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Digital Realty appoints new CIO and APAC MD
Hyperscale

Digital Realty appoints new CIO and APAC MD

Digital Realty names Gregory Wright as CIO and Mark Smith as MD for APAC, strengthening its global expansion strategy under CEO William Stein's leadership.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Wed, 28th Nov 2018
Colt DCS investing in 100MW data centre in Mumbai
Hyperscale

Colt DCS investing in 100MW data centre in Mumbai

The company says the new hyperscale facility will make it the first mainstream western data centre operator to enter the Indian market.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Wed, 28th Nov 2018
Park Place opening EMEA ops centre in Cork, jobs up for grabs
Unified Communications

Park Place opening EMEA ops centre in Cork, jobs up for grabs

The world's largest post-warranty data centre maintenance organisation has announced that it will be opening its new EMEA Operations Centre in Cork, Ireland.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Tue, 27th Nov 2018
Vertiv launches IT testing lab in Poland data centre
DataCentre infrastructure

Vertiv launches IT testing lab in Poland data centre

This facility is the first of its kind in the Central and Eastern Europe region (CEE) and will enable clients to test environments to improve energy efficiency.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Tue, 27th Nov 2018
More pie for me: Alibaba Cloud's aggressive EMEA expansion
Distributed Denial of Service

More pie for me: Alibaba Cloud's aggressive EMEA expansion

After elbowing its way into the EMEA market last month, the Chinese cloud provider has now unveiled the full extent of its product portfolio for the region.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Sat, 24th Nov 2018
NEXTDC introduces policy to support victims of domestic violence
Hyperscale

NEXTDC introduces policy to support victims of domestic violence

NEXTDC has announced that it will be offering paid leave for victims of domestic violence, and urges other companies to do the same.

By Ashton Young • 2 min read • Sat, 24th Nov 2018
Corporate data more at risk due to a mobile workforce
Endpoint Protection

Corporate data more at risk due to a mobile workforce

Enterprise data faces unprecedented risk as the mobile workforce grows, with personal devices accessing critical infrastructure, says security experts, Lookout.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Fri, 23rd Nov 2018
Green Mountain expands hydro-powered Norway data centre
DataCentre infrastructure

Green Mountain expands hydro-powered Norway data centre

Despite its cool climate – or rather because of it – the Nordics are hot real estate for data centres at the moment.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Fri, 23rd Nov 2018
Hyperscalers hurling colossal capital at data centres
Hyperscale

Hyperscalers hurling colossal capital at data centres

The old proverb 'you have to spend money to make money' could never be truer than in the hyperscale data centre industry.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Thu, 22nd Nov 2018
Edge data centres expanding to shared working spaces
DataCentre infrastructure

Edge data centres expanding to shared working spaces

Likely beginning a trend, Christie Spaces is now the first workspace in Australia to offer customers data centre rack space on-site for rent.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Thu, 22nd Nov 2018
Gemalto building EU data centres to satiate GDPR
DataCentre infrastructure

Gemalto building EU data centres to satiate GDPR

Gemalto is set to build data centres across the EU to meet the rising demand for cloud-based authentication and GDPR compliance, says SVP Lasnier.

By Ashton Young • 2 min read • Wed, 21st Nov 2018
Google's new €600m Denmark data centre: The facts
DataCentre infrastructure

Google's new €600m Denmark data centre: The facts

The relentless march of the hyperscalers continues with today's announcement that Google is committing a whopping €600 million to a new data centre in Denmark.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Wed, 21st Nov 2018
University of Birmingham deploys UK's largest IBM POWER9 AI cluster
Hyperscale

University of Birmingham deploys UK's largest IBM POWER9 AI cluster

After originally deploying just two servers, the University realised it needed more horsepower and added another nine.

By Ashton Young • 4 min read • Wed, 21st Nov 2018
AWS tops all four global markets, APAC a unique case
Data Analytics

AWS tops all four global markets, APAC a unique case

Amazon Web Services leads the global public cloud market across all major regions, though the APAC scene is uniquely shaped by strong local competition.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Wed, 21st Nov 2018
What Brexit? Equinix invests £90m in new London data centre
DataCentre infrastructure

What Brexit? Equinix invests £90m in new London data centre

The company is confident Brexit will have no impact on the data centre market in London, with its total investment in the London metro area exceeding £930m.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Wed, 21st Nov 2018
Datacentres Ireland gets the ball rolling in Dublin
Hyperscale

Datacentres Ireland gets the ball rolling in Dublin

Ireland's largest dedicated gathering of suppliers for data centres today opened in Dublin and is set to span two days.

By Ashton Young • 2 min read • Wed, 21st Nov 2018

Stories from Other Regions

Keppel DC developing its first greenfield data centre in Malaysia
DataCentre infrastructure

Keppel DC developing its first greenfield data centre in Malaysia

The growth of Malaysia's IT industry continues, with news today emerging of another new data centre on the horizon from Keppel DC and the Alpha DC Fund.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Tue, 27th Nov 2018
Cloud to drive next wave of DX in Indonesia
Digital Transformation

Cloud to drive next wave of DX in Indonesia

Indonesia's next wave of digital transformation will be driven by cloud technology, with enterprises investing IDR 445 trillion by 2018, says IDC.

By Ashton Young • 2 min read • Wed, 21st Nov 2018