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WORLD Transformation and IoT drive up security spending by a third The cumulative cost of data breaches is expected to reach a whopping $8 trillion according to research firm.

Global spending on cybersecurity solutions will grow by 33% over the next four years, reaching $134bn annually by 2022, according to Juniper Research.

the network. Layered networks, proper lifecycle management and user ‘least privilege’ approaches will prove key to containing serious breaches.”

The research firm said digital transformation and IoT programmes were key drivers for increased security spending as companies struggle to defend data assets from threats.

Securing IoT networks, with 46bn connected units worldwide anticipated in 2021, will require “more forward-thinking”, said Juniper. With devices “in the field” for years at a time, adopting a cybersecurity strategy that is flexible enough to react to future demands will be essential.

Juniper anticipates that the cumulative cost of data breaches between 2017 and 2022 will reach $8 trillion, with variable perbusiness losses depending on the nature and scale of the attack.

Shipping company Maersk, for instance, estimated the cost of the NotPetya ransom ware infecting its global network in 2017 was between $200m and $300m.

“Stakeholders must plan in terms of risk mitigation rather than prevention and service providers in high-risk environments will be forced to restructure their networks to avoid potential compliance breaches, data theft or service outages,” said Juniper Research.

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Juniper highlighted the fact that cybercriminals’ efforts soon render existing security approaches less effective. For example, the Cerber family of ransom ware has analysed how machine learning systems detect malware behaviour and has applied evasion techniques as a result.

The GSMA IoT Security Guidelines have been developed in consultation with the mobile industry and offer IoT service providers and the wider IoT ecosystem practical advice on tackling common cybersecurity threats, as well as data privacy issues associated with IoT services.

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Tesla, Apple, Google, Amazon, GM world’s best positioned for edge computing race (at least for now) The age of edge computing is upon us and millions of people worldwide are already embracing this new wave of technology, even without knowing it.

Devices like Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s iPhone or Tesla’s cars are the very best examples of not only edge but the different sorts of edge, according to a new report by Guggenheim, “AI at the Edge: Cloud Conduits & Edge Computing”.

Analyst Robert Cihra wrote in the document that verticallyintegrated hardware and software vendor’s best positioned for edge computing at least early on include Amazon, Apple, Tesla, Alphabet’s Waymo and GM. He said: “The cloud is enabling artificial intelligence (AI) through machine learning (ML) leveraging its massive scale. But with users and data inputs both out at the edge, we see even newer opportunities for on-device ML, IoT to finally take off, and real-time autonomous systems; all increasing demand for local horsepower.

Cihra said: “To bridge the distance between Cloud and Edge, a number of parties are also looking at architectures that push computing out closer to the edge but not literally into end-points themselves, using distributed edge gateways, micro servers and tiers of fog computing, which we see helping improve the economics and scaling particularly of IIoT applications like smart factories, buildings, cities, etc.”

Autonomous vehicles, such as a Tesla, fall under the edge computer category and in fact, Cihra hailed smart cars as the “poster child” of edge computing.

He said: “We see a self-driving car as the poster child for Edge Computing, since it cannot rely on the cloud but rather needs to think and act for itself in real time using on board AI/ML.

“We think edge computing looks like the incremental growth opportunity, increasingly necessary to overcome cloud overhead in latency and bandwidth, to enable billions of new IoT end-points and real-time local AI/ML for autonomous systems.

“The growing application of Software and AI, Electrification and On-demand transport (ridesharing) are all now pulling tech industry heavyweights into a race to disrupt the >$2tr automotive market; with our belief the draw is compounded by sheer size of TAM.

“As applications push processing back out to the edge, we see devices bifurcating into either Cloud Conduits or Edge Computers that will require much more local horsepower.”

“Autonomous driving is enabled by AI/machine learning, where data input from multiple sensors (cameras, radar, LiDAR) can enable a car to “see” and feed into neural networks that “learn” how to drive. We believe the basis is that driving requires far too much complexity for coded software made up of “if, then” rules to ever possibly be written to anticipate all the variabilities and so ML is required.

Cloud Conduits are today mostly made of end-user AI devices designed to give their users a quick response “but not necessarily below a threshold of 1-2 seconds,” Cihra pointed out.

These conduits, account for example to the already available smart devices used in across millions of households worldwide including Amazon Echo or Google Home.

As for Edge Computers, are machines that can also process data and ML locally on-device in real time, only intermittently communicating back with the cloud for shared learning.

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“With that, we see the most critical ingredient being the DATA that needs to be accumulated from millions of miles of driving experience. But we also see “horsepower” taking on new meaning in self-driving cars as they require exponentially more local processing, memory and storage to execute their self-contained edge computing pipelines.”

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Facebook under fire over privacy controls after 50m records harvested for US election UK firm got permission to look at under 300,000 records but that turned into 50m according to reports that Facebook will have to answer.

The question as to what is legitimate access to personal data by technology companies has been raised by the harvesting of 50m Facebook records by UK data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica.

Its data mining was used to help influence the result of the 2016 US election.

TechMarketView analyst Martin Courtney said: “The social media giant’s privacy settings have long been disparaged as complex and opaque, but the publicity generated by whistle-blower Christopher Wylie [who previously worked at Cambridge Analytica] could prove the most damaging criticism yet directed at its approach to content sharing.”

Courtney said: “Exploiting people’s private information to win votes is a particularly sensitive issue in the US amidst FBI investigations into alleged Russian interference, and Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg is in an uncomfortable position.”

Cambridge Analytica is already the subject of ongoing investigations into how it obtained and used Facebook’s data, not only in the US, but also in the UK, amidst suspicions that the UK company may have misled a parliamentary enquiry last month.

There is also speculation that Cambridge Analytica used the same tactics to identify, profile and target political ads at Brexit voters.

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Courtney added: “We’re not sure any of this can be classified as a data breach, leak or hack. The information gathered by Cambridge Analytica [owned by London-headquartered Strategic Communication Laboratories] appears to have been freely given by around 270,0000 Facebook users via the myPersonality app, although not millions of their Facebook ‘friends’.”

Courtney said the “big questions” are whether Facebook’s rules did enough to explicitly restrict or prevent that from happening, whilst ensuring informed consent was obtained, and whether the data still exists. “A major lawsuit seem inevitable”, said Courtney.

Tighter rules on obtaining informed consent for specific types of data collection and processing it in the digital world is what the European Union’s forthcoming General Data Protection Regulation is designed to deliver. That law comes into effect on 28 May 2018.

But it obviously won’t apply to US citizens.

Javvad Malik, Security Advocate at data security and management vendor AlienVault, said: “The use of 50m Facebook user profiles by Cambridge Analytica isn’t technically a breach in the conventional sense, because systems weren’t broken into, nor were any technical controls bypassed. Rather, it is a case of a legitimate API functionality being used in a way that violated the Facebook ToS (terms of service) by pulling in excessive amounts of data.

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Ericsson and Equinix build on strategic relationship to support digital transformation Ericsson’s reseller status now extends to IT managed services via a Performance Hub that makes sure operators’ customers get the connections and bandwidth they need.

Ericsson is extending its partnership with data centre services group Equinix to offer IT managed network services using the Equinix Performance Hub platform. Equinix, which announced annual revenues of $4.4bn last month, says the Hub provides an “affordable, low-risk approach” to significantly improving network and application performance while reducing bandwidth costs “by up to 40%”.

Ericsson will offer a range of managed services via its Integrated Operations Centre covering network transformation and optimisation to meet network operators’ changing business needs, using Equinix’s global reach into 48 markets.

The latest collaboration between the companies follows the deployment of Ericsson’s Unified Delivery Network (UDN) solution and Ericsson aaS (as-a-service) offerings in Equinix data centres in more than 20 markets. Ericsson previously joined the Equinix Channel Partner Program as a reseller.

The Equinix Performance Hub is based on a core set of vendoragnostic components – a router, firewall, VPN terminator and load balancer – and provides access to major network and cloud service providers to deliver a “globally consistent quality of experience”, says Equinix.

Courtney Munroe, an analyst at IDC, said: “As global businesses undergo digital transformation, they are increasingly turning to data centre co-location environments to deploy IT infrastructure and connects to the cloud.

the next decade, but to successfully capture this opportunity, remain competitive, create unique experiences and manage costs, operators need to reinvent themselves, their processes, infrastructures and business models.

“This partnership allows Ericsson to deliver an end-to-end offer to support customers’ digital transformation initiatives, delivered with Ericsson’s technology platforms and managed services.”

“For operators, network performance remains a top priority as more and more devices come online and more data hits the network. WAN optimisation solutions strategically deployed near end users can dramatically increase network performance and provide a better user experience.”

Last month, Ericsson finalised its 5G-readiness for operators by enhancing its 5G Platform with new radios and updates to its core network software. The company launched 5G Radio Access Network (RAN) commercial software, based on the recently approved first 3GPP 5G New Radio (NR) standard.

