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Chris Jones Head of Data Centres Bilfinger GVA

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As an engineering and services group, Bilfinger develops, builds, maintains and operates plants and buildings for industry, the energy sector and real estate. From hospital to refinery, from Alaska to Australia, from start to finish.

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GVA was acquired by Bilfinger last year and merged into the international real estate division including the data centre acquisition, disposal, marketing and consulting team, which has been a market leader in Europe for 15 years.

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The new Bilfinger data centre services team brings together over 300 of our specialists operating across the breadth of our business. We can now provide clients with a wider range of services; we manage data centre space, we analyse and benchmark it, we design it, refresh it and we help you move it or build it.

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We look forward to working with you in the coming months and years and to introducing you to our new colleagues. Let us know how we can help you.

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ABOUT US 35 About Bifinger GVA Data Centres Our core services

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WORLD 30% OF SERVERS ARE SITTING “COMATOSE”

Global consultancy Anthesis Group has announced their findings about server utilization. The research was conducted with Jonathan Koomey Research Fellow at Stanford University, using data from TSO Logic, a Company press release reported. The core findings are based on a sample of anonymized data and revealed that 30% of the physical servers were “comatose.” In this instance, comatose servers are those that have not delivered information or computing services in six months or more. These findings imply that there are about 10 million comatose servers worldwide – including standalone servers and host servers in virtual environments. The findings support previous research performed by the Uptime Institute, which also found that around 30% of servers are unused. The 10 million estimated comatose servers translates into at least US$30 billion in data centre capital sitting idle globally (assuming an average server cost of US$3,000, while ignoring infrastructure capital costs as well as operating costs). “Far too many businesses have massive Information Technology infrastructure inefficiencies of which they are not even aware”, said Jon Taylor, Partner at Anthesis Group. “These preliminary findings support the idea that ongoing measurement and management of a business’s IT infrastructure is needed to optimize performance, energy use, and return-on-investment.” Dr. Koomey, a researcher, consultant, and lecturer on the energy and environmental impacts of technology, says “In the twenty first century, every company is an IT company, yet far too little attention is given to IT inefficiencies, and to the need for widespread changes in how IT resources are built, provisioned, and managed.” Koomey adds “removing idle servers would result in gigawatt-scale reductions in global IT load, the displaced power use from which could then support new IT loads that actually deliver business value. That’s a result that everyone should cheer.” n

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NOKIA NETWORKS ENTERS CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE MARKET

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INTERNET OF THINGS MARKET TO REACH US$1.7 TRILLION BY 2020 The global Internet of Things (IoT) market will grow to US$1.7 trillion in 2020 from US$655.8 billion in 2014, research firm IDC says, as more devices come online and a bevy of platforms and services grow up around them, a Company press release reported. The firm predicts that the number of “IoT endpoints,” connected devices such as cars, refrigerators and everything in between, will grow from 10.3 million in 2014 to more than 29.5 million in 2020. Devices, connectivity and IT services are expected to account for the majority of the global IoT market in 2020, with devices alone accounting for 31.8% of the total. Purpose-built platforms, storage, security, application software and “as a service” offerings are expected to capture a greater percentage of revenue as the market matures. The Asia Pacific region captured around 58.3% of the revenue from IoT in 2014 and will shrink slightly to 51.2% in 2020. In China, a large and growing population using mobile devices alongside a push to make manufacturing practices more efficient may spur a significant number of new devices and IoT standards, said Vernon Turner, IDC’s research fellow for the Internet of Things. Well networked countries like South Korea and Singapore may also ramp up smart city initiatives. North America is expected to maintain revenue share of just more than 26% over the forecast period, while the share in Western Europe is expected to jump from 12% to about 19.5%. n

