costs.

“In light of its importance to the Alliance’s cyber posture, it is paramount that the work is executed on time, in scope and in budget.”

Bernie Guerry, senior vice president of General Dynamics Information Technology’s Intelligence Solutions division, said: “This IT modernisation program comes at a critical juncture for the Alliance, and will be a significant contributor to delivering resilient and cutting-edge support to NATO at a time of unprecedented challenges on both the northern and southern flanks of the Alliance.”

Company also plans 14 expansions for 2017 as demand for colocation services grows to never before seen levels across all regions.

The world’s largest colocation provider Equinix is set to grow even bigger in 2017 with the opening of five new data centres and the launch of 14 expansions in existing regions. The investment totals $1bn in capital expenditure in 2017 alone. Equinix has since foundation invested $17bn, which includes the acquisition of Verizon’s data centres in the Americas.

The new five data centres in São Paulo, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Silicon Valley and Washington DC will add to the company’s portfolio 5,600 cabinets and more than one million sqf of colocation space. The new sites will be directly connected to other Equinix International Business Exchange (IBX) data centers within each metro via fiber links between the sites.

In São Paulo, the company has already launched its largest Latin America data centre to date with 215,000 sqf in March. The site alone, named SP3 IBX, has the capacity to double the whole of Equinix’s footprint in Brazil.

In Frankfurt, the operator expects to open FR6 in Q2 2017 add 1,325 cabinets and more than 72,000 gross sqf. Also in Europe, in the Dutch capital, Equinix expects to open in Q3 2017 the AM4 IBX data centre. The building will have 12 stories and the first phase will add 1,555 cabinets and more than 245,000 gross sqf of data centre.

In the capital of tech, Silicon Valley, Equinix will bulk up its San Jose Great Oaks campus with the SV10 data centre expected to open in Q2 2017. The firstphase of SV10 will add 795 cabinets and more than 190,000 gross sqf.

SV10 is the first build on 11 acres of land purchased by Equinix in 2016.

The lastdata centre launch will be in Washington DC ith DC12 IBX expected to openin Q3 2017 as an extension to Equinix’s existing Ashburn campus.

The first phase of DC12 will add 1,275 cabinets and more than 190,000 grosssqf. It is the first build on 44 acres of land purchased by Equinix in 2012. In addition to the five new IBX openings in 2017, Equinix expansions of existing IBX data centers include 14 projects that will open in 2017 in Amsterdam, Dallas, Dubai, Dublin, Frankfurt, Helsinki, Hong Kong, New York, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Singapore, Toronto and Zurich.

Furthermore, the operator has carried out or plans to carry out further expansion activity in Ashburn, London and Zurich. Equinix currently operates 150 IBX data centres in 21 countries and 41 metros across 14 million gross sqf of data centre space.

Steve Smith, CEO of Equinix who recently celebrated ten years at the helm of the company, said: “The transformative impact of the shift to digital is touching every company and requiring an IT infrastructure that can accommodate this new reality.

“As a result, companies are seeking to bring their data to the digital edge – closer to customers, employees and strategic partners.

“The globally consistent footprint of Equinix, combined with its ability to facilitate the critical interconnection between companies, is enabling this shift, creating opportunity for business growth in a rapidly changing digital world.”

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SERVER SLOWDOWN SENDS DATA CENTRE SYSTEMS SPENDING TO $173BN IN 2018 Slowdown in server acquisitions and a shift in consumer habits mean the data centre space will see a timid growth in spending both this and next year.

Worldwide IT spending on data centre systems is expected to reach $173bn, a growth of 1.2% when compared to 2017 ($171bn).

The figures have been released by Garnets in its Worldwide IT Spending Forecast which predicts a cross-vertical spending of $3.55tr next year, up from $3.46tr in 2017 and $3.41tr in 2016.

The data centre systems vertical is expected to growth from a deficit that has impacted the industry in 2016, when spending topped $171bn, falling 0.01%.

Yet, of all the verticals analysed – data centre systems, enterprise software, devices, IT services, and communications services -, the data centre space is predicted to grow the least in 2018 due to a slowdown in server spending.

Enterprise software is estimated to growth 7.1% to $376bn, up from 2017’s $351bn. This is followed by IT services, which are predicted to jump 4.7% next year to $961bn, from this year’s $917bn.

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Analysts expect spending on devices to climb 1.7% topping $656bn, when in 2017 spending is predicted to reach $645bn.

Lastly, communications services follow close behind to data centre services with a timid growth of 1.3%.

However, communication services represent the largest portion of total spending at $1.37tr in 2017, growing to $1.39tr in 2018.

John-David Lovelock, research vice president at Gartner, said: “The strong US dollar has cut $67 billion out of our 2017 IT spending forecast. We expect these currency headwinds to be a drag on earnings of US-based multinational IT vendors through 2017. “[In the data centre space] we are seeing a shift in who is buying servers and who they are buying them from.

“Organisations are moving away from buying servers from the traditional vendors and instead renting server power in the cloud from companies such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft. This has created a reduction in spending on servers which is impacting the overall data centre system segment.”

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HUAWEI, GLOBAL SWITCH FORGE PARTNERSHIP TO BUILD MODULAR DATA CENTRES

HYPERSCALERS TAKING OVER THE WORLD AT AN UNPRECEDENTED SCALE Need of heavy capital expenditures means very few are part of the hyperscale group which is posed to continue to take over cloud and other verticals.

Hyperscale operators are becoming the world’s top leaders in a series of verticals from cloud to networks, researchers have found.

Synergy Research Group has released new figures that show a growth in cloud shares amongst hyperscalers which accounted at the end of 2016 for 68% of the cloud infrastructure services market (IaaS, PaaS, private hosted cloud services) and 59% of the SaaS market. In 2012 those hyperscale operators accounted for just 47% of each of those markets.

According to the think tank, there are today 24 companies that meet the definition of hyperscale operating 320 large data centres worldwide, with this figure expected to increase by 100 new buildings by the end of 2018.

Synergy explains that hyperscale operators usually operate data centre networks with thousands of servers. However, players like Amazon and Google stretch this to the millions of servers across the global data centre fleets.

Today, the cloud leaders in this segment include Microsoft, Amazon and IBM each operating 45 or more data centres with at least two in each of the four regions (North America, APAC, EMEA and Latin America).

Project to address data centre design, operation and maintenance and the utilisation of technical space in the data centre.

Chinese giant Huawei and data centre services provider Global Switch have joint forces to build modular data centres that support smart operation and maintenance (O&M).

The project aims to address operating costs reducing these and augmenting the ROI whilst also improving data centre efficiency.

Huawei has been tasked with providing its data centre solutions, including iPower, iCooling, and iManager used in its own modular data centre solutions.

The two companies said the partnership establishes an understanding between both Huawei and Global Switch to allow them to explore ways to mutually benefit from and develop each other’s businesses in respect of data centre design, operation and maintenance and the utilisation of technical space in the data centre.

Diana Yuan, President of Marketing and Solution Sales Department, Enterprise Business Group from Huawei, said: “The new technologies of cloud computing, big data and so on, put forward new challenges on data centre operators’ business models and operating efficiency.

“However, it is also a great opportunity for new development. Huawei’s advanced technologies of network connection, energy efficiency optimisation, and smart management should prove beneficial in supporting Global Switch in the future.”

Synergy highlights that in order to become a leading hyperscaler, a heavy investment has to be done towards infrastructure with capital expenditures exceeding the vast majority of companies worldwide and therefore holding many back from leapfrogging into the hyperscale segment.

For example, Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella has unveiled that the company has since the launch of its Azure cloud invested nearly $20bn to build the necessary ecosystem.

This, according to analysts, means that hyperscalers will continue to both increase their share of service markets and account for an ever-larger portion of spend on data centre infrastructure equipment – servers, storage, networking, network security and associated software.

John Dinsdale, a Chief Analyst and Research Director at Synergy Research Group, said: “[Hyperscale operators] are reshaping the services market, radically changing IT spending patterns within enterprises, and causing major disruptions among infrastructure technology vendors.”

Furthermore, it is not just in the cloud space that hyperscalers are disrupting the business landscape.