Peter Laurin, Head of Business Area Managed Services at Ericsson, said: “Ericsson will increase its ecosystem and complement its managed services offering by partnering with Equinix to modernise, automate and consolidate data centres, infrastructure and operations at a sustainable cost and with faster times to market.

This solution will help customers achieve global reach and scale to meet changing business needs.”

Ericsson introduced its 5G Platform in February 2017 with additions made in September the same year. It comprises the 5G core, radio and transport portfolios together with OSS/BSS, network services and security.

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Earlier this week, Equinix announced a €750m notes offer to raise funds to meet capital expenditure and working capital demands.

Equinix added that the finance may also be used for “potential acquisitions and strategic transactions”.

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EMEA Microsoft expands cloud regions across Europe and Middle East There are reports of new data centres in Germany and Microsoft has confirmed additional data centres elsewhere.

available and resilient cloud services for companies and organisations while meeting data residency, security and compliance needs.”

The first cloud regions in the Middle East will be in Abu Dhabi and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Microsoft said it “will be the first” global cloud operator to introduce cloud regions in Switzerland, which will be in the regions of Geneva and Zurich.

Microsoft is reportedly planning to open two cloud data centres in Germany to help corporates and public sector organisations keep their data inside the country when they access Microsoft’s cloud services.

Microsoft has not confirmed that new data centres will be built – after the reports in German newspapers WirtschaftsWoche and Handelsblatt – but has confirmed it is expanding the availability of its cloud services across Germany.

Microsoft has an existing cloud access agreement with Deutsche Telekom and already serves the German market from data centres in Ireland and Amsterdam.

Jason Zander, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Azure, has confirmed this week however: “We plan to deliver the Microsoft Cloud from our first data centre locations in Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates, and we’ll expand the cloud options for customers in Germany.”

As for Azure generally, Microsoft has a goal of being in 50 regions across the world, with existing plans for 12 new regions.

Said Zander: “By delivering the comprehensive, intelligent Microsoft Cloud from data centres in a given geography, we offer scalable,

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From 14 March, existing Office 365 customers from France and French territories will be able to opt-in to be moved to new local cloud regions in France.

The widening of the Microsoft Cloud footprint across Europe, said the firm, will make it easier for European firms to comply with the forthcoming European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which becomes effective on 25 May 2018.

He added: “The Microsoft Cloud in France is also officially open with the general availability of Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Office 365 from within the country this week, and Dynamics 365 will follow in early 2019.”

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“We are also expanding the cloud service options available with the addition of new cloud regions in Germany. This new cloud offering will complement the options currently available for customers today,” said Zander. The two new German regions, said Zander, will provide business continuity combined with data residency within Germany and connectivity to Microsoft’s global public cloud network.

The unconfirmed German newspaper reports say Microsoft is opening two cloud data centres in Germany at a cost of over €100m.

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2018 data centre M&A on $4.5bn with multi-billion dollar acquisition of Interoute Company’s portfolio of 15 data centres, 17 virtual data centres and 51 colocation facilities will be merger into a larger ICT provider.

Data centre merger and acquisitions in 2018 so far have amounted to $4.47bn in capital expenditure.

The figure has been boosted by GTT Communications’ $2.3bn cash acquisition of Interoute, the largest of the year so far followed

by Equinix’s purchase of Informat Dallas ($800m) and Metronode ($791m), CyrusOne acquisition of Zenium Data Centres ($442m) and Elegant Jubilee’s acquisition of an extra2% stake in Global Switch ($138m).

The GTT acquisition of Interoute will add to the company’s portfolio 15 data centres, 17 virtual data centres and 51 colocation facilities.

In addition, it will add a fibre network footprint with over 400 points of presence, spanning 24 metro areas and interconnecting 126 cities across 29 countries.

In addition, GTT will also add over 1,000 strategic enterprise and carrier clients, primarily headquartered in Europe.

The purchase price will be paid in cash at closing. GTT received committed debt financing for the transaction from a group of financial institutions and committed equity financing of $250m from GTT’s largest institutional investor, The Spruce House Partnership, and Acacia Partners.

GTT expects the transaction to close in three to six months, subject to customary regulatory approvals. Goodwin Procter LLP served as GTT’s legal advisers on this transaction.

Rick Calder, GTT President and CEO, said: “The acquisition of Interoute represents a major milestone in delivering on our purpose of connecting people, across organisations and around the world.

“This combination creates a disruptive market leader with substantial scale, unique network assets and award-winning product capabilities to fulfil our clients’ growing demand for distributed cloud networking in Europe, the U.S. and across the globe.

“Following our successful, proven acquisition model, we expect to complete this integration within three to four quarters postclose and achieve a post-synergy multiple of seven to eight times Adjusted EBITDA or better on a pro forma basis.”

Gareth Williams, Interoute CEO, said: “The combined assets and strengths of our two companies create a powerful portfolio of high-capacity, low-latency connectivity, and innovative cloud and edge infrastructure services to support our customers in the global digital economy.”

Interoute reported revenues of €718 million and Adjusted EBITDA of €165 million for the 12 months ending September 30, 2017.

Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse in charge of Telecom Italia spin-off The spin-off of Telecom Italia has gained paced in early February, after nearly ten years of discussions.

Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse have been chosen by Telecom Italia to work on the telco’s spin-off amid growing tensions with the Italian Government.

The appointment of the banks has been revealed by sources speaking to Reuters.

Telecom Italia has lost nearly 50% of its value since early 2016.

The company has today a market cap of €14.96bn.

The spin off could potentially pave the way for an initial public offering of the Milan-based telco, which could increase its value.

Telecom Italia’s stock closed on the Milan Stock Exchange on a high with shares timidly rising to €0.74 (+0.63%) in the wake of the news of the appointment of Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse for the spin-off action.

The spin-off of Telecom Italia has gained paced once again in early February, after nearly ten years of discussions over market transparency.

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UK’s newest data centre start-up switches to data centre management as a service mode

Zenium Data centres scales up CAPEX with 300,000 sq.ft land acquisition

As data centres become smarter through the adoption of IoT enabled devices, the opportunities to analyse data is empowering IT managers to predict the future.

London-based data centre start up IP House have selected Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure IT Datacentre Management as a Service (DMaaS) architecture, purpose-built for the hybrid IT and data centre environments.

The system includes a Data Centre Infrastructure Management (DCIM) platform, to provide 24/7 monitoring of ISO-accredited facilities, such as IP House’s Tier III 14,000 sq.ft facility in Canary Wharf, London.

EcoStruxure has been designed to give visibility into the whole of the data centre ecosystem and enable data centre managers to access a facility’s data anywhere. The architecture is built to help mitigate any downtime consequences by alerting managers to any potential outage before it happens.

Scheduled to open before the end of the month, the site also utilises other components from Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure for data centres architecture, including Power Distribution (PDU), Switchgear, NetShelter Racks and Symmetra PX UPS. Vinny Vaghani, Operations and Commercial Manager, IP House, said: “One of the biggest drivers for selecting EcoStruxure IT was its vendor-neutrality and ability to integrate with different products and provide detailed data in a single dashboard.”

Kim Povlsen, Vice President & General Manager, Digital Services & Data Centre Software, Schneider Electric, said: “The data collected by EcoStruxure IT is aggregated in the Schneider Electric Cloud and analysed to provide actionable, real-time recommendations, which optimize infrastructure performance and mitigate risk for end-users.

“The software is supported by 24/7 remote monitoring through the Schneider Electric Service Bureau and can be connected to registered Elite Partners, such as UK-based Comtec Power, who are able to provide an additional layer of monitoring.”

Land lot to be used for the construction of yet another facility in continental Europe’s largest colocation market.

Data centre services provider Zenium has said it plans to purchase 6.8 acres, or 296,000 sq.ft, of land in Willhelm Fay Strasse, Frankfurt, to build a third facility in Europe’s second largest colocation market.

The freehold land is currently owned by DATA-Center Frankfurt West GmbH. Financial deals of the transaction have not been disclosed. The new data centre, named Frankfurt Three, is due to break ground in Q4 2018 and will amount to a total build area of 274,000 sq.ft GEA. The campus scheme is designed to include two attached, four floors, data centres offering a total of 118,400 sq.ft of technical space. The facility will provide a total IT load of 22 MW and benefit from 40MVA total incoming power, and multiple fibre providers providing carrier neutral connectivity.

Franek Sodzawiczny, Founder and CEO of Zenium, said: “Frankfurt has been cited as one of the top 5 European data centre markets, experiencing competition from London, Amsterdam, Paris and Dublin but there has been a lack of supply to meet demand in this territory. There is certainly an element of lack of supply to meet demand in this territory, and this has increased in the last couple of years.

“Our decision to further invest in Frankfurt will provide additional capacity which we believe will be welcomed by hyperscale cloud providers and Fortune 500 companies alike. These organisations require purpose-built, highly efficient technical space, which we have a reputation for delivering.”

