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WORLD Shocking’ AWS cloud revenues growth push global market to $12bn in Q3 The cloud market continues to grow strongly in all regions of the world, and a key feature of the market is that it is truly global in nature, analysts say.
The research for Q3 shows that rounding out the top eight cloud providers, Oracle continues to grow strongly, albeit from a small base, while Salesforce and Rackspace maintain a strong position in specific niche segments of the market.
AWS has for another quarter secured its first place at the top of the cloud rankings, with the Amazon business unit reporting growth of more than 40% in Q3 2017. The company’s growth rate has been labelled as a “little shocking” by analysts, who also point out that competition is becoming increasingly more intense. According to the latest figures from Synergy Research Group, Microsoft, Google and Alibaba are all growing revenues at a much more rapid pace than Amazon and they continue to gain market share. However, the analyst house points that despite all the growth from competitors, AWS still owns more market share than any of the other companies combined. Within the Top 5 providers, IBM has been able to maintain its mid of the table ranking and in third place, the Big Blue has seen the business growing primarily due to its hosted private cloud services offerings.
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Ultimately, Synergy estimates that quarterly cloud infrastructure service revenues (including IaaS, PaaS and hosted private cloud services) have now reached $12bn and continue to grow at well over 40% per year. John Dinsdale, a Chief Analyst and Research Director at Synergy Research Group, said: “While we forecast 40% growth in the total market for 2017, there’s still something a little shocking about seeing a business unit the size of AWS consistently growing its revenues by over 40%. “Microsoft and Google too deserve plaudits for the growth rates they are achieving, while IBM is gaining market share in its sweet spot of hosted private cloud services. It is becoming increasingly difficult for cloud providers outside of the leading pack to make an impression on the market share rankings.”
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Carter Validus sells data centres worth $1bn
How half-billion Dollar businesses’ IT infrastructure leaders are saving data centre capital and overriding operational costs The idea the world will run on data centres is already real and the need for more computing power is driving a rapid increase in the adoption of new strategies for data storage and management across industries.
Sale of 15 facilities comes amid strong consolidation and expansion activity across the North American and APAC regions. After months acquiring properties, Carter Validus Mission Critical REIT has announced the sale of 15 data centres in a combined transaction of approximately $1,065m. Firstly, the company has entered into a definitive purchase and sale agreement with an affiliate of Digital Realty Trust, LP (NYSE: DLR) to sell a 251,141 sqf data centre located on approximately 19 acres of land in the Chicago, Illinois metropolitan area, for approximately $315m. The net book value of the Chicago Data Center, including intangible assets recorded upon acquisition of the property, capitalised leasing costs and straight-line rent receivable was approximately $227,300,000 at September 30, 2017. Additional, Carter Validus has also announced that it has entered into a definitive purchase and sale agreement with an affiliate of Mapletree Investments Pte, a Singapore headquartered real estate investment company and Mapletree Industrial Trust, a Singapore Exchange listed Real Estate Investment Trust, to sell a 14-property data centre portfolio, for approximately $750m. The net book value of the portfolio, including intangible assets recorded upon acquisition of the properties and straight-line rent receivable, was approximately $598,400,000 at September 30, 2017.
A recent survey by 451 Research commissioned by Schneider Electric has found that it is possible to reduce data centre capital and operating costs while maintaining or even improving on high levels of availability using standardised capacity management and operational processes, ongoing assessment mechanisms per location, and new approaches to off-premises capacity in incremental steps, among other strategies. The finding was the result of a study involving companies generating over $500m in revenue across the U.S., U.K. and Asia Pacific and in different sector such as retail, healthcare, financial services and education. The companies have not disclosed participants’ identities, however, it has revealed that one of the interviewees represents a US-based healthcare company with revenues in the excess of $10bn. The results of six companies, including the healthcare player abovementioned, were published as use cases in a report entitled “Six real-world approaches to managing hybrid IT environments”. Overall, all companies said to be going through some deep architectural changes that will see then change their usually in-house IT environments to a more hybrid ecosystem. In the report it reads: “The shift from privately owned, internal ‘on-premises’ data centre capacity toward off-premises resources is well under way. “Yet when we asked a large number of enterprises about their different types of IT environments, it was also clear that the extent of the migration of workloads off-premises is only partial – most enterprises use a mix of on- and off-premises capacity. “Even within on-premises environments, there is typically a mix of server rooms or server closets and larger data centre facilities.”
The transactions are expected to close in Q4 2017 and are subject to the completion of certain closing conditions, “and it is possible that the timing of the closings may be delayed or that the transactions do not close”, the company has adverted. Moelis & Company LLC acted as lead financial advisor to Carter Validus, along with KeyBanc Capital Markets Inc. and SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc. acting as co-advisors, and Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP serving as legal counsel to the Company.
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UK businesses are doing their data centre network investments all wrong Organisations warned they may struggle to cope with greater data volumes being transferred in and out of the network, as well as within it.
However, in Germany, companies are spending an average of €326,000 annually on data centre network infrastructure and €140,000 on WAN and other interconnects. From a market sector standpoint, the study concluded that the services sector is the most likely to invest in data centre infrastructure, with 94% having invested in key data centre network hardware (fiber, cabling, switches, routers, firewalls etc.) in the last three years.
UK enterprises are missing out on new technological advances by holding on to old networking infrastructure which is hindering business. According to an independent study commissioned by Ciena (NYSE: CIEN), 20% of UK businesses are using equipment that is more than three years old, compared with 8% of businesses in Germany, for example.
This compares to 92% in the healthcare sector, 89% in the financial services sector and 87% in the retail sector. In addition, roughly 50% of healthcare respondents had done this investment within the last year.
The study, which has looked into enterprise IT investment strategies of 500 large British and German organisations, has also revealed significant investment disparity between these two major European markets, with the UK spending less annually and demonstrating a general focus on longer-term amortisation of network assets in the front office environment and data centre.
Keri Gilder, Vice President and General Manager, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Ciena, said: “As traffic volumes in both the data centre and in the office environment continue to surge, businesses are looking to extract maximum value from their infrastructure investments.
However, outside of the data centre, infrastructure is increasingly run for much longer in both markets, “which means that renew cycles are not keeping pace with the rest of IT in the business,” according to Ciena. The company has pointed out that advances in Wi-Fi technology, faster Ethernet protocols and support for new broadband and fiber standards are not being fully exploited, meaning organisations may struggle to cope with greater data volumes being transferred in and out of the network, as well as within it. In terms of spending, Ciena has calculated the mean average spent annually on data centre network infrastructure to be £161,000 in the UK, with a further £86,000 spent on WAN and interconnects.
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As the study shows, investment in external WAN bandwidth and interconnects is critical, but if it’s being connected to legacy equipment, the potential benefits of better and fluid bandwidth won’t be realized.” Mervyn Kelly, EMEA Director, Ciena, said: “If there’s one key take away from this research, it is that a two-tier strategy for technology renewal cycles will always result in missed opportunities. “New client and server hardware unlocks many benefits for users and the wider business. It makes little sense to curtail these by using obsolete network infrastructure that becomes a bottleneck for new IT investments instead of an enabler”.
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EMEA London witnesses Europe’s strongest upsurge in data centre demand but ‘right to migrate’ requests boom as Brexit talks hit deadlock The four main data centre destinations of Europe – Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam and Paris – have delivered another strong quarter of builds, openings and demand, according to new figures released by analysts.
In an attempt to ease the tension in the technology sector, the UK government has committed itself to investing £4bn in the “industries of the future” such as driverless cars and artificial intelligence, showing a willingness to continue to advance the country’s high-tech sector.
However, it was in London that Q3 saw an upsurge in MW demand with demand jumping 46.77%, according to BroadGroup’s Colocation Market Quarterly Q3 2017. In comparison, Paris witnessed the second highest growth (26.92%), followed by Frankfurt (18.05%) and Amsterdam (6.25%), which in Q2 was named EMEA’s second hottest data centre destination after London. Analysts said in the report that London’s “exceptionally strong demand” was partially due to the timing of certain market deals such as Virtus Data Centres fresh wave of funding to expand its footprint, Credit Suisse’s sale of a site to Iron Mountain and Palatine’s private equity investment in The Bunker. The four markets have also continued to see a strong take up on hyperscale deployments and expansions as well as the market entry and expansion of non-US cloud providers, especially Chinese players such as Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent, all of which widened their reach in Europe via Frankfurt.