The players in this segment are also building the world’s networks, especially subsea cables, which a large portion of the global internet traffic now running through private networks owned or operated by hyperscalers, according to Tim Stronge, VP of TeleGeography.

With a dominant position in the cloud and networks, hyperscalers are also consequently becoming leaders in the services space.

John Corcoran, Chief Executive Officer of Global Switch, said: “Global Switch data centres serve customers of diverse scales across many countries and provide them with reliable, secure, and resilient IT infrastructure.

“O&M cost and efficiency are of great importance to large-scale network dense data centres. We look forward to collaborating with Huawei to improve data centre O&M experience and efficiency.”

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CLOUDFLARE GLOBAL EXPANSION LANDS 105TH DATA CENTRE IN ROME Company also gives some clues on where its next data centre will be as new facilities are expected to be brought online in every continent.

CDN provider Cloudflare has announced it will be opening its 105th data centre in Rome, Italy, after unveiling plans to launch similar facilities in Armenia and Ecuador.

The company has initiated a data centre launch program rarely seen in the industry by unveiling new facilities across the world through a phased-out schedule.

The announcements have all been made on the company’s online blog by Nitin Rao, head of infrastructure at Cloudflare.

Regarding the Rome data centre, he said: “As our global network grows in breadth and capacity, we are able to stop attacks (typically, outside of Italy!), while serving legitimate traffic from our nearest in-country data centre.

“Rome serves as a point of redundancy to our existing data centre in Milan, and expands Cloudflare’s Europe network to 29 cities, with at least five more cities already in the works.”

The company is partnering with local hosting providers, value-added resellers, managed service providers, digital agencies, and eCommerce/SaaS platforms.

Looking at the next announcement, Rao said that “with Rome (R) and Yerevan (Y) live, the only remaining letters that are not as yet at the start of a city with a Cloudflare data centre are E, I and U”.

He said: “Our hardware on its way to a transcontinental city promises to makes that list even smaller.

“After Asia, South America and Europe, our 106th Cloudflare data centre will be back in North America. Everything’s up to date in our next city!”

In the first announcements, the company said it will also add two extra data centres in Latin America, and that customers could count on having more facilities in Africa and Europe on top of North America and APAC.

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DATA CENTRE ENERGY EFFICIENCY (STILL) OUT OF CONTROL

ZENIUM BREAKS GROUND ON FRANKFURT DATA CENTRE WITH EYES ON ‘NEW OPPORTUNITIES WORLDWIDE’

Operators urged to take on board best practices around regular monitoring of key performance indicators across the data centre.

Despite much industry talk on data centre energy efficiency, nearly half of those responsible for data centres management have no idea on whether their facility has improved its carbon footprint or not.

The finding has been exposed by modular data centre company Secure I.T. Environments in its survey of IT decision makers and C-level executives carried out in Q1 2017.

In total, 46% of respondents said they did not know whether their data centre had improved in energy efficiency over the last two years.

Of those that know about their data centre energy strategy and outcomes, 7% admitted that this had declined in the last 24 months, compared to 47% that said the contrary.

In terms of ‘big worries’ energy efficiency was ranked as the second biggest concern by 33% of respondents who expressly admitted to be worried around the “ability to demonstrate improved ICT energy efficiency”.

The top worry is, however, to 47% of those questioned the “lack of budget available for data centre management and/or infrastructure upgrades”.

In third place (30%) was budget allocation for software and systems developments, and finding/recruiting qualified ICT staff.

Yet, in terms of investment priorities, security (38%) was given as thegreatest priority for organisations when facing limited budgets, followed by the upgrade or ICT systems and infrastructure (29%) and maintenance of ICT systems and infrastructure (26%).

Chris Wellfair, Projects Director at Secure I.T. Environments, said: “It is surprising that so many organisations do not understand the energy usage and efficiency of their data centres, because it can tell them a lot about their infrastructure.

“Regular monitoring of key performance indicators across the data centre can not only improve efficiency, but lower costs, identify failing equipment, and improve maintenance regime.”

The survey was conducted amongst 100 UK IT decision makers and C-level executives with responsibility for data centres.

Campus in the German city will account to 32% of the provider’s total square footage once the facility comes online in Q2 2018.

Data centre services provider Zenium has broken ground on its second data centre in Frankfurt set to top 80,700 sqf of space.

Frankfurt Two is being built by construction contractor Lupp Group and will have a power load of 17.6 MW. At the ceremony hosted in Sossenheim, east side of Frankfurt, Zenium has also announced that it has already secured a pre-let contract for 7MW of power with a global IT Services company.

Speaking to Data Economy, Franek Sodzawiczny, Zenium’s founder and CEO, said: “Demand for data centre facilities in Frankfurt is high. The Zenium Frankfurt One data centre is approaching full capacity and, in response to customer demand in the form of a pre-let contract, the decision to expand our footprint in Frankfurt with Frankfurt Two was entirely logical.

“We are in regular discussions with our customers to support them in both existing and new markets, and we are continually assessing new opportunities worldwide.”

Sodzawiczny added that the two facilities in Frankfurt will represent 32% of the total square footage offered by Zenium when Frankfurt Two is completed in the second quarter 2018.

He continued: “Our unique funding model enables us to remain agile, assessing opportunities almost on the move. We have seen significant levels of uptake in our services in Germany and we will continue to respond to the demand for purpose-built, highly efficient technical space.

“We look forward to putting Frankfurt Two firmly on the map.”

The breaking ground ceremony comes less than two weeks after Zenium acquired an Infinity data centre in London.

Both the expansion in Frankfurt and acquisition in London occurred 15 years after Zenium secured its first funding, which today tops $2bn and more than 4.3 sqf of delivered raised floor space.

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APPLE’S $950M DANISH DATA CENTRE’S EXCESS HEAT RETURNED TO LOCAL COMMUNITY HEATING SYSTEM

AMAZON’S €1BN IRISH DATA CENTRE FALLS VICTIM TO APPLE’S €850M HUB MASSIVE DELAY MISERY

Hub in Foulum is quickly becoming a window into what the future of data centre infrastructure and its role in local communities will be.

Apple’s latest European venture is set to give humans much more than cloud power for the company’s products and services. Following a growing industry trend, the iPhone maker is to use excess heat produced by its most recent data centre project to warm up homes and other buildings.

The company’s $950m data centre in Jutland, Denmark, will capture the mentioned excess heat and send it to the local heating system used to heat up the local community.

The idea is similar to some other currently being put into practice in Sweden and by Air France.

The 100% renewable powered data centre in Jutland is rapidly becoming a window into what the future of data centres will be: more community focused and environmentally conscious facilities.

Part of the project is a $3m investment into research around biogas and the transformation of waste material into energy to power the data centre. The research is being conducted with the University of Aarhus.

The basic idea is to use agricultural waste, pass it through a digester which will then convert the waste in methane ready to be used by Apple.

In addition, the digester is set to transform some of the waste into fertiliser, which Apple has vowed to give back to local farmers. The 166,000 sqm data centre is expected to be brought online before the end of 2017.

Apple has recently been labelled by Greenpeace as one of the cleanest energy user companies in the world ahead of similar giants including Facebook and Google.

MICROSOFT UK DATA CENTRES CLEARED TO STORE FINANCIAL DATA

Site next to Facebook’s local data centre was expected to be brought online in late 2018 or H1 2019.

Amazon has become the second multinational to come under fire from Irish locals in relation to its mega data centre project in the country. The company’s recently announced €1bn renewable energy-powered data centre campus in Dublin is facing opposition from the same objectors to Apple’s €850m data centre in Co Galway.

With original plans laying out plans to break ground in 2017, Amazon is now dealing with arguments against its facility from one of the locals who has also strongly opposed to Apple’s project, according to the Irish Independent.

Co Galway-based engineer Allan Daly has called upon local authorities to not grant permission to the project until Amazon specifies the data centre campus heavy energy consumption.

The engineer has also said that Fingal Country Council should not grant such permission until the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment does not complete the on-going assessment of Ireland’s renewable energy framework. The Independent reports, however, that no deadline has been made publicly known regarding the conclusion of the assessment.

