Worldwide Cloud IT Infrastructure market grows by 14.4%

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GVA Connect
Datasource
Issue 134
The news that
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centre economy
News
Key news from
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Results
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Global Conferences
May 2015
Worldwide Cloud IT
Infrastructure market
grows by 14.4%
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World
PlatformLab.com
& MadeIT.com
announce new
data centre
locations
PlatformLab.com and MadeIT.com have
announced that, in conjunction with
recently expanded services and solutions,
the sister companies have continued their
expansion of global data centre locations.
While headquarters for both companies
remain alongside their flagship Tier IV data
centre location in USA (Columbus, Ohio)
this site is now strategically complemented
by geographically diverse data centre
locations in USA (Dallas, Texas; Cincinnati,
Ohio) and Europe (Vienna, Austria), Virtual
Strategy reported.
Data centre-to-data centre services have
also been launched via both point-to-point
private fibre connections across all sites as
well as via independent and redundant
10Gbps premium Internet carrier uplinks.
Additionally, the companies outlined plans
for continued data centre expansions
across the US and Europe with data centre
launches next planned for New York City
– triangulating across two carrier hotels in
Manhattan and one New Jersey location,
with all sites connected via a 100Gbps
private fiber ring.
Facebook sued for “stealing”
data centre blueprints
According to unconfirmed reports in The Register, Facebook is being sued in the US by
a UK business claiming that it stole its blueprints for data centres. BladeRoom Group
alleges the social networking giant swiped trade secrets and intellectual property on
ways to install pre-fabricated, modular warehouses of servers.
Specifically, BladeRoom claims Facebook took its ideas and handed them to the FB-led
OpenCompute Project, an initiative that “gives the public 'full access to the specifications'
used by Facebook in its data centres”, according to the court claim.
BladeRoom says that in January 2014 the OpenCompute Project presented BladeRoom's
IP as its own, having repackaged it as something called the “rapid deployment data
centre”. BladeRoom filed its lawsuit with the federal court in San Jose in the Northern District
of California. The suit further claims Facebook continued to encourage others to use its
new "rapid deployment data centre" in a March 2014 blog post.
Mar 27th
The companies also jointly announced
latest enhancements to their feature-rich
Public Cloud Control Panel, including
dynamic load balancing and dynamic
performance metrics that have now been
combined with market-leading features
such as hourly based billing, pay per use
and full centralized Control over Customers
Virtual Machines, network independently at
each location the Customers Cloud Servers
are located. The Customer has the choice
between XenServer as well as VMware as
hypervisor and is built on Enterprise SAN &
Server Infrastructure.
Data centre cooling market worth
£5.4 billion by 2018
Mar 26th
Mar 30th
A new report produced by Markets and Markets has found that the global cooling technology
market will be worth £5.4 billion. The report also analyses global adoption trends and future
growth potential across different geographical regions, Rack Plus reported.
The report, entitled ‘Data Center Cooling Market’ expects the data cooling market to grow from
£3.2 billion in 2013 to £5.4 billion by 2018. This represents a Compound Annual Growth Rate
of 10.4% from 2013 to 2018.
Markets and Markets expects Asia Pacific to hold the largest market for data centre cooling, in
terms of geographical regions and over the next five years, it is expected to continue this pace.
GVA Connect – Datasource, Issue 134 – May 2015
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World
Study calls for reality check on the business case for cloud
Organizations need a new approach to ICT transformation through cloud computing, given the variety of platforms available and the complexity of
the applications they support. This is the key finding of a study just published by NTT Communications, which also highlights a lack of clear answers
over which kinds of applications are best suited to which environments, a Company press release reported.
Based on a poll of 1,600 ICT decision-makers across Europe and the USA, the report, Cloud Reality Check 2015, finds that cloud will account for over
a quarter (28%) of corporate ICT budgets by 2018 and the vast majority (80%) of respondents expect the number of individual cloud platforms in use
in their organizations to grow over the next three years.
In spite of the growing interest in cloud, more than one in five respondents admit to having no timelines for migrating their most important corporate
data centre applications to the cloud, with the compliance, security and governance of corporate data in the cloud the most important challenge
cited. Further, four in ten (38%) ICT decision-makers believe the cloud as it is implemented in their organization is falling short of its potential. A similar
proportion (41%) agrees they find managing cloud vendors confusing.
A lack of clear answers adds to the challenges ICT decision-makers face. Around two thirds of applications are hosted in ‘protected and closed’
environments such as the corporate data centre, colocation facilities, managed hosting, or private infrastructure as a service, while Public IaaS,
software as a service account for a further quarter of applications. Less than 10% of respondents say they are using Platform as a Service for any
kind of application.
The proliferation of ICT platforms is also undermining ICT decision-makers’ moves to embrace bi-modal IT, diverting resources towards application
development and away from management tasks. While marginally more respondents agree they spend more time developing functionality for
applications hosted in the cloud than they do for those in the data centre, far higher numbers are spending more time on management across
both environments (55% for data centre applications, and 44% for those in the cloud).
Len Padilla, VP Product Strategy at NTT Com, said: “Our study shows the reality of cloud in 2015 is potentially as complex as the world it was supposed
to replace. ICT decision-makers harbor significant frustrations over cloud, and there are no clear answers over which kinds of applications belong
where. This is the cloud reality check in 2015 – there needs to be a far smoother migration path from the data center to the cloud. A different kind of
planning approach is required for companies to achieve the large-scale digital transformations business executives are demanding.”
Apr 16th
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World
BT launches ‘Cloud
of Clouds’
BT has announced a new generation of
cloud services that allow large organisations
around the world to connect easily and
securely to the applications and the data
they need, independently of where they
are hosted. They will empower customers to
integrate and orchestrate the IT resources
hosted on their own private clouds as well
as on BT’s global cloud platform and on the
platforms of other leading cloud providers.
The new services take advantage of BT’s
global network infrastructure and build on
BT’s long standing expertise in the delivery
of enterprise-grade cloud services. They rely
on innovative technology developed by BT
and its partners in the fields of diversified
infrastructure management, service
management, global network
optimisation, application performance
acceleration and security, a Company
press release reported.
Worldwide Cloud IT Infrastructure market
grows by 14.4%
According to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker, total cloud IT
infrastructure spending (server, disk storage, and ethernet switch) grew by 14.4% year over year
to US$8.0 billion in the fourth quarter of 2014 (4Q14), accounting for approximately 30% of all IT
infrastructure spend, up from about 27% one year ago. Private cloud infrastructure spending
grew by 18.3% year over year to $2.9 billion, while public cloud infrastructure spending grew to
$5.0 billion, 12.3% higher than one year ago, a Company press release reported.
For the full year 2014, cloud IT infrastructure spending totalled $26.4 billion, up 18.7% year over
year from $22.3 billion; private cloud spending was just under $10.0 billion, up 20.7% year over
year, while public cloud spending was $16.5 billion, up 17.5% year over year.
"The transition to cloud-oriented infrastructure and data platform architectures within enterprises'
data centres continues to accelerate, yet the expansion of public cloud infrastructure in
service providers' data centres around the world is an even larger driver of IT spending,"
observed Richard Villars, Vice President, Datacenter and Cloud research at IDC. "A key driver of
this acceleration is organizations' development and use of new Internet of Things services that
require levels of agility and scale that only cloud solutions can deliver."
BT’s ‘cloud of clouds’ vision builds on
a roadmap for future service delivery
and is underpinned by a wide range of
services and industry sector solutions,
delivered over BT’s global network
infrastructure. The services are managed
by customers through a single user-friendly
service catalogue, using BT’s new Cloud
Management System.
"The transition to cloud-oriented infrastructure and data platform architectures within enterprises'
data centres continues to accelerate, yet the expansion of public cloud infrastructure in service
providers' data centres around the world is an even larger driver of IT spending," observed
Richard Villars, Vice President, Datacenter and Cloud research at IDC. "A key driver of this
acceleration is organizations' development and use of new Internet of Things services that require
levels of agility and scale that only cloud solutions can deliver."
Luis Alvarez, CEO, BT Global Services, said:
“In the future digital age, no business will be
successful unless it makes the most of the
cloud. CIOs ask for choice and flexibility,
trusted security and the best know-how
in the industry to meet their business
challenges. This matches perfectly with
our network-centric vision of the ‘cloud
of clouds’ and leverages the experience
gained through the cloud ecosystems we
have already built for the global financial
services and life sciences sectors. We’re
investing with our partners to bring the
widest possible range of options to connect
our customers’ critical applications and
data, wherever those are hosted, whenever
they need them, on whatever device they
use. We also aim to provide our customers
with a strong end-to-end service level
agreement guaranteeing performance,
predictability and flexibility. And we have
the expertise and capabilities required
to defend and protect our customers,
providing trust and confidence in the cloud.
We aim to be the leading global cloud
services integrator.
Apr 21st
Apr 22nd
Apr 21st
Worldwide Cloud IT Infrastructure market
grows by 14.4%
According to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker, total cloud IT infrastructure
spending (server, disk storage, and ethernet switch) grew by 14.4% year over year to US$8.0 billion
in the fourth quarter of 2014 (4Q14), accounting for approximately 30% of all IT infrastructure
spend, up from about 27% one year ago. Private cloud infrastructure spending grew by 18.3%
year over year to $2.9 billion, while public cloud infrastructure spending grew to $5.0 billion, 12.3%
higher than one year ago, a Company press release reported.
For the full year 2014, cloud IT infrastructure spending totalled $26.4 billion, up 18.7% year over
year from $22.3 billion; private cloud spending was just under $10.0 billion, up 20.7% year over
year, while public cloud spending was $16.5 billion, up 17.5% year over year.
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Atlantic.net to add
to International
data centres
portfolio
The Florida based hosting solutions
provider, Atlantic.net is set to add to its
existing data centre portfolio with the
opening of new facilities in New York, as well
as new international locations in Singapore
and the UK.
CEO Marty Puranik told Data Center
Knowledge that the company will soon add
a location in New York, followed by the two
international locations before July.
In the case of New York, the company
wanted a second East Coast location
in addition to its data centre location in
Florida. For international cloud data centre
expansion, Puranik said it was important to
be where customers are going rather than
where they are, and again, city recognition
came into play.
Worldwide IT spending to decline
1.3% in 2015
Worldwide IT spending is set to shrink to US$3.66 trillion in 2015, a 1.3% decrease from 2014,
according to the latest forecast by Gartner. The company said that the rising dollar is
chiefly responsible for the slowdown, a Company press release reported.
"We forecast U.S.-dollar-valued worldwide IT spending in 2015 to shrink by 1.3%, down from
2.4% growth forecast in last quarter's update," said John-David Lovelock, research vice
president at Gartner. "However, this is not a crash, even if it looks like one. The recent rapid
rise in the value of the U.S. dollar against most currencies has put a currency shock into the
global IT market. Taking out the impact of exchange rate movements, the corresponding
constant-currency growth figure is 3.1%, only off 0.6% from last quarter's update. Such are
the illusions that large swings in the value of the dollar versus other currencies can create."
The US dollar spending on devices (including PCs, ultra-mobiles, mobile phones, tablets
and printers) for 2015 is forecast to decline 1.2% to US$685 billion. Spending for all devices
in 2015 was revised down partly due to a slowdown in PC purchases in Western Europe,
Russia and Japan, countries where local currency has devalued against the dollar.
Data centre system spending is projected to reach US$142 billion in 2015, an increase of
just 0.4% from 2014. External controller-based storage, enterprise network equipment and
servers have all been impacted by the depreciation of some local currencies against the
US dollar, but the server segment has seen the biggest impact due to the greater pricing
pressure that server vendors are exposed to, due to their relatively lower margins.
Apr 10th
In the UK, Puranik felt that the action was
going further inland and chose a location in
Slough just to the West of London.
“We’re getting a lot of traction in the UK,”
said Puranik. “Again, if I was going by
number of peers or network, I’d probably
go Amsterdam. My customers want a
U.K. product and they want it basically in
London. We’re on a different map than
different clouds.”