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“Concern amongst some occupiers has grown over the potential disruption to the current legal framework that Brexit threatens – most notably relating to data handling/processing and import tariffs,” he said. “The preferred, if not accepted solution, is a request for mid-contract migration with occupiers hoping to obtain flexibility whilst continuing to benefit from the more attractive rates a fixed longer-term agreement offers. “Only major operators with European-wide portfolios can entertain these requests, and only then if the operator is willing to commercially commit to such an obligation. My experience to date is that such requests are very rarely accepted.”
In the report, researchers dubbed Frankfurt as “the standout market with massive new supply planned, and further announcements in the quarter such as Interxion and Alpha Real”. As Brexit looms near, analysts have also highlighted that the Frankfurt market is starting to benefit from the uncertainty surrounding the divorce negotiations between London and Brussels. Uncertainty is, however, not expected to end anytime soon as the two capitals continue to fail to agree on several issues including border control in Northern Ireland, immigrants’ status after Brexit and a divorce bill that could top up to £40bn.
However, the pledge seems not to be enough to safeguard businesses’ data roadmaps as the BroadGroup report warns of a growing demand for migration causes. Cited in the report, Liam Phillips, Senior Associate, Real Estate Group at Reed Smith, said that requests for a “right to migrate” mid-term from a UK based data centre to a mainland Europe facility are on the rise.
Phillips also highlighted that it is becoming increasingly more common for smaller occupiers to seek global tie-ins on a uniform contractual and pricing model of the type traditionally reserved for only the largest occupiers in the market. He said: “The desire for uniformity is a growing trend often driven by the concerns in relation to Brexit and an increased interest in data centres as an investment asset class. I am aware of certain providers acceding to such requests from smaller occupiers who pledge repeat business on future orders from anything from a single rack to a whole data hall.”
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DataCentred goes bankrupt after its only customer turns to AWS
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“The physical data centre which provides the colocation services is significantly underutilised,” official documents reveal. UK data centre services provider DataCentred has “permanently shut down” its services after its main customer left the company’s cloud for AWS. The client, Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC), represented 85% to 90% of Manchester-based DataCentred’s revenues. The operator went into administration back in August, as reported by Data Economy. The closure of the company’s services was announced by DataCentred in a Tweet post: “Our cloud service will be shut down permanently over the course of the next 24 hours – please ensure you’ve migrated workloads elsewhere.” DataCentred was incorporated in November 2015 and operated from leasehold premises near Media City in Salford, Manchester. According to official documents, the company utilised clearing bank facilities with Barclays, “who were granted a debenture by the company in consideration for a term loan”. In addition, in consideration for investment capital, DataCentred granted debentures to NWF (Venture Capital) LP, The Greater Manchester Combined Authority, Moulton Goodies Limited and Michael Kelly, one of the directors of the company. DataCentred’s revenues have been reported split between two business segments: cloud services and colocation data centre services. Around 90% of the company’s revenue was generated by cloud customers, “and of the cloud revenue, around 90% was attributable to one cloud customers”, understood to be HMRC. In the same documents, it reads: “The physical data centre which provides the colocation services is significantly underutilised with the majority of the space for customer racks vacant. “As a result, the business has been heavily loss making.” Commenting on HMRC’s move to choose AWS to host tax payers’ data, member of parliament Margaret Hodge, told Sky News: “This is a clear case of government saying one thing yet doing another. “They say they want to support small businesses but they give the contacts to the big boys and let small businesses go bust. “They say they want to be tough on tax avoidance but they use our money to give contracts to some of the world’s biggest and most immoral tax avoiders.”
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Organisation invests up to 28 million Euros in getting data centre off the paper with power supply reaching 35 MVA. Alpha Real Trust is the latest investment body to get the green light to build a hyperscale data centre this time measuring nearly 435,000 sqf in Frankfurt, Germany. The company has also secured prior to the construction of the building a 35MVA dual power feed supply from the local grid. The data centre development follows Alpha Real Trust’s announcement from November 2016 in which the company announced it had entered into a conditional agreement to purchase, via a SPV, an industrial site in Frankfurt which it identified as being suitable for the development of a data centre. The agreement to purchase the site was subject to securing planning consent for a data centre with a minimum gross external area of 247,500 sqf and a specified minimum electrical power supply with a dual feed for the proposed development. The company is currently in the process of completing the site purchase and formalising the power commitment contract. The payment of the outstanding site purchase price is €12.85m. Alpha Realty Trust said the electricity supply cost commitments will become payable in phases during the electricity upgrade period of approximately three years. “Associated costs relating to the construction of an electricity receptor building on the site and associated pre-identified ground preparation works will also be undertaken,” the trust said. These commitments will bring the Company’s total investment into the data centre project to €28m.
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After Italy’s largest data centre, Aruba opens facility in Poland ahead of GDPR Italian data centre and cloud services provider Aruba S.p.A. has opened its eighth European data centre in Warsaw, Poland, to help customers meet regulatory requirements imposed by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) set to come into effect in May 2018. The Aruba Cloud DC – PL1 data centre comes at a time when the company also tops 15,000 customers across all its sites in Central and Eastern Europe in Italy, Germany, the UK, France, Czech Republic and now Poland.
“The new data centre in Poland, Warsaw, is in fact another benchmark for the central and eastern European markets, an area that is proving more and more aware of the IT industry, in particular of Cloud services.
In a statement, the operator said the facility is also an element of Aruba Cloud’s “strategy to extend its services to the East, especially to Ukraine”.
“The Polish data centre is the eighth data centre of Aruba Group, whose company vision is aimed at a new economy that looks towards Europe, considering this new focal point of continental IT.”
The hardware deployed at the Warsaw centre includes Dell servers, Intel processors (Xeon E5) and SSDs.
Marcin Zmaczyński, Country Manager CEE, Aruba Cloud, added: “The Polish market is very important to Aruba Group, because of both its growing strength of the Polish economy as well as its strategic locations for possible further expansion into the neighbouring markets.
Domestic Aruba Cloud customers will be able to use all types of IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) provided by Aruba for Western European markets. These include three types of cloud services: virtual cloud servers (VPS SSD), public (Cloud Pro) and private cloud, as well as a host of other tools, including a cloud backup solution.
“The opening of the centre in Warsaw, the business capital of the CEE region, gives us the opportunity to reach more customers in Poland and expand to the East. Especially to the Ukrainian market, where companies are keen to move their IT to the cloud. While our growth in the region is fuelled by the popularity of VPS, we see the potential to offer public and private cloud to large organisations in the coming years.”
Stefano Cecconi, CEO of Aruba S.p.A., said: “Just a few weeks after the big opening of the Global Cloud Data Centre, we’re proudly announcing another strategic step for our pan-European expansion of our data centres.
Data Economy launches the second edition of the definitive industry leading magazine Data Economy, the leading data centre and cloud publication launched in 2016, has released its second edition in Oslo during Datacloud Nordic 2017.
The magazine was directed and edited by Data Economy’s founding editor João Marques Lima. “Building on the success of the first edition launched last June, we are excited to release our second edition today in Oslo with a very compelling design and content offering,” said Lima.
The magazine includes 84 pages full of content, with more than 20 C-level interviews in the fields of data centre, cloud and data. This stellar edition features on the front page the CEO of Equinix Steve Smith talking in detail on the company’s recent acquisitions and further plans for expansion. Data Economy has also run the 30 under 30 which lists the industry’s top minds in data centre, cloud under the age of 30. Other topics of coverage include AI in data centres, plans for the world’s biggest data centre, GDPR, executive moves, disruptive technology, cyber security, automation, and more. Data Economy has also looked into the vibrant Nordic region with a special focus on IT asset deployment from Iceland to the Baltics and how the future will evolve.
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“However, as we start the distribution of this edition, we are already full steam ahead with production for the next issue coming out at the end of January during Datacloud UK and the Finance and Investment Forum.” “The launch of the second Data Economy magazine in Oslo is one of the most exciting additions to our brands in 2017,” said Mr Philip Low, Chairman of BroadGroup. “Looking ahead, Data Economy will continue to define the market and answer our audience’s needs, improving the quality of the product – digital, video, print and events – and enhancing the portfolio,” concluded Mr Low.
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Nordic Wars. Norwegian data centre leaders clash over gov’t support as Sweden takes lead backed by AWS, Google, Facebook Norwegian data centre leaders clashed at this year’s Datacloud Nordic in Oslo over the government’s work to support the industry and called for more help from the Storting.