Fraudsters stole £567.5m in 2015 in the UK alone with concerns surrounding financial data on the rise as digitalisation of the sector accelerates.

Daley told Fingal County Council: “Any agreement to somehow ‘purchase’ existing renewables from energy suppliers creates a false nexus between Ireland’s existing wind farms and the development proposal.”

Microsoft has been given a crucial green light to allow organisations to store their clients’ data on its data centres located in the UK.

The opposition to the Amazon data centre mirrors the one faced by Apple and its ongoing judicial battle to break ground on its Galway data centre originally expected to become operational in 2017. The earliest estimates now point to March 2019, however, the company is still awaiting final permission for the development.

The data centres have now been deemed as compliant with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards (DSS) and have been cleared to store, process and move data about credit card holders.

PCI DSS is a global payment card industry data security standard created to help businesses process card payments securely and reduce card fraud.

Graham Hill, Director of UK Commercial Markets Strategy Group at Microsoft, said: “Security is the top priority for Microsoft and its customers using the cloud, which is why today’s news that PCI-DSS is available in our UK data centres is such an important milestone.

“This new feature joins a range of solutions that help our customers store, manage and access their data quickly, securely and reliably.”

In addition to the ability to store financial data in UK data centres, Data Movement has also been launched in the country, allowing users to automate the movement and transformation of data from various sources.

It is a feature of Azure Data Factory, which does not store any data itself but lets users copy data from a cloud data source to an Azure store located in the UK.

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Amazon’s data centre in the north of the Irish capital, to be developed under the codename of Project G, was unveiled on March 10, 2017, and is set to be one of the company’s largest investments in Ireland and Europe.

The park is projected to be 26 acres with the first data centre building measuring 223,233 sqf and costing the company €200m. Seven other smaller buildings are projected for a phased-out expansion over the years. The land on which the facility is to be built has previously owned by the Irish Industrial Development Authority (IDA).

The site next to Facebook’s local data centre was expected to be brought online in late 2018 or H1 2019. The Dublin data centre is set to become Amazon’s third data centre in Ireland in addition to sites in Tallaght and Clonshaugh.

Amazon has recently revealed that capital expenditure in Europe alone has reached €15bn.

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AWS TO LAUNCH CLOUD REGION IN SWEDEN WITH THREE DATA CENTRES Company has been in the country since 2011 but only now has decided to expand from a PoP to major web scale data centres to support the local digital economy.

position within the European Union (EU), with the highest levels of renewable energy, in the power grid, in the EU, as well as a world leading digital infrastructure and IT industry.

The world’s largest public cloud provider Amazon Web Services has unveiled plans to build three data centres in the Stockholm region, opening its first Nordic region.

The provider expects to launch the new AWS EU (Stockholm) region in 2018. The facilities will be located in Västerås, Eskilstuna and Katrineholm, the first two around 50Km from the Swedish capital and the last one 105Km.

“The AWS investment in Sweden will strengthen our position in the global digital shift. For us, trade in a modern globalized economy is not only about goods, but also about services, sharing of knowledge, and the free flow of data.” Companies across the Nordic region have in recent years tapped into the AWS cloud to store their data.

Andy Jassy, CEO, AWS, said: “The Nordic’s most successful startups, including iZettle, King, Mojang, and Supercell, as well as some of the most respected enterprises in the world, such as IKEA, Nokia, Scania, and Telenor, depend on AWS to run their businesses, enabling them to be more agile and responsive to their customers.

Some of these include startups such as Bambora, iZettle, Quinyx, Tidal, Tink, Tradeshift, Trustpilot, and Vivino. Sokolnicki said: “The start-up scene in Sweden is fantastic. Sweden has the second-only to Silicon Valley possibly highest amount of unicorns. It is a very vibrant start-up scene, lots of incubators and companies that show up here.”

“An AWS Region in Stockholm enables Swedish and Nordic customers, with local latency or data sovereignty requirements, to move the rest of their applications to AWS and enjoy cost and agility advantages across their entire application portfolio.” The cloud regions follow on from an initial investment in 2011 when the company opened a Point of Presence (PoP) in Stockholm. In that same year, Facebook opened its data centre in Lulea, also in Sweden. Furthering its footprint in the Nordics region, in 2014 and 2015 respectively, AWS opened offices in Stockholm and Espoo, Finland.

In addition, more well-known brands have also been avid users of the Amazon’s cloud offering, including ASSA ABLOY, Finnair, F-Secure, Gelato, Husqvarna, IKEA, Kesko, Modern Times Group, Nokia, Sanoma, Scania, Schibstedt, Telenor, Wärtsilä, WirelessCar (Volvo), WOW Air, and Yleisradio (Yle).

Commenting on the now announced three data centres, Tomas Sokolnicki, Senior Investment Advisor, Data Centers by Sweden, told Data Economy: “We worked alongside with AWS since they started looking at the Nordic region. This has been going on for quite some time; they have a very specific set up regarding these Availability Zones.

“We worked with them and proposed a number of different solutions across the country with three different nodes and obviously as they have a focus in going deeper into due diligence and visibility of which solution, we helped them with the local due diligence, worked with them on all the meetings with the municipalities, whatever is required to actually get [this project] up and running.” Sweden’s Innovation and Enterprise Minister, Mikael Damberg, said: “Their [AWS] decision to establish a new region in our country is a recognition of Sweden’s competitive

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AWS has today 42 Availability Zones across 16 infrastructure regions worldwide, with another five Availability Zones, across two AWS Regions in France and China, expected to come online this year. By entering Sweden, Sokolnicki expects the investment to attract even more web scalers into the country which has recently nearly killed electricity taxes for data centre operators.

He said: “We hope this is the beginning of something good. This is a confirmation of the conditions we have and the different solutions that can be found here. “We have four places that have packaged certain solutions that are available. We hope the interest will grow now. This proves the entire country is open for this sort of business. It is not just the northern part but the entire country.”

One large data centre project in the making is a large campus situated 140Km from Stockholm in Horndal. The campus is said to be going to be developed by Google, according to sources. Asked if Data Centers by Sweden are also in talks around the possible Google data centre, Sokolnicki said he was not able to comment. Sweden is today home to more data centres (55+) than any other Nordic country.

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AFRICA’S TECH SCENE IS EXPLODING ACROSS THE WHOLE CONTINENT

EUROPEAN DATA CENTRE ASSOCIATION EXPANDS MEMBER BASE AMID WARNINGS OF DAMAGING DATA CENTRE LEGISLATION CURRENTLY UNDER WORKS Organisation alerts to increasing amount of legislation being discussed and implemented which could negatively impact the data centre sector.

The European Data Centre Association (EUDCA) has expanded its members list to 37 with the addition of Luxembourg data centre operator LuxConnect in a time when data centre legislation is being discussed across Europe which could impact the sector, the non-profit association has alerted.

Founded in 2011, the EUDCA is registered in Belgium under Royal Decree and has been set up to drive more attention towards the European data centre market and help formulate institutional and regulatory frameworks especially around the European Commission.

Tom Kettels , Chief Business Development Officer at LuxConnect, told Data Economy: “LuxConnect are very pleased to have joined the European Data Centre Association. We feel it will help raise the profile of LuxConnect and Luxembourg as a secure destination to locate servers.

“We hope to take a very proactive part in the running of the Association liaising with operators in other regions and getting a voice to help shape the political agenda during these interesting times.”

New info graphic bares all for Africa’s booming tech scene across 42 countries.

As an emerging market, much attention is being drawn into Africa. With a population rapidly growing to 1.3 billion people, the need to connect and accelerate technology consumption grows day by day.

The data centre space is well aware of this we have seen recently large sums of money invested in the continent with operators starting to also talk more openly about building branded facilities in the continent.

As data centres and cloud operators make their entrance into this budging market, a new tech ecosystem is starting to emerge.

A recent info graphic from from GSMA [displayed bellow] shows that Africa is today home to 314 active tech hubs in 93 cities in 42 counties, with South Africa topping the list with the highest density of hubs at 54, followed by Egypt (28), Kenya (27) and Nigeria (23).

Yet, the ration between countries is still poor as 50% of the 314 hubs sit in just five countries namely the four aforementioned and Morocco.