ALCATEL-LUCENT AND HP DELIVER CLOUD DATA CENTRE SOLUTIONS Alcatel-Lucent has joined forces with long-standing partner HP to deliver technology solutions to enterprises providing data centre networking, data replication and new storage architectures connected with IP and optical backbones, a Company press release reported. The solutions will allow enterprises to provide more cost-effective, reliable services more rapidly with a focus on business continuity, disaster recovery, secure data transport, data centre interconnect and remote copy applications - areas that will enable enterprises to address growing data demands using a cloud architectures, with greater security and flexibility. These new data centre solutions are based on Alcatel-Lucent’s leading IP edge platform, the Alcatel-Lucent 7750 Service Router and the AlcatelLucent 1830 Photonic Service Switch family of optical products. The validated Alcatel-Lucent and HP solutions allow secure and synchronous data replication between data centres over long distances and at rates not previously achievable via standard storage fabric switching. The solutions have been pre-tested, integrated and are available as part of the HP Complete Program in the Americas and EMEA. As enterprises and service providers deploy their cloud offerings between data centres and across hybrid environments, they face challenges in scalability, flexibility and management of the data centre gateway. HP Networking is expanding its portfolio of wide area network routers for large organizations with the adoption of the flagship Alcatel-Lucent 7750 Service Router. Alcatel-Lucent has also worked closely with HP to tightly integrate its industry-leading 1830 PSS optical platform. When combined with the HP 3PAR Remote Copy software it delivers synchronous replication over fibre up to 130 kilometres with encryption to reduce business risk. The initiative marks a further milestone in Alcatel-Lucent’s global alliance with HP. Together, the two companies are working to support the world’s largest organizations and service providers in building network-enabled, distributed cloud infrastructures for the creation of new business opportunities and greater efficiencies, while improving customer service. n

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okia claims that it is the first vendor to effectively merge the IT and telco cloud domains with the launch of its AirFrame Data Centre Solution. This is the first offering that combines the benefits of cloud computing technologies with the stringent requirements of the core and radio in the telco world. The Nokia AirFrame Data Centre Solution is 5G-ready and supports the vision of a more flexible and distributed cloud architecture, which is the foundation to deliver the latency and data processing requirements of the future, a Company press release reported. The first steps for the telco cloud were focused on taking core applications to a virtualized environment, offering immediate benefits of added scalability, flexibility and business agility. However, when implementing a comprehensive telco cloud architecture operators are faced with strict latency requirements and an extremely high demand for processing power. The new AirFrame Data Centre Solution is the first to directly address these requirements and effectively merge the telco and IT domains in one single solution, utilizing high performance Intel® technology. In developing AirFrame, Nokia Networks has invested in further advancing the data centre hardware technology. Its innovations will deliver acceleration capabilities that will help operator customers be more efficient and differentiate themselves in the market. To continue advancing its solutions, Nokia Networks has opened a dedicated R&D facility for data centre technology development. With this solid foundation, the Nokia AirFrame Data Centre Solution brings what is needed to efficiently merge the IT and telco domains and pave the way towards 5G. n

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A LOOK INSIDE GOOGLE’S DATA CENTRE NETWORKS Amin Vahdat, Google Fellow and Technical Lead for Networking at Google has provided and insight – via a company blog – into the company’s in-house network technology.

We build our own software and hardware using silicon from vendors, relying less on standard Internet protocols and more on custom protocols tailored to the data centre.”

Amin wrote “Google has long been a pioneer in distributed computing and data processing, from Google File System to MapReduce to Bigtable and to Borg. From the beginning, we’ve known that great computing infrastructure like this requires great data centres networking technology. But when Google was getting started, no one made a data centres network that could meet our distributed computing requirements.

“Taken together, our network control stack has more in common with Google’s distributed computing architectures than traditional router-centric Internet protocols. Some might even say that we’ve been deploying and enjoying the benefits of Software Defined Networking at Google for a decade. A few years ago, we revealed how SDN has been powering Google’s data centre WAN, B4, one of the world’s biggest WANs. Last year, we showed the details of GCP’s SDN network virtualization stack, Andromeda. In fact, the architectural ideas for both of these systems come from our early work in data centre networking.

So, for the past decade, we have been building our own network hardware and software to connect all of the servers in our data centres together, powering our distributed computing and storage systems. Now, we have opened up this powerful and transformative infrastructure for use by external developers through Google Cloud Platform”. Vahdat goes on to state “… we are revealing for the first time the details of five generations of our in-house network technology. From Firehose, our first in-house data centres network, ten years ago to our latest-generation Jupiter network, we’ve increased the capacity of a single data centre network more than 100x. Our current generation – Jupiter fabrics – can deliver more than 1 Petabit/sec of total bisection bandwidth. To put this in perspective, such capacity would be enough for 100,000 servers to exchange information at 10Gb/s each, enough to read the entire scanned contents of the Library of Congress in less than 1/10th of a second. We used three key principles in designing our data centre networks: We arrange our network around a Clos topology, a network configuration where a collection of smaller (cheaper) switches are arranged to provide the properties of a much larger logical switch.