“I want to call out for the government to help, and a couple of years ago we told the government to lower taxes, etc, and there is still work to do there, but they have lowered the tax on power, making our power the most affordable green power in the world.
The leadership panel, featuring Digiplex, Bulk Infrastructure, Green Mountain, Basefarm and Schneider Electric – although the latter’s representative was Swedish – took place just moments after Mr Reynir Jóhannesson, State Secretary, Ministry of Transport and Communications for the Norwegian Government, presented the government’s work and plans to further support the data centre sector, including a strong focus on renewable energy. Kicking off the discussion, Bulk Infrastructure’s CEO Peder Nærbø said: “It has been a very frustrating year for us. We are nearly ready but not like you guys [other companies sitting in the panel already operating]. We are nearly there. “We thought we would have more help from the government, but it takes some time to move a government, however, I think we are in the right way. “And Bulk is in the right way and we are taking in the first customers and signing up the customers.” Nærbø’s remarks were quickly faced with criticism from Anders Korshavn, SVP – Co-Location and Data Center Services at Basefarm, who looking directly at Nærbø said: “Peder, you are always crying out for the government to help you.
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“Luckily this government stayed in power this Autumn and we look forward to clear the remaining red flags.” The government, led by Prime Minister Erna Solberg, leader of the Conservative “Høyre” Party, has recently faced off the opposition parties during the Norwegian general elections on September 11, 2017, and won the voting through a coalition with three other political forces. Continuing with the on-stage discussion, it was the turn of Tor Kristian Gyland, CEO of Green Mountain, to intervene, focusing on the need to bulk up connectivity investment and infrastructure. “[The government] has done a lot but when it comes to connectivity we have to see connectivity as equal to transporting goods and people,” he said. “We have to look at fibre as we look at when we build roads and transport infrastructure. If we are not capable to build connectivity with the help of the government, we will lack behind other competitive governments.” Looking at the State Secretary sitting in the first row, Gyland, continued: “Please continue the good work you have been doing, but continue to help.”
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Apple’s $1bn data centre might be in doubt but these 10 companies are still building in Ireland
Norwegian gov’t needs to look to Sweden, Denmark As the connectivity topic was brought to the table, comparisons to neighbouring Sweden and Denmark were inevitable. Gisle Eckhoff, CEO of Digiplex, which also operates in Sweden, warned of the need to be “much more organised and coordinated” in Norway. “[Comparing to Sweden], there is a clear trend because you have some of the global guys there and that also drives people there, so connectivity is the driver there.” Building up on that, Korshavn added to Eckhoff’s views that there is a lack of funding, but if the government was to back the industry, the executive shows confidence the industry and the country will be able to build a premier data centre destination. Also speaking of investment, Nærbø said that on the funding side, the major problem in Norway is that “up to this point, there is no market”. “We are creating the market now. We are connecting Norway to seven countries direct. With the new privacy rules this is important. This is what we are preparing for.”
The Apple data centre saga in Ireland shows no signs of ending even after the iPhone X maker was given the green light for construction and an appeal against the project was put down by the country’s High Court. After two years of court battles, now it is Apple who is keeping it a secret on whether they will invest in the facility projected for Athenry, Co, or not. The uncertainty over the development comes directly from Apple’s CEO Tim Cook who in a meeting with Ireland’s Prime Minister “Taoiseach” Leo Varadkar failed to confirm if the data centre would go ahead. During the meeting, which took place during Varadkar’s trade mission to the West Coast of the US, the politician told Cook of the enormous support the project had gathered from the local community, according to RTE News. However, Varadkar told journalists afterwards that the Cupertino giant has not given the final yes on the investment. He said: “No not confirmed. We did not get a start date, or a definite commitment or anything like that. “But certainly from our point of view, we really impressed on them very strongly how much the Government is behind the project, how we will do anything within our power to facilitate it and how the people of Galway and Athenry in particular really want it to happen.”
He added: “When the first customers come, they actually see we have a market. When one big guy usually the large hyperscalers such as Alibaba, Google, AWS, Facebook, etc comes in, it will open up the market to other big guys. “The establishment of a large player is fundamental [to drive the industry in Norway]. It opens a Pandora box. It would be a grace to get one of those OTTs. And they would also encourage the build of more networks.” As Sweden boosts a large hyperscale footprint with investments from AWS, Google, Facebook and others, panellists agreed Sweden has succeeded in opening itself up to world. Gyland said: “Compared to Sweden we have to work harder. We are getting support from local government, and the work done over the years proves they are willing to help, but there is work to be done.” Being the only Swedish natural sitting in the panel, Charlie Timmermann, VP IT Division Nordic Baltic Zone, Schneider Electric, explained what has made Sweden a desired data centre destination. He said: “What Sweden has done that is successful is that they understood is not about tax reduction; it is about changing the data centre industry to become a business. “Sweden understood the importance of the data centre sector. It is not just about taxes, it is about facilitating the business landscape. And Denmark has done that too.”
However, while Apple is a big data centre investor in Ireland, the company is not alone and several others are building data centres or about to do so.
Concluding the session, Korshavn sent out another waring to the Norwegian government: “No one will choose Norway when they can risk a hundreds of millions of kroners property tax a year.
From colocation providers to hyperscalers, the delay with Apple’s facility has failed to deter CAPEX from being drawn into Irish shores.
“You could be taxed for servers inside the data centre. The government is creating out, get rid of it, and you will see those guys flowing in.”
Ten companies which are currently working to expand their footprint in Ireland are; AWS; Bord na Móna (state agency); CyrusOne; EdgeConneX; Equinix; Facebook; Google; Interxion; KeppelDC and Microsoft.
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Microsoft outsources 180MW of power for Dutch data centre Microsoft has taken another step towards greening its data centre portfolio this time by signing one of the largest wind deals in the Netherlands with Swedish energy provider Vattenfall.
Irish High Court rejects appeal against Apple, $1bn data centre can now officially break ground
The hyperscaler has agreed to purchase the entirety of windproduction from an onshore 180MW wind farm in Wieringermeer Polder, near Amsterdam, where it runs a Microsoft Azure data centre servicing Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Following the deal, Vattenfall is to begin construction of the expansion of the farm in 2018, and expects it to be operational effective 2019. Vattenfall’s Nuon said it plans to expand the project to eventually include 100 windmills. That will allow the production of approximately 1.3 billion kWh of renewable electricity. Nuon has partnered with local actors, ECN and the Windcollectief Wieringermeer, to lease lands and operate these turbines. This additional generation capacity will not become available until 2020. Once completed, the Wieringermeer wind farm will be one of the largest onshore wind farms in the Netherlands, almost three times bigger than the Princess Alexia wind farm inaugurated in 2013, according to the energy company. Brian Janous, general manager of energy at Microsoft, said: “Investing in local clean energy to power our local data centre is a win-win for our business and the Netherlands. “Microsoft is committed to bringing new renewable energy sources online to power our data centres. By focusing on local projects, we’re able to create new economic opportunities, reduce carbon emissions and make progress on our global commitment to increase the amount of clean energy used to power the Microsoft Cloud.”
A two-year-long court battle between the iPhone maker and two local residents in Athenry has finally come to a closure as the High Court of Ireland official gives Apple permission to break ground on its hyperscale data centre. The $1bn data centre project was originally announced in 2015 and has ever since been the talk of town as local residents opposed to its construction over noise disruption and its impact on the local fauna and flora at the Derrydonnell Forst. On October 12, Apple was granted permission to build the facility, however, objectors appealed against the decision. The appeal by residents Allan Daly and Sinead Fitzpatrick was today officially rejected by the High Court’s Mr Justice Paul McDermott, bringing down the last hurdle for Apple.
Magnus Hall, president and CEO of Vattenfall, said: “We are very glad and proud to be able to support Microsoft’s transition toward using fossil-free energy in its data centre operations.
During the audition, Mr McDermott said there was not any point of law remaining for the objectors to further pursue blocking the data centre project.
“This deal is completely in line with our strategy to help all our customers power their lives in ever smarter ways and free from fossil fuel within one generation.”
According to The Irish Times, lawyers for Apple and An Bord Pleanála told the court they were making no application for costs against the objectors.
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Drones take centre stage as Digital Realty cuts ribbon on new Frankfurt 27MW data centre campus Digital Realty has opened its second data centre in Frankfurt in a ceremony where drones were king and data halls were turned into a Michelin-like restaurant. The data centre in Wilhelm-Fay-Strasse, Sossenheim, is the first of a group of three buildings and for the opening, the facility was geared up with 9MW of power. The building has three floors comprising a total of 6,800 sqm of rentable space spread across six data halls.
is widely regarded as the connectivity, commercial and financial capital of Germany.”