In the last 15 years, the Zenium management team has raised over $2.2bn in debt and equity and has conceived, designed and delivered over 4.3 million sq.ft of raised floor space, securing over 100 individual customer agreements.

The Zenium data centre portfolio, including the proposed Frankfurt Three campus scheme, totals 385,700 sq.ft of technical space within three data centres in Frankfurt and two in London.

In January this year, US operator CyrusOne announced it would acquire Zenium in an M&A worth $442m after entering into a definitive agreement with Quantum Strategic Partners Ltd., a private investment fund managed by Soros Fund Management LLC and certain other sellers named therein who manage Zenium’s assets.

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Amazon gets green light for new data centre in Ireland The good news for Amazon comes despite initial opposition from the Community Council on the doorstep of the facility.

Amazon has been given the go-ahead for a new data centre in Dublin, according to the Irish Independent newspaper. The new facility is 88,000 sq. ft and located in Tallaght.

The Tallaght Community Council had previously told South Dublin County Council’s planning committee that it was “concerned” about an over-concentration of data centres in the area, but it seems Amazon has won over Tallaght residents.

A spokesperson on the Tallaght Community Council Facebook page says: “We had a constructive meeting with Amazon – we want high quality employers and strong enterprise creation for Tallaght from 2018-2028.

The new Amazon site will be located at the former site of a warehousing and distribution firm, and will be situated next to an existing Amazon data centre.

Last year, Amazon applied for planning permission for the first stage of potentially a €1bn data centre campus in Mulhuddart, Dublin, which Amazon has named Project G.

“We will continue to monitor all industrial areas, zoning and planning applications – pushing for a coordinated, formal enterprise vision and strategy for Tallaght.”

Project G covers 223,000 sq. ft and is expected to cost around €200m to develop. The land there is owned by government inward investment arm IDA Ireland, and Amazon says eventually it could build up to seven data centres at the site.

Tallaght Community Council had also previously said that many data centres don’t employ large numbers of people. A report commissioned by Facebook, published earlier this month, said an average hyperscale Facebook data centre in the US has a workforce of 196 people after five years of operation.

In the face of some opposition, IDA Ireland has supported the Project G planning application, which will be supported by extra capacity added to the national power grid.

Canadian Investor Buys Hydro66, IPO Date For Swedish Data Centre Player Announced Operator to continue with expansion and bring online 36MW of fresh power by Q1 2019 with 50MW more reserved for future expansion.

The company also revealed that in the last few several weeks, Hydro66 has already taken delivery of its first shipment of new GPU crypto-mining equipment, as part of an initial investment in 1MW of crypto mining rigs over the next months. David Rowe, Chairman of Hydro6, said: “It is good to strengthen our capital base as we expand our award-winning facility. The supplemental capital not only gives further confidence in our plans but allows us to be opportunistic in our thinking.

Private company Arctic Blockchain has completed a fund raising for total proceeds of $10m Canadian Dollars (approximately $7.8m US Dollars) and “subsequently closed the acquisition” of Swedish data centre operator Hydro66.

The combined business will continue under the leadership of Hydro66’s current management team. Members of the Arctic team will augment the board of directors and a public listing on a Canadian exchange is planned to be completed in early Q2 2018.

Following the acquisition, Artic Blockchain said in a statement Hydro66 “is well positioned to capitalize on future growth in high power computing with a focus on both blockchain technologies and cryptocurrency mining”.

Based in Boden, Northern Sweden, Hydro66 has been operational since 2014. Its facility has installed operating capacity of 4MW with an additional 36MW of capacity under construction. Beyond the 40MW of power secured for the current expansion, Hydro66 has also reserved an additional 50MW of power capacity for future expansion.

“The path towards a public listing will provide access to larger pools of finance as we broaden our ambitions and footprint.” Anne Graf, CEO of Hydro66, added: “Richard Patricio [Arctic Blockchain CEO] and his colleagues have demonstrated great success in traditional mining over many years, both globally and in the Nordics.

“Their experience in capital deployment and their understanding of crypto mining will be extremely valuable as we expand our current site and develop our plans in enterprise colocation, wholesale crypto and self-mining opportunities. Our next milestone is the opening of 7.6 MW during April and May 2018 and we are on track for a further 8MW by September.”

The facility is 100% environmentally friendly using hydro-power and a cooling system designed to allow for free air cooling 365 days per year.

The build out to the full 40MW capacity will be completed by Q1 2019.

Also commenting, Richard Patricio, CEO of Arctic Blockchain, said that after assessing several opportunities to enter the crypto mining space the firm identified that businesses which own and control physical assets, land, buildings and power, as well as having deep technical experience, will be best suited to profit in this evolving marketplace.

The go-forward business plan following the acquisition by Arctic Blockchain will be to continue the build-out to 40MW capacity and focus on filling the data centre halls with a balance of enterprise and wholesale cryptocurrency customers, while reserving capacity for self-mining of cryptocurrency.

“Hydro66 stands apart from the field and the asset base we have invested in and are aiding to build will have real value, in the future for cryptocurrency, the blockchain and high-performance computing.

We look forward to being part of this exciting new chapter with David, Anne and the rest of the Hydro66 team,” he said.

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Kaspersky Lab plans Swiss data centre to allay spying fears

Zenium to build a third data centre in popular London region

The Russian company is under fire from Western countries including the US and the UK and it sees the Swiss data processing solution as a way to help stem the security fears it is facing.

Russia-headquartered Kaspersky Lab is reportedly planning to open a data centre in Switzerland to address Western governments’ and some corporate concerns that the Russian government is using its software to spy on them.

Reuters reports the data centre is being planned by Kaspersky for this specific reason, according to documents it says it has seen.

The US government last year banned the use of Kaspersky software among civilian government agencies. In the UK, there were also government concerns expressed around the use of Kaspersky, with the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) advising the UK government against using Kaspersky products.

Following this, Barclays Bank stopped using the software.

Kaspersky rejected the accusations about spying and is appealing the ban in the US. However, since then, international relations between Russia and some Western countries have worsened, not least as a result of the spy poisoning scandal in Salisbury, UK this month.

Reuters reports that the US ban was the “trigger” for building the data centre in Switzerland.

In a statement, Kaspersky Lab said: “To further deliver on the promises of our Global Transparency Initiative, we are finalising plans for the opening of the company’s first transparency centre this year, which will be located in Europe.”

It added: “We understand that during a time of geopolitical tension, mirrored by an increasingly complex cyber-threat landscape, people may have questions and we want to address them.”

The company had previously said that it would open “transparency centres” in Asia, Europe and the US but it did not provide details. According to Reuters, the new Swiss facility is “dubbed the Swiss Transparency Centre”, according to the documents.

Reuters reports work in Switzerland is due to begin “within weeks” and will be completed by early 2020.

The Swiss data centre will collect and analyse files identified as suspicious on the computers of Kaspersky customers in the US and the European Union, but data from other customers will continue to be sent to a Moscow data centre for review and analysis, said Reuters.

The recently acquired company has already announced plans to also build a third facility to serve Frankfurt, as it continues to address demand in Europe’s busiest data regions.

Zenium has announced plans to develop a new purpose-built data centre in the UK. The London Three facility will help meet growing demand in the region for high quality technical space, said Zenium.

Situated on the Slough Trading Estate outside London, London Three will offer 39,505 sq. ft of technical space with an IT load of 9MW. Each data suite will be customised to meet client specifications and will offer the latest energy efficiency, including adiabatic cooling technology.

London Three will also provide multi-layer security, carrier neutrality with diverse routes and a Tier III+ level of resilience.

Real estate investment trust CyrusOne, which specialises in data centres, agreed to acquire Zenium from Quantum Strategic Partners at the back end of last year for $442m.

Zenium already has four data centres in London and Frankfurt, the continent’s two largest data centre markets. Zenium earlier this month announced the building of a third facility in Frankfurt.

On the new London facility, Franek Sodzawiczny, CEO at Zenium, said: “We are determined to increase the supply of premium data centre space sought by cloud providers, systems integrators and multinational corporations in this key international business hub.”

Sodzawiczny added: “Over 70% of power across the current Zenium portfolio is consumed by two returning customers which demonstrates the strength of the business relationships we develop. It also highlights their preference to secure the same level of service and state-of-the-art infrastructure from the same trusted provider in multiple locations.”

Despite the high cost of constructing data centres in the London region and some uncertainty generated around Brexit, Zenium says there has been no reduction in demand for additional data centre capacity in the region.

The addition of London Three to the portfolio extends the total data centre technical space offered by Zenium in the UK to over 161,400 sq. ft, with a combined IT power of 31.62MW. The data centre will be ready for Zenium to commence the fit-out of the data halls in the fourth quarter of 2018. Zenium says the facility will be operational and ready for occupation in 2019.

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Datacenter.Com goes to the channel to spread its colocation as a service model The Cyprus-headquartered company opened its first data centre in Amsterdam last December and it now sees resellers, CSPs and MSPs as key to ramping up its business as it plans further data centre sites.