Singapore was chosen, as it is perceived
as acting as a gateway to China and other
markets in the Asia Pacific region.
Late last year, the company opened a
40,000 sq ft California data centre located
in a Telx facility located on Vantage Data
Centers’ campus on Santa Clara. , This in
turn has followed the opening of their first
international data centre, located in Toronto,
Canada at the beginning of 2014.
Apr 2nd
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Intralinks expands
with additional
German data
centre
Intralinks, a global SaaS provider of secure
enterprise content collaboration solutions, has
announced expansion plans to add a new
data centre in Germany. This will be Intralinks'
second European data centre and will help
customers maintain compliance with national
data sovereignty laws and regulations, and is
part of the company's continuing expansion
in Europe to meet growing demand for
secure enterprise content collaboration.
With this additional data centre, Intralinks
customers will be able to choose among US,
UK, and German data centres for information
storage. Intralinks expects to launch the
German data centre in Q4 2015, a Company
"The growing list of international regulations
requires companies to store their data in
particular jurisdictions for both privacy and
compliance purposes," said Richard Edwards,
principle research analyst at Ovum. "For
some organizations, the European Union is
very specific about where a company's data
may reside. Intralinks' German data centre will
enable customers to meet local regulations
and keep data nearby."
"Any global company that is serious about
European business needs to understand the
regulations and sensitivities of these markets,
and have facilities for storing data in region,"
said Dave Wareham, SVP EMEA, Intralinks.
"Our customers need local data storage
to meet increasingly stringent regulatory
demands, and because we are committed
to the global collaboration market, we are
expanding with a German data centre."
Apr 2nd
Peak Hosting selects Zayo connectivity
for US and European data centres
The international Bandwidth Infrastructure provider, Zayo Group has signed a three year
agreement with Peak Hosting, an Oregon headquartered provider of Operations-asa-Service managed hosting, to provide network connectivity between Peak Hosting’s
five locations across the US and Europe. By leveraging multiple connectivity services
from Zayo, Peak Hosting will be able to rapidly expand its network footprint as needed,
reported Datacentres.com.
As part of the agreement, Zayo will provide dark fibre connectivity spanning more than
30 route miles between Peak Hosting’s three Bay Area sites, enabling the managed
hosting provider to scale services quickly and easily to meet its customers’ bandwidth
demands. Zayo will also provide Ethernet connectivity between Peak Hosting’s data
centres in Ashburn, Virginia, Dallas, Texas, and Santa Clara, California, and 6-gigabit of
IP connectivity to these data centre locations and additional sites in Amsterdam and
Milpitas, California. Additionally, Zayo installed 10-gigabit Dedicated Internet Access
ports in all five data centres to further promote flexibility.
“Zayo’s global IP backbone and deep metro footprint enable us to provide the highspeed internet connections our customers need to support their business,” said Chris
Morley, president of Cloud and Connectivity at Zayo. “We look forward to expanding our
relationship with Peak Hosting.”
Apr 22nd
Interoute eyes roll-up of European and US cloud network firms
Interoute, a high-capacity data network and corporate cloud solutions provider, is taking on new private equity investors to fund acquisitions
across Europe and the United States, the firm has announced reported Sentry Review.
Aleph Capital Partners, a UK investment firm headed by former Goldman Sachs European private equity investment chief Hugues Lepic, and
Crestview Partners, a US private equity firm founded by ex-Goldman colleagues, have agreed to obtain a 30% stake in London-primarily based
Interoute. The worth of the investment was undisclosed, but Aleph is chartered to make investments that range from 100 million to 400 million
euros. The deal is expected to close in April, it said.
Interoute stated the new financing would enable it to make out its network of data centres and cloud computing services linking about 124 cities
across Europe, as it seeks to additional than double income to 1 billion euros in five years. "This adjust in the shareholder structure suggests that
alternatively of getting thought of possible prey, we can now turn to becoming one particular of the predators," Interoute Chief Executive Gareth
Williams said in a phone interview.
Mar 30th
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EMEA
CWCS expands managed hosting services to London
CWCS Managed Hosting is expanding its managed hosting services by securing space in a 22,000 sq ft data centre facility in North West
London, reported el Biz.
The new facility has been chosen not only for its convenient location within the M25 but for the security it offers, including a facial
recognition biometrics system to help protect the space.
Managing Director, Karl Mendez said, “London has always been in our expansion plan due to its fantastic connectivity and being a great
hub for technology but as an ISO 27001 certified hosting provider, security was a big factor in finding a partner. Security is essential to our
clients so it was absolutely critical that any data centre meets our stringent security requirements.”
“We are extremely happy to announce that we have expanded our Data Centre offerings to the Capital. We can offer up to 10GB/s
network with 1GB/s uplinks,” continued Mendez.
Some CWCS customers were lining up to be in the facility and are already benefiting from the 10GB/s network on offer in CWCS’s London
Data Centre.
The Data Centre is the next stage in CWCS Managed Hosting’s global expansion, with their two privately owned data centres in
Nottingham, UK and further facilities available through its sister company, Supreme Servers in Miami, Dallas and Toronto.
Apr 16th
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EMEA
LIGHTNOW connects Manchester and London data centres
SSE Enterprise Telecoms – the UK based provider of network infrastructure services and part of the SSE Group – has announced that it is launching
Manchester LIGHTNOW, a new high-capacity, ultra-resilient optical networking service, providing 1Gb and 10Gb wavelength connectivity
between nine of the busiest data centres in the Manchester and between dedicated LIGHTNOW data centres in London and Manchester.
Manchester LIGHTNOW follows the latest announcement of SSE Enterprise Telecoms bringing seven new Manchester-based data centres on-net
and builds on the success of the LIGHTNOW service in the London area, a company press release reported.
The Manchester data centres will benefit from 1Gb and 10Gb optical wavelengths between commercial data centres, with sub 1ms latency,
which can be rapidly provisioned within a week. SSE Enterprise Telecoms is offering customers flexible contract durations which start at three
months, a zero charge set-up option, in-life circuit moves between any of the on-net data centres real time, and 24/7 support, all at extremely
competitive rates.
“When we first launched our LIGHTNOW service, we were serving the demand from businesses for high capacity connectivity between data
centres in London,” said Colin Sempill, managing director of SSE Enterprise Telecoms. “We could see that increasingly more data centre
managers were choosing to use a combination of data centres to best suit the requirements of their data – whether that be high security,
maximum availability or the need for speed – but they weren’t willing to compromise on service. These ‘pro-locators’, as we called them, are
now emerging in Manchester too, most likely due to the booming business in the area and resulting increase in data, and they also require
faster data centre links both within the Manchester area and to London.”
Manchester LIGHTNOW provides meshed connectivity in and around the city and on to London. It follows the original debut of the service in
London, where SSE Enterprise Telecoms connects 21 of the busiest data centres. The original LIGHTNOW London service formed part of the
extensive network expansion, dubbed Project Edge, which saw SSE Enterprise Telecoms increase the reach of its fibre network to more than
13,700km with a total of 234 points of presence, serving more than 200,000 metropolitan business postcodes, nationwide.
Apr 15th
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EMEA
Dutch Government
opens data centre
in Rijswijk
The Dutch’s government’s desire to reduce its
data centre footprint has taken another step
with the opening of a new facility in Rijswijk,
reported Executive People.
The new facility is the fourth such data centre
joining existing facilities in in Groningen,
Amsterdam and Apeldoorn.
The opening of the four data centres is part
of a consolidation in which the number of
data centres the government has is reduced
from 64 to these four locations.
The Rijswijk facility is being developed by ICT
Shared Service Centre and the Government
Buildings Agency as well as HP HOMIJ is
collaboration between Hewlett Packard
Netherlands and HOMIJ Technical Systems.
Mar 26th
Luxembourg
explains why it could
not bring in Apple
Luxembourg lost a potentially huge deal when,
despite years of discussions with Apple, the firm
announced in February plans to open data
centres in Denmark and Ireland. Responding
to a parliamentary question, Luxembourg
Communications Minister Xavier Bettel said the
problem came when Apple reviewed their initial
plan, reported Luxemburger Wort.
The leader said that it was Luxembourg's
“green IT” policy with centres in which the state
participates both directly and indirectly which
made it a front runner in the race. However,
“the project's initial specifications had to be
reviewed; the Californian firm realised that it had
grossly underestimated its needs”. The minister
went on to say that considering the size of the
space needed, “it was not possible to propose
a satisfactory short-term solution for Apple.”
Apple is to invest 1.7 billion euros in the
construction and operation of the two data
centres, each of which will be powered by
100% renewable energy. The facilities, located
in County Galway, Ireland, and Denmark’s
central Jutland, will power Apple’s online
services including the iTunes Store, App Store,
iMessage, Maps and Siri for Europe customers.
Mar 27th
Yahoo next in line to build data centre
in Dublin
According to reports in the Irish Independent, Yahoo will be the next global giant to buy
or build a data centre in Dublin. Pat Scully, the managing director of Yahoo EMEA, said
the company is currently considering buying or building a new facility having opened a
new office at the Point Village in Dublin last week.
Ireland currently has 210 MVA worth of data centres connected to the electricity grid.
But more than 700MVA is in the queue to connect within three years, according to
applications submitted to electricity transmission system manager Eirgrid. Earlier this
month Apple announced plans for an €850 million data centre in Athenry in Galway.
Microsoft, Amazon, IBM, Google and BT all have large data centre operations in Ireland.
Amazon is implementing a large expansion of several of its seven Irish data centre
facilities. Sources in the wind energy sector say it intends to power several of these with
wind turbines, similar to Apple's plans for the Athenry site.
EMC is also understood to be building a large data centre in Ovens in Co Cork. Major
Irish renewable companies and wind farm operators are said to be in discussions with
multinationals about providing green energy to power their operations. A lobby group
for the wind energy sector expects "several" large US multinationals with operations here
to announce major investments in windfarm-powered data centres in Ireland over the
coming months.
As well as multinationals, data centre operators such as London-based TeleCityGroup,
US group Digital Realty and Irish company DataPlex all have major facilities in Ireland.
Another data centre provider, Equinix, is understood to be in talks to build an Irish facility.
Mar 30th
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EMEA
Germany clears TelecityGroup – Interxion merger
The next regulatory hurdle in the proposed all-share merger between European data centre companies TelecityGroup and Interxion
Holding has been cleared; the Federal Cartel Office of Germany has cleared the recommended all-share merger in Phase I under
German merger control law, reported Datacentres.com.
In March this year, TelecityGroup and Interxion announced that they entered into a definitive agreement on an all-share merger.
Completion of the Merger remains conditional upon, amongst other things, the receipt of all remaining regulatory and anti-trust approvals,
the approval of TelecityGroup's shareholders and TelecityGroup having received valid acceptances for at least 95% of the total issued
share capital of Interxion or, at TelecityGroup's election, not less than 80%.
TelecityGroup noted that it continues to expect the Merger to close in the second half of 2015.
Apr 13th
Most IT decision makers expect to move majority of IT
infrastructure to the cloud
59% of IT decision makers believe that more than half of their IT infrastructure will be cloud-based by 2017, according to survey data released by
Adapt. Asked how much of their IT infrastructure would be ‘in the cloud’ in two years time, 40% of decision makers still plan to largely provision IT
through a non-cloud environment, a company press release reported.
The results indicate that most IT decision makers believe a balanced approach to infrastructure provision remains likely in the short term, despite nearly
30% of respondents predicting between 75-100% of their infrastructure to be in the cloud in two years.
Key survey findings include:
• 59% of respondents expect to have more than half their infrastructure in the cloud by 2017
• 40% expect to still largely provision IT through a non-cloud environment
•Nearly a third (29.7%) said they expect as much as 75-100% of their infrastructure to be in the cloud
“It’s clear that businesses intend to continue balancing multiple infrastructure environments over the coming years to retain the flexibility and control
they need to meet their business needs,” explained Kevin Linsell, Director of Strategy and Architecture at Adapt. “Our flagship ‘Habitat’ approach to
application hosting is a great example of how we as a service provider are supporting that requirement for agility, enabling businesses to blend cloud
and non-cloud environments within the same managed service”.