Nevertheless, in accordance to what has been reported before, giants such as Microsoft and Google have already a strong presence in the continent.

According to the GSMA graphic, 49% of the tech hubs have partnerships with non telecom corporations, with Microsoft, Google and Ashoka being the most represented.

LuxConnect joins a list of 36 other members which include companies such as Equinix, Telia, the Uptime Institute, Keppel Data Centres, Schneider Electric, Siemens, DigiPlex, Digital Realty Trust and Interxion.

Speaking to Data Economy, Alex Rabbetts, Board Member at the European Data Centre Association, said: “The EUDCA is growing steadily. The association has more than doubled its membership in the last few months and now has members from as far afield as the Ukraine to Greece and Cyprus in the south and to Finland and Sweden in the north of Europe.

“Under the direction of the current Chairman, Apostolos Kakkos, the association appointed Nicola Hayes as the Managing Director to introduce structure and process in order to enable greater growth and better serve the membership. Under her leadership the association has established a firm basis on which to grow in the future.”

Rabbetts explained that at a political level the EUDCA aims to provide a voice at the European Commission level on behalf of its members.

“An increasing amount of legislation is being discussed and implemented which is likely to have a negative impact on the data centre sector,” he said.

“The EUDCA aims to ensure that the interests of the sector are properly represented.

“The EUDCA is not intended to replace National Trade Associations, it is a co-operative association that seeks to unify common messages and support NTAs in their existing aims, whilst giving them access to a wider audience outside of the country in which they operate.

GSMA has also released a similar info graphic regarding tech hubs in south and southeast Asia, where these top 287 and where four countries alone account to 55% of the total.

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VIRTUS DATA CENTRES DEFIES BREXIT CRITICS WITH NEW LONDON FACILITY Fourth data centre comes as demand for metro fibre connected, flexible and scalable colocation space continues to grow.

“We have seen increasing demand for high performance solutions as well as more and more requirements to connect to cloud providers and other services.

British data centre services provider Virtus Data Centres has announced the construction of its fourth facility next to the British capital.

“Our data centres are where the cloud lives in London, so they are in high demand from service providers and users wanting to better interconnect their applications and data across public and private clouds, and get closer to their consumers.”

The hub, to be based in Slough and adjacent to the company’s existing London4 data centre, has been announced weeks after Brexit negotiations were initiated with the EU which will result in the departure of the UK from the union.

Virtus’ new data centre, London3, joins now a growing list of facilities announced in the country as providers refuse to accept that Brexit will hold business back.

The company said the data centre comes as demand for metro fibre connected, flexible and scalable colocation space continues to grow.

The facility will add to the operator’s portfolio 3,000 NTM (net technical metres) of IT space and will increase Virtus’ footprint in London to over 50MW across four sites. The data centre will be fitted out in two phases, with the first phase expected to open for business by Summer 2018.

Neil Cresswell, CEO of Virtus Data Centres, said: “The rapid adoption of cloud and digital business across all industries is driving the need for the kind of high quality and innovative data centre space that Virtus develops and operates.

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The company currently operates three data centres in the London region, in Slough, Hayes and Enfield. Its client base is mostly made of organisations across financial services, the public sector, life sciences and education as well as cloud and IT Services industries.

Virtus data centre fleet has also access to over 20 public cloud platforms via the majority of global and regional telecommunications providers. The company is part of the ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) group of companies which collectively has over 50 data centres worldwide.

Bruno Lopez, CEO of STT GDC, said: “LONDON3 confirms Virtus to be one of the largest hybrid colocation providers in the London metro area delivering high quality, flexible, scalable and highly efficient colocation facilities at the lowest total cost of ownership.

“Just as VIRTUS is the key cloud hub in London, STT Global Data Centres are where the cloud lives in other major economic hubs such as Singapore, China and India.”

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BRITAIN’S CLOSEST DATA CENTRE TO EU BORDER AFTER BREXIT BREAKS GROUND

£800M DATA CENTRE CLOSE TO LOCKERBIE GIVEN THREE MORE YEARS FOR PLANNING TALKS (THAT HAVE BEEN GOING ON FOR NEARLY A DECADE) Construction works are still to be initiated and by the time the machines take to the state it could have been 12 years since the project was first announced.

A data centre project proposed north of Lockerbie nearly ten years ago has been given a three-year extension to its planning permission for the second time.

The development in Peelhouses Farm, southern Scotland was originally proposed in 2008 by Internet Villages International and first granted planning permission in principle in 2010, later extended by three years in 2013.

The data centre is projected to sit on a 250-acre piece of land and has been codenamed ALBA 1. The data centre is part of a larger development plan which is said to cater an investment of around £800m.

Developers said the park would enable the creation of “an international hub for the internet age” and the creation of 1,000 jobs. The plan is now to build the data centre, a technology park, a horticultural research facility and a visitor centre.

Now, according to the BBC, local councillors have come to an agreement to extend the consent in principle around the site’s planning permission.

A decision is now expected in the next three years with construction works following by if an approval is granted.

The request for the extension regarding the planning permission was submitted by consultancy firm Blackmores D Limited.

TECHNICAL REAL ESTATE BUYS ACXIOM DATA CENTRE

Hub in Northern Ireland is part of a larger attempt to digitalise and modernise the local economy by also making use of new transatlantic cable.

A data centre in Northern Ireland by colocation company 5Nines has broken ground in Coleraine, 20Km away from the Republic of Ireland’s border.

Today part of the European Union (EU), the Northern Ireland territory will leave the union as part of the UK once Brexit negotiations reach an end around 2019 or 2020 and the country formally leaves the group.

The data centre is being built as part of the Digital Causeway project, by Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council.

Facility sits on a 4.4-acre piece of land.

UK-based Technical Real Estate (TechRE) has acquired a data centre from Acxiom Data Centre in Normanton, South Yorkshire, England.

The facility sits in a piece of land measuring 4.4 acres and the data centre building has a total of 32,000 sqf.

The new owners have said the land has enough space to build the necessary infrastructure to provide 100% renewable power from a combined solar and battery storage system.

According to TechRE, the building is currently let in its entirety to Acxiom and generates an annual rental income in excess of £210,000.

Roger Telford, Director at Telford Property Consultants who co-ordinated the acquisition for TechRE, said: “The Normanton facility met key investment criteria in terms of tenant profile, length of lease and critically the technical specification.

The area in which the facility sits has been named Coleraine Enterprise Zone also known as Atlantic Link, which is part of the Strategic Investment Board of Northern Ireland.

The Coleraine Enterprise Zone has 20 acres of land, of which five acres will be used for the data centre. The remaining 15 acres will be sub-let for further development.

Also being built, is a transatlantic cable dubbed Project Kelvin which will connect Northern Ireland to the US. Paul Besley, general manager at 5Nines, said on Twitter: “I am pleased to announce that work has started on site for construction of our Northern Ireland data centre.”

“The buyer was attracted by clear asset management strategies, the opportunity to develop a strategic relationship with the tenant and overall technical specification, all underpinned by a location that is growing as a regional data-centre hub.”

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CANADA’S LARGEST COLOCATION DATA CENTRE IS ABOUT TO GET EVEN BIGGER

Online video, rise of cloud computing and enterprises trading server closets for colocation facilities driving data centre market in the region.

Cologix, operator of 24 data centres in North America, has announced expansion plans for its Toronto-prime carrier hotel. In total, the provider is planning to add 30,000 sqf of area to the Tor 1 data centre at 151 Front St., more than doubling its capacity which currently stands at 25,000 sqf.

In addition, the company is also taking the power up by 3MW. The first phase of the expansion, accounting to 10,000 sqf, is expected to be operational still in 2017. The expansion plans come after Cologix signed new long term leases that made use of the data centre’s last available 10,000 sqf.

Tor 1 occupies space at a 271,666 sqf building built in 1954 and owned by Allied Properties REIT. Grant van Rooyen, president and chief executive officer, Cologix, said: “Toronto is a foundational pillar for Cologix’s Canadian presence, supported by the tight relationship with our friends at Allied.

“For data centre customers who value neutral access to 160+ networks and a variety of cloud providers, there is not a more important pair of buildings in Toronto than 151 Front St. and 905 King St. [the company’s other Toronto data centre].”