Datacenter.com, the international data centre colocation provider that paid more than $500,000 for its domain name while introducing a flexible month-to-month colocation subscription model three months ago, has announced the launch of its global channel partner programme.

The programme, aimed at CSPs, MSPs, systems integrators and IT consultancy firms, enables them to package their own offerings with Datacenter.com’s carrier-neutral and cloud-neutral colocation services, via its newly opened Amsterdam data centre.

Datacenter.com launched its on-demand, month-to-month colocation subscription model – called Start Direct Cabinets – at the end of 2017 to cater to the flexibility needs of cloudoriented companies with dynamic operations and/or hybrid IT infrastructures in place.

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“Channel partners will be able to benefit from our significant investments in state-of-the-art carrier-neutral data centre infrastructure as well as our competitive price levels,” said Jochem Steman, CEO of Datacenter.com. “Initially, the programme will be available from our brand new facility in Amsterdam. But soon our portfolio of facilities as well as the programme will be expanded into other areas around the world, as we’ve planned a fast roll-out of carrier-neutral data centres in strategic markets worldwide.”

The 54,000 square feet facility in the Amsterdam South-East business district uses adiabatic cooling technology to maximise energy savings, while the facility is certified as compliant for all relevant data centre management regulations, says the company.

The partner programme comes in four flavours catering to the various needs and requirements of different types of channel partners. There will be lead/referral generation partners, reseller partners, solution integration partners and Elite partners who can collaborate on an equal go-to-market basis.

As of last December, the Amsterdam data centre was 60% leased. Adjacent to the Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX) and Amsterdam Schiphol International Airport, the AMS1 facility is also engineered to deliver 2N critical power redundancy.

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Colt ‘Greens’ its European data centre network as strategy works While some countries make it tricky to go entirely green in the DC field, Colt says it’s making great strides in doing the right thing.

Colt Data Centre Services (DCS) says it’s efforts in “greening” its data centres across Europe are bearing fruit, with all of them now using some form of renewable energy. In practice, this means that nine out of the company’s 17 European facilities now run exclusively on power generated from renewable sources.

The progress follows a campaign by Colt DCS to reduce the environmental impact of its worldwide network of data centres. Colt DCS has focused on reducing CO2 emissions, optimising power usage effectiveness (PUE) and adopting new cooling technologies across its facilities to maximise the performance of its data centres.

Colt DCS’ hyper-scale core London north data centre facility has demonstrated a very efficient PUE of 1.19. The global data centre market is responsible for the consumption of between 3% and 5% of the world’s power, with cooling accounting for around 40% of the total energy consumption.

as the European Commission’s voluntary code of conduct for energy efficiency in data centres.

“Colt DCS believes that our industry has a moral and ethical duty to go far beyond the minimum requirements for sustainability, and to deploy techniques and new infrastructure technology that will have a major and measurable effect on the resources we use.”

Expanding, Colt Data Centre Services has 24 carrier-neutral data centres across Europe and Asia.

In other green DC news, a power deal was announced earlier this week between Iceland government-owned Landsvirkjun and Advania Data Centres, for the supply of 30 MW to the firm’s data centre in Reykjanesbær.

Colt’s efforts have been matched by much bigger player Microsoft. Following two wind power deals announced in Ireland and The Netherlands in 2017, Microsoft says it is “on track” to exceed its goal of powering 50% of its global data centre load with renewable energy this year.

Efforts are being made to expand the data centre campus there, with Advania Data Centres expecting to triple its operations in Iceland in the “near future”. The power purchase agreement allows Advania Data Centres to meet ever-increasing demand for high performance computing and specialised blockchain technology services.

In France, said Colt, the country’s reliance on nuclear power and an energy generation shortfall makes it “impossible” for any data centre provider to guarantee 100% renewable power, although planned developments there for renewable energy will meet the shortfall by 2023.

Detlef Spang, CEO of Colt DCS, said: “The global technology industry needs to face up to its global responsibilities, not least in the area of energy usage. So far, most ‘green’ regulations are voluntary – such

The energy will be delivered from Landsvirkjun’s current power station network, consisting of 14 hydro-power stations, three geothermal stations and two wind turbines. Landsvirkjun is currently expanding the Búrfell hydro-power station to meet growing demand for renewable energy in Iceland.

Xactly opens new EU data centre to support growth for its cloud-based financial applications Data sovereignty and compliance needs in Europe are fuelling data centre capacity growth.

sales growth may well fuel new data centre capacity acquisition at Anaplan.

Xactly, a provider of cloud-based incentive solutions, has opened a new EU data centre in Germany to support customer growth. As competitive and financial pressures accelerate and new regulations such as IFRS 15 come online, companies are more focused on driving intelligent planning and execution across the sales lifecycle, said Xactly.

“Xactly is unwavering in our commitment to serving customers – no matter where they reside,” said Ron Rasmussen, chief technology and product officer of US-headquartered Xactly. “We have seen tremendous growth in our EU business over the past several years and it continues to accelerate. The new data centre will enable us to provide a better service to our customers in the region, as well as those that are managing compensation globally.”

To meet these requirements, EU companies are adopting Xactly’s enterprise-grade sales performance management (SPM) suite, including sales and territory planning, quota management, incentive management, analytics and big data intelligence.

Xactly said the EU data centre expands the company’s international footprint and meets the “unique needs” of those EU customers with specific data sovereignty, security and residency requirements.

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Xactly says its sales performance management solutions and analytics capabilities enable enterprises to simplify sales resource planning, as well as easily design and manage incentive compensation programmes that improve operational efficiency, optimise selling behaviour and reduce risk.

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Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Google to be taxed on sales in Europe Data centres and fulfilment centres create jobs but European Commission says tech giants not paying their fair share.

neighbour will do 10% – how will I explain to my citizens they have to pay 45%, 50%, 55% of taxes on their income, but the company is going to pay 10%, 12% on their income?”

The corporate income tax rate in Luxembourg is 18%, compared to Ireland’s 12.5%. Varadkar however supported “competition” in tax rates, while on the other hand supporting “similarities”.

US technology giants are bracing themselves for higher tax plans from the European Commission, which will hit the profits they make through their European data centres.

The likes of Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Google have previously taken advantage of legally moving their pan-European profits to lower taxed countries like Ireland and Luxembourg, but mandarins from the European Commission are preparing to hit back.

With the writing on the wall, Luxembourg prime minister Xavier Bettel recently visited Ireland to discuss matters with the Irish prime minister Leo Varadkar, and pledged that his country would not “enter a race on lower tax” in outdoing the likes of Ireland, which has the lowest corporation tax in the European Union.

Apple, for instance, has benefited from lower taxes in both Ireland and Luxembourg, and Amazon also chooses to plough its cash generated from other countries through Luxembourg to shrink its tax bill. Google is expected to soon confirm data centre expansion plans in Luxembourg.

Bettel, quoted in the Luxembourg Times rejected competing on lower taxes with European neighbours. He said: “So there will be 13%, and the neighbour will do 12%, the neighbour will do 11%, the

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The situation may well be taken out of Ireland’s and Luxembourg’s hands though, with European Commission plans being reported. A “tech tax” is expected to be announced later this month, which will see specific companies taxed on their sales rather than their profits – closing legal tax avoidance schemes involving profits being moved around lower tax countries.

In an interview with French newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche, French finance minister Bruno Le Maire confirmed a European directive will see major technology firms taxed between 2% and 6% on their sales. He added however the actual figure when confirmed would probably be nearer the lower percentage.

At the same time of the French report, Reuters said it had managed to get hold of a draft document from the European Commission, which confirmed turnover-based tax plans on technology giants.

Governments in Italy, Germany and Spain, along with France, support tax reform when it comes to making tech firms pay more, even though their data centres and fulfilment centres create large numbers of jobs.

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Google Invests A Further €500m In Dutch Data Centre

VMware outlines customer and partner benefits from European AWS tie-in After a long wait, VMware customers can get more out of their expensive software through the AWS cloud.

VMware has confirmed that its VMware Cloud is now available through Amazon Web Services in Europe, after initially announcing the offering back in 2016. VMware virtualisation software customers in Europe can now easily move and process their on-premise workloads in the AWS cloud as they move toward hybrid cloud set-ups.

The tie-in also enables system integrators and managed service providers to grow their cloud business with VMware Cloud on AWS, which can be combined with AWS services including compute, databases, analytics and application services.

Google opened its clean energy Groningen data centre at the end of 2016.

Google has this week confirmed it is investing a further €500m in expanding its Dutch data centre in Eemshaven, Groningen.

Google says the expansion is necessary to service the needs of both businesses and consumers as the take up of its cloud services increases. The expansion will take the company’s total investment in the data centre so far to about €1.5bn.

Eemshaven currently employs 250 staff and Google said the expansion will lead to this headcount expanding. A Google spokesman said the building work itself will create 1,200 jobs.