Once fully built, the campus is expected to provide 27MW of available power and will be connected via dark fiber to Digital Realty’s existing facility in Lyoner Strasse.
Stein continued: “We are pleased to support our customers’ global growth requirements on our state-of-the-art Sossenheim campus.”
The data centres are set to be also used to help customers comply with the up and coming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) set to come into effect in May 2018. Digital Realty’s CEO William Stein said: “Frankfurt is one of the most important data centre markets in the world, second in size only to London in the European region.
According to recent data from JLL, in Q3 2017, Frankfurt has been surpassed by Amsterdam as the second largest data centre market in Europe behind London. At the end of Q3, Amsterdam had a total power supply of 292MW, compared to Frankfurt’s 251MW, according to the figures reported exclusively by Data Economy. However, the same data suggests that at the end 2017, Frankfurt is to regain its position as mainland Europe’s major data centre destination.
“Given its central location, excellent infrastructure, and concentration of leading international businesses, Frankfurt
IBM is about to completely change how it manages its European data centres IBM has unveiled plans to tighten up its data privacy operations at its Frankfurt data centre as the ‘Big Blue’ aims to ensure data access is restricted.
“In fact, the European Commission estimates that the value of the data economy in the EU can increase to €739bn by 2020.
The company has designed a new scheme in which customers are to get full control over and transparency with where their data lives, who has access to it and what they can do with this access. The new support model and data management capabilities are scheduled to be rolled out by December this year in Frankfurt, five months before the General Data Protection Act (GDPR) is due to be introduced in 28 European Union member states. Sebastian Krause, General Manager, IBM Cloud, Europe at IBM, said: “With the rapid growth of higher value services such as AI, analytics, blockchain and Internet of Things (IoT), companies are positioned to unlock transformative insights from their data like never before.
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“While exciting for all of us, this transition also introduces the need for greater responsibility. Concerns about data residency, security and personal data protection are at an all-time high as businesses prepare for pending regulatory and compliance requirements including the GDPR. “While data privacy is especially important in Europe, clients in many markets face regulatory pressures to protect their users’ data. “IBM plans to take the improvements outlined here and adopt them across other IBM locations in the future.”
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Nearly all data centre operators to be affected by EU directive coming into force this December
Google could be planning a mega data centre campus in Europe
All data centre operators with at least one facility in any one of the 28 member states of the European Union (EU) are set to be faced with harsher green-friendly policy coming out of Brussels. The new legislation, which goes for the name of EU Medium Combustion Plant Directive (MCPD), has originally been put to work in on December 18 2015, but only now, this December 19, will be transposed into domestic law by each member state. The MCPD sets out a limit to the amount of emissions of certain pollutants into the air from medium combustion plants. Its aim is to reduce sulphur dioxides (SO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx) and dust, as agreed under the Gothenburg Protocol. According to the European Data Centre Association, this will have an impact of operating, planned and future data centres across the region. In a whitepaper, the body said: “The Medium Combustion Pollutants Directive will have a direct impact on data centre design and operation, primarily in relation to standby or primary generator sets. “Due to the typical capacities utilised in the industry, many data centre generators will be required to meet the Directive’s local implementation requirements. “As a minimum, the Directive will require plant emissions to be monitored on a regular basis by the data centre operator. Where existing equipment is not meeting emission limits, the equipment will need to be abated/modified.”
Google has acquired a 131 hectare piece-ofland in Aabenraa, Denmark, a stone away from Apple’s $1bn data centre. This is the third large lot bought by Google in the last six months in the Nordics alone. However a Google spokesperson has said the company has no immediate plans to break ground on a cloud facility, the same spokesperson said the company is securing land for the possible expansion of its data centre footprint in Europe. The land acquisition is of such significance for Denmark, that even the country’s energy minister has commented on the purchase. “This is great news. It signals that Google has plans in Denmark, and I think it’s because we have some of Europe’s lowest power prices for companies, some of the greenest energy, and a high security of supply,” Lars Christian Lilleholt told Reuters. The plot could become home to one of Denmark’s largest foreign investment ever should Google announce a mega data centre campus similar to others it operates where capital expenditures easily reach between $1bn to $2bn. The Aabenraa plot is the second Google acquires in Denmark this year alone following the market trend to invest in the region. Back in June, the California technology giant purchased 73.2 hectares of land in Frederica, in a deal evaluated at $9.86m. The company also said at the time it had no plans to break ground on a new data centre. Neighbouring data centres include those operated by Facebook, IBM and similarly to Aabenraa, Apple. Elsewhere, Google has also acquired a 109-hectare site in Avesta, Sweden, hours away from Facebook’s data centre. Just like the two plots in Denmark, the multinational said it has currently no plans to build a data centre in the region, however, the site was acquired to ensure the company has land to do so when demand requires. All three plots of land, which combined amount to 313.2 hectares of land, are situated close to multi-megawatt power sources.
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Finance, gaming and online gambling data centre startup located at the ‘Edge of London’s financial district’ to open in 2018 A data centre startup is due to launch one of the UK’s most ambitious hosting developments in 2018 aimed at three data-heavy industries: financial services, gaming and online gambling. Located in the London’s Docklands area of Canary Wharf, the IP House Tier III data centre will boast 16,000 sqf and 512 racks once fully built. Ahead of its opening, IP House has tasked data centre design and build specialist Comtec Power to upgrade the site at the “Edge of London’s financial district”. Given the staged upgrade of the facility, IP House have opted for a modular, pay-as-you-grow approach to deploying their critical infrastructure, utilising components of Schneider Electrics InfraStruxure (ISX) Data Centre Physical Infrastructure solution, NetShetler SX Racks, Symmetra PX UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply), APC by Schneider Electric Switchgear, NetBotz Environmental Monitoring and Intelligent Metered PDU’s. All of which will be delivered by Comtec Power. Vinny Vaghani, Operations Manager of IP House, said: “We are currently in the initial stage of the data centre build, which will be delivered in two phases by Comtec over the next 18 months.
“Our first data suite is comprised of Schneider Electric’s InfraStruxure (ISX) integrated data centre architecture and has 14,000sq ft. of white space with a total of 216 racks – 192 of which will be available for customers when the facility is operational in 2018. “Once the second stage is completed towards 2019, we’ll have a total of 512 racks with which to service our customers.” Ian Gregg, Data Centre Specialist at Comtec Power, said: “The modularity offered by Symmetra PX will allow IP House to expand their backup power as both the data centre and business grows. “Its power modules and batteries have a smaller footprint than other products available in the market, meaning the space saved translates directly in the data centre, creating more room for customers IT equipment.”
Never before seen papers show that Amazon spoke to Irish gov’t over $1bn data centre delays Some of Amazon’s most senior figures have hold talks with representatives from the Irish government over delays on data centre planning approvals, according to papers never before seen. The documents, obtained by Ireland’s The Times, have revealed that Amazon’s vice-president Michael Punke raised concerns with Martin Fraser, secretary-general of the Department of the Taoiseach (Ireland’s Prime Minister), shortly after members of the public objected to Amazon’s data centre in Dublin last April. One of the concerns discussed was around the planning process of such projects and how the legislation could delay the whole development. The Irish government has since come out to announce a fast track service for data centre planning proposals. Punke, who is also an ex-US ambassador to the World Trade Organisation, “stressed a need for certainty” in regard to the time it took to receive planning approval for large scale development, according to The Times.
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Amazon’s planning delay has contrasting remarks with Apple’s project for Galway. The iPhone X maker had originally announced its plans to expand its data centre footprint in Ireland in 2015, with an agenda set to open the site in 2017. However, objectors to the project in Ireland formally made their voice heard with the country’s authorities and the project fell victim of several delays. From a shortage of judges to no clear decisions, Apple walked in and out of Irish courts for nearly a year. Objectors claimed the data centre would have a negative impact in the local area by increasing traffic and noise pollution. This would also affect the local wildlife, especially bats and badgers who live in the Derrydonnell Forest, adjacent to the proposed construction 500-acre site. Nevertheless, Apple has gathered local support from thousands of residents who have actively campaigned for the approval of the data centre, both online and on the streets of Galway. And on November 1, Apple received the final yes from Ireland after the country’s High Court rejected the objectors’ appeal.