Sean Maskell, president, Cologix Canada, said: “We are seeing three key demand drivers from our customers in Toronto that amplify the importance of certainty of access to many networks with low switching costs.

“Online video caching closer to end users, the rise of cloud computing and enterprises trading server closets for colocation facilities all place a premium on scalable, low latency, low cost access to networks and cloud providers. Combining resilient infrastructure with this neutral marketplace is what Cologix specializes in at our two Toronto data centres.”

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NASA TEACHES LESSON TO OTHER US GOV’T AGENCIES

EQUINIX’S SILICON VALLEY DATA CENTRE TURNS POP FOR IAAS PLAYER SERVICING AIRBUS Data centre at the ‘epicenter of technology innovation’ ailed as key enabler to $203bn cloud services market.

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider Outscale has opened a pointof-presence (PoP) at Equinix’s San Jose data centre in California.

The presence is the company’s fourth in the US alone and ninth location worldwide.

Outscale said the reason behind the investment was the growing demand for cloud computing infrastructure services by its customers.

In addition, the provider is aiming at what IDC estimates will be a market where worldwide spending on public Cloud services is expected to eclipse $203.4bn worldwide in 2020, with the compound annual growth rate (CAGR) for public Cloud services to be 21.5% for the period 2015-2020.

“This is nearly seven times the overall growth rate of IT spending, signaling a clear demand for cloud services,” the company highlights.

Founded in 2010 in France, Outscale has built its cloud with infrastructure based on Intel, NetApp and Cisco technologies, and holds the Cisco Managed Services Program (CMSP) Advanced Certification.

Some of its partners, which are using its cloud platform include partner Dassault Systemes, Airbus and OpenDataSoft.

Outscale Founder and President, Laurent Seror, said: “Since we opened our doors in 2010, we have committed to helping our customers harness the power of Cloud Computing by providing a premium, enterprise-class IaaS and unparalleled customer support.

“As the epicenter of technology innovation, Silicon Valley is a logical choice as we expand our presence in the United States to meet our customers’ needs.”

Outscale US CEO Rob Rosborough, said: “The expansion to Silicon Valley allows us to get closer to many of our customers, as we help them embark upon their Cloud journeys and maximize their investments.”

Cross-Federal initiative to reduce data centre footprint has shut down 4,400 facilities across the US but 5,600 remain active with many awaiting to be switched off.

Data centre consolidation has been in the agenda of the US government for some years, but more often than not news break that objectives are lagging behind and delays are constant.

However, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, otherwise known as NASA, has successfully implemented the Data Center Optimisation Initiative’s (DCOI) recommendations to reduce its data centre footprint.

The DCOI is part of former president Barack Obama’s Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act. The space agency is now in a good place to meet its 2018 target of reducing 59 facilities to 20 data centres. NASA has already closed 33 data centres, leaving it with only six to go, according to Meritalk.

Karen Petraska, program executive for computing services at NASA, told the news site that 20 data centres would be the minimum for the agency to conduct its works without disruption.

Dave Powner, director of IT issues at the Government Accountability Office (GAO), added that other Federal agencies are far from reaching the DCOI’s goals.

According to the GAO, Federal agencies have shut down 4,400 data centres, however, 5,600 still remain active.

Powner said NASA joings the Departments of Agriculture, Treasury, and Justice as the few agencies that have so far successfully followed the plan to decrease the number of data centres.

A recent example of a US department failing to comply with the stipulated deadlines was the Department of Defence, whose data centre consolidation project hit a “virtual standstill”.

Petraska said: “Some agencies have a lot more complex data centres and politics. It could be any number of things.

“Older things are hard to move. Big things are hard to move. There is some inertia there.”

She continued to said that the reason why NASA has managed to achieve the outcome it has reached was down to the agency taking a pretty strong project management approach from the beginning.

“It was a team effort throughout NASA,” Petraska said. “It certainly helps to have a collaborative relationship and management support. These things are inconvenient and require a lot of coordination and a lot of planning.”

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FORD TO BUILD $200M US DATA CENTRE Investment part of a US push worth $9bn and follows a much wider industry trend of building car data centres as vehicles’ data becomes a critical asset.

He tweeted: “Big announcement by Ford today. Major investment to be made in three Michigan plants. Car companies coming back to US. JOBS! JOBS! JOBS!”

The 113-year-old company has announced a $1.2bn investment plan in Michigan, part of a $9bn investment plan for US-based operations.

However, Ford’s investment is set to only generate 130 jobs, including the data centre.

Ford’s investment into private data centres follows a growing trend amongst car manufacturers.

In the Michigan plans, the car manufacturer is also putting $200m towards the construction of a new vehicle data centre facility.

Recently, Toyota signed up NTT as a partner to study the deployment and utilisation of data centres to serve connected and autonomous cars.

The company is going to build its second data centre in Michigan to help cope with the increasing amounts of data produced by both connected and autonomous cars.

In addition to the data centre, Ford is to invest the remaining $1bn in installing new tooling at its Michigan assembly plant ($850m) and at its Romeo Engine plant ($150m).

The news led President Trump to tweet his satisfaction around the investment, hours before the amount was announced.

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Yet, it is not only car manufacturing companies that are becoming increasingly active in the technology space.

Intel’s $15.3bn recent acquisition of Mobileye was one of the strongest pushes by the company yet into the car space.

The Tate Group has also invested in the construction of a data centre in South Korea dedicated to the connected car market.

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FACEBOOK BEHIND MASSIVE 146-ACRE NEBRASKA DATA CENTRE

VERIZON ENTERS AGREEMENT WITH EQUINIX TO RESELL COLOCATION AND INTERCONNECTION SERVICES Commercial agreement follows from Equinix’s $3.6bn purchase of Verizon’s North and South American data centres.

Verizon Enterprise Solutions has entered into an agreement with colocation services provider Equinix to resell Equinix colocation and interconnection services.

Through the agreement, which builds on Equinix’s acquisition of Verizon’s data centres, Verizon will link its security, network and advanced communications services with Equinix’s International Business Exchange (IBX) data centres.

The company said the goal is to enable enterprises to build hybrid cloud solutions and gain quick access to a multi-cloud environment.

Verizon will sell Equinix colocation and interconnection services as part of larger, integrated customer engagements with an emphasis on pairing colocation services with Verizon security, network and advanced communications services.

Jim Duncan, vice president of global advanced solutions for Verizon Enterprise Solutions, said: “This agreement provides customers with fully-integrated network, security and data centre services designed to support their IT transformation.

“Our network provides IT continuity across current and future IT strategies – cloud migrations and the like – and Equinix provides an interconnection point to leading cloud platforms for that transformation.”

Jon Lin, vice president of corporate development and strategy for Equinix, said: “Through this agreement, our mutual enterprise customers gain the global scale and interconnection capabilities of Platform Equinix together with Verizon’s global IP network, managed security services and advanced communications services.

“This collaboration – including direct, private access to leading cloud service providers such as AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform — enables us to help enterprises fully realize the benefits of hybrid and multi-cloud environments.”

Site to be brought online by 2020 will count with four buildings totalling more than 2.4 million sqf of flooring development.

Facebook has put down rumours around being the company behind a largescale data centre campus to be built in Nebraska by publicly announcing it will indeed build the development.

The data centre, in Papillion, was announced by Facebook’s VP of infrastructure Tom Furlong at a special press event at Papillion City Hall.

In attendance were also Nebraska’s Governor Pete Ricketts and Papillion’s Mayor David Black.

The development has been codenamed Project Raven, and according to the Omaha World Herald, has gone through several critical approval stages.

The data centre campus, which covers an area of 146 acres, will include up to four hosting buildings measuring an average of 610,605 sqf, totalling more than 2.4 million sqf of flooring development.

It is now known that the company expects to have the first phase of the project online by 2020.

Governor Ricketts said: “Growing Silicon Prairie through the state’s tech industry has been a priority for my administration.

“Having Facebook select Nebraska for its newest data centre campus shows our efforts and those of our partners are paying dividends.

“In the past year, I had the chance to visit Facebook Headquarters in Menlo Park, California and meet with executives who are instrumental in building the company’s data centre ecosystem.