So far, Google has not confirmed the total size of the expansion or when construction will actually begin.

Eric Wiebes, Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate, told Dutch media: “Google has shown that it has a lot to offer such as employment, income for social suppliers, investments in nature projects and a coding programme for youth.

“The construction of this data centre also makes the region more attractive for other international technology companies.”

Google opened Eemshaven in December 2016. The site only uses sustainable electricity – provided through a ten year contract with Eneco – including wind power from Delfzijl and solar energy from Eemshaven itself, among other sources.

The facility also uses water from household waste and cold air for cooling. Google aims to run its entire global operations on renewable energy.

In other European news involving Google, MEPs have just approved a new EU corporate tax plan which embraces “digital presence” when it comes to deciding what tax technology companies should pay. In other words, where technology companies make their money will be the overriding factor on how much tax they pay in each country, not where they choose to be taxed.

VMware signed a similar cloud deal with IBM before inking the AWS agreement. At last year’s VMworld conference in Barcelona, IBM said it had taken 1,400 VMware customers into the IBM Cloud in partnership with VMware and/or its partners.

VMware predicts that by 2030, a whopping 52% of business IT workloads will be in public clouds, which is why it is striking these cloud partnerships – to make sure the customers of its expensive software can get the most out of it by being able to easily move their data between private and public cloud infrastructures.

Mark Lohmeyer, vice president and general manager of the VMware cloud platform business unit, said: “Since launching VMware Cloud on AWS just six months ago [in the US] we’ve seen tremendous interest from our global customer base and multinational enterprises. This launch marks an essential starting point for our global expansion to deliver unparalleled hybrid cloud services in major geographies around the world.”

Matt Garman, vice president of AWS Compute Services, said: “Customers have been asking us to bring VMware Cloud on AWS to Europe, and we are now doing it, delivering deeper AWS integration so that customers won’t have to manage their own storage and database services.”

One satisfied customer already with the combined technology package is financial services group Brinks. “VMware and VMware Cloud on AWS are the foundation of Brinks’ global infrastructure,” said Greg Osgood, global vice president of infrastructure and security at Brinks.

“This flexibility improves service levels to customers and is a key driver in Brinks’ technology and business transformation.

These systems allow the company to easily move workloads between its private cloud and the public cloud, providing agility for production services and disaster recovery.”

He said: “Using these VMware technologies, and with a partnership with Eastern Computer Exchange, Brinks’ successfully consolidated its North America data centre operations in 2017, and is planning to extend this model to Europe, Latin American and Asia in 2018.”

VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger, while happy with the IBM and AWS hybrid cloud deals for now, has not ruled out signing similar deals with Microsoft and Google in the future, to extend VMware’s hybrid cloud reach even further.

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Middle East closer to US, Europe and Asia data centres in major telco partnership UAE-Telco ‘du’ has built on its existing partnership with global communications service provider Epsilon to connect the UAE and major data centres in the US, Europe and Asia. du, an Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (EITC), said clients using its data centres will be now connected to “the world’s data centre and cloud hubs with on-demand connectivity”.

By working together, du and Epsilon have vowed to create a ‘one stop shop’ for capacity and backhaul services with access to datamena – an EITC entity, and the UAE Internet Exchange (UAE-IX) from global data centres.

Carriers, Enterprises, Content and Cloud Providers will also be able to use the Infiny by Epsilon on-demand connectivity platform, which allows click-to-connect provisioning of Ethernet speeds from 100M up to 5G. In addition, Epsilon will also provide STM1, STM4 & STM16 capacity.

As part of the agreement, Epsilon will act as the global sales channel for the partnership.

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Ananda Bose, Chief Wholesale & Corporate Affairs Officer, Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company, said: “This commercial partnership seamlessly connects datamena in the UAE to all major data centres in the USA, Europe and Asia.

“Epsilon has over 500 Carriers connected to its network who can now manage their connectivity requirements to datamena via Epsilon’s online provisioning portal. This will significantly reduce the current lead time to provision capacities and further enhance the customer experience in datamena.”

Jerzy Szlosarek, CEO at Epsilon, said: “du’s colocation facility, subsea and terrestrial capacities together with Epsilon’s Infiny platform and network reach, will allow us to offer Enterprises, Carriers, Cloud & Content providers the simplest and most efficient way to connect sub 10G network services to the Middle East.

“Through a single relationship with us, and in partnership with du, customers are able to leverage our extensive network reach, local expertise, experience and relationships to gain fast and efficient connection between the USA, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.”

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AMERICAS Facebook could be about to announce a $42bn data centre campus Announcement was originally scheduled for later in March but has been moved up due to unknown reasons.

The first of four development phases is estimated to cost $750m and generate up to 100 jobs at the server farm.

ABC reported: “On Jan. 23, [2018], the Joint Development Authority of Jasper, Morgan, Newton and Walton (JDA), as well as other parties, approved the land sale and a $42bn bond resolution to finance the project.”

Facebook is expected to announce a new 416-acre data centre campus to be built in Georgia, US, in the coming hours, according to sources.

Governor Nathan Deal has called a press conference for this Wednesday and people familiar with the matter have told the Atlanta Business Chronicle (ABC) that the gathering will be used to formally unveil the project.

Facebook had as of the end of January 2.2 billion monthly active users. The company closed 2017 with revenues of nearly $41bn and assets amounting to $84.5bn. In the US, Facebook currently has four data centres in operation, while another four are in various stages of development.

The social media giant is expected to invest up to $42bn in the Newton County campus over the next 20 years. The same sources said the project was originally planned to be announced in two weeks, however, for unknown reasons, it has been rescheduled for this week.

According to a recent report from RTI International, Facebook data centres contributed a cumulative $5.8bn in gross domestic product (GDP) to the US economy from 2010-2016, or $835m per year.

Data Economy has contacted Facebook which at the time of publishing was yet to answer questions related to the campus.

According to documents obtained by the Atlanta-based news title, Facebook has projected an investment of $2.5bn in improvements and equipment through 2029, not including land acquisitions and the ongoing operational capital expenditure to upgrade and replace equipment that needs so.

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Facebook has, however, faced some backlash over recent months on a spectrum of things, including its reorganisation of users’ newsfeed.

Facebook is also facing a new challenge with younger subscribers, who are turning away from the social network in favour of other apps like Instagram, WhatsApp and Snapchat. Apart from Snapchat, both Instagram and WhatsApp are also owned by Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook.

According to eMarketer, Facebook is expected to lose in 2018 in the US alone 2 million users aged 24 or below.

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Phoenix sees yet another data centre opening as firms look for green cloud solutions The Arizona data centre market continues to blossom with latest expansion plans from Aligned Energy.

Infrastructure services firm Aligned Energy has announced a 200,000 sq. ft expansion at its 51 acre, 550,000 sq. ft data centre campus in Phoenix, Arizona. The site, which was opened last year, currently has an energy capacity of 120 MW. Situated at 2500 W Union Hills, this addition of Phase II will be able to accommodate 60MW at full build-out. The facility expansion is a result of the “strong demand” that the company is experiencing, said Aligned Energy.

JLL’s North American Data Centre Outlook report, released last autumn, ranked Phoenix sixth in the top data centre markets. After a number of other firms opened data centres in Phoenix, research firm Jones Lang LaSalle said the Phoenix market continues to expand as a result of demand from West Coast companies, who need a low latency service to California while decreasing power and tax costs in Arizona.

Andrew Schaap, CEO of Aligned Energy (who joined the firm from Digital Realty last year), said: “Forward looking businesses require a data centre provider that offers advanced, future-proofed infrastructure solutions that keep pace with the demands of density and scalability, our Phoenix data centre does just that.”

Aligned Energy offers flexible rack densities of up to 50 kW, enabling customers to “deploy legacy systems alongside computational applications without latency or disruption”, says the company.

The Phoenix campus guarantees an impressive 1.15 PUE (Power Usage Efficiency). Aligned says the site consumes up to 85% less water and up to 80% less energy than traditional facilities.

Last year, Sabre Corporation, the technology provider to the global travel industry, signed a co-location agreement to use Aligned’s data centre in Plano, Texas. At the time, Vish Saoji, Sabre CTO, said: “We selected Aligned Energy as our primary data centre partner for its ability to support our rapid product development as we build out our platform and SaaS and cloud strategies.”

Aligned Energy also has plans to expand its facilities in US states including California, Virginia, New Jersey and Illinois.

Iron Mountain opens 1.5 million cubic feet federal data centre Facility represents an investment of more than $10m and can be further expanded should Washington require more storage space.

The Suitland, Maryland data centre is the company’s third National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)-compliant facility in the Washington metropolitan area – joining Fredericksburg and Sterling in Virginia – providing services for information management, digital transformation, secure storage, and secure destruction, and is overall the company’s 19th location in Maryland and the fourth in Prince George’s County.