Apr 15th
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EMEA
South Africa’s data centre business set to rise
According to Arthur Goldstuck, editor-in-chief of Gadget.co.za, South Africa is on the road to a booming data centre industry. Until
recently, the country was substantially behind international trends of companies outsourcing their infrastructure to data centres.
However, a rapid catch-up has begun, according to his interview with Lex van Wyk, CEO of Teraco, South Africa's largest independent
data centre operator, driven by the guaranteed "uptime", an antidote to Eskom's mismanagement of the power grid.
"If you look at international trends, in the US, 30% of data centre space is outsourced, and in the UK, up to 40%. In South Africa, we're
only at about 10%. But because of power problems, which those other countries don't have as badly as we do, we may be headed
towards 50% being outsourced."
Teraco is the only one of the large centres that can be regarded as fully "vendor neutral", making it independent of major carriers and
service providers. Instead, it hosts connection points to all of these providers on its premises. As a result, it is also the only one of the
major data centre operators that is aggressively expanding.
South Africa has about 37000m² of capacity in these outsourced centres, and about 6000m² is still available for hire. According to Van
Wyk, well over half the available space - 3500m² - is lying unused in Cape Town, with only 2500m² capacity available in Johannesburg.
"About five or six years ago we saw Cape Town preparing for what they thought would be a big influx of new businesses," he says. As a
result, Neotel built 1000m² that is now standing relatively empty, Telkom expanded its Cybernest data centre, which now has more than
1000m² available in Bellville, and Vodacom is also believed to have about 1000m² empty.
"They were correct that many people were moving to Cape Town and starting new businesses, but these businesses didn't need as
much space as they do in Johannesburg," says Van Wyk.
In that context, it seems absurd that Teraco is still expanding, having opened another 1000m² in Cape Town in February, trebling its
capacity there. More dramatically, it's preparing to build a new 5000m² operation in Isando.
And no, says Van Wyk, no one has lost their minds. More than half of its Cape Town capacity has been sold. "At the moment, many
large companies and IT multinationals have 'insourced' data centres in South Africa that they manage themselves. There is huge
combined capacity: more than 300000m². But insourced will eventually go outsourced, for two reasons: availability and power. It's
becoming more and more complex to manage 100% availability when you have inconsistent power supply."
Therein lies the coming opportunity: "When they were first built, most of these were not constructed to the specifications of an
outsourced data centre. They get a small generator and try to keep everything up and running. Today, that approach just doesn't work
any more."
Mar 30th
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EMEA
NGD in £8 million
expansion project
Next Generation Data's (NGD) will expand its largest data centre
in Newport, Wales by adding five data halls, a Company blog
has revealed.
NGD data centre is a hive of activity with teams of local
building and engineering contractors on-site, the company has
announced. These are hard at work completing five new data halls
following major contracts from several multinational companies
and increasing demand from local businesses. The new halls
are due for completion within the next six weeks and NGD is
forecasting a further expansion phase before the end of the year.
NGD’s data centre campus, located between Newport and
Cardiff, was opened five years ago and so far the company
has invested £25 million in creating the 750,000 sq ft facility. The
latest £8 million expansion project requires approximately 100
contractors on site to construct and fit-out the new self-contained
halls. The additional capacity will allow a further 500 computer
server racks to be accommodated for helping store and process
the billions of bytes of data generated by accelerating global
demand for cloud, web, big data and other data intensive
computing activities.
“NGD already makes an important contribution to the Welsh high
technology industry and our continued expansion is also good
for the local economy through jobs creation,” said Steve Davis,
marketing director at Next Generation Data. “With the addition
of these latest halls, three of which are already pre-sold to large
corporate clients, we are well ahead of plan with a total of 18 halls
accounted for – the equivalent to filling several large standalone
data centres.”
While supporting the IT infrastructure and data storage needs
of various UK government and multinational IT service provider
organisations including BT, CGI, IBM and Wipro Technologies, NGD
also serves local businesses in Wales requiring modern and more
secure data hosting and storage facilities to help them grow.
“Our increased focus on attracting local businesses which may
require much smaller computing and storage facilities is also
paying dividends,” added NGD’s Steve Davis. “We are very keen to
help more firms in Wales take advantage of our affordable word
class facilities and can offer them a range of low cost options.”
NGD currently employs over 40 people with the co-founder and
Chairman, most of the senior management, operational and
security personnel coming from the local area.
Apr 21st
Plans for new Ireland –
New York fibre-optic
cable revealed
Plans have been revealed for a new high-speed fibre-optic
network between New York and County Mayo in the Republic
of Ireland. Aqua Comms, a Dublin-based firm, promoting the
plan has disclosed in filings to the Companies Office that it has
secured a €116.5 million loan with Nomura International.
The Irish Times reported that the initial phase of the project will
cost $300 million but there are plans to bring the cable onward
to the European mainland.
The development of the cable, which will be the first fibre
connection between Ireland’s western seaboard and the
US, will provide key infrastructure for data centres and cloud
computing investments in the western region. Construction
begins in the summer and the system should be ready for use
early next year.
Statutory filings made in recent days by Aqua Comms, which
declined to comment on the project, cited engagements with
Microsoft’s Irish unit and other US groups such as CenturyLink
Communications and Edge Network Services.
Apr 22nd
| 13
EMEA
Perspecsys announces expansion into Germany
Perspecsys, a provider of enterprise cloud data protection solutions, has announced it has extended its presence in Europe to Germany.
The move will enable it to meet the rapid growth it is experiencing in the region, reported a Company press release.
Perspecsys’ AppProtex Cloud Data Protection Platform is currently used by some of Germany’s largest enterprises to maintain compliance
with data privacy and security requirements as they adopt the cloud. In industries as diverse as manufacturing, banking, investments, and
healthcare, Perspecsys’ unique solution, which ensures that sensitive data never leaves the corporation’s control at any time, has enabled
enterprises to use the cloud in new and powerful ways.
The AppProtex Platform allows enterprises to easily set data protection policies that encrypt or tokenize sensitive data fields, documents
and Intellectual Property before they leave the enterprise’s firewall or managed security service provider’s datacenter, and go to public
cloud applications for processing and storage. Protected data is secured through all phases of its “cloud life” - while in-transit to the cloud,
while at-rest in the cloud and while it is being processed in memory in the cloud. In addition to securing the data, the AppProtex Cloud
Data Protection Platform ensures that the users of cloud applications can still use the application’s features – like searching, sorting and
reporting – even on data that has been strongly encrypted or tokenized.
Apr 1st
Node4 acquires Reconnix
Node4, the UK based Cloud and data centre specialist, has completed a strategic acquisition of Reconnix, an open source technology
services company specialising in application development and fully managed cloud and dedicated hosting solutions. The acquisition will
strengthen Node4’s existing portfolio of cloud solutions and allow it to further develop its Platform-as-a-Service offering so that customers can
develop, run and manage web applications to meet their business need. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed, reported
Datacentres.com.
Based in Newark, Reconnix, provides managed services for dedicated and cloud infrastructures, professional services for open source
projects, open source application support and application development. For the last 15 years Reconnix has prided itself on professionalism
and built up a solid trust with clients that rely on Reconnix for their critical online presence. Reconnix customers include Morphsuits.co.uk, Visit
Cornwall, Internet Watch Foundation, Johnnie Walker and Home Outlet (Wolseley PLC).
The Reconnix team of over thirty technical experts and engineers will continue to work from the Newark office and will become part of
the Node4 team. Steve Nice, co-founder and CEO of Reconnix will take up a senior management role as head of Node4’s Open Source
business. All services currently provided to customers will continue and Reconnix customers will have the opportunity to take advantage of
Node4’s existing Cloud offerings as well as its broader portfolio of colocation, network connectivity and telephony and communications
packages.
Mar 31st
| 14
EMEA
LAMDA HELLIX opens Athens-2
LAMDA HELLIX, a Greek provider of data centre services, announced that Athens-2, its new and innovative, 6ΜVA carrier-neutral data
centre is fully operational, reported Datacentres.com.
Athens-2 was built within LAMDA HELLIX’s Data Center Campus in Athens and it was developed to meet what the company terms as
“strong demand for premium interconnection and carrier-neutral data centre services in South Eastern Europe.”
The facility is one of the first data centres in Europe that is in the process of receiving the ‘Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design’
(LEED) v4 Gold Certification for Building Design & Construction, by the U.S. Green Building Council.
Athens-2 was designed to the Uptime Institute’s Tier 3 standards. LAMDA HELLIX’ historical reputation for 100% available data centres,
Athens-2 evolves from the extensive technology ecosystem of Athens-1 promoting collaboration among carriers, enterprises and public
sector organisations.
Operational as of January 2015, Athens-2 already hosts critical systems of many new customers and reflects the strong demand for LAMDA
HELLIX’s data centre services in the region. Customers include Citi, the global leading financial institute, Upstream, the world leading
m-commerce platform operator and FilmOn, one of world’s largest providers of free TV programs over the Internet.
Apr 7th
Intralinks expands with additional German data centre
Intralinks, a global SaaS provider of secure enterprise content collaboration solutions, has announced expansion plans to add a new data centre in
Germany. This will be Intralinks' second European data centre and will help customers maintain compliance with national data sovereignty laws and
regulations, and is part of the company's continuing expansion in Europe to meet growing demand for secure enterprise content collaboration. With
this additional data centre, Intralinks customers will be able to choose among US, UK, and German data centres for information storage. Intralinks
expects to launch the German data centre in Q4 2015, a Company press release reported.
"The growing list of international regulations requires companies to store their data in particular jurisdictions for both privacy and compliance
purposes," said Richard Edwards, principle research analyst at Ovum. "For some organizations, the European Union is very specific about where a
company's data may reside. Intralinks' German data centre will enable customers to meet local regulations and keep data nearby."
"Any global company that is serious about European business needs to understand the regulations and sensitivities of these markets, and have
facilities for storing data in region," said Dave Wareham, SVP EMEA, Intralinks. "Our customers need local data storage to meet increasingly stringent
regulatory demands, and because we are committed to the global collaboration market, we are expanding with a German data centre."
Apr 2nd
| 15
EMEA
Research suggests data
centres critical factor
for cloud services delivery
Independent research commissioned by Zenium Technology
Partners has highlighted a number of significant shortfalls in the way
organisations procure data centre space, particularly when outsourcing
cloud services, Company press release reported.
Equinix launches sixth
London data centre
Global data centre company Equinix has opened its sixth
London data centre, LD6, in Slough which it claims is one of the
most technically advanced data centres in the UK, reported
Datacentres.com.
Strengthened by recent data centre openings in New York,
Melbourne, Singapore, Toronto, and now LD6 in London, Equinix
is fuelling a new wave of growth for enterprises worldwide.
Leveraging Equinix’s portfolio of cloud and network service
providers, which includes Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services
(AWS) and Google Cloud, customers can deploy data networks
and services rapidly, and at scale, on a secure and flexible basis.
With US$79 million of capital expenditure invested,, LD6 is the UK’s
only purpose built Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design
(LEED) gold-accredited energy efficient data center. Built from
scratch, LD6 has been tailored to provide an ultra-energy-efficient
base on which customers can accelerate their business.
Energy efficiency has been achieved at the site with the aid of an
innovative air system, which utilizes mass air cooling technology
with indirect heat exchange and 100% natural ventilation. This will
contribute to LD6 having lower energy consumption and a smaller
carbon footprint than other facilities of its kind.
The initial phase of LD6 is 236,000 sq ft and adds capacity for
1,385 cabinets with the ability to add another 1,385 cabinets in
phase two. Once phase two is complete, the Equinix London
Slough campus will provide more than 388,000 sq ft of net
premium colocation space interconnected by more than 1,000
diverse dark fibre links, increasing scale and resilience.
According to the report, entitled “‘Managing Growth, Risk & the Cloud”,
when evaluating a potential cloud services provider, only 38% of
companies visit the data centre facility that will host the infrastructure
as part of the due diligence process. In fact, less than half (46%) of
the respondents said they would meet the team who would manage
the data and whilst 44% would examine the operator’s track record
only 43% said they would obtain the specification of the data centre.