“We were able to demonstrate that Nebraska can meet or exceed their expectations on every front. We are excited to welcome Facebook to the Good Life!”

Taking to Facebook, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said: “[The data centre] will be powered by 100% clean and renewable energy and will create thousands of jobs in the community over the next few years.

“To grow the market for the clean energy we need, we worked with the Omaha Public Power District to create a new renewable energy tariff (facebook.com/ green) that will now be available to all companies.

“Advanced data centres like this are basically giant machines that make up the technical infrastructure for our community. It takes a lot of computing power to support our community, so we are going to keep building new data centres around the world.”

The Papillion data centre will be Facebook’s ninth facility. Other locations include Ireland, Oregon, Iowa, North Carolina and Denmark.

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INFOMART UNVEILS PLAN TO PUSH DALLAS DATA CENTRE TO MORE THAN 2 MILLION SQF

DUPONT FABROS TECHNOLOGY TO OPEN 46MW DATA CENTRE IN CANADA Hub to open doors in late 2017 and Canadian data as cloud hungry customers drive data centre demand.

DuPont Fabros Technology (DPF) has broken ground on its first Canadian data centre in Vaughan, Ontario.

The facility, previously a Toronto Star printing plant, was purchased by DPF in 2016 for nearly $55m CAD and renamed as TOR1.

At full build, the data centre will have 23 computer rooms and a total area of 226,214 sqf with a critical data power capacity of up to 46 MWs. The computer rooms will vary in size from 9,000 sqf to 11,000 sqf.

The first phase, which will include 12 computer rooms, has been scheduled to open in late 2017.

The facility will include an onsite diesel engine generator backup and include a variety of redundancies, ranging from N to 2N with a power density range of 1,076 to 3,228 watts per square metre. PUE has been calculated at 1.25.

Chris Eldredge, president and CEO, said: “Toronto is the hub of Canadian business and one of the largest markets in North America. That’s why DFT made the strategic decision to invest in TOR1 and the Greater Toronto market.”

Company puts its second infrastructure expansion project at the facility to work as much more ambitious plan takes shape behind doors.

Wholesale data centre provider Infomart Data Centers has laid out its ambitions to add over 500,000 sft of data centre space and more than 30 MW of additional capacity to its Dallas facility.

The data centre counts today with 1.6 million sqf and 100 MW of power.

The company has not released a detailed expansion agenda. However, it has said the expansion plan is to be executed over the next ten years.

By the time the whole facility its built, the hub will top 2.1 million sqf and 130 MW. Nevertheless, as part of its infrastructure investments into the Dallas data centre, the company has commissioned a new 500kW private colocation suite within the Dallas facility.

Designed to Tier III standards, the space also provides distributed redundant power design, up to 200 W of power density per square-foot, and a pass-through Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) with a cap at 1.4.

DFT currently operates 11 data centres throughout the United States. In 2016, the operator reported 50.93 MWs of new leases and revenues of $528.7m USD. Locations of its other data centres include the states of Northern Virginia, Illinois and California.

Earlier in January 2017, the company announced expansion at his Illinois campus in Elk Grove Village, just outside Chicago.

Once fully built, the Illinois campus will top more than 1.2 million sqf and 88MW of power.

DFT’s Canada data centre is the latest to join a growing list of data centre and cloud launches.

Recently, Cologix, operator of 24 facilities in North America, has also announced expansion plans for its Toronto data centre adding 30,000 sqf of area, adding to the existing 25,000 sqf.

In December 2016, AWS launched its first Canada cloud region in Toronto with the opening of two data centres.

John Sheputis, president of Infomart Data Centers, said: “Infomart Dallas is home to one of the world’s largest concentrations of carriers, colocation providers, and cloud applications.

Given the growing value for latency-sensitive edge computing, we are delighted to add a second Infomart-operated suite within the facility.

“Our expansion is one of several that will be completed this year, either by our team or one of our tenants. Every new network connection and new application launched will continue to solidify Infomart’s position as one of the nerve centres for the digital economy.”

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DATASITE EXPANDS ATLANTA DATA CENTRE BUT TELLS INDUSTRY TO WATCH OUT FOR ‘MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT’ SOON

NTT’S RAGINGWIRE DATA CENTERS GATHERS HUNDREDS TO OPEN 230,000 SQF ‘TEXASREADY’ DATA CENTRE

‘DataSite is in a growth mode,’ company CEO warns as future expansion of business is in the final stages of development.

Wholesale data centre provider DataSite has expanded its colocation facility in Atlanta adding 10,000 sqf of space.

In total, the company has also added 1MW of power and a 600kW cooling system.

The expansion was fostered by growing demand from Fortune 500 enterprises, content delivery providers, cloud service providers and IT services providers.

The 73,000 sqf facility in Marietta still has capacity for further expansion with the addition of 2MW to 3MW of power.

Jeff Burges, president and CEO of DataSite, told Data Economy: “With the advent of Cloud Services, including software and hardware as a service to a worldwide audience/customer base, modern data centre site selection must include Telecom Access to the World, as well as the Eyes and Ears of the regional population of the Data Centre.

Facility designed to withstand tornadoes links directly to Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.

“Atlanta has both of these covered; 56 Marietta is one of the 8 most connected facilities in the US and Atlanta is a major population base in the South Eastern US. Inexpensive and Robust Electricity service, a chosen location for corporate headquarters, and a vast IT and Engineering workforce, make Atlanta a fantastic Data Center location.”

RagingWire Data Centers has officially brought online its latest data centre in an event that joined together 500 business and civic leaders under the same roof. Also attending was RagingWire’s parent company NTT Communications (NTT Com), the ICT solutions and international communications business within the NTT Group.

Following on from the expansion in Atlanta, DataSite is also lining up a “major announcement” in the coming weeks, according to the executive.

The data centre, named Dallas TX1 Data Center (TX1) has a capacity of 230,000 sqf and the company says it has been designed to house computing systems of large enterprises and hyperscale cloud companies within the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.

Burges said: “DataSite is in a growth mode, both at our existing sites, as well as working on additional acquisitions.

“DataSite is soon to make a major announcement regarding Network and IT Services, so stay tuned for that.

“DataSite is pleased to have its HPC customer loads grow, and looks forward to continuing to increase that vertical throughout 2017 and beyond.”

The company currently operates over 260,000 sqf of colocation space across three facilities in Atlanta, Boise and Orlando.

The facility has 16MW of power and direct connectivity to cloud providers, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.

TX1 has also been built with fiber connectivity to carrier hotels and more than 120 area data centres and connected properties.

Cooling is down to a waterless cooling system that leverages available outside cool air. RagingWire’s hub is also capable of withstanding an EF3 tornado of 136 mph. During the opening ceremony, Tetsuya Shoji, president and CEO of NTT Communications, and Doug Adams, president and CEO of RagingWire [picture in the main photo] cut a digital laser ribbon.

The ceremony also counted with the presence of sports legend and business icon Roger Staubach, and Emmy Award-winning news anchor Shelly Slater as the master of ceremonies.

Adams said: “RagingWire’s new Dallas TX1 Data Center is ‘Texas-ready’ and world-class. We expect that TX1 will become a critical data centre hub for large enterprises and cloud companies as part of their global IT deployments.”

Shoji said: “With their patented design, 100% uptime, and superior operations, RagingWire has become NTT Com’s data centre solution in North America and part of our global data centre portfolio under the Nexcenter brand.”

With the opening of TX1, RagingWire’s data centre capacity has been expanded to 1.5 million sqf and 113 MW of power across facilities in Dallas, Ashburn, Virginia and Sacramento.

NTT Com acquired an 80% equity stake in RagingWire in January 2014.

RagingWire joined NTT Com family members such as Netmagic Solutions Pvt. Ltd. in India, Gyron Internet Ltd. and e-shelter facility services GmbH in Europe, and an extensive data centre portfolio in Asia, as well as other regions, as part of a global data centre platform totalling some four million square feet.

In February 2017, NTT Com announced its intent to purchase the remaining shares of RagingWire to acquire 100% ownership of the company.

