Happy New Year and a look forward to what is coming from Structure Research in 2021
Happy New Year! Hope that the holiday season was enjoyable for you and your families.
We published on a number of developments towards the end of the year as the sector slowed amid the holiday season. Two data centre and hyperscale markets we have spent more time on of late include Zurich, Switzerland and Jakarta, Indonesia. We tracked the recent activity in Zurich coming from Equinix, Interxion and Vantage, while in Indonesia, hyperscale campus developer K2 Data Centres confirmed acquisition of a site in the Bekasi area and plans for a new development in Jakarta. Jakarta is a market set to take off and DCI Indonesia confirmed more expansion plans on the heels of accelerating hyperscale demand. We are holding a webinar on the Jakarta market this week and in December published our first study of the market. Please inquire about details.
As we turn the page to 2021, we wanted to update you all on some of our plans for 2021. Our annual infra / STRUCTURE summit, held in Toronto in 2018 and 2019, was cancelled in 2020 as you all know. We do see some light at the end of the tunnel and are cautiously optimistic that we might be able to host the event later this year, but this will of course depend on the state of the pandemic. We will continue to monitor the situation, but either way, feel we are getting closer to holding our summit at some point soon.
In lieu of live events, we had moved to the online format and launched a YouTube channelwhere you can see some of our archived sessions (slide decks are only available for clients) and we had a year-end ‘2020 looking into 2021’ session just before the holiday break. You will notice that we focused exclusively on analyst content in 2020 and many of you have preferred that. Our goal is to continue this on a regular basis in 2021, but also make room for operating executives and investors to join us in discussions and panels. Stay tuned here for more details.
On the research side, we remain committed as we always have. If you a subscriber, you will notice that the scope and volume of our research has expanded, while we continue to push forward in our deep-dive market studies. We added a full-time analyst and some contributing resources this year and plan to bring things to the next level in 2021. With more time at the desk and less time racing to airports, there has never been a better time to both publish and consume research. If you are not a subscriber and are interested in hearing more about how you can consume our content and data, please feel free to reach out to any of us. Our door is always open.
Thanks again for being a part of our ecosystem and here is hoping for health and more Internet infrastructure growth in 2021.
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