Archive for the ‘APAC’ Category

Blackstone takes stake in 21Vianet

June 22, 2020
Philbert Shih

Funds managed by Blackstone made a $150m investment in Chinese data centre operator 21Vianet. ...

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Macquarie Data Centres to build second Canberra data centre

June 22, 2020
Jabez Tan

Australia’s Macquarie Data Centres (MDC) will build a new data centre in Canberra. ...

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Equinix confirms Singapore expansion at SG4 in Tai Seng

June 15, 2020
Jabez Tan

Equinix confirmed plans to add another 1,400 cabinets at its SG4 data centre in Singapore by 1Q21. ...

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Alibaba Cloud plans hiring binge to support expansion

June 12, 2020
Philbert Shih

Alibaba confirmed plans to hire 5k people for its cloud operations, which follows recently revealed ...

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Alibaba Cloud partners with VMware in China, Hong Kong

June 11, 2020
Philbert Shih

Alibaba Cloud made VMware compatible with its cloud infrastructure platform in mainland China and Ho...

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HUAWEI CLOUD Stack now available

June 11, 2020
Sacha Kavanagh

Huawei launched HUAWEI CLOUD Stack (HCS) as it goes after enterprise and government business. ...

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Equinix acquires BCE data centre portfolio in Canada; new architectures, new markets of interest, upside

June 4, 2020
Philbert Shih

Equinix acquired a portfolio of data centre assets from Bell Canada Enterprises (BCE). Equinix will ...

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Princeton Digital Group building pan-APAC platform with hyperscale focus

June 3, 2020
Philbert Shih

We had a chance to speak with management at Singapore-based data centre operator Princeton Digital G...

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Tencent to pour resources into infrastructure investment

June 3, 2020
Philbert Shih

Tencent stated in Chinese media its intentions to spend $70b over five years to upgrade its technolo...

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Bespin Global raises $75m in Series C round

June 3, 2020
Philbert Shih

Bespin Global, a managed third party cloud provider that serves markets in APAC, raised $75m USD in ...

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AWS extends availability of Outposts

June 2, 2020
Sacha Kavanagh

AWS extended the availability of AWS Outposts to UAE and Saudi Arabia in the Middle East, as well as...

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New entrant: Leading Edge Data Centres secures funding in Australia

June 1, 2020
Jabez Tan

We recently come across a new edge data centre market entrant: Leading Edge Data Centres (LEDC). ...

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