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TELEFONICA TURNS TO GERMAN RIVAL TO EXPAND CLOUD CAPACITY

GOOGLE EYES 1,200-ACRE DATA CENTRE CAMPUS NEXT TO APPLE, TESLA AND SWITCH SUPERNAP Rumours also emerge on potential partnership with Tesla due to physical proximity as race to develop autonomous cars heats up.

Google has purchased a 1,210-acre piece-of-land in Reno, Nevada, with plans to build a data centre, according to documents filed in Storey County.

The $29.1m acquired land is located in the 107,000-acre Tahoe Reno Industrial Center, home to Tesla’s Gigafactory, Switch Supernap’s 7.2 million sqf data centre campus, Ebay and Commscope.

Also located close by is the Reno Technology Park, home to Apple’s Reno data centre which is set to go under further expansion in a project codenamed “Isabel”.

Back at the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center, Google has, however, not officially announced a new data centre in the region. People familiar with the matter told the WSJ the company has no immediate plans to start building on the land.

As the news surrounding the land purchase broke, rumours emerged that the proximity with Tesla’s $5bn factory could spark a partnership between the two companies as both Tesla and Google race to develop autonomous cars.

Company taps into data centre which is set to be expanded to cope with the telco’s need for more cloud power.

Further rumours suggested that in addition to the data centre, Google could build a testing track for parent company Alphabet’s autonomous vehicle arm Waymo.

Brazilian telecommunications and cloud provider Telefonica Vivo, a business arm of Telefonica, is expanding its services in the South American country and is seeking more data centre space to support its growth.

Such has been refuted by a Google representative, who confirmed the company’s involvement in the transaction and its goal of building a data centre park.

According to local reports, the company has turned to T-Systems in its search for more data centre capacity.

However, T-Systems is a Deutsch Telekom company, rival of Telefonica.

Both Telefonica, through Vivo, and Deutsch Telekom, through T-Systems, provide cloud services in Brazil.

People familiar with the matter confirmed to news source Baguete that Telefonica was indeed turning to Deutsche Telekom’s T-Systems to expand its cloud services reach in the local market.

Gov. Brian Sandoval said: “Google is an internationally recognised and respected brand and one of the premier technology companies on the planet.

“Nevada is rapidly becoming a technology and innovation hub by attracting exciting new startups and some of the world’s best names.

“I am excited by the prospects that come with this size of purchase from this type of company.

“As with all businesses, the state stands ready as a willing and friendly partner in the development of this site.”

Both Telefonica and T-Systems declined to comment.

In the meantime, T-Systems has announced an expansion plan for its Barueri T-Center data centre in São Paulo worth $6.4m.

According to Baguete, the client for which T-Systems is building out the data centre plans to move 100% of its data analytics to the site.

The expansion is said to help grow the client’s ability to serve small and media enterprises. However, core applications are to remain on Telefonica’s Vivo cloud.

The Tier III data centre was originally opened in 2011 with a 6.500 sqft capacity and an investment worth $16m.

Since then, a further $8m have been invested into the facility which counts today with 19,375 sqft of hosting space and 50 clients including BAT, Shell and Thyssengroup.

A further $3.2m have been invested in the last two years to improve security and power efficiency, according to Guilherme Barreiro, head of global delivery unit, dynamic platform services at T-Systems.

Barreiro added: “On top of all this, our business plan for the next four years already looks at possible future expansion.”

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Changing regulatory and legal frameworks are opening up China to an exponential growth around cloud computing technologies.

The cloud computing sector in China is posed for an exponential growth in the coming years topping $20bn in market valuation by the end of this decade.

This represents a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of nearly 40% in a market that was worth $1.5bn in 2013, according to research by Bain & Company and published by the International Trade Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce (DoC) in its “2016 Top Markets Report – Cloud Computing”.

The Chinese government has in the last couple of years set out its longterm plans to expand the country’s digital infrastructure and its citizens and businesses reach to technology.

In the DoC report, the body said: “The government views cloud computing as a strategic priority and included it in the nation’s 12th Five-Year Plan.

“The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) subsequently launched pilot cloud schemes in five cities: Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hangzhou and Wuxi.

“China’s development blueprint for the next five years, the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016 – 2020), will likely reaffirm the strategic priority of cloud computing, with the NDRC planning continued investment through 2020.”

Recently speaking at Datacloud Asia 2017 in Singapore, Wing-Dar Ker, president of one of China’s largest cloud providers 21Vianet Blue Cloud, spoke on the growing cloud industry in China.

He said: “Internet companies in China are investing billions into their own cloud businesses in coming years, seeking to take advantage of a market with 680 million Internet users.

“Cloud computing is a strategic priority for the Chinese government, which has piloted cloud schemes in a few cities, will only drive the growth of data centres further.”

In addition, while domestic companies are rapidly creating their own cloud services, Wing said there remains plenty of opportunity in the market for foreign players, especially foreign companies that seek local partnerships to help navigate Chinese regulations as well as share market expertise.

He stresses that domestic competition may be advancing, but foreign cloud computing companies still hold the key when it comes to technology.

Wing also noted that there is a shifting regulatory landscape as the government continues to assess what it deems to be the best way to regulate the sector.

He told the audience that as with many other sectors, foreign companies must be aware that just because one product is successful in other markets, that does not guarantee success in China.

“There are also perceived security and privacy concerns. Competition is fierce as technology continues to evolve and has not matured.

“Entering China without an experienced local partner could be detrimental to operations, let alone market penetration.”

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NTT COMMUNICATIONS OWNS NOW 100% STAKE OF ONE OF INDIA’S LARGEST DATA CENTRE PLAYERS

GOOGLE TAG TEAMS INTO APAC GROUP TO BUILD AUSTRALIA, SOUTH EAST ASIA SUBMARINE CABLE

Company sets out investment plan of nearly $300m to double capacity in the country as digital services boom.

The rapid M&A wave sweeping the global data centre industry has now been felt in India as Japanese company NTT Communications Corporation (NTT) has been given the go ahead to absorb the whole of India’s data centre colocation provider Netmagic Solutions stake.

NTT owned until now 81.63% of Netmagic. That stake has now been taken to 100% following a transaction where NTT invested $79.13m into buying the remaining 18.37% of the Indian operator.

The acquisition was cleared by the Indian Government this Friday which has consolidated NTT’s place in the Top 10 of global data centre operators by number of facilities at nearly 150. The approval of the transaction was first pointedly mentioned in a meeting on February 21 by the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB).

Netmagic currently operates seven data centres across India in Mumbai (four hubs), Chennai, Noida and Bengaluru. NTT has also announced that following the acquisition, it will invest $296.5m into expanding Netmagic’s footprint.

The investment will see the company’s footprint in India grow from today’s 650,000 sqf of data centre capacity to 1.3 million sqf by the end of 2018.

NTT has today a portfolio with nearly 150 data centre facilities across three regions, including North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.

The company has data centres in Japan, India, Malaysia, Germany, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, Taiwan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, the UK, the US, France, Spain, Austria and Switzerland.

System to help address exponential growth around internet use in the region which has soared 70% last year alone.

A group of APAC telecommunications heavyweights and Google have teamed up to build a 9,000Km submarine cable connecting Singapore, Australia and Indonesia.

Joining Google is AARNet, Indosat Ooredoo, Singtel, SubPartners, and Telstra, all of which have entered into an agreement with constructor Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) to build the subsea cable system.

Named INDIGO, the cable will connect Singapore and Perth, and onwards to Sydney, and allow connections between Singapore and Jakarta.

Its global footprint accounts to more than 2.5 million sqft and a power capacity of more than 300 MW. According to a recent report from Frost & Sullivan, NTT Communications is APAC’s main data centre provider, followed by Jujitsu, Equinix and China telecom.

The two-fibre pair ‘open cable’ design with spectrum- sharing technology will land in existing facilities in Singapore, Australia and Indonesia.

By 2022, the region’s market, which in 2017 is expected to top $16.27bn, will amount to $31.95bn in colocation and managed services revenues, with colocation accounting to more than 50% of the value.

Using coherent optical technology, which uses light to transmit data along fibre optic cables, each of the twofibre pairs will have a minimum capacity of 18 terabits per second, with the option to increase this capacity in the future.

