CDN, security, managed public cloud, appointments, edge, integrations, hyperscale, overflow
The past week saw a number of developments across the various segments within the sector. There were security partnerships, shifts in the managed public cloud market, a wave of executive appointments, ecosystem development, expansion activity in APAC and emergence of overflow requirements in Europe.
Security was top of mind for providers that also offer CDN services. Rackspace partnered with Akamai to provide application and API security for its customers, while Cloudflare expanded its security scope to endpoints through integrations with CrowdStrike.
The managed public cloud market continues to evolve and security is one of the areas that is driving value-add. But there are other areas of focus. Carbon 60’s OpsGuru, for example, partnered with House of Brick for software licensing optimization and Skytap added SAP management capabilities for its managed cloud services for IBM. Other managed public cloud operators were active. Connectria shared some interesting data points about its progress, while Mission brought in a new VP of strategic growth.
Other providers were active with hiring. French data centre operator Data4 added to the C-suite, STACK Infrastructure built out a new management team in EMEA and Faction added two new VPs to its executive team.
Integrations and partnerships within the sector continue to deepen. Fastly is building an ecosystem around its edge computing platform and Hivelocity partnered with Ridge to enable deployment of distributed cloud-native infrastructure on its bare metal.
Hyperscale data centre expansion continues to push forward and there was plenty of activity in APAC in the last week. NTT GDC opened its new facility in Jakarta, ESR entered the Tokyo market, AT TOKYO went live with a facility in Osaka, Yondr revealed plans for a campus build in Johor, Malaysia and Colt DCS shared details about its extensive expansion roadmap in both APAC and Europe. Meanwhile, Alibaba Cloud opened its new cloud region in Korea.
Finally, there was more regulatory movement in the Amsterdam market and we look at how this could potentially result in the development of overflow markets in the Benelux region of Europe.
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