APAC, Indonesia, logistics, outages, M&A, MSP, cloud, product developments
It was another busy week across the sector, with plenty of activity in the hyperscale data centre market, particularly in APAC, along with M&A, and some interesting new product releases.
Equinix expanded its commitment to the hyperscale sector and more than doubled its JV with Singapore’s GIC. It will build in a number of different markets across Europe, APAC and LatAm, with Europe seeing a significant portion of that activity. Meanwhile, it was an especially busy week in Jakarta as two more operators entered the market, while there were also some interesting developments around secondary markets in Indonesia. And elsewhere in APAC, BDx completed an expansion and kicked off further development in Singapore, while South Korea’s LG Uplus started a new hyperscale development.
On the cloud side, AWS suffered an outage in Frankfurt as it confirmed plans to expand into Israel. Speaking of outages, they do not seem to cause the fire and brimstone among customers typical of past years and the reaction to Fastly’s outage was a case in point.
There were a number of notable M&A developments. Private equity continues to pursue the public cloud ecosystem and Strattam Capital acquired cloud consultancy CloudHesive, while Novacap in Canada acquired a shop in Montreal called Cofomo. Databarracks in the UK was a provider that shifted early to managing public cloud and it was also active strategically with the purchase of DR specialist 4sl. On the SMB side, HostPapa picked up another provider as it continues its consolidation efforts.
Finally, on the product side, there were a number of new releases. Providers involved included QTS, Pythian, SherWeb, Lumen Technologies and Schneider Electric on the equipment side.
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