Google Cloud, Indonesia, Germany, mainframes, WordPress, outages, appointments
It was a busy week across the sector. Google again rolled out interesting new products and services, while there was activity in the Indonesia and Germany hyperscale markets, along with a major outage.
Google continues to push into new global markets and revealed more details about its expansion plans, while continuing to innovate on the product side. It is testing a new mainframe migration solution that follows AWS’s recent introduction of similar capabilities. Both are going after one of the remaining battlegrounds in traditional IT infrastructure. SAP infrastructure is another workload that has picked up the pace in its move to cloud and Google released some new tools to support it.
The asset-light movement continues to gain traction as service providers run more infrastructure, or all their infrastructure, on top of public clouds. AWS and Google Cloud have been the clouds of choice, but Cloudflare’s growing capabilities have made it an option as well. WordPress startup Rocket.net is doing just that and shared some data points about its growth.
There was more activity in global markets. Germany is seeing the emergence of a second hyperscale market and NTT GDC launched a second data centre in Berlin, Germany. Meanwhile, STACK Infrastructure and Mainova WebHouse are new entrants in the Frankfurt market.
Over in APAC, the activity centred around Jakarta. Huawei Cloud is set to enter the market in Indonesia, which continues to see significant development activity. The presence of another public cloud adds to the market’s demand profile and this continues to draw interest from global operators. Equinix is the latest and it recently confirmed plans to enter the market in Jakarta as well.
Amid the expansion activity, there was a major outage in APAC. South Korea’s SK C&C data centre went offline in Seoul, bringing down cloud infrastructure provider Naver.
Finally, there was more movement in executive circles. ColoHouse has a new CEO, Pulsant in the UK brought in a new COO and CyrusOne added to its senior management team.
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