Structure Research Enhances Proprietary Data Centre Supply Research Methodology and Expands Asia-pacific Data Centre Supply Report Series

• September 19, 2016

New innovative research methodology measures and projects data centre supply from a space and power perspective and both an aggregate and sub-regional basis. It now distinguishes between retail and wholesale colocation segments.

TORONTO, Ontario and SINGAPORE – September 19, 2016 – Structure Research, a next-generation research firm focused on the global data centre and cloud infrastructure services industry, today announced enhancements to its proprietary data centre research methodology and the addition of a new market to its Asia-pacific Data Centre Supply Report Series.

The first report in this series will be the Singapore Data Centre Supply Report for 2016. Structure Research then plans to update its Hong Kong Data Centre Supply Report in January 2017. There will also be a third market added in 2017: Sydney, Australia.

The data and analytics presented in this series of reports are produced by Structure Research’s proprietary methodology that measures data centre capacity from both a space and power perspective. This is crucial because power is the truest unit of capacity in the data centre. Measuring on the basis of space alone only tells half the story.

The methodology also looks at sub-regional distribution within a given market. It measures the size, growth trajectory and supply and demand dynamics in each sub-region and it is also done from both a space and power perspective.

Structure Research is now slicing the data even further. All the relevant metrics – revenue, space, power, utilization and growth rates – are now identified as being retail or wholesale and presented in aggregate form and separately in these two categories.

“We are extremely excited about our improved granularity and new market segmentations in data centre supply research. Over the past year, we have been listening closely to what our client base wants from us and what they aren’t getting from legacy research firms,” stated Jabez Tan, research director for Structure Research. “We have taken this to heart and refined our methodology. There are three important aspects that differentiates our data centre supply studies from other legacy firms: measure space and power, conduct sub-regional analyses and distinguish between retail and wholesale segments within the same market.”

“Our data centre supply reports are literally and figuratively one of a kind. None of the legacy firms can match the granularity in data and scope of insight our reports provide,” stated Philbert Shih, managing director of Structure Research. “In fact, legacy firms that have focused solely on space metrics produce fundamentally flawed data and leaves out a meaningful amount of nuance that helps shape a full and complete picture of the market dynamics.”

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