Jabez Tan on the data centre market in Japan

• December 10, 2018

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…

Structure Research quoted in Digital Realty Press Release

• November 14, 2018

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

• November 7, 2018

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…

Jabez Tan on data centres in Singapore, Indonesia and SEA

• October 23, 2018

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…

Structure Research on data centre market in Singapore

• September 24, 2018

Structure Research on Tokyo colocation market

• August 31, 2018

Source: Data Economy

Tokyo Olympics Will Help Create International Colocation Market Worth $2.3bn

Japan’s capital already has almost 110 unique data centre colocation facilities, and the upgaming games will help drive further entrants into the lucrative market to challenge the existing local behemoths.

The Tokyo colocation market is expected to be worth $2.3bn by 2023, enjoying a five-year CAGR of 6.5% for the period 2018-2023, according to data from Structure Research. The market will grow by 7.3% in 2018 from 2017’s…

Jabez Tan on Japan data centre colocation market

• August 21, 2018

Source: Data Centre News Asia

REPORT: An in-depth look into Japan’s largest data center markets

Structure Research recently published a 160 page study on the Tokyo and Osaka colocation data center markets – we’ve picked out all the important bits.

Tokyo and Osaka lie at the heart of the Japanese data center market. Once a very insular industry served by domestic providers, recent times has seen this change significantly.

“The Japan data center market has historically been one dominated by domestic data center…

Philbert Shih on Packet and Edge Infrastructure

• August 15, 2018

Source: Light Reading

As CTO of Equinix, Ihab Tarazi had a front-row seat to the explosive growth of the cloud ecosystem, with its combination of massive data centers, connectivity, colocation and cloud on-ramps. Now he’s moved on to a new frontier, seeking to build another ecosystem of compute and networking, this time at the edge of the network and his new company, Packet, is vying to become a new kind of service provider.

What New York-based Packet provides is…

Structure Research Publishes Japan Data Centre Supply Report for 2018 featuring Tokyo and Osaka

• August 2, 2018

Newest addition to Structure Research APAC Data Centre Supply Report Series is another example of depth and comprehensiveness of proprietary data centre research methodology.

TORONTO, Ontario and SINGAPORE – August 2, 2018 – Structure Research, a next-generation research firm focused on the global data centre and cloud infrastructure services industry, today announced the publication of its Japan (Tokyo + Osaka) Data Centre Supply Report for 2018.

This 150-page+ report takes an in-depth look at the size, growth trajectory and supply and…

Industry Leaders Bring Clarity and Collaboration to Edge Computing

• June 28, 2018

Vapor IO, Packet, Ericsson UDN, Arm, and Rafay Systems collaborate with Structure Research and Edge Research Group to publish inaugural State of the Edge report

AUSTIN, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–A broad group of edge computing stakeholders, including Vapor IO, Packet, Ericsson UDN, Armand Rafay Systems, have joined forces to bring clarity and research to the field of edge computing. Produced with help from  Read more...

Philbert Shih on Digital Realty and Toronto data centre market

• June 14, 2018

Source: IT World Canada

Canada’s largest data centre opens in old Toronto Star printing press

What was once an iconic facility of the print news industry will now instead become home to the largest data centre in Canada.

At the height of its production at 1 Century Place, the Toronto Star’s printing plant saw more than 55,000 newspapers per hour rolling off its presses, requiring 1 MW of power to produce one of Canada’s most popular newspapers. The printing operation was closed in…

Philbert Shih on Google’s move to AWS and asset-light

• April 2, 2018

Source: Data Center Knowledge

GoDaddy Plans Wholesale AWS Cloud Migration

As its target customer base of small businesses continue to shy away from managing servers and hardware, GoDaddy is following suit by signing a deal with Amazon Web Services to run most its infrastructure in the public cloud. The AWS cloud migration will take multiple years, and include Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) P3 Instances.

For GoDaddy — one of the world’s…