Disappointingly, only a third (36%) were prepared to dig a little deeper
and check the vendor’s credit history as well as seeking testimonials
from its customers. Asking if the data centre is managed by a third
party was a question posed by just 33%.
This lack of evaluation does not bode well with the growing volumes
of information that are fuelling the migration of corporate data to the
cloud. In this survey alone, 71% of the IT professionals questioned said
they are planning to use cloud services to manage the levels of data
growth that they are experiencing. In addition, of those respondents
that already store data in the cloud, 83% will continue to use these
services which means the pressure on data centres to ensure systems
continue to run at optimum levels is also much higher.
“Considering the value that companies today put on their data,
these figures surprise me,” said Franek Sodzawiczny, CEO & Founder
of Zenium Technology Partners. “Essentially companies are gambling
with their most valuable asset – information. Cloud services are
obviously no longer an unknown quantity and adoption levels are
increasing year on year but, no matter how reputable the provider, if
the data center facility underpinning the cloud isn’t up to scratch then
the whole chain is at risk of coming crashing down.”
The research report also clearly indicates that vendor reputation and
successful adoption of the Cloud is not entirely left to chance but gaps
in the evaluation process do remain. A staggering 98% only do one of
the checks outlined above, and just 5% carry out all five.
That said, it was interesting to note that those who use private cloud
solutions are marginally more probing when it comes to evaluating
cloud services providers, compared to those who use public or hybrid
clouds. Comparing the assessment process across industry sectors,
it also appears that financial services companies carry out a more
comprehensive set of checks compared to public or not-for-profit
organisations.
Russell Poole, managing director, Equinix UK said “LD6 is one of
the most technically advanced data centres in the UK. It has
been designed to ensure that we can continue to provide
state-of-the-art colocation for our current and future customers.
This latest addition to our thriving London campus sets new
standards in efficiency and sustainability.”
“The Cloud will continue to be successful as a viable solution for
managing growth if those using it remain confident that it is secure,
and risk-free,” continued Sodzawiczny. “We would recommend that
Cloud users carry out on their own due diligence on the complete
supply chain providing these services. What’s needed is a more
careful evaluation of the physical infrastructure at the core – the
data center. A chain is only as strong as its weakest link and data
centers are a fundamental component of the overall strength of
the Cloud.”
Apr 17th
Apr 21st
| 16
EMEA
Digiplex open pioneering Norwegian data centre
DigiPlex’s latest environmentally friendly data centre in Norway, which is believed to have set a world first in data-centre funding strategies,
was opened by the country’s environment minister, Datacentres.com reported.
Tine Sundtoft, Minister for Climate and Environment, attended an opening ceremony at the centre in Fetsund, a suburb of Oslo, the capital
city. She was joined by John Harry Skoglund, Mayor of the Fet municipality. They were hosted by DigiPlex, which is Norway’s largest owner
and operator of data centres, and EVRY ASA, the user of the data centre, and one of the largest IT companies in Scandinavia.
Sundtoft praised the centre’s outstanding environmental performance and innovative technolgy. She emphasised the potential for data
centres in Norway, which has abundant, cheap power from renewable sources, a cool climate that makes air conditioning more efficient,
and is politically and economically stable.
The Fetsund centre has a power utilisation effectiveness (PUE) ratio of just 1.1, which is a remarkably low figure for a data centre. To achieve
this, it employs DigiPlex’s Air to Air cooling system that uses the naturally cool Nordic climate to reduce energy consumption by about 25%.
All its power comes from renewable sources, in common with DigiPlex’s other data centres.
The data centre features two three-storey, air cooled buildings with a total power availability of 18 megawatts, which will be increased as
additional data-centre space is built on the adjacent land. The centre also features DigiPlex’s innovative De-Ox system that creates a lowoxygen atmosphere to prevent any risk of fire.
The data centre is believed to be the first and only in the world to have had its construction financed by the issue of publicly traded bonds.
Rather than using equity or bank debt, DigiPlex issued floating-rate notes on the Oslo Stock Exchange. This raised NKr500m (approximately
$84m at the time of issue). It was also the first time any European data centre company had issued a publicly traded bond for any purpose.
DigiPlex was able to use this innovative financing because of its outstanding track record, and the scale of the agreement for EVRY to use
the data centre. EVRY committed to using 4,200 m2 of IT space, served by 11 megawatts of power, for 21.5 years.
At the opening ceremony, Ms Sundtoft said: “Our electricity is almost 100% renewable. It is good for the climate to have such data centers
located in the Nordics. We would like more of them as they can become the foundation for a new industry.
We can become an exporter of environmentally friendly data services. We are known as the green battery of Europe – we can become
the green data center of the world.” Byrne Murphy, Chairman of DigiPlex, said: “It was gratifying to hear the minister acknowledge all the hard
work by our team in creating a data centre that has such an outstanding environmental performance. I’m also proud of the speed with which
we managed to construct the project, and the way we used our track record to access finance in the bond market. It is an excellent model
for future projects.”
“The Nordic climate, abundant energy from renewable sources and political stability make the region an excellent location for data centres,
and they have great potential here – something that deserves wider international recognition.”
Apr 15th
| 17
EMEA
Novatus expands into Telecity Amsterdam and Paris
Novatus, a provider of contract lifecycle management solutions, has further expanded its service level to the growing European market by
adding two data centre locations in Amsterdam and Paris. Novatus selected TelecityGroup because of their sophisticated levels of resilience,
security and operational expertise, and extensive connectivity, a Company press release reported.
“This is a major milestone for Novatus as we expand our footprint and capabilities to grow further in the European market,” said Robert Gambotz,
CEO for Novatus, Inc. “It is very important to provide our customers with the best security available and because of their reputation, location and
services provided, we are confident that we have partnered with the best data centre provider in Europe.”
TelecityGroup, a Tier 4 Data Centre provider is Europe’s leading provider of premium carrier-neutral data centres, operating facilities in city
locations across Europe. TelecityGroup’s data centres provide secure and highly-connected environments and are recognized as the industry
leader in designing and implementing innovative systems, processes and technologies that improve efficiencies. Their data centres deliver
direct access to the major local, national and international telecom operators, content distribution networks, major broadband networks and
European Internet exchanges. TelecityGroup is a UK FTSE 250 company with a strong balance sheet and diverse customer base.
Apr 21st
| 18
EMEA
DataPro to build 2nd Moscow data centre
DataPro, a Russian provider of colocation services, is set to open a new data centre in Moscow next year, Telecom Paper reported.
When completed the facility will be the company’s second in the city following the opening of its - Moscow DPC DataPro – in 2014.
That facility will eventually total some 16,000 sq m of which 7,500 sq m will be available for rack space.
The company is currently looking for a convenient data centre location for the second facility which will support at least least 1,000
racks will be constructed in December 2016.
Apr 20th
DigitalOcean opens new German data centre
DigitalOcean, a cloud infrastructure provider for developers, has announced it is expanding its European presence with a new facility
in Frankfurt am Main (FRA1). This new data centre, created to meet the growing demands of Germany’s rapidly growing technology
and information sector, marks DigitalOcean’s rapid worldwide growth, reported Datacentres.com.
“We’re here to give our full support to developers throughout the world by offering a simple, ideal cloud solution and infrastructure
experience for hosting applications," said DigitalOcean Co-Founder and CEO Ben Uretsky. “Innovative companies in Germany deserve
the best tools possible in order to continue to grow and succeed."
Rapidly expanded worldwide presence – With this new data centre, the company will have its third data centre in Europe and its 10th data
centre worldwide.
DigitalOcean already has a substantial presence in Europe with data centres in Amsterdam and London. The decision to open a German
data centre will have a positive impact on developers throughout the immediate region. Due to government regulations, it’s often difficult
for data to be moved outside of Germany and developers there will experience much lower latency.
“By having a local data centre, we can now play a much bigger role supporting the start up ecosystem in Germany,” said DigitalOcean
Co-Founder and CMO Mitch Wainer. “Developers can expect to see DigitalOcean sponsoring events, hosting meetups, and giving talks
in German cities in the near future.”
Apr 16th
| 19
Americas
Equinix expands Rio data centre
The global data centre company Equinix, has announced it is expanding its Rio de Janeiro data centre known as RJ2. This new phase
of expansion is scheduled to open in Q3 of this year and will enable Equinix to continue to meet strong customer demand for data centre
and interconnection services in this rapidly growing region, reported Datacentres.com.
Equinix invested US$24 million to open the RJ2 International Business Exchange data centre in September 2013, and will invest an
additional US$17million in this new phase, increasing capacity by 310 cabinets for a total of 630 cabinets. Located in the northern area
of Rio de Janeiro, RJ2 is home to the densest concentration of the country's largest network carriers and currently more than 1,500
companies are colocated in Equinix's facilities in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
Companies are also choosing Platform Equinix to support their connectivity and interconnection needs across the region. XP
Investimentos, Brazil's largest retail brokerage, colocated its IT infrastructure in Equinix data centres in Rio, Sao Paulo and Tambore.
Decatron, a specialist in projects, supply, implementation, IT management and optimization, has been a customer since it outsourced
its IT infrastructure in 2013 when RJ2 initially opened.
RJ2 was built to leverage sustainable and green data centre initiatives. Water and power consumption and carbon emissions were priority
issues for the development of the project. Installed equipment uses fewer natural resources and the building has a rainwater harvesting
system which has saved at least 70% in water consumption and 10% in power since doors initially opened.
This new phased build out of RJ2 is one of many expansions in Equinix's growing global platform of more than 100 data centres. Earlier
this month Equinix announced that it is boosting interconnection capacity by opening new data centres in five major markets including
London, Melbourne, New York, Singapore and Toronto.
Eduardo Carvalho, managing director, Equinix Brazil: "International demand is increasing since Equinix fully acquired Alog last year. Many
companies that are already customers in other regions are looking to move into the Brazil market utilizing our global platform – Platform
Equinix. As a result, we are accelerating local investments in order to meet this international and regional demand. We already have 72
customers installed in the 320 cabinets of the first phase. The expansion will nearly double capacity – and we expect to keep up with this
accelerated pace."
Apr 1st
| 20
Americas
NEC and IDB collaborate on
Latin America and Caribbean
data centre development
The Japanese IT company NEC has signed a Memorandum of
Understanding with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the
leading source of development financing for Latin America and the
Caribbean to collaborate on the development of data centres in that
region, reported a Company press release.
Under the agreement, NEC and the IDB aim to jointly produce a
study on data centres and the importance of their use as a means
for improving quality of life, security and governance. The joint study
could cover a description and analysis of the necessity of data
centres, the expected role of governments with respect to data
centres and the required internet environments and technologies for
their implementation.
Moreover, the partners aim to collaborate around the production
of communications materials to disseminate the study, and the
organization of joint seminars and workshops for individual LAC
countries to promote its conclusions and recommendations. "NEC is
committed to helping Latin American and Caribbean countries solve
data centre related challenges through innovative technologies,
including Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions
Virtualization that contribute to the strength and improvement of
communities," said Takayuki Morita, Executive Vice President, NEC.
Apr 1st
Apple adds to Reno data
centre site
Last summer, Apple, the global technology giant, was reported
as having submitted plans for the further expansion of its facilities
at its Reno Technology Park data centre complex in Nevada.
Now Apple Insider has reported that that expansion has now
taken place, reported CBR.
The Reno data centre hosts the company’s the iCloud services
was first opened in 2013.
The latest expansion seems to relate to the consent granted
for two additional data cluster buildings in 2014. At that stage,
Washoe County confirmed that the application would bring
Apple's total building count at the site to nine. Future pads at the
site so far also can accommodate eight more additional data
cluster buildings. By accounting for 345 acres of the technology
park's 2,200 acres, Apple has ample room to keep growing its
data centre.
