Jabez Tan on Singapore Data Centre Market
Source: Data Center Knowledge
The Singapore data center colocation market is projected to nearly double in the next five years as hyperscale cloud providers; content and digital media companies; and network and IT service providers expand further into emerging markets in Southeast Asia, according to a new report by cloud and data center focused Structure Research.
Singapore is a major financial center, so it’s a natural colocation hub to serve emerging markets in Southeast Asia and in India,…
Read more...Philbert Shih on executive shuffles at Rackspace
Source: San Antonio Express News
CEO out at San Antonio-based Rackspace
Rackspace has replaced CEO Joe Eazor, who held the post for less than two years, and brought in a transportation executive to lead the cloud computing company.
Read more...Jabez Tan on HK data centre market and its competitive landscape
Source: South China Morning Post
High data centre rents have allowed three firms to dominate US$883 million Hong Kong market
Sector will grow by 17 per cent to US$1.03 billion this year, and increase to US$1.7 billion in 2023, according to consultancy Structure Research
According to a report released on Wednesday by Toronto-based consultancy Structure Research, which focuses on data centre and internet infrastructure, NTT Communications, a subsidiary of Japan’s largest telecommunications company, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Sunevision Holdings, the…
Read more...Jabez Tan on Hong Kong Data Centre Market
Source: Data Center Knowledge
Hong Kong’s Cloud Data Center Boom
As a network gateway between mainland China and the West, Hong Kong is a magnet for hyperscale cloud platforms from both sides of the gateway.
American cloud providers anxious to grab share of the world’s largest and fastest growing internet market in mainland China and Chinese hyperscale platforms attempt to grow a more meaningful presence outside their homeland are driving a boom in the Hong Kong data center market.
The amount of…
Read more...Jabez Tan on the latest dynamics in the Singapore data centre market
Source: Data Center Knowledge
Equinix, Digital Realty Expanding in Busy Singapore Data Center Market
The market on the island may be saturated, but the two firms have an advantage in their global scale.
Digital Realty Trust and Equinix, the world’s two largest data center providers, are both expanding their already sizable footprints in Singapore, the busy data center market that acts as Southeast Asia’s primary network interconnection hub.
Both companies last month announced big new data center construction projects on the island….
Read more...Jabez Tan on the data centre market in Singapore
Source: Singapore Business Review
Data centre operators turn West amidst Tai Seng space crunch
Roughly 700,000 of data centre space is expected to have been completed in 2018 with the stock set to more than double by 2022.
With Singapore grappling with the risk of data centre oversupply particularly in the Tai Seng industrial estate, operators are looking to the West for more suitable land opportunities to keep up with rising demand.
Singapore’s connectivity to major markets in the region, strong network…
Read more...Jabez Tan on the impact of land scarcity on the Hong Kong data centre market
Source: South China Morning Post
Without sufficient land supply, can Hong Kong maintain its status as a data centre hub?
Land scarcity is a major threat to Hong Kong’s booming data centre industry and its status as a regional hub, according to Sunevision Holdings, the technology arm of Sun Hung Kai Properties.
The city’s data centre market is projected to increase from US$705.5 million in 2016 to US$1.5 billion in 2021, a five-year compound annual growth rate of 16 per cent,…
Read more...Jabez Tan on Gigas Data Centers
Source: Channel Partners Online
Giga Data Centers’ Latest Colo Facility to Go Live in February
Taking lessons learned from large data-center users including Google and Facebook, Giga Data Centers is building a new colocation facility that will bring the benefits of low-energy consumption and modular enclosures to a wide range of business customers of all sizes starting in early 2019.
The new 60-megawatt data center, being built in Mooresville, North Carolina, on the site of a former Dale Earnhardt NASCAR car-building…
Read more...Jabez Tan on the data centre market in Japan
Source: Data Center Dynamics
Japan’s awakening
Japan has long maintained its traditions, in culture and in business, keeping its data center service market sheltered from the rest of the world. But a changing cloud landscape has opened the floodgates for foreign companies to feast on the country’s highly developed digital economy
Home to more than 127 million people, Japan is a regional corporate and financial hub, and one of the fastest evolving digital markets in the world: thirteen Japanese companies figured…
Read more...Structure Research quoted in Digital Realty Press Release
Source: Digital Realty Press Release
Digital Realty Opens Fifth Data Centre in Australia and Acquires Land Parcel in Sydney for Further Expansion
Significant demand drives growth of the Digital Realty Connected Campus in Australia
SYDNEY, Nov. 14, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR), a leading global provider of data centre, colocation and interconnection solutions, announced today its continued growth and investment in Australia with the grand opening of Digital Erskine Park II. Digital Realty also announced the acquisition of an…
Philbert Shih on Cyxtera and the colocation market
Source: Miami Herald
In many ways, Cyxtera is a next-generation Terremark. By the time of its 2011 sale, Terremark hosted more than a dozen data centers —large, bunker-type facilities that house thousands of computer servers—in addition to the Network Access Point of the Americas, through which all Internet traffic in the region is routed.
In creating Cyxtera, Medina’s team bought 57 data centers from telecom firm CenturyLink, which was looking to shift its business emphasis. Cyxtera also bought five different…
Read more...Jabez Tan on data centres in Singapore, Indonesia and SEA
Source: Nikkei Asian Review
SINGAPORE — Indonesia is challenging Singapore’s dominance in data center investment by attracting industry giants Google, Alibaba and Amazon, with the latter proposing to pour nearly $1 billion into the country.
The U.S. internet giant Google said this month that Indonesia would become its newest Asian hub for cloud services. The plan, which means setting up a data center in the world’s fourth most populous nation, will be taking form soon, said Google Asia Pacific Managing Director…
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