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AMERICAS HPE just made its biggest bet on AI in drive for the ultimate autonomous data centre Hewlett Packard Enterprise has launched a new artificial intelligence (AI) service in a bid to foster the establishment of autonomous data centres capable of managing themselves and reducing overall OPEX.
The company said that by leveraging advanced machine learning, the new capabilities for HPE InfoSight pave the path toward an autonomous data centre.
The company, which saw its CEO Meg Whitman step down this week, claimed it has released the industry’s first AI recommendation engine designed to simplify and reduce the guesswork in managing infrastructure and improve application reliability. Named HPE InfoSight, the platform has predictive analytics capabilities built to take software-defined intelligence to the data centre with the ability to predict and prevent infrastructure problems before they happen.
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HPE claims that its InfoSight solution can help reduce time spent troubleshooting issues by up to 85%1 and deliver an availability greater than 99.9999%. Bill Philbin, Senior Vice President, HPE GM Storage, said: “HPE InfoSight marks the first time a major storage vendor has been able to predict issues and proactively resolve them before a customer is even aware of the problem. “As applications increasingly drive today’s businesses, we need to help customers move toward a self-managing IT model. HPE InfoSight enables IT to spend more time on projects that add value to the business rather than on troubleshooting issues.”
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Brazil opens Latin America’s ‘largest modular data centre’ complex The Brazilian state of Goiás’ government has opened a new regional data centre which has been branded as Latin America’s largest outdoor modular data centre. The 320 sqm data centre saw a federal capital expenditure of $3m and will be used to store several governmental data including the Nota Fiscal Eletrônica – a taxes system -, state finances, and the data of 70,000 people part of social programs. The site has a total storage capacity of 1PB and a processing capacity of 10TB, 38 physical servers and 600 VMs all deployed across 23 racks.
The most recent significant developments have included Equinix’s acquisition of Verizon assets in some of Brazil’s main metro areas as well as a partnership with IBM to foster cloud adoption.
The facility at the Complexo Fazendário, Goiânia, was opened by governor Marconi Perillo who said the data centre is a “symbol of modernity through which the government can digitise itself”.
Angola Cables has also been a heavy investor and is currently building a $130m data centre in Fortaleza in addition to the laying of subsea cables connecting Angola in Africa to Brazil and up to Florida.
He continued: “This is an extraordinary advance in the IT segment and innovation, and is just an example of everything we have done over the years. “As we open this data centre, we are now Brazil’s second largest technology central, only behind the Serviço Federal de Processamento de Dados (Serpro) – [the Federal Service of Data Processing].” The data centre in Goiânia is just the latest to be added to Brazil’s expanding network of facilities.
HostDime has also opened its first data centre in Brazil last summer and in the spring Ascenty secured $190m in investment to make the company on of the largest data centre players in the Latin America region. Other companies making moves in the Brazilian market include Huawei, VMware, SAP and more.
Flexenclosure lands two data centres in LATAM Internet infrastructure provider Flexenclosure has been tasked with the construction and delivery of two data centres, one in Chile and a second one in Ecuador.
The first phase of the projects will deliver single-story 300KW data centres, but the turnkey buildings have been designed for vertical expansion up to two floors, providing additional white space for more than 100 racks on each floor.
The company has not disclosed the financial terms of the contract but said it was a “multi-million-dollar order”.
Construction of the two data centres will shortly commence at Flexenclosure’s factory in Vara, Sweden, and both facilities are slated to be deployed in Latin America in the first half of next year.
The two sites in Chile and Ecuador add to a number of ongoing eCentre deployments by Flexenclosure in Latin America, including the installation for Tigo Business in Paraguay and a newly completed Tier 3 data centre for TigoUne in Colombia.
David King, CEO, Flexenclosure, said: “We are delighted to have won these projects and to be expanding our footprint in Latin America.
The two new eCentres will be used to provide colocation services, optic fibre carrier services and hosting services.
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“eCentre is not only the solution of choice for facilities where rapid deployment is critical, it also delivers almost unlimited configuration flexibility and future growth potential.”
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T5 Data Centers opens ‘mini’ 156,000 sqf Dallas data centre
CyrusOne reinforces data centre presence in DallasFort Worth Metroplex with new 100MW campus CyrusOne has unveiled plans to launch a new data centre campus in Allen, Texas, north of Dallas. The project will consist of three phases, with construction commencing still in October this year. The first data centre will be approximately 340,000 sqf, bringing CyrusOne’s total footprint in Texas to over 1.7 million sqf. According to the operator, upon completion, the site’s three data centres will offer more than 100 MWs of available power. The new facilities will have access to multiple cloud providers and allow direct access to one of the largest fiber hubs in the United States, along with other CyrusOne hubs in the DallasFort Worth area.
T5 Data Centers has brought online it second data centre in Dallas, Texas, which is a “smaller version” of its brother facility next door.
Additionally, the new data centres will be linked to the CyrusOne National Internet Exchange (National IX), which delivers interconnection between other CyrusOne locations across the country.
The facilities sit in the company’s Plano data centre campus – T5@Dallas – at the Plano’s Legacy Business Park, within the Dallas-Fort Worth corridor, one of the most active data centre regions in the US.
John Gould, executive vice president, global sales, CyrusOne, said: “The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex has always been a strong market for CyrusOne, and we continue to see growing demand from customers to scale with us.
The T5’s campus facilities have a combined square footage of 467,000 sqf, with the original building – T5@Dallas – amounting to 311,000 sqf of the figure and the new facility consequently measuring 156,000 sqf.
“Allen is a business-friendly community, and its proximity to Dallas makes it an ideal site for our new state-of-the-art data center campus.”
However, of those 156,000 sqf, only 94,400 sqf at the new data centre – T5@Dallas III – have been built as colocation space. The T5@Dallas III facility boosts 10.75 MW of critical power and includes a chilled water plant plus N+1 and 2N MEP configurations for uptime. As for the building itself, the infrastructure has been designed to withstand winds in excess of 221 mph (EF-5 tornado equivalent), and there are multiple redundant power feeds from two local substations.
Allen Mayor Stephen Terrell, said: “CyrusOne makes the perfect neighbour as their investment in our community strengthens our tax base, which benefits our schools and services. “Additionally, the new data centre has few needs for city services and will have minimal impact on our infrastructure, thanks to CyrusOne’s use of environmentally-friendly waterless cooling technology.” CyrusOne today operates 40 data centre facilities across the United States, Europe, and Asia.
Aaron Wangenheim, Chief Operating Officer for T5 Data Centers, said: “Our new T5@Dallas III data center is a smaller version of the adjoining T5@Dallas I data centre with the same robust construction, design redundancy, and physical, electrical, and mechanical infrastructure. “Dallas is a growing market for Fortune 500 companies and we want all of our tenants to be confident that when they sign with T5 Data Centers, they get a state-of-the-art facility with toptier support.” In addition to Dallas, T5 is also currently present in several other US markets including Atlanta, Los Angeles, Portland, Charlotte, Chicago, New York and Colorado with a portfolio that includes more than 15 data centres.
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Equinix launches $100m data centre in Washington DC Equinix has expanded its data centre portfolio with the addition of one facility at its Ashburn campus in Virginia, bringing the company’s global footprint to more than 185 buildings. The new data centre, branded as DC12, represents a capital investment of $98.5m, brining the total CAPEX in the Washington DC area to nearly $1bn. The site adds 1,500 cabinets and more than 57,800 gross sqf of data centre space the company’s regional campus. However, with 1,500 cabinets, the facility is one running at 50% capacity as it has the capacity to double the number of cabinets at full build. Targeting enterprises and government bodies, the Equinix Ashburn campus has been built to act as a communications gateway to Europe and is, according to Equinix, the largest internet peering point in North America.
“Interconnection opportunities for enterprises and government agencies across the Washington, D.C. metro are immense and will enable customers to accelerate their digital transformation.”
Additionally, Equinix has also purchased four additional parcels of land spanning 34.5 acres for future expansion as needed.
Kelly Morgan, Research Vice President, Services, 451 Research, said: “Northern Virginia is the largest data centre market in the U.S. and attracts data centre tenants from around the world that require interconnection to an extensive ecosystem of cloud and network providers.
Karl Strohmeyer, President, Americas, Equinix, said: “The Equinix Ashburn campus features one of the highest densities of networks and cloud providers within our global platform of IBX data centres.