Apr 1st
Major tech land sale in
San Jose's Edenvale
Programmable chip maker Xilinx has sold a 34-acre site in south
San Jose to data centre company Equinix in a significant Edenvale
land transaction in some time. Xilinx, which acquired the land in
early 2007 from Synopsys, once contemplated building a large
office campus there with some 750,000 sq ft. But the company never
moved forward with the plans, and put the land up for sale last year,
Biz Journal reported.
Neither company has commented so far, but Equinix disclosed in
its most recent earnings report that it was in contract to buy land in
San Jose for a purchase price of about US$38.3 million, saying it was
slated to close on the deal in March. That is roughly the same price
as Xilinx paid for the site at the top of the market, before the recession
took hold. The transaction reportedly closed this week.
Equinix, which is based in Redwood City and recently expanded its
office presence in Sunnyvale, could plan to develop a data centre
project on the land. The site is bounded by San Ignacio Avenue,
Santa Teresa Boulevard, Great Oaks Boulevard and Via Del Oro.
Equinix already has two data centres nearby – facilities it calls SV1 and
SV9 at 11 Great Oaks Blvd. and 9 Great Oaks Blvd., respectively.
Mar 27th
| 21
Americas
CyrusOne expands Austin
data centre
CyrusOne has announced its continued expansion in Texas with
the purchase of an additional powered shell in Austin’s Met Center,
CyrusOne’s new Austin III data centre is projected to be the
company’s largest facility in Austin at 172,000 total sq ft of shell
and offering 120,000 colocation sq ft, with up to 12 MW of power,
and over 25,000 sq ft of class A office space at full build.
“Based on current and projected customer demand, it was essential
to expand in this market. We’ve been extremely successful and
have seen a tremendous amount of growth in Austin,” said John
Hatem, senior vice president, data centre design and construction,
CyrusOne. “Once this facility is complete, enterprise-level companies
will be able to utilize our Massively Modular design capabilities to
scale rapidly and efficiently while taking advantage of CyrusOne’s
exceptional uptime delivered by redundant power, cooling, and
connectivity infrastructure.”
Vantage wins Symantec
multi-megawatt deal
The California based Vantage Data Centers has secured a deal
with US security and storage backup specialist Symantec at its Santa
Clara data centre campus, reported Datacentres.com.
Symantec will deploy a multi-megawatt mixed-use data centre
with Vantage in Santa Clara. The hybrid deployment, which has
been tailored to Symantec’s needs, includes both lab space and
critical IT infrastructure. With proximity to Symantec’s Mountain View
headquarters being of high-importance, Vantage was uniquely
positioned to serve Symantec given its ability to accommodate
a purpose-built, mixed-redundancy space.
“We’re hearing from a number of companies in the Bay Area that
are looking to consolidate their lab spaces into a single location,”
said Sureel Choksi, President and CEO, Vantage. “Vantage is very
pleased to be partnering with Symantec on this hybrid deployment.”
The combination of R&D with critical infrastructure called for
Vantage to create a customized data hall for the Symantec
deployment. Since the redundancy typical of most data centre
arrangements was not critical for the company’s lab environment,
Vantage designed a solution with only the essential capabilities
required by the customer, providing an “N” (or non-redundant)
power configuration. For the production and critical infrastructure,
however, power back-up is an absolute must. For this reason,
Vantage designed a “2N” configuration for critical infrastructure
alongside the “N” configured lab environment, altogether providing
a bespoke multi-megawatt solution of mixed-power-use.
With their labs consolidated to a single location, Symantec
can now operate from a standardized place of deployment
and with the ability to manage testing facilities in a controlled
environment. This purpose-built data centre solution makes possible
significant leveraging of cost efficiencies and provides operational
transparency for the company’s R&D data infrastructure. As a result
of strong leasing traction, Vantage has accelerated the expansion
of its Santa Clara campus. Vantage is currently developing 9MW of
additional capacity, scheduled for delivery later this year.
Apr 2nd
CyrusOne plans to use its Massively Modular design engineering
approach to optimize materials sourcing and enable delivery of
industry-leading energy optimization and just-in-time data hall inventory
to meet customer demand. The first phase of construction includes up
to 60,000 sq ft of colocation space and 6 MW of critical load.
The Austin III facility is also going to be part of CyrusOne’s National
Internet Exchange to enable interconnection to other CyrusOne data
centres in Texas and beyond.
Apr 7th
Apple set for major expansion
of Oregon data centre
The Governor of Oregon, Kate Brown signed a bill just before Easter
that exempts data centres in the State from a tax that had threatened
to add millions - or tens of millions - of dollars to the companies'
annual property tax bill.
The upshot of the tax exemption will lead to Apple to undertake
a "major, major expansion" of its Prineville data centre, says Crook
County official told The Oregonian.
The newspaper explains that a new state valuation methodology could
have undone savings which local data centre occupiers including
Facebook, Apple, Amazon and Google negotiated tax breaks for their
server farms when data centres’ 15-year tax breaks expired.
It was reported that Amazon halted plans for several new data centres
in Morrow County, and Apple had also iced its plans to add a second
338,000 "data hall" in Prineville and add a solar farm to offset its
power use.
Judge Mike McCabe, Crook County's administrator told Oregon
Public Broadcasting that Apple is ready to go ahead with at least
some of its growth plans. "They're planning on a major, major
expansion," McCabe said. He indicated that negotiations on the
details of that project remain under negotiation.
Apr 9th
| 22
Americas
US Army signs up for IBM Hybrid Cloud
IBM has announced that the US Army is using IBM Hybrid Cloud to power one of the biggest logistics systems in the US federal government.
The new hybrid cloud system is designed to connect the IBM Cloud to the Army's on-premise environment to enable broad use of
data analytics for sharper insights and result in improved performance, enterprise scale, better security, and greater reliability, reported
Datacentres News.
The Logistics Support Activity – known as LOGSA – provides on-time integrated logistics support of Army operations worldwide that impacts
every soldier, every day. Since migrating to an on premise hybrid cloud model with IBM in 2014, LOGSA processes 40 million unique data
transactions every day – more than the New York Stock Exchange.
Achieving cost savings of 50% with this new model, the Army can now focus on bringing in new analytics services such as condition-based
maintenance and data mining that can benefit all Army organizations. LOGSA will harness data and analytics via cloud computing to
improve the efficiency and effectiveness of logistical coordination. Doing so requires the ability to easily connect the cloud to existing
IT systems.
LOGSA is home of the Logistics Information Warehouse (LIW), the Army’s official storehouse for collecting, storing, organizing and delivering
logistics data. It provides critical logistics information capabilities through analytics tools and business intelligence solutions to acquire,
manage, equip and sustain the materiel needs of the U.S. Army. LIW provides services to more than 65,000 users and 150 direct trading
partners around the world.
As the Army's authoritative source for logistics data, LOGSA provides logistics intelligence, life cycle support, technical advice, and
assistance to the current and future force; integrates logistics information (force structure, readiness, and other logistics data) for worldwide
equipment readiness and distribution analysis; and offers asset visibility for timely and proactive decision making.
“The Army not only recognized a trend in IT that could transform how they deliver services to their logistics personnel around the world, they
also implemented a cloud environment quickly and are already experiencing significant benefits,” said Anne Altman, General Manager
for U.S. Federal at IBM. “They’re taking advantage of the inherent benefits of hybrid cloud: security and the ability to connect it with an
existing IT system. It also gives the Army the flexibility to incorporate new analytics services and mobile capabilities.”
In December 2014, IDC named IBM a leader in US Government private cloud. IBM recently opened SoftLayer Federal cloud centres
in Ashburn, Virginia, and Dallas. These centres were built to meet Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program and Federal
Information Security Management Act requirements for government workloads.
In addition to the SoftLayer cloud centres, IBM offers its FedRAMP-certified SmartCloud for Government. IBM also built one of the industry’s
first cloud centres dedicated to workloads from the Department of Defense at impact levels 3-5 that can handle higher-risk unclassified
data. The IBM Cloud Managed Services for Government-Department of Defense (CMS for Defense) is located at the Allegany Ballistics
Laboratory (ABL) in West Virginia, which is owned by the Department of the Navy.
Apr 9th
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Americas
RagingWire opens Sacramento data centre
US data centre provider RagingWire Data Centers, an NTT Communications group company, has cut the ribbon on its new 180,000 sq ft
data centre known as California Sacramento 3 or CA3, reported a Company press release.
The CA3 facility with 14 megawatts of power and 70,000 sq ft of server space is fully integrated with RagingWire's 500,000 sq ft data
centre campus in Sacramento made up of the California Sacramento 1 (CA1) and the California Sacramento 2 (CA2) facilities. CA3 also
immediately becomes a featured site in the Nexcenter global data centre platform of NTT Com.
"Today is a big day for RagingWire, our customers, and our partners," said George Macricostas, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of
RagingWire Data Centers. "The CA3 data centre is the next step in RagingWire's U.S. expansion and a new component for the global data
centre portfolio of NTT Communications. CA3 is truly a world-class data centre."
In 2014, RagingWire joined the NTT Communications family of companies, expanding the U.S. data centre footprint within NTT Com's global
portfolio of over 130 data centres. In addition to the US$350 million investment in RagingWire, NTT Com made a strategic commitment
to RagingWire by funding the company's growth plan and leveraging RagingWire's patented data centre technologies, expertise, and
exceptional customer experience and service model.
Apr 17th
Google invests US$600 million in data centre expansion
Earlier this month it was revealed the Search engine giant, Google is looking to expand its data centre facility in Georgia. Now it has emerged
that the company is set to reveal the results of its latest US$600 million investment in a new Oregon data centre which it is set to open shortly,
Google will open a new 164,000 sq ft data centre in The Dales which will double the size of the company’s data centre portfolio in the Wasco
County town.
Google’s first server farm in The Dales opened in 2006.
The company originally chose The Dales as it “has the right combination of energy infrastructure, developable land, and available workforce for
the data centre.”
Apr 10th
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Americas
Equinix expands in Toronto
Global data centre company Equinix has opened a data centre in Toronto, Ontario. Known as TR2, the new data centre will serve companies
doing business in Canada’s largest financial, networking and cloud computing market, a Company press release reported.
The opening of TR2 is part of a larger global expansion for Equinix. In March, the company announced that it is opening five new International
Business Exchange data centres on four continents to create more capacity for global companies to connect to their partners, customers
and employees. In addition to TR2, Equinix has extended its global footprint with the opening of new IBX data centres in London, New York,
Singapore and Melbourne and expanded its IBX in Rio de Janeiro.
Centrally located at the corner of Front Street and Parliament Street in Toronto, TR2 provides connections to 60+ network service providers and
the ability to interconnect directly to more than 155 companies that have colocated with Equinix in Toronto via TR1, Equinix’s original Toronto
data centres.
The TR2 IBX data centres has approximately 34,000 sq ft of colocation space in its initial phase with 675 cabinets available to customers.
Equinix has invested $42M in the site to date and estimates that it will invest over $100M to fully build out the facility in five phases in the
coming years. At full build the IBX will have approximately 106,000 sq ft of colocation space and 2,500 cabinets.
Karl Strohmeyer , president, Equinix Americas said “Our new state-of-the-art data centre, TR2, combines superior network density, best-in-class
design and direct access to diverse routes in and out of the metro for mission critical applications. Leading companies are accelerating their
business across Platform Equinix and TR2 extends this opportunity in a top international market.”
Apr 20th
Google’s US$1 billion expansion of Iowa data centre
The past few weeks have seen plans revealed for Search engine giant, Google to expand it data centres in Georgia and Oregon, now the
company wants to expand its Council Bluffs, Iowa data centre spending an additional US$1 billion and doubling the size of its staff to 70.
Google gained approval for an additional US$19.8 million in Iowa economic development incentives from the Iowa Economic Development
Authority. The project would bring Google’s investment in the area to US$2.5 billion.
“We’re thrilled by the partnership we’ve had with the city and state,” Andrew Silvestri, public policy and government relations manager for Google
told the Des Moines Register. “The ease of doing business in Iowa is one of the reasons why we are there.”