“Our approach to networking fundamentally changes the organization of the network’s data, control, and management planes. Such a fundamental shift does not come without some bumps, but our operations team has more than met the challenge. We’ve deployed and redeployed multiple generations of our network across our planetary-scale infrastructure to keep up with the bandwidth needs of our distributed systems”. Vahdat concludes “Putting all of this together, our data centre networks deliver unprecedented speed at the scale of entire buildings. They are built for modularity, constantly upgraded to meet the insatiable bandwidth demands of the latest generation of our servers. They are managed for availability, meeting the uptime requirements of some of the most demanding Internet services and customers. Most importantly, our data centre networks are shared infrastructure. This means that the same networks that power all of Google’s internal infrastructure and services also power Google Cloud Platform. We are most excited about opening this capability up to developers across the world so that the next great Internet service or platform can leverage world-class network infrastructure without having to invent it”. n

We use a centralized software control stack to manage thousands of switches within the data centre, making them effectively act as one large fabric.

APPLE PLANS ITS OWN HIGH-SPEED NETWORK

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echnology giant Apple is reportedly said to be assembling a high-speed network and upgrading how it builds data centres, a push to be more competitive with Amazon.com, Google and Microsoft Corp. in cloud services, a Bloomberg report has said.

suppliers to support consumer services such as iTunes for music and movies, iCloud for storing photos and other content and the Siri voiceactivated assistant. Apple will stick with most of its existing vendors, and is mainly seeking to bolster its current infrastructure.

infrastructure to ensure glitch-free delivery, people with knowledge of the matter have said.

The report states that Apple has relied mostly on traditional network providers and technology

Apple is planning to introduce a streamingmusic service. It will need more efficient, faster

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Apple’s push to build a stronger cloud infrastructure combines two initiatives: Building out a faster network and upgrading data centres.

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MICROSOFT AND HP LEAD IN US$114 BILLION DATA CENTRE INFRASTRUCTURE MARKET New Q1 data from Synergy Research Group shows that over the last four quarters spend on data centre infrastructure reached US$114 billion, with software now accounting for 23% of the total. Microsoft and VMware dominate the software segments of the market, in aggregate accounting for almost 90% of software revenues. There is a considerably broader range of large vendors in the hardware side of the market, where the top four companies in aggregate account for 54% of revenues. HP has a strong lead in data centre hardware, followed by Cisco, Dell and IBM, a Company press release reported. Data centre infrastructure includes servers, server OS, storage, networking, network security and virtualization applications. Total spend on data centre over the four-quarter period grew by 6% relative to the previous four quarters, with software growing by 14% and hardware growing by 4%. Among the individual segments some of the highest growth was seen in virtualization applications, server OS, blade servers and storage applications. “Clearly the single biggest driver of spend on data centre infrastructure is the boom in cloud computing. The shift in computing workloads to public and private clouds is driving huge investments in both service provider and enterprise data centres,” said Jeremy Duke, Synergy Research Group’s founder and Chief Analyst. “However, the industry and media focus on cloud does tend to hide the fact that almost half of all data centre investment is still accounted for by traditional non-cloud applications. That part of the data centre market remains enormous and will remain a prime source of revenue for vendors for many years to come” added John Dinsdale, a Chief Analyst and Research Director. n

IBM DELIVERS DOCKER BASED CONTAINER SERVICES FOR ENTERPRISE CLOUD APPLICATION DEVELOPERS IBM has announced the delivery of industry leading enterprise class containers that make it easier for clients to deliver production applications across their hybrid environments, a Company press release reported. Containers give developers flexibility to build once and move applications without the need to rewrite or redeploy their code. IBM Containers, based on Docker and built on Bluemix, IBM’s platform-as-a-service, provide a more efficient environment that enables faster integration and access to analytics, big data and security services. Enterprises will now be able to use the combination of IBM, Docker, Cloud Foundry and OpenStack to create a new generation of portable distributed applications. Also IBM has become a founding member of a coalition of partners and users to create the Open Container Platform that will ensure that containers are interoperable. The creation of the OCP will produce a collaborative environment that fosters the rapid growth of containerbased solutions, offering developers a single industry agreed upon approach and direction. Modern developers need more than basic execution of containers in the cloud. Containers should be empowered with advanced capabilities allowing production applications to be deployed and managed with ease, giving developers the freedom to focus on innovation. The IBM Container service provides significant business benefits to the enterprise that centres on a faster time to market, seamless application portability, higher confidence and reliability for enterprise applications; resulting in an overall reduced development time and cost through a more efficient configuration management across the DevOps value chain. n