“We believe the region will continue to see rapid growth as data centres race to provide capacity for fast-growing cloud service providers and the digital businesses that seek to connect to these clouds.”
HPE, Rackspace team up on pay-as-you-go OpenStack private cloud Two of the industry’s largest data centre and cloud services providers Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Rackspace have come together to launch what they claim to be the industry’s first pay-as-you-go OpenStack private cloud, delivered as a managed service. The OpenStack Private Cloud offering with pay per use infrastructure has been designed to offer enterprises the basic public cloud services, such as cloud-like utility pricing, elastic infrastructure and simplified IT, in a private cloud environment located in their data centre, a colocation facility or a data centre managed by Rackspace. The service will be generally available in all regions on November 28, with additional solutions for Rackspace Private Cloud powered by VMware and Rackspace Private Cloud powered by Microsoft Azure Stack expected in 2018. Antonio Neri, president of HPE, said: “The launch of OpenStack Private Cloud with pay per use infrastructure delivered by Rackspace and HPE marks a pivotal moment in the private cloud market and in the industry at large.
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“This experience is the best of the cloud and on-premises worlds, and we fully expect this simple pay-per-use technology model to change the way enterprises make technology decisions.” Scott Crenshaw, executive vice president of private cloud at Rackspace, said: “With this innovative delivery model, Rackspace and HPE are removing the barriers to private cloud adoption, giving customers even more choice of technology platforms that best fit their application needs. “We are proud to partner with HPE to continue enabling customer success with private clouds. And, with this common goal in mind, our companies plan to extend this model to Rackspace’s entire managed private cloud portfolio in the future, including VMware and Microsoft Azure Stack technologies.” Also commenting, Michelle Bailey, group vice president, general manager and research fellow at IDC Research, said that as enterprise organisations continue to invest in both on-premises and hosted private cloud capabilities, they are increasingly incorporating a richer set of cloud services. Bailey said: “In a world where digital transformation is rapidly impacting every industry, enterprises need to both modernise their IT and remain agile to maintain competitive advantage.”
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Microsoft cybersecurity spending skyrockets to $1bn, much of it is used to protect Azure data centres
euNetworks lands $500m for expansion through business acquisition Company operates today dense fibre based metropolitan networks which link into more than 300 data centres across 15 countries. euNetworks has entered into a definitive merger agreement with Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners in which the later will acquire a majority interest in the networks provider. Under the same transaction, euNetworks will also cash in up to $500m of committed growth capital for both organic and inorganic development. Stonepeak said in a company statement that the investment represents an ideal platform to enter the bandwidth infrastructure market. euNetworks’ portfolio includes a fully owned and operated dense fibre based metropolitan networks in 14 cites, connected by an intercity backbone covering 49 cities in 15 countries.
Being in the Top 3 of the global public cloud providers arena has its challenges and one of them is around cybersecurity, an area which has in recent months sparked much chaos and concern globally. Microsoft has now unveiled it is spending $1bn every year to keep cybersecurity PR nightmares at bay, and a large chunk of the sum is being put towards the protection of Azure cloud data centres. Kushagra Vaid GM, Azure Hardware Infrastructure, said in a blog post: “Microsoft spends one billion dollars per year on cybersecurity, and much of that goes to making Azure the most trusted cloud platform. “From strict physical data centre security, working to ensure data privacy, encrypting data at rest and in transit, novel uses of machine learning for threat detection, and the use of stringent operational software development integrity controls, Azure represents the cutting edge of cloud security and privacy.” Microsoft has previously released that it has spent between $15bn to $20bn in building out Azure.
These networks directly connect into over 300 data centres and more than 1,300 further cell towers, cable landing stations and enterprise buildings. Brady Rafuse is to remain the Chief Executive Officer of the company and the existing euNetworks investors, including Columbia Capital and Greenspring Associates, will continue to hold a material interest in the company’s new capital structure. The transaction, which is only subject to customary regulatory approvals, is expected to close in the coming months. euNetworks was advised by Barclays Bank PLC, acting through its Investment Bank and J.P. Morgan represented Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners. CEO Rafuse said: “This agreement offers Stonepeak the platform to enter the bandwidth market, and it provides euNetworks with a fantastic opportunity to accelerate growth and deliver more for our customers. We have demonstrated our ability to remain focused on what we do well, while investing in and developing our network footprint. “But we’ve seen the nature of the opportunity continue to grow exponentially and see Stonepeak as the right partner for the next phase of our growth. We are genuinely excited at what this transaction and partnership offers our customers, our people and our existing investors.” Trent Vichie, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Stonepeak, said: “euNetworks has done an exceptional job delivering critical bandwidth infrastructure to its customers in a market characterized by rapid growth in data traffic and increasingly complex connectivity requirements. We are delighted to partner with Brady and the euNetworks team in their next phase of growth.”
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Facebook to invest $1bn to triple Los Lunas data centre amid unprecedented demand
CyrusOne begins works on 340,000 sqf data centre with plans to deploy up to 100MW
Once fully built, the eight-building campus is expected to generate its own microeconomy worth $1.88bn. Facebook is hours away from announcing a fresh round of investment into its Los Lunas, New Mexico, data centre campus by placing $1bn extra into the construction of six new buildings. According to the Albuquerque Journal, the announcement will be made by the social media company together with Governor Susana Martinez and other state and local dignitaries. Governor Martinez said in a statement that the expansion by Facebook is an “encouraging momentum” for the local economy. Martinez also pledged to continue to use “powerful tools and reforms to compete for more jobs nd investment” in to the state. Facebook’s Los Lunas data centre, which currently has two buildings under construction, employs 650 construction workers. The data centre has also generated more tax revenues than originally expected as reported by Koat Action News. Whilst under construction, the campus has already generated $2.7m in gross receipts taxes for Los Lunas.
This is the company’s first ever fully-self built data centre in North Texas as total footprint breaks the 1.7 million sqf barrier.
According to local authorities, 2017 so far has delivered $6.7m in gross receipts taxes, up from 2016’s $4m, leaving Facebook responsible for the $2.7m boost.
US REIT CyrusOne has broken ground on a large facility in Allen, Texas, part of a new regional campus set for further expansion in the coming years.
Early in January this year, a report suggested the data centre campus could create a local economy worth up to $1.88bn.
The project is the first to be constructed by the company from the ground-up in North Texas and the first data centre on campus will total 340,000 sqf and upon completion, the campus’ three data centres will offer more than 100 MWs of available power.
In the document, David Taussig & Associates estimated the data centre’s total economic output over ten years will be $1.88bn based on economic contributions both during the construction stage and following the opening of the hub. The figure also includes “indirect and induced” impacts. David Taussig & Associates estimated the data centre will add $234.77m in salaries through the creation of 5,660 jobs countywide. When fully built, the six buildings campus is expected to generate a net of $21.71m over the ten year period to the New Mexico’s general fund. Over the same period of time, the Los Lunas county is expected to receive $28m in gross receipts tax revenues in relation to the construction project. Total gross receipts tax revenues are expected to reach $83.41m.
The Allen facility will bring CyrusOne’s total footprint in Texas to over 1.7 million sqf. According to CyrusOne, the new site represents the next step in the company’s long-term expansion plan and was selected because of its proximity to Dallas, access to energy sources and high-speed connectivity capabilities. CyrusOne Executive Vice President and General Counsel Robert Jackson, said: “We could not be more excited to be here to ground break on our latest, state-of-the-art data centre in Allen. “Throughout this process everyone with the city and Allen’s Economic Development team was a pleasure to work with and we’re grateful that we could together bring this opportunity to fruition.” Allen Economic Development Corporation (AEDC) Director Dan Bowman, said:. “A number of years ago, Cisco validated our market by locating a $500m production data centre on a site just south of this project,” he explained. “That decision set the stage for this current project, which could be roughly a billion-dollar investment. It is a huge boon for our economy, a strong community partnership, and a great example of the way we do business in Allen.”
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ASIA PACIFIC Indian data centre sector close to $2bn market valuation The Indian data centre sector is posed to nearly double in size by 2019 when revenues will hit $2bn up from 2016’s $1.3bn. The growth is being driven by a thirsty market looking for cloud services to be used in the enterprise layer as well as the public sector and consumer layer, according to the latest analysis from 451 Research. The firm also forecasts continued solid growth for the cloud computing-as-a-service market, with a CAGR of 25% over the next four years as digital transformation takes hold in India and more businesses start outsourcing their IT infrastructure. Comprising IaaS, PaaS and ISaaS, the cloud computing market in India will reach $1.02bn revenue by 2021, according to 451 Research Market Monitor. Hyperscale cloud and IT services providers looking to reach India’s vast potential market of customers are further driving demand for multi-tenant data centre capacity in the country.