Google has two data centres in Council Bluffs, one near Lake Manawa that opened in 2009 and the Southlands facility that opened in 2013. The
added construction will be at Southlands.
In 2014 Google and MidAmerican Energy have announced an agreement for MidAmerican Energy to supply Google’s Council Bluffs, Iowa data
centre with up to 407 megawatts of wind-sourced energy.
Apr 20th
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Asia Pacific
Malaysia’s Data Hub in Iskandar to accelerate data centre
industry growth
Multimedia Development Corporation, Performance Management and Delivery Unit , Johor Corporation and the Iskandar Regional
Development Authority have made two key announcements on Malaysia’s cloud services and data centre industry: Malaysia’s 2014 data
centre industry performance and the new Data Hub in Sedenak, a 700-acre area, earmarked in the Iskandar Region for local and global
data centre companies, a Company press release reported.
The announcements were officiated by YBhg Dato’ Sri Ahmad Shabery Bin Cheek, Minister of Communications and Multimedia Malaysia,
in the presence of YBhg Senator Dato’ Sri Idris Jala, Chief Executive Officer of PEMANDU, YBhg Dato’ Yasmin Mahmood, Chief Executive
Officer of MDeC, Engku Ahmad Kamel, Director of Economics and Investment, representing IRDA and Ibrahim Bin Abdul Samad,
Managing Director, Property Services, representing JCorp.
“In the data economy, creating wealth requires the skill of an alchemist. It is about selecting, sifting through, separating, combining,
cleansing and purifying the almost unlimited amount of raw data to produce the ‘gold’ that provides value for businesses, people
and the nation. In other words, management of this abundant resource will be key for countries and companies that aspire to surge
ahead,” said YBhg Dato’ Sri Ahmad Shabery Bin Cheek.
The Malaysian Cloud Services and Data Centre industry is marked by broad trends of expansion, efficiency and consolidation in 2014.
The industry recorded RM795mil in revenue for 2014, a 26% growth from RM630mil in 2013. Exports grew from 7% to 18%.
Key industry sectors that contributed to the industry revenue include the federal government (29%), banking and financial (19%),
and content and technology (17%).There was also growth in High-value Data Centre Services such as Managed Services that accounts
for 50% of the total revenue, a 20% increase from 2013.
“Growth in the data centre industry showcases a positive development and confidence from local and global investors in Malaysia.
We are targeting the industry to grow by 15% to RM915mil by end of 2015,” said YBhg. Dato’ Yasmin Mahmood.
Building on the encouraging performance results of the industry, the new Data Hub in Sedenak is set to meet the region’s rising demand
for data centre space and services. The hub is equipped with robust, state-of-the-art infrastructure; supported by high capacity power
and reliable connectivity; and comes with friendly cloud and data centre policies.
The Data Hub will create a healthy ecosystem for local businesses to scale their capabilities and competencies with knowledge
sharing from established data centre players. The hub will also contribute to the development of sustainable communities where future
generations can continue to thrive and expand.
YBhg Datuk Ismail Ibrahim, Chief Executive Officer of IRDA said, “We will continue to support these data centre initiatives as part of Iskandar
Malaysia’s efforts to provide state-of-the-art ICT infrastructure and connectivity under our Smart City Framework.
The Data Centre Task Force consisting of MDeC, MIDA and PEMANDU will continue to work together with Johor partners, IRDA and JCorp,
to further develop the cloud services and data centre ecosystem and industry towards positioning Malaysia as a world class data hub
in the region.
Apr 9th
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Asia Pacific
Oracle to build new Japanese data centre
Larry Ellison, Executive Chairman and CTO of Oracle, the multinational computer technology corporation, has said that will open a new
Japanese data centre later this year, which would bringing the company’s portfolio of global data centres to 22, Forbes reported.
Ellison, speaking at the recent Oracle CloudWorld conference in Tokyo, said Oracle is building new data centres to meet increased
customer demand for Oracle’s cloud-based applications, platform technologies, and infrastructure according to a Forbes report.
More than 60 million users conduct billions of transactions daily running the Oracle Cloud today. “It’s gone from an idea to a multibilliondollar [run rate] business in the blink of an eye, and growing very rapidly,” Ellison said.
Increasing computing capacity was not the only driver behind the data centre announcement. Ellison noted that regional regulatory
demands require that Oracle customers handle data differently in different countries. As an example, Ellison noted that in Sweden it
is illegal for companies to collect data about employees’ gender—so systems that serve Swedish customers must not have fields that
can be marked “male” or “female.”
Apr 10th
NTT Com to open Mumbai data centre
As part of an announcement detailing its expansion plans in India, Global communications technology NTT Communications has detailed
its plans to open a new data centre in collaboration with Netmagic Solutions, a local managed services provider in which it holds a 74% stake,
reported Light Reading.
With 300,000 sq ft of space and 3,000 racks, the Mumbai located facility would be one of the largest data centres in the country.
"This is the first data centres that we own ourselves instead of having a long-term lease as is the industry norm," Sharad Sanghi, Netmagic's
managing director told Light Reading. "We would be investing $100 million in this data centre."
The data centre will be operational in the third quarter of 2015, according to Sanghi.
Apr 17th
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Asia Pacific
Telstra completes
acquisition of
Pacnet
Australian telecom provider Telstra has
announced it had completed the acquisition
of Pacnet Limited, a provider of connectivity,
managed services and data centre services
to carriers, multinational corporations and
governments in the Asia-Pacific region,
reported a Company press release.
Telstra Group Executive, Global Enterprise
and Services, Brendon Riley said Pacnet
would be integrated into Telstra and the
Pacnet brand progressively retired. Telstra
will continue the development of the joint
venture in China. US assets will be integrated
when regulatory approval is obtained.
“The addition of Pacnet’s staff, infrastructure,
technology and expertise will position
Telstra as a leading provider of services to
multinational and large companies in Asia,”
Mr Riley said.
VMware utilise Telstra data centre
for vCloud Air in Australia
Complementing VMware's vCloud Air Network of service providers, the new VMwareoperated location provides customers with a local Asia Pacific Infrastructure as a Service
that can help address local compliance and data locality concerns. This initial VMware
vCloud Air deployment in Australia is hosted out of a Telstra connected data centre.
”The completed acquisition will double
Telstra’s customers in Asia, and greatly
increase our network reach and data centre
capabilities across the region. This includes
the addition of the largest privately owned
intra-Asia cable network, 29 data centres
and the ability to further grow our China
operations through the existing joint venture.
"We continue to see growing client adoption and interest as we build out VMware vCloud
Air with our newest service location in Australia," said Bill Fathers, executive vice president
and general manager, Cloud Services Business Unit, VMware. "VMware's new Australia
service location enables local IT teams, developers and lines of business to create and
build their hybrid cloud environments on an agile and resilient IT platform that supports
rapid innovation and business transformation."
“The acquisition provides us greater
specialisation and scale, including the
delivery of enhanced services, such as
software-defined networking and opens
up significant incremental opportunities for
our business,” said Mr Riley.
VMware vCloud Air integrates seamlessly with current IT infrastructures to make it easy to
extend existing applications and integrate them with new transformational cloud-native
applications. vCloud Air offers virtual private, dedicated and disaster recovery that works
with the applications businesses run today, offering greater agility and availability on a
secure foundation of VMware vSphere. IT departments can view, manage and operate
this cloud environment using the VMware vSphere platform that they already know, and
it is compatible with Hybrid Cloud Powered Services provided by the VMware vCloud Air
Network of service providers. The new VMware vCloud Air location in Australia will enable
customers the ability to have their data stored under Australian compliance and data
protection regulations.
The acquisition, announced on 23
December 2014, was subject to a number
of conditions, including the receipt of
regulatory and Pacnet financier approvals.
These have all been received with the
exception of a remaining regulatory
approval in the United States. Completion of
the acquisition of the US assets is expected in
due course and does not impact operations
or the agreed purchase price.
Apr 10th
Apr 16th
Global virtualisation provider VMware has announced the continued expansion
of VMware vCloud Airwith the general availability of service in Australia, a Company
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Company
Results
Asia Pac: ZTE posts 94% jump
in full-year net profit
World: Intel reports first-quarter
revenue of US$12.8 billion
ZTE, a Chinese international provider of telecommunications, enterprise
and consumer technology solutions, has announced a 94% rise in full-year
net profit, as higher sales of 4G network equipment and smartphones lifted
the company’s profit margins, a Company press release reported.
Intel Corporation has reported first-quarter revenue of US$12.8 billion,
operating income of US$2.6 billion, net income of US$2.0 billion and EPS
of 41 cents. The company generated approximately US$4.4 billion in cash
from operations, paid dividends of US$1.1 billion, and used US$750 million
to repurchase 21 million shares of stock, a pany press release reported.
Net profit attributable to shareholders of the listed company increased to
RMB 2.63 billion (US$423.5 million) in 2014, according to the annual results
announcement posted by ZTE today. Basic earnings per share climbed to
RMB 0.77, while revenue rose 8.3% to RMB 81.47 billion.
In cloud computing and IT products, ZTE achieved increased penetration
of the financial services market, helped by the company’s industry-leading
large data processing platforms and distributed database technologies.
ZTE also posted growth in its data centre products business.
ZTE posted revenue of RMB 40.89 billion from international operations,
accounting for 50.2% of revenue. Operations in China contributed
revenue of RMB 40.58 billion.
Looking ahead to 2015, growth in the traditional telecom market is
facing a bottleneck, but due to the high growth data services, carriers
are also transitioning to Internet services. At the same time all the
mobile Internet era will become the main theme of the development
of the telecommunications industry, from traditional interpersonal
communication, gradually expand to the communication of persons and
objects.
Mar 26th
World: IBM reports 2015
first-quarter results
IBM has announced first-quarter 2015 diluted earnings from continuing
operations of US$2.44 per share, flat year-to-year. Operating (non-GAAP)
diluted earnings from continuing operations were US$2.91 per share,
compared with operating diluted earnings of US$2.68 per share in the
first quarter of 2014, an increase of 9%.
First-quarter net income from continuing operations was US$2.4 billion,
down 5% year-to-year, including the impact of US$0.2 billion in pensionrelated pre-tax charges for IBM Spain in the first quarter of 2015, resulting
from a court ruling in Spain. Operating (non-GAAP) net income from
continuing operations was US$2.9 billion compared with US$2.8 billion in
the first quarter of 2014, an increase of 4%. GAAP and Operating (nonGAAP) results include workforce rebalancing charges of US$0.3 billion in the
first quarter of 2015 and US$0.9 billion in the year-ago period, a Company
For the first-quarter of 2015, IBM reported consolidated net income of
US$2.3 billion including operating net losses in discontinued operations
related to the Microelectronics business.
Total revenues from continuing operations for the first quarter of 2015 of
$19.6 billion were down 12%, flat year-to-year adjusting for currency and
divested businesses, from the first quarter of 2014.
“In the first quarter we had a strong start to the year. Our strategic
imperatives growth rate accelerated, demonstrating the power of our
offerings in these new opportunities and contributing to improved revenue
performance. Our focus on higher value through portfolio transformation
and investment in key areas of the business drove continued margin
expansion,” said Ginni Rometty, IBM chairman, president and chief
executive officer.
“Year-over-year revenues were flat, with double-digit revenue growth in the
data centre, IoT and memory businesses offsetting lower than expected
demand for business desktop PCs,” said Intel CEO Brian Krzanich. “These
results reinforce the importance of continuing to execute our growth
strategy.”
Q1 key business unit trends included:
• Client Computing Group revenue of US$7.4 billion, down 8%
year-over-year.
• Data Center Group revenue of US$3.7 billion, down 10% sequentially
and up 19% year-over-year.
• Internet of Things Group revenue of US$533 million, down 10%
sequentially and up 11% year-over-year.
• Software and services operating segments revenue of US$534 million,
down 4% sequentially and down 3% year-over-year.
Apr 15th
Mid-East and Africa: Business
Connexion releases results
Business Connexion, Africa’s largest black-owned ICT services provider,
has released its interim financial results for the six months ended 28
February 2015, a Company press release reported.