Iron Mountain Incorporated has cut the ribbon on a 125,000 sq.ft data centre in Suitland, Maryland, located at the Andrews Federal Campus, immediately outside the entrance of Joint Base Andrews, USA.

When complete, Iron Mountain will have invested more than $10m to construct and outfit the building. This investment also comes with the opportunity to expand by building additional facilities on the property.

The facility has a total capacity of 1.5 million cubic feet of record storage, and is Iron Mountain’s 10th facility to meet federal compliance standards for security.

The opening of the building was attended by several of the company’s executives as well as a range of government figureheads including U.S. Representative Anthony Brown; Maryland Delegates Angela Angel and Dr. Darryl Barnes; and Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker III.

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William L. Meaney, president and CEO of Iron Mountain, said: “This new facility adds to Iron Mountain’s more than 1,400 locations worldwide – including our network of 19 facilities in Maryland – underscoring our continued investment in delivering the most advanced records and information management capabilities in the market today.”

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Self-driving trucks used to transport gear to Google’s Atlanta data centres

EdgeCore breaks ground on 1.25 million sq. ft data centre campus Company is to build facilities across six North American markets delivering between 100 MW and 200 MW of critical power per site.

Recently launched edge data centre firm EdgeCore Internet Real Estate has officially broken ground on its Mesa Data Centre Campus marking the beginning of the company’s more than $2bn investment plan to build facilities across the US. The first phase of the campus, representing a capital expenditure of $150m, will see the erection of a 180,000 sq.ft building. In total, the company plans to build seven centres in Mesa, totalling more than 1.25 million sq.ft.

It was California Dreaming for a year, but now Waymo goes commercial with Google rig gig in Georgia.

This week, self-driving truck firm Waymo will start transporting equipment to Google’s data centres in Atlanta. The company has been conducting road tests for its trucks over the past year in California, and now it feels it’s right to go commercial.

Waymo, which is owned by Google parent Alphabet, admits however that while its software acts for “big rigs” in much the same way a human driver would after years of driving passenger cars, things like braking, turning and blind spots are different with a fully-loaded truck and trailer.

So it will have to overcome these differences before it can report a successful trial.

Atlanta, Georgia is one of the biggest logistics hubs in the US, making it a sensible home for Google’s logistical operations. The pilot, in partnership with Google’s logistics team, will allow the companies to develop the technology and integrate it into the operations of shippers and carriers, with their network of factories, distribution centres, ports and terminals, the companies said.

As the self-driving trucks hit the highways in the region though, there will still be trained drivers in the cabs to monitor systems and take control if needed.

The self-driving trucks use the same suite of custom-built sensors that power Waymo’s self-driving minivan, and use the same software that has enabled Waymo’s cars to go fully driverless in Arizona.

The data centre campus will include an on-site substation to deliver the utility power needed to support 225MW of IT load.

EdgeCore’s Mesa Data Centre Campus is scheduled to open in late 2018 and will be part of the City’s Elliot Road Technology Corridor.

Governor Doug Ducey said: “We’re thrilled that EdgeCore has selected Mesa, Arizona as the site for its first North American data centre campus.

“We’re focused on making sure Arizona remains the ideal place for technology companies to succeed over the long-term, and this impressive project shows we’re achieving that mission.

I thank EdgeCore for their commitment to our state.”

EdgeCore CEO and Chairman Tom Ray said: “The Elliot Road Technology Corridor provides the infrastructure, including redundant power capacity and robust fibre networks, to support high-growth, high-technology business such as EdgeCore’s.

“Importantly, from the Mayor’s office and City Council through the Departments of Planning and Engineering, the City has been a true partner in supporting EdgeCore’s investment, and as such building value for the City’s residents.”

Greater Phoenix Economic Council (GPEC) President & CEO Chris Camacho, said: “The new EdgeCore co-location data centre will be a great addition to the Elliot Road Technology Corridor, and serve a growing demand of customers.

“Congratulations to Mayor Giles and his team, along with our partners, who worked to present a strong business case for attracting the company to the market.” GPEC assisted during the site selection process.

Waymo said: “Trucking is a vital part of the American economy and we believe self-driving technology has the potential to make this sector safer and even stronger. We can re-imagine many different types of transportation with our technology, from ride-hailing to logistics.”

Last year, Waymo claimed it had “uncovered evidence” that Otto and Uber had “taken and are using” key parts of Waymo’s self-driving technology. It initiated legal action against Otto and its parent company Uber for “misappropriating” Waymo trade secrets and “infringing” patents. Otto and Uber settled the claims with Waymo last month, costing Uber about $245m.

Also last month, Google announced a $6bn data centre and green energy infrastructure plan, with most of the cash being spent in the US.

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QTS Realty Trust leases 24MW of data centre power to secret ‘global cloudbased software company’

Cloudian launches war on unstructured data with Infinity acquisition Enterprise unstructured data is now growing at more than 50% annually, driven by the quick digitalisation of businesses and the adoption of IoT environments.

Enterprise object storage systems services provider Cloudian has acquired Infinity Storage, a Milan-based software-defined file storage solutions in a bid to put an end on unstructured data.

The M&A comes at a time when enterprises are accelerating their IoT deployments and the need to have their data organised, clean and accessible for business purposes becomes ever so critical. Studies point out that the “tsunami of unstructured data” is now growing at more than 50% annually.

Company to build new hyperscale facility to provision required capacity due by Q1 2019 in another boost to Virginia’s colocation market.

One of the US’s largest data centre REITs, QTS Realty Trust, has signed up a mysterious customer that will use up to 24MW at the company’s yet-to-build data centre in Manassas, Virginia.

The company has announced the acquisition of 61 acres of undeveloped land that will support this deployment for a business simply described as “a global cloud-based software company”.

The customer will initially lease approximately five megawatts of turn-key data centre capacity within the shell. The customer is then expected to sign future commitments, scaling to the full 24MW of turn-key power capacity over approximately two years.

The initial lease is expected to commence in the first quarter of 2019.

The land on which the data centre will be built has, however, a total capacity of more than 85MW of gross power.

Chad Williams, Chairman and CEO – QTS, said: “This announcement reinforces our ability to execute on one of the Company’s core strategies and serve as a strategic partner to the world’s largest and fastest growing technology companies.

The Hyperscale vertical is a key component to the data centre ecosystem and a foundational part of QTS from the very outset.”

According to Gartner, by 2021, more than 80% of enterprise data will be stored in scale-out storage systems in enterprise and cloud data centres, up from 30% today.

By combining Infinity’s portfolio, Cloudian’s offerings now include integrated file and object-based storage solutions that consolidate all unstructured data types into a limitlessly scalable storage pool.

The result is storage management that reduces TCO by more than 70% when compared with traditional multi-silo NAS systems, the company claims.

The acquisition is the culmination of an existing relationship between Infinity Storage and Cloudian. The companies worked together to launch the Cloudian HyperFile NAS controller, which delivers file services from Cloudian HyperStore.

Cloudian HyperFile incorporates all NAS features for enterprise applications, including SMB(CIFS)/NFS support, snapshot, WORM, non-disruptive failover, scale-out performance, POSIX compliance and Active Directory integration.

Caterina Falchi, Founder of Infinity, who now joins Cloudian as Vice President of File Technologies, said: “For more than a decade, Infinity Storage software has helped enterprise customers simplify file management with enterprise-class features that provide a familiar user experience on nextgeneration storage platforms.

“While launching HyperFile with Cloudian, we immediately recognized that our company cultures and technologies meshed perfectly. We are genuinely thrilled to be joining the Cloudian team.”

QTS recently announced a strategic plan to realign its business around its two primary drivers of demand, Hyperscale and Hybrid-Enabled Colocation.

Michael Two, CEO of Cloudian, said: “This acquisition further accelerates Cloudian’s efforts to reduce IT workloads with selfprotecting and easy-to-scale file systems that analysts agree are critical for next-generation storage management.

The Hyperscale vertical has been a focus of QTS since its inception enabled by the Company’s mega data centre infrastructure, innovative technology and expertise. This lease signing represents a significant accelerant to QTS’ momentum within Hyperscale.

“Not only does Infinity bring deep technology expertise to the table, but also our two companies’ cultures fit perfectly, with the same uncompromising dedication to the customer, to the team and to technical excellence. We are excited to be growing together.”

The land purchase in Manassas, VA, combined with the recently announced 52 acres of land in Ashburn, VA, and QTS’ existing Vault campus in Dulles, VA, provides enough capacity to support the company’s ongoing growth in the nation’s largest Tier 1 data centre market.

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Point One holdings swaps 200 home lots for $1.6bn data centre business park The real estate investment and operating platform represents the growing trend of real estate players moving into the data centre space.

Canadian Point One Holdings Inc. is expected to obtain this week the approval to rezone 234 acres of land in Fauquier, Virginia, in what could become its first data centre venture.

In this specific data centre development, the land for the server farm was originally set to be used for residential use with enough space to erect 199 home lots.

