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Source: Singapore Business Times
AFTER three years of rapid global expansion, ST Telemedia’s Global Data Centres (STT GDC) arm is ready for its next stage of growth, driven by demand from key clients who are themselves in expansion mode, both regionally and globally.
The company’s chief executive Bruno Lopez said the company’s key client-segments include cloud-services providers, telcos, content and media companies, financial services, the public sector, technology firms and system integrators.
“These customers are driving growth within the data-centre segment,” he…
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Source: Data Center Dynamics
The initiative makes sense when viewed not as a reaction to soaring land costs, but as an attempt to maintain Singapore’s edge in the long term. Jabez Tan, a research director specializing in data centers at Structure Research says there is still “plenty of space” for new data centers at the (recently renamed) Tanjong Kling in Jurong West.
“The is not necessarily a reactive sign that there’s an immediate shortage of land for data center builds,…
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Source: Data Center Knowledge
Singapore government has agreed to fund a research project by a local data center provider and a Chinese hardware vendor on designing and building underground and high-rise data centers, as the small island nation’s outsize data center industry faces a future marked by land shortages.
Because of its location and access to a large variety of submarine cables, the city state is one of the hottest data center markets in all of Asia Pacific. Things have…
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Source: South China Morning Post
Apple is looking to double down on its business in mainland China by establishing a data centre in Guizhou province to comply with rigid cybersecurity laws, while supporting Beijing’s efforts to develop one of the country’s poorest areas into a world-class hi-tech hub.
The 41-year-old technology giant, which counts the mainland as its second-biggest market after the United States, said it has partnered with Guizhou-Cloud Big Data Industry Co (GCBD), a government-backed data…
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Source: South China Morning Post
When news broke in December 2013 that Google had pulled the plug on its Hong Kong data centre project, there was plenty of hand-wringing and finger-pointing that followed as people tried to make sense of what had happened.
The American internet giant’s decision came about two years after it broke ground on a 2.7-hectare site inside the Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate, where it had committed to invest US$300 million in the facility that…
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Source: Data Center Knowledge
If and when it closes, the $1.67 billion deal to take Denver-based ViaWest off the balance sheet of its current owner, the Canadian telco Shaw Communications, will not only give Peak 10 nation-wide reach, it will make it one of the two biggest player in so-called tier-two US data center markets. The only other player in those markets of comparable size is TierPoint, according to analysts at Structure Research, who were hard pressed to determine…
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Source: Data Center Knowledge
While growing at a rate that’s similar to other top data center markets, the Hong Kong colocation market may see its growth slow if the small nation’s government doesn’t allocate more land for data center construction.
That’s according to the latest market report by Structure Research, which has made a slight downward adjustment to its five-year growth projections for Hong Kong to reflect the very real effect land scarcity is having on the market.
“There has been…
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Source: Data Center Dynamics
The analyst firm says the growth trajectory of the Hong Kong market remains steady, though there is a slight downtick in the five-year CAGR attributed to the scarcity of land and difficulty in obtaining it for data center development.
Additional capacity is coming online soon, driven by demand from mainland Chinese cloud and technology companies looking to expand to internationally. On that front, Global Switch’s Hong Kong data center and new SUNeVision (iAdvantage) data center poised…
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Source: The Stack
The data centre colocation market in Hong Kong is set to grow at an annual compound rate of 16%, reaching $1.5 billion (approx. £1.2 billion) by 2021, according to new research.
The report released by Structure Research found that the Hong Kong colocation market generated an estimated $706 million (approx. £543 million) in 2016, and is projected to grow 17% year-on-year in 2017.
The study suggests that the demand for data centre colocation space in Hong…
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Latest update adds further granularity to the most comprehensive report available about the Hong Kong third party data centre market.
TORONTO, Ontario and SINGAPORE – May 16, 2017 – Structure Research, a next-generation research firm focused on the global data centre and cloud infrastructure services industry, today announced the publication of its Hong Kong Data Centre Supply Report for 2017.
This 114-page report takes an in-depth look at the size, growth trajectory and supply and demand dynamics of the Hong Kong colocation…
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Source: Data Center Knowledge
Philbert Shih, managing director at Structure Research, commented via email: ‘Cyxtera intends to use this proprietary technology to target security- and compliance-minded verticals like government and financial services as part of a strategy that is focused on driving more value on top of raw infrastructure – increasingly crucial in a tightening market.’
Jabez Tan, research director at Structure, said via email that retaining a stake in Cyxtera is an important strategic move for CenturyLink: ‘CenturyLink retaining…
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