Revenue grew by 16,0% to R3 556,9 million compared to the prior period.
This growth was underpinned by organic revenue growth of 15,1% resulting
from new client wins. This trend continues to reflect the Group’s focus on
an improved sales culture and cross-selling.
Gross profit margins at 27,4% (2014: 30,0%) remain largely unchanged
despite continuing tough economic conditions as well as market and
client pricing pressures.
The focus on operating expenses and balance sheet management
continues, with normalised operating expenses remaining flat and
reduced capital expenditure.
The Group recorded a normalised operating profit margin of 5,6% (2014:
5,2%). The tax charge in the prior period included the provision for capital
gains tax on the sale of QLink of R25,7 million.
The Group generated diluted earnings per share (EPS) of 17,6 cents for
the period (2014: 52,0 cents) and diluted headline EPS for the period of
17,7 cents (2014: 15,6 cents). On a normalised basis, excluding primarily
the profit on the sale of QLink and the impact of the amortisation of
intangibles, diluted headline EPS is 25,9 cents (2014: 20,7 cents).
The Group continued to generate strong operating cash flows of R282,0
million (2014: R259,0 million).
Apr 17th
Apr 21st
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Forth Coming
Events
Europe, Middle East
and Africa
26th May 2015 – IDC Cloud
computing IT Security
& Data Center Roadshow, Senegal
Through to further info:
4th May 2015 – Datacenter Dynamics
Converged. UAE
http://idc-cema.com/eng/events/60451-idc-cloud-computing-itsecurity-data-center-roadshow
This year sees the 10th anniversary of DCD Converged in the Gulf,
the region's most important gathering of data centre end-users,
operators, service providers, and advisors.
28th May 2015 – IDC Datacenter
Transformation Roadshow 2015,
Budapest
Recent months have seen considerable investment across the
Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region in mission critical IT and
communications infrastructure. A substantial portion of regional
growth has been driven by new on-premise data centre deployments
and expansion initiatives, as well as growth in the services sector. Our
multi-track conference programme provides the perfect platform to
learn from colleagues and recognised industry experts, and the Expo
will showcase the latest technologies to help you manage capacity,
increase efficiency, and improve system availability.
http://www.dcdconverged.com/conferences/uae
14th May 2015 – IDC DataCenter 360⁰
Roadshow, Istanbul
Datacenter 360 degrees aim to be a hallmark event towards the
culmination of ideas in the MEA IT domain covering all the industry
pain points and uncovering all the key solutions towards a sustainable
data centre strategy.
Through to further info::
http://idc-cema.com/eng/events/59260-idc-s-datacenter-360roadshow-2015
http://idc-cema.com/eng/events/60097-idc-datacentertransformation-roadshow-2015
1st-2nd June 2015 – Gartner
IT Infrastructure & Operations
Management Summit, Berlin
The agenda includes in-depth coverage of mobile, cloud, storage
operations and other IT forces that are making new demands on
Infrastructure and Operations. Attend for expert advice that will
help you position I&O as a key contributor to business strategy and
competitive advantage.
Discover how Infrastructure & Operations can become an
indispensable partner of the business on its journey towards a digital
enterprise.
http://www.gartner.com/technology/summits/emea/it-operations/
agenda.jsp
14th May 2015 – IDC DataCenter 360⁰
Roadshow, Ankara
A Datacenter 360 degree aims to be a hallmark event towards the
culmination of ideas in the MEA IT domain covering all the industry
pain points and uncovering all the key solutions towards a sustainable
data centre strategy.
http://idc-cema.com/eng/events/59262-idc-s-datacenter-360roadshow-2015
14th May 2015 – IDC IT Security
Roadshow, Novosibirk
http://idcitsecurity.com/
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Forth Coming
Events
3rd – 4th June 2015 – DataCloud
World Congress, Monaco
2015 IDC European Conference Road
Shows Cloud
Based on your feedback over the past two years, it became obvious
to us that our audience’s interest was broadening - and so we
adjusted course, prepared for the future and refreshed our brand.
New name, same quality! Europe’s premier data centre and cloud
congress.
05/03/2015
Cloud Leadership 2015, Lisbon
19/03/2015
Enterprise Architecture 2015, London
23/04/2015
Cloud Leadership Forum 2015, Madrid
16/07/2015
Cloud Conference 2015, Munich
29/09/2015
Cloud Conference 2015, Paris
29/10/2015
Practical Cloud 2015, London
Every year the event brings together professionals from the Data
centre and Cloud industry uniting what will be >1800 delegates in
2015 with key decision makers from more than 50 + countries at what
is the single, international not to be missed annual event.
This two day international congress and exhibition uniquely
approaches data centre and cloud challenges - integration,
converged infrastructure, IT procurement, cloud management,
security -among many other enterprise critical topics - and assesses
the implications for their datacentre, energy needs, applications,
platforms, services and technologies which continue to sustain a core
role in the content and exhibition.
Key Topics covered during the events
Enterprise readiness of cloud services: Most enterprises already use
cloud but are they maximizing the benefits? Is strategic adoption
better than opportunistic? And what sort of cloud is best?
Data location and governance: What are the real issues, and what
approach should CIOs take to cloud services located in other
countries?
Datacloud Global Congress & Exhibition (DCG) returns for a second
year to the Grimaldi Forum with an even better format, in Monaco,
June 3-4.
Learning from the cloud: Can enterprise IT gain from copying the way
that cloud services vendors operate?
Public, private or on-premises: How do you get to the optimal mix of
services?
http://www.datacloudcongress.com/
5th June 2015 – DC IT Security and
Datacenter Transformation Roadshow
2015, Baku
http://idc-cema.com/eng/events/60069-idc-it-security-anddatacenter-transfromation-roadshow-2015
16th-18th June 2015 – Interop London
After a period of extensive customer insight projects and industry
research we have made the decision to replace Internet World with
Interop London, alongside London Technology Week, as the key
summer tech event for UBM Live.
http://www.interop.co.uk/page.cfm/Link=28/
17th June 2015 – Cloud Leadership
and Datacenters Transformation
Roadshow 2015, Almaty, Kazakhstan
IDC's Cloud event series is a unique opportunity to hear from leading
experts in the field about top cloud strategies, developing a cloudfirst approach, improving overall cloud performance, and operational
best practices for managing and optimizing the new cloud models.
http://www.cvent.com/events/western-europe-events-2015/custom-20964bc723509944aea8b7df2d05ec160e.aspx
17th September 2015 – IDC Cloud
Innovation Forum, Prague
Open Source versus Proprietary Hypervisor technologies,
http://idc-cema.com/eng/events/60163-idc-cloud-innovation-forum
22nd September 2015 – IDC Cloud
Innovation Forum, Vienna
Open Source versus Proprietary Hypervisor technologies,
http://idc-cema.com/eng/events/60134-idc-cloud-innovation-forum
http://idc-cema.com/eng/events/60128-idc-cloud-leadership-anddatacenters-transformation-roadshow-2015
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Forth Coming
Events
22nd September 2015 – IDC Cloud
computing IT Security & Data Center
Roadshow, Casablanca
http://idc-cema.com/eng/events/60450-idc-cloud-computing-itsecurity-data-center-roadshow
30th September 2015 – IDC Cloud
computing IT Security & Data Center
Roadshow, Bucharest
Open Source versus Proprietary Hypervisor technologies, Security
and Compliance, Open Standards, Hybrid and Interoperability, High
Availability, and Emerging Cloud Segments are among the critical
issues to be discussed, with all participants expected to come away
more productive and confident in this emerging technology. Join
us this year and discover how we can continue to evolve cloud to
become a strategic business advantage rather than just another IT
trend.
http://idc-cema.com/eng/events/60029-idc-cloud-computing-anddatacenter-transformation-roadshow-2015
29th September 2015 – IDC Practical
Cloud, London
http://www.cvent.com/events/western-europe-events-2015/custom-20964bc723509944aea8b7df2d05ec160e.aspx
6th October 2015 – Datacenter
Dynamics Converged. Paris
Through to further info: (in French)
http://www.dcdconverged.com/conferences/france
16th October 2015 – Datacloud
Nordic 2015, Oslo
Enterprises and third party operators across Nordic markets are
transforming to cloud data centres, fast becoming the indispensable
infrastructure for computing, storage and management of big data.
Enterprises require simple and scalable ways to create interoperability
among many siloed data and endpoints, which offer highly available,
multi-tenant and elastic integration cloud to support high density
computing.
Many challenges confront companies who are adapting to a cloud
environment: adjusting datacentre environments to cope with the
new demands Cloud brings, and drive greater energy efficiency;
security of Cloud and managing increased workforce use of
smartphones and tablets; moving applications to the cloud to meet
security requirements for service availability, manageability and
connectivity - data security methods must solve multiple challenges;
how IT departments manage the transformation to cloud brokerages
and look to outsourcing as part of the solution. Workload migration
between clouds is another key challenge for hybrid clouds - some
enterprises are moving part of their workload to a public cloud
environment while retaining other workloads in a private cloud.
More businesses are looking to outsource non-core services via the
cloud, make cost savings in the value chain yet benefit from cloud
innovation especially in Big Data.
Datacloud Nordic will assess the energy, scalability, security,
architecture and software challenges confronting datacentres, and
how enterprises can successfully manage the transition to cloud.
http://www.datacloudnordic.com/
18th-19th November 2015 –
StackingIT, London
StackingIT is a new event concept that pulls together data centre
professionals responsible for the fabric, the rack infrastructure and the
critical environment, and empowers them to create more intelligent
and free-flowing IT infrastructure that takes the industry closer to the
promise of Software Defined Data Centers.
Inspired by the work of OpenStack, Open Compute, The Linux
Foundation and other major industry organisations who have
identified the opportunity to increase the pace of innovation in a
proprietary world, we have developed a dedicated conference
track and technology exhibition that runs alongside DCD Converged
the world's leading peer-led data centre event. DCD has the ability
to unify the enterprise data center community, those people
comsuming data center services with the people building them,
in order to help accelerate the understanding and adoption of this
exciting new technology shift.
http://www.dcdconverged.com/conferences/europe-2015
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Forth Coming
Events
18th -19th November 2015 –
Datacenter Dynamics Converged.
London
http://www.dcdconverged.com/
30th November – 1st December 2015
– Gartner Data Center, Infrastructure
& Operations Management SummitT,
London
The premier destination for I&O leaders around the world focusing on
today's most important I&O topics, trends and technologies.
Our attendee–driven agenda provides you in–depth coverage
of mobile, cloud, storage and other IT forces that are making new
demands on the data center — as well as expert advice that will
competitive advantage
http://www.gartner.com/technology/summits/emea/data-center/
8th December 2015 – Datacenter
Dynamics Converged. Turkey
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Forth Coming
Events
Americas
14th May 2015 – Datacenter
Dynamics Converged. Brazil
Government
Through to further info: (in Portuguese)
http://www.dcdconverged.com/conferences/brazil-government
31st May - 2nd June 2015 – National
IT Leadership Symposium, Naples
“The IT Leadership Symposium is definitely a must attend for all CIO’s
and IT leaders to hear from some of the seasoned thought leaders in
the field. It is also a great opportunity to share some of your expertise
and to gain some insight into proven strategies that you can leverage
for your own organization.”
http://www.itleadershipsymposium.com/
7th June 2015 – Connect, Collaborate
Deliver Conference, Orlando
http://www.7x24exchange.org/prescall/
11th June 2015 – IDC Mexico
Security Conference
23rd-24th June 2015 – Gartner
Business Intelligence & Info:rmation
Management Summit, Sao Paulo
Through to further info: (in Portuguese)
http://www.gartner.com/technology/summits/la/business-intelligencebrasil/agenda.jsp
7th July 2015 – Datacenter Dynamics
Converged. Lima Peru
Through to further info: (In Spanish):
http://www.dcdconverged.com/conferences/peru
30th-31st July 2015 – Datacenter
Dynamics Converged. San Francisco
DatacenterDynamics is consolidating nine one-day regional-market
events to three much larger-scale two-day conferences focused on
the three primary data center vertical classes – Enterprise, Internet
and Services.
