AWS, interconnection, earnings, M&A and managed third party clouds
The sector continues to move along as the year starts to wind down. We are working through the many AWS developments that came out of re:Invent but felt it was important to spend more time looking at the bare metal server release. The move is about planning for the next generation of workloads and in this case, Amazon is not leading the charge. Other scaled platforms and innovative providers are in this game and building for the future.
The other important development this past week involved interconnection. On the heels of re:Invent, Equinix rolled out its enhanced and expanded interconnection platform. Equinix is building towards a consolidated global interconnection platform that will help organizations architect and interconnect to multiple services and partners and in varied deployment scenarios. We have details and discussion.
We also continue to work through earnings season. On the SMB side, we take a closer look at Wix and on the colocation side, we delved into Interxion’s results.
There was also an abundance of strategic activity. There are more reports around the Metronode process in Australia, while in Germany and Switzerland there were notable data centre and hosting transactions.
Meanwhile, footprints continue to grow. Google is expanding its cloud further into APAC and is set to bring online three AZs in Hong Kong. Not surprisingly, AWS is pushing as well and recently added more Direct Connect nodes, while also expanding the reach and capacity of its CDN.
Finally, the managed third party cloud market continues to see activity. Ensono is the latest service provider to use CloudCheckr to help it deliver cost optimization on AWS and Dallas-based Armor is extending its security capabilities to service provider-operated clouds.
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