However, Point One Holdings has instead seek transforming the development from residential to a business park, potentially saving millions of Dollars in public services expenses. The park is to be named Remington Technology Park.

According to the filed plans, the company has projected six hosting buildings, ranging from 240,000 to 310,000 each.

The rezoning will be discussed at a public hearing scheduled for this Thursday in Warrenton.

The data centres will be serviced with electricity from an onsite substation constructed in stages. This substation will be connected to the nearby or onsite power grid with overhead lines extended by the utility. From the substation, each data centre is connected by underground power feeds.

In total, the park will offer a built gross square footage of 1.5 million to 1.8 million sq.ft and amount to more than 300MW of IT load.

The land is currently owned by Remland LLC (Bill and Bob Springer of Fauquier) and VCA LLC of Alexandria; Fox Meadows Investment Col LLC (Bob and Bill Springer) and GGFS/Foxhaven LLC of Alexandria.

Point One Holdings has presented plans to invest between $1.4bn to $1.6bn in the data centre project, while local authorities would receive up to $31m in tax revenue.

The development is expected to employ from 120 to 180 people on a full-time basis while employing 200 others during construction works.

Point One Holdings has estimated a maximum construction timeframe of five to seven years.

Facebook to triple size of multi-billion dollar Papillion data centre Company has announced it will expand its Papillion Data Centre from the original two projected buildings to six due to be built by 2023.

April 2017, we are committed to hiring as locally as possible; we care about being a good neighbour and having a positive impact within Nebraska,” he said.

The projected is now estimated to represent a capital expenditure of more than $1bn. Facebook has recently made several other announcements concerning data centres worldwide.

The announcement was made by Jim Piazza, Director of Data Centre Operations, East, on a post that has also set the numbers of users of the social networking platform at 2.1 billion people.

Piazza said:”Our data centres help connect more than 2.1 billion people with the communities that matter to them. To continue to support these connections, we are expanding the Papillion Data Centre from two to six buildings.

“We will break ground on this expansion in May, and when all buildings are complete in 2023, the data centre campus will be more than 2.6M square feet.”

He continued to say that with this expansion, Facebook will support thousands of construction jobs for years to come and hundreds of operational positions.” And as we shared back in

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Piazza added: “Last year, we worked with Omaha Public Power District to create a new renewable energy tariff that ensures we can power our data centre with clean and renewable energy. With the tariff in place, we could seek new, in-state wind projects, which we found in Enel Green Power’s Rattlesnake Creek Wind Project.

“We will now increase our purchase from 200 MW to 320 MW to support our growth, and we are excited to share that we have partnered with Adobe to help them enter the U.S. renewable energy market with Enel; 10 MW of Rattlesnake Creek will be allocated to Adobe.

“The people and partners that attracted us to Papillion continue to deliver with talented workers, access to clean renewable energy, and excellent access to fibre. It was an easy decision to expand in Papillion, and we thank you — the local community — as well as our employees, construction partners, the city of Papillion, Sarpy County, the state of Nebraska, Enel Green Power North America, and OPPD.”

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RagingWire opens third hyperscale data centre in Virginia The company’s parent NTT has been pleased as to what RagingWire has brought to the party for its expanding global footprint, and with another facility on its way next year.

business in the US, Canada, Latin America and South America under the global Nexcenter brand.

RagingWire Data Centres has opened its new Ashburn, Virginia VA3 Data Centre, a 245,000 sq. ft facility providing 16 MW of power, located on RagingWire’s new Ashburn Data Centre Campus.

RagingWire CEO Doug Adams said: “With 16 MW available today at the new VA3 Data Centre and massive scalability in our new Ashburn Data Centre Campus, RagingWire has become the destination of choice for hyperscale, high-growth customers in the top data centre market in the world.”

The VA3 Data Centre is RagingWire’s third data centre in Ashburn, and the first building on RagingWire’s new Ashburn Data Centre Campus, a 78-acre parcel of land that is planned to contain seven data centres with a total of 108 megawatts of critical load, and over 1m square feet of space in a highly secured location.

Construction of a new Ashburn VA4 Data Centre is underway on the Ashburn Data Centre Campus and is expected to be completed in 2019. Pre-leasing of VA4 is available now for 16 megawatts of critical power and approximately 200,000 square feet of data centre space, including around 15,000 square feet of office space, conference rooms and lounges.

NTT Communications recently exercised its option to purchase the remaining shares of RagingWire and acquire 100% ownership of the company. As part of this investment, NTT named RagingWire its Americas data centre platform responsible for its data centre

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Moribayashi said: “Since joining the NTT Communications family of companies, RagingWire has become a linchpin in our global data centre strategy. Their award-winning design, 100% availability operational model and industry-leading sales and marketing have been critical to our growth worldwide.”

The VA3 Data Centre is designed for flexibility and scale, with options for dedicated electrical and mechanical infrastructure in each of its six private vaults, which can also be sub-divided. The computer room white space features a column-free layout and high ceilings and doorways for optimal space management.

Adams added: “Our global reach enables our customers to extend their computing systems in Ashburn to data centres around the world for greater access and availability than ever before.”

Masaaki Moribayashi, Senior Vice President of cloud services at NTT Communications, the parent company of RagingWire, said: “RagingWire has helped NTT Communications become one of the largest and most successful data centre companies in the world.”

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

RagingWire has taken a leadership role on the global steering committee for NTT data centres, helping to set consistent design standards, operations and sales contracts worldwide, said NTT.

For telecoms, VA3 connects to RagingWire’s other two Ashburn data centres via a private fibre optic ring, and has three entry points for more than 25 carriers and cloud providers. For security, VA3 features a building-within-a-building design, iris scanners, intelligent high-definition video cameras that analyse suspicious behaviour, anti-tailgate mantraps, an anti-climb perimeter fence, and a security gate that can stop a 15,000-pound truck travelling at 30mph.

Customer amenities include office space, conference rooms and lounges, a games room, exercise room, conference centre and a secured outdoor patio.

RagingWire’s VA1, VA2 and VA3 data centres in Ashburn give customers a total of more than a half-million square feet of space and 44.4 megawatts of power. They are connected with other RagingWire campuses in Dallas, Texas and Northern California near Silicon Valley, as well as to the company’s global data centre platform of over 140 data centres in more than 20 countries/regions operated under the Nexcenter brand.

Ragingwire has 113 megawatts of critical IT power spread across 1.5 million square feet of data centre infrastructure in Ashburn, Dallas and Northern California.

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Facebook analyst report outlines public benefits of hyperscale data centres to US economy

Microsoft encourages secure government with self-managed Azure cloud

The RTI International report logs financial, environmental and community advantages when Facebook comes to town.

Facebook has trumpeted how its hyperscale data centres in the US have benefited the national economy. It commissioned analyst RTI International to show how their construction and operation are impacting the economy, the environment and communities in a positive way.

In the US, Facebook currently has four data centres in operation, while another four are in various stages of development. RTI found that Facebook data centres contributed a cumulative $5.8bn in gross domestic product (GDP) to the US economy from 2010-2016, or $835m per year.

On the environmental side, RTI said: “Facebook’s renewable energy goals also drive third-party investment in solar and wind farms to provide clean energy to its data centres in Iowa, Texas, New Mexico and Nebraska, and will eventually do so in Ohio and Virginia.”

To date, Facebook has worked with local utilities and developers to bring online 573 MW of new wind and solar capacity, RTI says, representing an estimated $807m in investments. RTI also estimates that, from 2011-2016, Facebook avoided over 2.5m MWh (megawatt hours) of carbon-intensive electricity consumption through energy efficiency and renewable energy investments at its data centres. This resulted in CO2 emission reductions of over 1.2m metric tonnes.

And as for community support, the RTI report says US Facebook data centres have a local impact through their community engagement efforts, which include direct grant making, volunteer and other partnership activities.

From 2011-2017, says the report, Facebook’s three operational grant programmes invested in 155 organisations. This funding supported 292 projects to support “priority needs” such as technology resources and equipment in elementary, middle and high schools, and targeted funding for the arts, safety and health programmes led by local non-profits and institutions.

The report adds that an average Facebook data centre has a workforce of 196 people after five years of operation.

Last week, Colt Data Centre Services (DCS) said its efforts in “greening” its data centres across Europe are bearing fruit, with all of them now using some form of renewable energy.

Microsoft is pushing the attributes of hybrid cloud working by supporting local and federal bodies that want their Azure software running on their own on-premise servers.

The company announced its strategy in the US this week at a Washington DC conference aimed at government IT professionals, including those from the military. Redmond said the move would make Azure more appealing to them, as a large chunk of their sector was concerned about data security.

Azure Stack, the on-premise version of Azure will be paired with the relatively new Azure Government platform, which has already made in-roads across US federal bodies and branches of the military and diplomatic core.

The new package will be made available in mid-2018 and may or not be seen as a threat by Microsoft cloud service providers (CSPs) who specialise in providing the hardware and Azure services to support organisations moving into the public cloud.