DCD Internet has been specially designed as the ultimate knowledge
and networking platform for senior data center professionals from the
world's most important internet based businesses. If your company is
a significant operator or end-user of data center services and you are
involved in the strategy, implementation and operation of this type
of infrastructure, this a must-attend event. Our multi-track conference
program boasts presentations from the industry's most forward
thinking practitioners and is a reference point for the worldwide data
center infrastruction market.
http://www.dcdconverged.com/conferences/dcd-internet
http://www.idclatin.com/events/
15th-17th June 2015 – Gartner
IT Infrastructure & Operations
Management Summit, Orlando
6th August 2015 – IDC Chile Cloud
Conference, Chile
http://www.idclatin.com/events/
As budgets tighten and demands for business agility rise, I&O is under
increasing pressure to deliver "more for less." It's no longer sufficient to
keep pace with change; now more than ever, the I&O organization
must undergo fundamental transformation — developing a forwardthinking strategy built on ITSM, a "people-focused" culture, cloud and
mobile management and other initiatives that visibly demonstrate
business value. As a Gartner IT Infrastructure & Operations
Management Summit attendee, you will learn what to change right
now to ensure that the business cannot succeed without you in the
future.
http://www.gartner.com/technology/summits/na/it-operations/agenda.jsp
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Forth Coming
Events
10th-13th August 2015 – Gartner
Catalyst Conference, San Diego
27th-28th October 2015 – Datacenter
Dynamics Converged. Chicago
In the new digital world of mobility, cloud and big data, where every
person, place and thing generate, consume and share information in
ways previously unimagined, this much is clear: Existing infrastructures
are no longer able to store, process and protect the data wave,
creating complex technical, architectural and implementation
challenges for technologists. What steps can you take now to support
new markets, new models and new customer behaviors? What
tactics can you employ today to ensure competitive advantage in
the future? Find out at Gartner Catalyst Conference 2014, August
11-14 in San Diego, CA. A trusted source of actionable and objective
technical advice, this year's event offers the kind of deep, crossdiscipline learning that drives meaningful change.
DatacenterDynamics is consolidating nine one-day regional-market
events to three much larger-scale two-day conferences focused on
the three primary data center vertical classes – Enterprise, Internet
and Services.
http://www.gartner.com/technology/summits/na/catalyst/agenda.jsp
DCD Services has been specially designed as the ultimate
knowledge and networking platform for senior data center
professionals from telecommunications companies, colocation
providers and other IaaS, PaaS and SaaS platform providers. If you
are responsible for data center strategy, deployment or operations
of data center infrastructure within those organisations or a significant
end-user of their services, this a must-attend event. Our multi-track
conference program boasts presentations from the industry's most
forward thinking practitioners and is a reference point for the data
center market.
15th September 2015 – Datacenter
Dynamics Converged. Toronto
DCD Canada brings together the people, processes and
technologies to help our attendees develop a world class data
center strategy. Our multi-track conference program – headlined by
a host of international experts – looks at “what’s new” in our industry,
and debates “what should change”. From the idea of ‘disposable
data centers’ to ‘software defined ‘ and everything in between, DCD
Converged is sure to keep North America’s most senior data center
professionals up to date with an industry changing at lightning speed.
Through to further info:;
http://www.dcdconverged.com/conferences/canada
23rd September 2015 – Datacenter
Dynamics Converged. Colombia
Through to further info:; (in Spanish)
http://www.dcdconverged.com/conferences/colombia
Dynamics Converged. Mexico
Through to further info:; (In Spanish)
http://www.dcdconverged.com/conferences/mexico
http://www.dcdconverged.com/conferences/se-asia
Dynamics Converged. Mexico
Through to further info:; (In Spanish)
http://www.dcdconverged.com/conferences/mexico
10th-11th November 2015 –
Datacenter Dynamics Converged.
Brazil Enterprisie, Sao Paulo
Through to further info:; (In Portuguese)
http://www.dcdconverged.com/conferences/brazil-enterprise
19th November 2015 – Datacenter
Dynamics Converged. Chile
7th -10th December 2015 – Gartner
Data Center, Infrastructure & Operations
Management SummitT, Las Vegas
The premier destination for I&O leaders around the world focusing on
today's most important I&O topics, trends and technologies.
Our attendee–driven agenda provides you in–depth coverage
of mobile, cloud, storage and other IT forces that are making new
demands on the data centre — as well as expert advice that will
competitive advantage
http://www.gartner.com/events/na/data-center/
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Forth Coming
Events
Asia Pac
11th-12th May 2015 – Gartner IT
Infrastructure, Operations & Data
Center Summit, Mumbai
The Gartner IT Infrastructure Operations & Data Center Summit
offers a breadth and depth of knowledge that uniquely meets
the requirements of data center professionals across disciplines.
Through prescriptive, practical advice — complemented by strategic
recommendations — the 3-track agenda addresses today's not-tobe ignored trends, technologies and imperatives.
http://www.gartner.com/technology/summits/apac/data-center-india/
agenda.jsp
18th-19th May 2015 – Gartner IT
Infrastructure, Operations & Data
Center Summit, Sydney
The 9th Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Data Center Summit
offers a breadth and depth of knowledge that uniquely meets
the requirements of data centre professionals across disciplines.
Through prescriptive, practical advice — complemented by strategic
recommendations — the 3-track agenda addresses today's not-tobe ignored trends, technologies and imperatives.
http://www.gartner.com/technology/summits/apac/data-center/
agenda.jsp
11th June 2015 – Enterprise China,
Shanghai
DacenterDynamics brings you in 2015 two large-scale two-day
conferences focused on the two primary data center vertical classes
in China – Enterprise, and Services.
DCD Enterprise China has been specially designed as the ultimate
knowledge and networking platform for senior data center endusers and operators dealing with the increasingly complex and
heterogeneous mission critical enterprise environment. If you are
responsible for data centre strategy, deployment or operations of
data center infrastructure within these types of organization, this is
a must-attend event. Our multi-track conference program boasts
presentations from the industry's most forward thinking practitioners
and is a reference point for the data center market.
http://www.dcdconverged.com/conferences/enterprise-china
15th-16th July 2015 –
DatacenterDynamics Converged,
Bangalore
The DatacenterDynamics Converged Bangalore is back and will once
again bring together professionals in the data center industry within
the span of two days to connect, network and share current industry
trends as well as challenges.
The data centre industry in India has been recording a steady growth
rate over the years and it has been predicted that the country will
become the 5th largest data center market in the world by 2050.
To make this a reality, the Government of India had recently taken
several initiatives. The 2015 Budget included suggestions of giving
tax incentives for setting-up data centres and cloud services in the
country. Digital India, another government’s flagship project, aims to
provide 2.5 lakh of villages with broadband connectivity as well as to
provide WiFi connections to schools by 2019. The Indian data center
revolution is currently taking place.
As the data center industry in India focuses more towards Bring
Your Own Devices (BYOD), Internet of Things, Cloud Services and Big
Data, the 5th Annual DatacenterDynamics Converged Bangalore
Conference and Expo has built its focus around this trend. With an
additional hall this year, the main themes are Critical Environment,
App to Cloud, and Security. Case studies and discussions from various
industry leaders will range from Capacity Management, Green Data
Centers to Seamless Scaling Up and Artificial Intelligence in addition
to technology experts highlighting what’s new in the market.
The 5th Annual DatacenterDynamics Converged Bangalore
Conference and Expo aims to bring together more than 600
professionals from the data centre industry in India. So mark your
calendars and join us on the 15th & 16th of July at the Sheraton
Brigade Gateway Bangalore.
23rd July 2015 – DatacenterDynamics
Converged, Hong Kong
The 6th Annual DCD Converged Hong Kong returns bringing you the
people, processes and technologies to deliver a world-class data
centre strategy
This year’s event has been designed to get the Hong Kong and
South China market up-to-date with an industry evolving at lightning
speed. World-class speakers will present on the best practices and
technologies to optimize IT and on-premise data center strategies,
deployment, security and operations. Leading local authorities will
also share their perspectives on how companies can adapt and
innovate in the unique market of Hong Kong and South China.
Do not miss this opportunity to learn from the best and network with
600 top professionals from the industry at this one-stop marketplace.
Discover the latest technologies and insights to direct your data
center strategy for the year ahead!
http://www.dcdconverged.com/conferences/hong-kong
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Forth Coming
Events
3rd August – 4th August 2015 –
DatacenterDynamics Converged,
Sydney
DCD Converged Australia returns for its 6th year with an agenda
of cutting edge topics and high-profile speakers focusing on the
dynamic growth of cloud, IT and data centres(DCs) as business drivers
and the convergence of technologies that makes this possible.
Investment in IT systems and DCs continues to grow in the Australia
market, with recent announcements of upcoming projects,
consolidations and launches. As cloud computing becomes
more mainstream with organizations migrating their mission-critical
applications to the cloud, expect also to see a shift in IT systems and
the evolving role of DCs within the business prompted by greater
needs for scalable processing, networking, storage and best practice
data governance.
Over 2 days, 5 focused industry tracks of panels, end-user case
studies, an extended Expo Hall and Solution Stages, this annual
industry event will address the most critical issues surrounding cloud
adoption, data centre design and strategy, IT and networks upgrade,
critical environment, security and risk, and much m
15th September 2015 – Datacenter
Dynamics Converged. Singapore
Converged South East Asia, at the Marina Bay Sands Singapore, is
the largest regional data center event in the Asia Pacific Region. As
part of the Singapore Data Center Week, Converged brings together
practitioners and experts involved at the facility level through to
the virtual machine. Over the course of the event, industry leaders
explore, examine, and dissect the strategic implications of IT, as well
as the impact strategy has on IT.
As part of the longest running global event series focused on the
technology that powers today's enterprises, Converged South East
Asia is designed to provide first-hand knowledge and experience from
the world's most important technology-driven companies and insight
into how the future will look from the world's leading engineering
minds. Consisting of two days of info:rmation-packed sessions,
revealing panel discussions, and the latest data centre solutions, this
event will ensure that you are ahead of the game all the way up the
IT stack.
http://www.dcdconverged.com/conferences/se-asia
http://www.dcdconverged.com/conferences/australia
24th-25th August 2015 – Gartner
Security & Risk Management Summit,
Sydney
The central challenge for security and risk leaders is to find the best
ways to achieve organizational objectives while mitigating security
risks to an acceptable level, so that everyone wins.
Successful security and risk leaders must learn to make smart
decisions to captivate enterprise leaders and employees at all levels,
to instill the values of security risk mitigation to cultivate the pursuit of
greater business opportunities.
The Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit provides security
and risk leaders and their teams the knowledge, strategies and tactics
to be smarter than ever before; to enable them to define, achieve
and maintain effective security and risk management programs that
drive enterprise performance better than ever before.
http://www.gartner.com/technology/summits/apac/security/agenda.jsp
13th October 2015 – Datacenter
Dynamics Services. Beijing
DacenterDynamics brings you in 2015 two large-scale two-day
conferences focused on the two primary data centre vertical classes
in China – Enterprise, and Services.
DCD Services has been specially designed as the ultimate
knowledge and networking platform for senior data centre
professionals from telecommunications companies, colocation
providers and other IaaS, PaaS and SaaS platform providers. If you
are responsible for data center strategy, deployment or operations
of data center infrastructure within those organisations or a significant
end-user of their services, this a must-attend event. Our multi-track
conference program boasts presentations from the industry's most
forward thinking practitioners and is a reference point for the data
center market.
http://www.dcdconverged.com/conferences/services-china
Autumn 2015 – Finance & Investment
Forum, Hong Kong
Data centre, hosting and cloud continue to evolve globally. Cloud
data centres are now indispensable infrastructure for computing,
storage and management of big data that facilitates the delivery
of a range of services offered by the cloud. As such, investment
appetite remains keen across the sector, constantly assessing new
financial and business models and financing options now extending
to debt, mezzanine, bonds and IPOs.
Through to further info
http://www.fif-asia.com/
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