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Analysts also reveal that 84% of India’s data centre supply is concentrated in the country’s five largest markets: Mumbai, Chennai, New Delhi, Bangalore and Pune. Multi-Tenant Datacenter Markets: Mumbai, New Dehli and Bangalore , finds that almost one-third of all built-out footprint in the country is located in Mumbai, due to the critical role the city plays in Asia-Pacific’s financial services industry, its large population and multiple international subsea cable landings. Teddy Miller, Associate Analyst at 451 Research and the report’s author, said: “Most data centre investment is focused on these five cities, reflecting India’s booming economic growth in dense urban areas. “Providers in the country must overcome an array of obstacles, though, including lack of infrastructure, socioeconomic inequality, government bureaucracy, and hesitation on the part of local businesses to adopt colocation services.
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Google Indian data centre goes live in chase for cloud business
Chinese $15bn data centre and cloud market still closed to international players China Telecom, Alibaba, China Unicom, ChinaNetCenter, 21Vianet and Tencent represent the country’s largest players with US companies not expected to move in so soon. The Chinese data centre and cloud market is currently dominated by national players with no perspectives of changes in the near future. According to the latest research from Synergy Research Group, “Chinese companies comprise the leading group of players in each of four key market segments – data centre hardware/ software, cloud computing services, colocation and CDN”.
Google has brought online its latest cloud data centre in one of the world’s most underserved and cloud-hungry markets. The launch of the cloud data centre in India comes a month after the company reaffirmed its commitment to bring the region online before the end of 2017. Located in Mumbai, the cloud region – asia-south1 – adds to Google’s APAC footprint which already counts with sites in Singapore, Taiwan, Sydney, Tokyo and Australia. According to Dave Stiver, product manager at Google Cloud Platform, hosting applications in the ew region can improve latency from 20% to 90% for end users in Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore and Mumbai, when compared to hosting the same suite of applications in the closest Google cloud region in Singapore. Amongst the many services offered through the Mumbai data centre is Google’s Compute, Big Data, Storage and Networking capabilities. In the Compute range, users will be able to use App Engine, Compute Engine and Container Engine. On the Big Data arena, Google has made available Cloud Dataflow, Cloud Dataproc and Cloud Datalab. As for Storage, those using asia-south1 will be able to tap into the Cloud Datastore, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL and Persistent Disk. Lastly, within the Networking services portfolio, the hyperscalers has started to offer Autocaler, Cloud DNS, Cloud Load Balancer, Cloud Virtual Network, Cloud VPN and Cloud Virtual Router.
Translated into revenues, over 80% of services market revenues are down to Chinese operators, while in the data centre hardware and software side the market is a little more open to competition, but Chinese vendors still account for over half of all revenues. In aggregate, annual revenues for these markets are now running at well over $15bn per year and are growing at over 16% annually, researchers said. In terms of market size, data centre hardware and software, including servers, storage, networking, security, OS, and virtualisation software is still “much larger than the market for cloud services”. The cloud market, which corresponds to IaaS, PaaS and hosted private cloud services, has however a much higher growth rate. Meanwhile colocation providers, who house data center facilities for both enterprises and cloud providers, continue to grow strongly, and the CDN market too continues to evolve. Synergy also pointed out that all four of these markets, China is either the second or third ranked country in the world in terms of quarterly revenues, “but it has much higher growth rates than the other leading countries”. John Dinsdale, a Chief Analyst at Synergy Research Group, said: “The difference between China and all other countries is striking. “The markets for cloud services and for data centre infrastructure are truly global in nature and in all regions they are dominated by US-headquartered companies, but China stands out as the one huge exception. “Going forward it is difficult to see US companies making too much headway in China, but there is no doubt that some of the Chinese companies will have an increasing impact in countries beyond China.”
Stiver said: “The first Google Cloud Platform region in India is now open for you to build applications and store your data, and promises to significantly improve latency for GCP customers and end users in the area. “With the opening of this Mumbai region, Indian customers are now able to buy these services directly in Indian rupees.”
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Microsoft to triple Chinese cloud infrastructure amid $64bn market boom Microsoft has announced what is one of the most ambitious plans from any North American public cloud services provider by unveiling plans to triple its cloud capacity in China. The announcement has been made by Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella whilst on a trip to China to attend the Microsoft Tech Summit 2017 in Beijing. The Chinese cloud market is expected to nearly triple in size by 2019 with revenues ascending to $64bn. The Azure expansion, due to take place in the next six months in mainland China, will be done via Microsoft’s official legal entity in the country, Chinses data centre services provider 21Vianet.
Microsoft’s blog continued: “Since its launch in China three years ago, Azure has gained rapid momentum, gathering over 1,000 cloud partners and 80,000 enterprise customers.
Referring to Nadella’s words during the summit, Microsoft wrote in a blog post: “As Nadella reinforced at the event, new Azure capacity in China offers a great opportunity for customers in region, including both multinational corporations who are extending their business to China, and also Chinese corporations interested in expanding to cover Asia more broadly.”
“Customers and partners range from established Chinese brands such as Haier, Lenovo, and Huawei, to emerging companies such as mobile phone manufacturer Xiaomi and bike-share company Mobike.” Microsoft is not alone in investing in IT infrastructure in China. Back in July, Apple also announced its intention to build out its footprint in the country with the construction of a $1bn data centre in the province of Guizhou in partnership with Guizhou-Cloud Big Data Industry (GCBD), a Chinese data management company.
The first Azure region in China was announced in 2013 and was brought online the following year operated by 21Vianet to comply with Chinese regulatory requirements.
Equinix could open a data centre in Beijing by 2018 Equinix has showed ambitions to up its game in the Chinese data centre market with the opening of a facility in the country’s capital. A move that could come as soon as 2018.
Datang and they are very well connected into the government circles and are providing us all the partnership benefits that you would expect to work with local companies.” Smith continued to said that a Beijing facility “ could very well happen in 2018”, as the company is “working hard” ot make that happened and its partner already has access to land and to buildings and all the required things needed to move into a market like that.
The idea was put forward by the company’s CEO Steve Smith during an end of quarter results call. According to the transcript of the call provided by Seeking Alpha, Smith told analysts how the move up to Beijing could happen. “In China we have six assets today that are in the Shanghai region in a joint venture partner that we have announced that we are working on to work with us closely to accommodate the licensing requirements we need to go deeper into the market,” he said. “Our aspirations are to move up to the Beijing market over time. We have a very good joint venture partner that we are finalising the terms. We have announced that company. It is a company called
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He said: “Most of the traffic we are still seeing coming into PRC is inbound enterprise multinationals that need a safe pair of hands in China when they’re setting up operations and majority of our business still is multinational traffic coming in. “That will change over time as we get deeper into the partnership with Datang and we start to take on some local companies.”
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Telekom Malaysia opens $72m data centre with twin facility planned for 2018
Huawei warns it is deploying cloud across the world, and the world should listen The cloud wars usually between AWS, Google, Azure and Oracle, could soon have a new recruit in the battlefield as Huawei takes to the trenches by continuing to warn of its global ambitions to become a cloud power. This time, the warning has come from Vincent Pang, president of West Europe at Huawei, who while addressing an audience of over 2,000 delegates at Huawei Eco-Connect 2017 in Berlin, also warned that cloud is not a “single player’s game”. “We are enabling intelligence with the cloud,” Pang said. “We have a very different opinion about cloud. Cloud is not just about computing, storage and network, it is about artificial intelligence, big data, security and IoT.