However, it must be said that some sectors of government globally, up to now, have been reluctant to adopt the public cloud in a big way, often for data security reasons.

Natalia Mackevicius, director of Azure Stack, said: “Since the launch of Microsoft Azure Stack, we have been excited to see how customers and partners are unlocking new possibilities with hybrid cloud environments. At the same time, we have been working hard on incorporating customer feedback into the product roadmap.”

She said: “In mid-2018, Azure Stack will integrate with the Azure Government cloud, enabling connections to Azure Government identity, subscription, registration, billing, backup/DR and Azure Marketplace services.”

Mackevicius said a hybrid cloud helps organisations address requirements around regulations, connectivity and latency.

She said this is why many government agencies turn to hybrid clouds as “the bedrock of their IT modernisation strategy”.

Hybrid cloud allows government customers to “seamlessly use and move between public cloud environments and their own infrastructure”, said Mackevicius.

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ASIA PACIFIC South East Asia attracts $1.4bn in CAPEX as Vietnam ‘quietly’ surges as new data centre hotspot However, power challenges persist, and the likelihood of renewable energy supply for data centres is remote across the next 15 years.

However, a concerted attempt to improve Vietnam’s infrastructure has been underway over the past two years resulting in an increase of 37% in sq. m capacity forecast by the end of 2018.

The South East Asia region has over the last two years experienced a monthly average of $58.33m in data centre investments toping over $1.4bn.

The capital has been put into building facilities across Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Brunei, Indonesia and Thailand, according to BroadGroup’s latest market report, Datacenters South East Asia.

The research also suggested that data centre markets in South East Asia have undergone a period of adjustment and “are still absorbing investments made in new capacity” across the six countries.

Government backed investment, the need to catch up with the rest of Asia, local demand and telcos seeking to provide cloud and e-commerce services are all contributing factors.

More recent growth regionally has been driven by the international expansion of mainland Chinese players, cloud service providers in Asia, sustained migration by enterprises pursuing a hybrid cloud strategy and mobile communications.

Supernap in Thailand and Global Switch in Singapore are ranked as some of the biggest spenders in the region.

However, the region also faces challenging conditions, especially around power. The report also points that the likelihood of renewable energy supply for data centres is remote across the next 15 years, with the exception of Thailand which is already on target and has an ambitious re-forecast of 40% for renewables to be achieved by 2030.

Interestingly, the report said that Vietnam “has quietly built out facilities and services, creating a new cloud services market in the region”, reaching near parity in terms of capacity with Thailand and Indonesia.

Philip Low of BroadGroup, said: “Outside of Singapore and Malaysia, the region’s data centre development is still evolving.

“However, the map is uneven. Where some have good connectivity, challenges emerge with the cost of the local fibre.

In Singapore, although the city-state remains the dominant market with 54% of capacity in the region, and with the highest percentage of facilities owned by overseas companies, land space for further development is now extremely limited. The report anticipates investors are now assessing alternative locations.

“Financing has been problematic for some owners, but the main issue remains building highly competitive ecosystems that will attract enterprises from the region and internationally. “With the imminence of Edge and further deployment from China, the opportunity remains open and the markets have much to go.”

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OCBC Bank opens doors of $180m Singapore data centre Financial organisation claims the facility is the first in Southeast Asia to have one technology command centre monitoring and managing both cybersecurity and day-to-day operations of core IT systems.

Overseas-Chinese Banking Corporation has opened its new flagship data centre in Singapore that comes with a price tag of S$240m, or $182m.

The centre sits on a land area of 0.5 hectares – equivalent to half the size of a football field – with a built-up floor area of 134,500 square feet across six floors.

therefore embarked on a four-year journey to develop our purposebuilt data centre from ground up – being the first Singapore bank to do so.

Although only officially announced now, the facility has been operational since the third quarter of 2017.

It is being used to host thousands of devices with expanded capacity to serve the needs of the OCBC Group, including Bank of Singapore, OCBC Wing Hang, Great Eastern, Lion Global Investors and overseas branches across 18 countries.

The financial organisation has claimed the data centre to be the first in Southeast Asia to have one technology command centre monitoring and managing both cybersecurity and day-to-day operations of core IT systems.

Lim Khiang Tong, Head of Group Operations & Technology, OCBC Bank, said: “As the data centre is a critical and core facility for any bank, we wanted a dedicated data centre owned by us and not one that is leased.

“Putting together some of the most advanced security features, cutting-edge technologies and modern facilities was not good enough for us.

“More importantly, we wanted to ensure that the transition and migration from our old facility to our new data centre was seamless with no impact to our customers – this was a huge feat considering the scale of our operations and the number of servers and network devices we have. We also had to make sure that this huge investment is ready to serve our expanding business for the Group for many years to come.

“At the same time, we wanted to play our part as a good global citizen in minimising the carbon footprint from our facility. As data centres generally consume large amounts of energy, we set ourselves a target – to obtain the highest Green Mark award from BCA. I am pleased that we have achieved all the goals that we have set.”

“This is to ensure we can have full control over its security and design – so that it is completely tailored to our exact requirements. We

Equinix tackles APAC data demands with Australian expansion Main locations in Australia see almost 2,000 new cabinets being put in as service providers demand far more capacity.

Equinix is expanding its data centre capacity in Australia, at the ME1 Melbourne facility and the SY4 Sydney site.

After the completion of the previously announced Metronode acquisition, Equinix says it will have a total Equinix International Business Exchange (IBX) footprint of 15 data centres.

In the APAC region, Australia is third behind China and Japan in the infrastructure-as-a-service market, according to analyst IDC.

The Index predicts interconnection bandwidth will grow four-fold across the Asia-Pacific region by 2020. And Sydney alone, says the

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Therefore, it is no surprise that Equinix is now adding capacity at Melbourne and Sydney to address this interconnection demand from service providers. At Melbourne ME1, 375 new cabinets will be put in by Q3 2018 at a cost of A$13.3m, taking the capacity up to 1,500 cabinets.

A second expansion phase at Sydney SY4 is actually now complete at a cost of A$52.3, said Equinix, seeing capacity double from 1,500 cabinets to 3,000.

According to the Equinix Global Interconnection Index, the next three years are forecast to see around 50% growth in the traffic capacity needed by enterprises to directly access and exchange data across multiple clouds, IT providers and third-party network destinations.

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Equinix Australia managing director Jeremy Deutsch described the Sydney and Melbourne investments as “key milestones” in the development of the company’s data centre footprint in Australia.

Equinix has 190 IBX data centres in 48 markets, with 30 of these in the APAC region.

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Alibaba Cloud opens its first data centre in Indonesia The Chinese firm is committed to supporting SMEs and start-ups as it backs a national government programme to build a new digital ecosystem with a truly global reach.

Alex Li, General Manager of Asia Pacific at Alibaba Cloud, said: “As the only global cloud services provider originating from Asia, we are uniquely positioned with cultural and contextual advantages to provide innovative data intelligence solutions and computing capabilities to customers across this region.”

Alibaba Cloud has opened its first data centre in Indonesia, with the Jakarta facility being the first global public cloud platform in the country. It will support Indonesian firms of all sizes, including SMEs and start-ups.

The launch of the data centre is part of Alibaba Cloud’s on-going commitment to support the Indonesian government’s initiative to create 1,000 start-ups by 2020. By migrating IT infrastructure to Alibaba Cloud, these growing firms will be able leverage cloud services to scale rapidly, accelerate innovation and reduce costs, said the company.

The Chinese firm said the data centre will help Indonesian customers with low latency requirements and address data residency requirements in storing and processing data within the country.

The facility will offer products and services around elastic computing, databases, networking, security, middleware, analytics and big data. Industry verticals targeted include e-commerce, media, Fintech, gaming, logistics, transportation and manufacturing.

The firm’s big data service MaxCompute will be offered via the data centre to allow users to store and process massive amounts of data, to help them get the data analytics insights they need to help run their businesses and help support digital transformation, said Alibaba.

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They can also expand their geographic reach through Alibaba Cloud’s established global network to support international operations and better compete in global trade, the firm added.

In order to incubate a local internet-related ecosystem, Alibaba Cloud also announced it will bring the Alibaba Cloud Certified Professional programme to Indonesia. Within a year, the programme aims to train 300 and certify 100 cloud-savvy professionals in Indonesia, “providing both entrepreneurs and local talent with best-in-class knowledge in cloud computing, big data and security,” Alibaba said.

The Indonesian data centre adds to Alibaba Cloud’s data centres in 17 regions worldwide. Alibaba is the world’s fifth largest cloud infrastructure operator, behind AWS, Microsoft, Google and IBM.

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As the IoT, Smart Cities, Big Data and Cloud drive the industry forward and now blockchain and AI join the affray, DCD Enterprise is about NOT forgetting the engine. Join 1,500+ professionals whose day job is to keep the digital world up and running. 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 2018.

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