ROUTE MOBILE OPENS TIER 3 DATA CENTRE IN ASIA’S ‘COMMERCIAL POWERHOUSE’

Essentially, this means that INDIGO will be able to transmit an equivalent of 7.2 million high definition online movies simultaneously from Singapore to Sydney. Construction is expected to be completed by mid-2019.

Provider aims at strengthening service provision reducing latency and delivery times.

Ooi Seng Keat, Vice President, Carrier Services, Group Enterprise at Singtel said: “The construction of INDIGO is timely to meet the rising demand for high-speed broadband between Asia and Australia.

Messaging and API company Route Mobile has launched operations at its newest data centre in Singapore. The Tier 3 hub has been designed to reduce service latency and reduce delivery times in the region.

Having begun operations over the Easter weekend, the new data centre will boost Route Mobile’s data centre network to five, covering key economic locations globally.

Singapore, “a commercial powerhouse and the base of Route Mobile’s Asia Pacific regional head office”, was chosen with its strategic location in mind.

Derek Tan, CEO APAC at Route Mobile, said: “The opening of a Tier 3 data centre in such a strategic location marks another milestone in our journey.

“It highlights our commitment to our international customers, allowing them to benefit from improved latency, reduced delivery times and increased scalability.

By building the system with an open design, spectrum ownership within the cable will be shared amongst those involved in the project.

“This cable system complements our global connectivity that links Asia, the US, Europe, Australia and the Middle East. INDIGO will be a new data superhighway that facilitates Singtel and Optus to catalyse the development of digital economies across the regions.”

Telstra’s Group Managing Director of Global Services and International David Burns, said: “With internet data consumption growing by 70% in Asia last year alone these sorts of investments in international networks are critical for meeting the needs of connected consumers and businesses.

“This will be an important piece of technology infrastructure connecting South East Asia and Australia, and follows a number of recent network enhancements Telstra has undertaken to meet growing demand for data and better connectivity from our customers across the Asia Pacific region.”

“This is key in accelerating the globalization of Route Mobile.”

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SALESFORCE BULKS UP JAPAN DATA CENTRE FLEET TO BRING EINSTEIN TO APAC Artificial intelligence proves game changer in a region where customers are hungry for faster, smarter and more holistic IT environments.

Salesforce is currently enjoying a good wave of business in the APAC region, growing at 30% in constant currency in Q4 of FY17.

Multinational software company Salesforce has cut the ribbon on its second Japanese data centre as regional business booms.

The company said that with the addition of the company’s second Japanese data centre in Kobe, Salesforce is poised to deliver the Intelligent Customer Success Platform locally to more customers than ever before.

The facility, located in Kobe in the country’s Kansai region, has been designed to deliver the Intelligent Customer Success Platform including Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, App Cloud, Community Cloud, Analytics Cloud and others.

Salesforce said the solutions have all been made smarter by Einstein, the company’s comprehensive artificial intelligence for CRM. The provider explains on its website that Salesforce Einstein is an integrated set of AI technologies that makes the Customer Success Platform smarter and brings AI to trailblazers everywhere.

The data centre will be put to use to service more customers in Japan and the broader Asia-Pacific region.

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Some of its local customers include Canon Marketing Japan, Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company and Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Insurance.

Shinichi Koide, chairman, president and CEO, Salesforce Japan, said: “We are pleased to announce the opening of our second data centre in Japan. With this new data centre, along with the first local data centre opened in 2011 in Tokyo, Salesforce will be able to continue delivering exceptional reliability and performance to customers.

“The new data centre will support the unprecedented growth we’ve seen in the region and further accelerate the adoption of the Intelligent Customer Success Platform. This is one of our commitments to Japan.”

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6th – 8th June 2017 Datacloud Europe, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco

18th – 19th September 2017 Gartner Catalyst Conference London, United Kingdom

“Datacloud Europe is the premier networking and deal making event for data centre and cloud leaders, their customers and investors.

Over the past 13 years Datacentres Europe has evolved as a recognized beacon of high quality content offering thought leadership across Energy Cloud, Markets and Technologies, and has performed a critical role as an international networking and deal making opportunity for old and new contacts alike.

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With a powerful agenda covering cloud challenges and data centre infrastructure it attracts investors, financiers, business leaders and their customers who use this annual meeting in the stunning backdrop of Monte Carlo to do deals that influence outcomes for the next 12 months and beyond.“

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EUROPE, MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA 19th October 2017 Datacloud Nordic Oslo, Norway VISIT WEBSITE

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9th May 2017 DatacentreDynamics – Middle East, Dubai, UAE DCD>Middle East is the region’s most important forum for business, operations and technology executives from the region’s data centre-scale organisations to discuss cloud and data centre infrastructure build-outs in the Middle East. With exponential demand driven by IoT, Smart Cities and Big Data applications, there is a growing need for more localised, more agile and much more scalable IT infrastructure.

From open-source, artificial intelligence, software-defined infrastructure, edge networks to multi-cloud architectures and hybrid IT environments, this year’s event will focus on the global technology and business trends for data centre and cloud infrastructures and how these can be applied in a regional context, helping you accelerate your journey toward a fully transformed digital businesses in 2017 and beyond.

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19th – 20th June 2017 DatacentreDynamics Webscale, San Francisco

26th – 27th September DatacentreDynamics – Mexico Mexico City, Mexico VISIT WEBSITE

Welcome to DCD>Webscale, the international event for professionals involved in the design and delivery of hyperscale digital infrastructure that supports the zetta-byte economy.

DCD>Webscale is a full-throttle, full-stack infrastructure ecosystem strategy and operations (StratOps) conference. We call it Mud to Cloud.

Hyperscalers set the tone for both the physical and logical data centre.

What is innovated , developed and perfected in the internet- and cloud-first universe will be soon be adapted to the other two classes: enterprise and multi-tenant lease, hosting, colocation managed services.

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18th October 2017 DatacentreDynamics – Peru Lima, Peru VISIT WEBSITE

This digital infra universe in increasingly open-sourced, workload-centric, devops-tuned, software-defined, network-edged, hyper-converged, data-driven. And it’s moving inexorably forward toward the true intelligent, autonomous, lights-out, commoditized data centre.

This conference is designed for senior executives and technical teams responsible for the design, build, manage and operate to deliver on the high-velocity business demands in the zettabyte era. With 40+ hours of thought-leading presentations, panels, keynotes, lightening rounds, solutions briefings, ‘big discussions,’ and lunch-and-learn sessions, DCD>Webscale packs a punch.

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24th – 25th May 2017 Data Centre World & Cloud Expo Asia Summit. Hong Kong

15th June 2017 DatacentreDynamics Enterprise China

Demonstrating the infrastructure, innovation, accessibility and regulation needed makes this global hub the natural focus point for any organisation looking to expand their business across Asia and into China. With more MNC HQs (1,379) than other North Asian city and over 300,000 SMEs the increasing demand for data centre space and technologies presents a lucrative opportunity for technology vendors.

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Over 7,000 senior IT professionals from across North Asia will visit Data Centre World Hong Kong and its co-located technology event stack in May 2017– and will do so to access the very latest insight, solutions and partnerships in order to drive cost-saving and efficiency for their data centre.

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9th November 2017 DatacentreDynamics Enterprise Mumbai, India

SDN, Hyper Converged, Open Architecture, NFV, Web Scale, Disaggregation.

The data centre stack keeps increasing in complexity – that’s why the smartest crowd in town converges at the Marina Bay Sands Singapore every September.

As the IoT, Smart Cities, Big Data and Clouds drive the industry forward, and innovations such as machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) change the roles of IT and data centre professionals, DCD Events aim to bring greater integration across the IT stack, whilst not forgetting the engine. Join 1,500 professionals whose day job it is to keep the digital world up and running.

From “mud to cloud”, this event covers the full ecosystem, from how data centres are being re-define by the economics of digital business, to how IT and data centre service delivery are being re-shaped.

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With 100+ hours of expert panels, keynote presentations, interactive workshops and roundtables, not to mention an expo showcasing 70 of the latest technologies – this really is an event not to be missed! In less than 48 hours you will network, learn and share your way to a more decisive 2017-18.

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