Telekom Malaysia Bhd (TM) has brought online its Johor data centre which represents a capital expenditure of nearly $71.5m. The TM ONE Iskandar Puteri Data Centre has a total floor capacity of 90,000 sqf, however, at a first stage, it will only offer 30,000 sqf of hosting space, with the remainder of the square footage to be used as customer demand grows. The facility in the Nusajaya Technology Park was opened by the Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin, otherwise known as the Chief Minister of the Malaysian state of Johor. As TM opened the Johor facility, the company’s deputy group chief executive officer Datuk Bazlan Osman also announced the company plans to open a twin data centre in less than 12 months. He said: “We are currently building a twin core data centre in Cyberjaya. It is now about 65 per cent completed and we hope it would completed by June next year.” The Malaysian data centre sector has experience in 2017 an economic boost with several multi-million Dollar investments carried out by both national and international players. The government-owned Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) said earlier this year that the country had scored record revenues of RM1bn, more than $224m. However the market does not produce revenues on the likes of neighbouring Singapore or Hong Kong, Malaysia is reporting a growing number of foreign investments which in the short terms are set to place almost $300m to build facilities. MDEC’s director of digital enablement Wan Murdani Wan Mohamad has previously said that those investments are expected to reach $1.2bn “in a few years”. According to the Malaysia Data Centre Association, Outsourcing Malaysia and the Malaysian Investment Development Authority, data centre space in Malaysia accounts today to 500,000 sqf. This is expected to scale to five million sqf by 2020.
“We are deploying cloud across the world. We believe the digital infrastructure is still fundamental [to the digital transformation age]; it is still the entry of the digital economy.” Building on that, Pang also touched on the topic of industry collaboration and the need to build a wider partnership network that will enable a faster and stronger cloud deployment. Echoing Huawei’s rotating-CEO Guo Ping keynote at Connect 2017 in Shanghai, Pang briefly spoke about the company’s Cloud Alliance. He said: “Digitalisation cannot be achieved by any single player. In the future value chain, Huawei cannot be a single player, that is why we need partners. We need more partners. We want to build a global alliance. We want to have a global alliance to cover every country.”
OneAsia breaks ground on six floors high data centre OneAsia has broken ground on a six-floor tall data centre comprising 128,000 sqf of hosting space. The facility, situated in Kowloon Bay, will support 2,000+ standard racks, upgradable to Tier 4 from Tier 3+ standard with access to multiple Tier 1 international carrier networks. Charles Lee, the founder and CEO of OneAsia, said: “Hong Kong endeavors to bring its competency into full play as it helps MNCs enter the China market and get on with the global business circuit.” With nearly 1.4 billion people, China is one of the largest markets on the planet, yet, just about 50% of the population has internet access. The potential for data centres is huge with Technavio’s analysts anticipating a 13% CAGR for the data centre market between 2017 and 2021. OneAsia’s data centre opening increases the company’s footprint to three sites, with facilities currently in operation in Tseung Kwan O and Free Trade Zone (Waigaoqiao). Below, you can watch Data Economy’s João Marques Lima speaking to Charles Lee, founder and CEO of OneAsia Network on the main growth drivers in the country and the company’s role in building China’s cloud economy.
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Colt doubles down on Japanese facilities as market climbs towards $15bn revenues
Huawei to invest in multi-million Dollar data centre in APAC Top 10 hosting destination Huawei is widening the reach of its data centre deployments this time with the construction of a $10m facility in Thailand as the company and the country’s Government sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to foster digital technologies and services adoption. The MoU was signed last week in front of deputy prime minister ACM Prajin Juntong by Huawei Technologies Thailand and the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society DE. The data centre, projected to be built in Thailand’s Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC), will also attract other Huawei services and initiatives into Thailand such as its OpenLab and Customer Solution Innovation and Integration Experience Centre (CSIC) both to be located in Bangkok.
Colt Data Centre Services (DCS) has brought online its second data centre in Inzai, Japan, in an attempt to grow its market share locally as national colocation revenues are predicted to top $14.5bn by the end of 2018. The Inzai 2 building has a combined amount of nearly 54,000 sqf spread across ten data halls split over six floors. The data centre, Colt DCS’ fifith in Japan, is currently only operating one floor of the mentioned six, with the remainder set to become operational as customer demand takes up space. According to the operator, “a substantial portion of Inzai 2’s capacity has already been contracted in advance of its formal opening”. The new facility sits alongside Inzai 1, which was completed in January 2011 as an 8.4MW facility with 43,000 sqf of net white space. Detlef Spang, CEO of Colt Data Centre Services, said: “The addition of this facility to the wider Inzai campus is a response to industry demand for facilities that will support the delivery of major cloud services in the region. “These service providers need to leverage reliable, well-placed and highly-connected colocation facilities from which to deliver their services. As a carrier-neutral site, Inzai 2 will enhance our Core to Edge strategy, where we intend to connect our data centres together to provide our customers with flexible expansion solutions across our portfolio in the region, access to peering sites, and greater carrier options under a single secure environment.
In addition, the Chinese multinational also agreed to provide consulting services to help the Thai Government advance its big data architectures in a bid to speed the market entry for ICT professionals. The move also seeks to create a digital platform for SMEs and start-ups, Huawei’s rotation CEO Guo Ping has said. Qiang Hua, MD of Huawei Thailand, said: “The leading cloud data centre will be a hybrid cloud for the government, enterprises, and individual users here. “This will help everyone across the ecosystem to better apply technologies like big data, Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) which will help drive toward the new economy.” The data centre, which the $10m are only for the initial phase, is set to conclude paperwork before the end of 2017, with the government planning to put forward an action plan by March 2018. The MoU aforementioned is just the latest move by the Thai authorities to drive forward digital transformation not just within the government’s buildings but across the nation. Such efforts, which have taken into consideration the need for data centres, has recently granted Thailand number seven in the APAC’s ranking for the most attractive data centre destinations, according to Cushman & Wakefield’s.
“With Inzai 2, we’ve invested in resilience, reliability and in scalability for our clients. The Inzai campus makes for a strong business continuity option for any cloud service provider and their customers.”
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Interoute to open virtual data centre in Sydney as edge computing race speeds up Cloud and network operator Interoute has unveiled plans open a point of presence (PoP) in Sydney, Australia, which the company will use to host a new Virtual Data Centre (VDC) in its latest attempt to foster edge computing developments. The PoP will be the company’s 18th globally and the third in APAC alone where Interoute said it has seen a steady increased in demand for expanded global cloud coverage, including Interoute’s new Edge SD-WAN services. Interoute Edge is used by customers to build their enterprise data traffic around the world. Using the global Interoute Cloud Fabric, public and private access networks can blend into one digital platform, where application traffic travels over the fastest available routes.
With the new services added in Sydney set to go live in the first half of 2018, Interoute’s vast global network will expand to connect 127 major cities across 30 countries and 18 global cloud zones.
The Interoute Cloud Fabric binds together all Interoute VDC cloud zones, co-location facilities, PoPs, as well as third-party cloud providers with Interoute’s private network backbone. The Sydney location will be a core PoP on the Interoute network with local peering and resilient connectivity to Interoute’s Singapore and Hong Kong locations.
Mark Lewis,EVP Products and Development at Interoute, said: “Sydney is a global city and businesses are demanding better local connectivity and compute capability to support their growth. “As we continue to grow our footprint in the Asia Pacific region, opening a PoP in Sydney is an important step to providing businesses in this theatre with faster, more reliable and secure access to cloud and IT services.”
‘Lack of hyperscale platforms’ in Australia fought back with opening of 50MW data centre Australia’s fastest growing data centre startup has launched in second multi-megawatt facility this year alone in an attempt to fight back the shortage of large scale computing facilities.
“The adoption of cloud services continues to climb at an incredible rate. And as this data grows, technology companies need the flexibility to scale up their data requirements quickly, securely and efficiently. “AirTrunk is uniquely positioned to build innovative hyperscale data centres of the class and scale that meets the needs of our customers today and tomorrow.”
AirTrunk has brought online its 16,000 sqm Melbourne data centre which when fully built will be able to support workloads of up to 50MW in total.
Minister for Trade and Investment Philip Dalidakis said AirTrunk’s investment in Western Melbourne would reinforce Victoria’s position as a leading technology hub in the Asia-Pacific region and drive employment within the state.
The facility adds to the company’s other data centre in Sydney and will at full build include 20 data halls. According to the company, this will make AirTrunk Melbourne the largest carrier neutral data centre in Victoria, storing mission critical infrastructure for some of the world’s biggest companies. According to Robin Khuda, CEO and founder of AirTrunk, the lack of hyperscale platforms that can support the rapid growth of cloud and content services in the region led to the creation of this state of the art facility.
“This facility is a significant investment in our economy and we’re thrilled that AirTrunk has chosen to expand its operations in Western Melbourne. With around 200 jobs during construction and more permanent roles when operational, this will have a positive impact on local employment,” said Dalidakis.
He said: “Complementing our flagship facility in Sydney, AirTrunk Melbourne is the latest milestone in our expansion in the AsiaPacific region, meeting the needs of customers in this market.
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