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Server Farm Realty, a US privately-owned data centre developer, and the Chinese data centre services provider 21Vianet Group, have announced a strategic partnership to offer data centre infrastructure and services, network connectivity, and cloud and ICT solutions to support multinational companies’ IT infrastructure deployment and business development in China as well as the US, a Company press release reported. Under this partnership and with support from Server Farm Realty, 21Vianet also launches its first U.S. data centre, US-SV1, in Santa Clara, California. The companies’ successful collaboration on this newly built data centre facility in Silicon Valley provides advanced data centres architecture and enterpriseclass solutions in support of Chinese customers. On this platform, 21Vianet and SFR have successfully delivered a first customer project in Santa Clara for a leading cloud computing solution provider from China. This project plays a key role for the customer’s launching of its first full cloud services suite in the United States with the support by 21Vianet and SFR. “Server Farm Realty’s partnership with 21Vianet meets the needs of multinationals looking to expand their reach throughout the U.S. and China by providing access to proven data centre infrastructure, network connectivity, and cloud and ICT solutions, as well as a multilingual team with deep market knowledge and regional expertise,” remarks Avner Papouchado, President of Server Farm Realty. Combining the companies’ continued success and cultural proficiency within the Chinese and U.S. markets with a shared expertise in data centres and service reliability, security and compliance, the partnership provides a unique value to multinational customers seeking to expand their presence in both countries. 21Vianet’s diversified base of enterprise customers benefit from access to Server Farm Realty’s data centres facilities in Santa Clara, Chicago, Moses Lake, Charlotte, and Toronto,. Server Farm Realty’s customers also gain access to 21Vianet’s network connectivity as well as nationwide network of over 80 data centres located in more than 30 cities across China. n

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COMPETITION IN COLOCATION IN EUROPE’S DATA CENTRES STEPS UP IN Q1 2015

The new Colocation Markets Quarterly (CMQ) study researched by BroadGroup covering Q1 of 2015 reveals that London has in contrast to the other three Tier 1 cities, bucked the trend in terms of supply of colocation by power and space. Where Amsterdam and Frankfurt are experiencing strong demand and growth at present, overcapacity remains present in the London / M25 market. Paris is presently static although demand is evident at regional level. Overall Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Paris have witnessed declines in space and MW power availability. Frankfurt has also been bolstered by the news that Interxion is to build a new data centre on its Frankfurt campus with a capex of around €92 million and the first two phases are scheduled to open in the first half of 2016. A large number of other developments are highlighted in CMQ. “As a source of granular, detailed analysis of market developments in Europe’s four Tier 1 cities, CMQ is increasingly assuming authority in the market,” commented Steve Wallage, managing director of BroadGroup Consulting. “We have seen a level of caution evident in the market this past quarter due to M&A and associated uncertainty around the market. However growth in demand from global Internet and cloud providers is still creating some buoyancy.” CMQ this quarter covers 41 data centre deals or developments, 31 cloud developments and 20 data centre connectivity deals across the four Tier 1 cities. The quarterly study also tracks both wholesale and retail data centre pricing and provides a comparative analysis, demand drivers, and the key trends across verticals. An analysis based on market intelligence gathered by BroadGroup Consulting also provides the key reasons that deals were lost or won and the primary factors involved in each decision. The past quarter reveals how for example the quality of data centres and their location has markedly increased. n

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CAPITA SELECTS ARK DATA CENTRES FOR CLOUD SERVICE Capita has partnered with Ark Data Centres to supply secure, energy efficient data centre space for the new Capita Private Cloud platform (infrastructure as a service). The move allows Capita IT Enterprise Services to develop standard infrastructures, processes and services that it can offer customers rather than creating bespoke solutions in every case, a Company press release reported. By using Ark’s data centres, Capita IT Enterprise Services will outlay one tenth of the capital cost compared to that of maintaining its existing facilities, and will at the same time reduce its environmental footprint. Thanks to Ark’s efficient and carbon reducing data centre services, Capita IT Enterprise Services, in turn, will be able to pass those savings onto its customers to further enhance its service and customer relationships. As organisations adopt cloud computing practices, more and more data is being stored in data centres. With this reliance on stored data, customers expect

it to always be available, which means that data centres now need robust reliability. However, with more data centres storing increasing amounts of data, the power used in running, cooling and maintaining these has increased significantly. The efficiency of Ark Data Centres saves customers on average around £1.1 million per megawatt and over 6,000 tonnes of carbon annually compared with an average data centre facility - lowering the total cost of ownership across the industry. Peter Hands, Executive Director, Capita IT Enterprise Services: “Ark Data Centres offers modern facilities which integrate its innovation in cooling technology, dynamic monitoring, modularity, security by building not site, guaranteed power usage effectiveness (PUE) and speed. Combined with our expertise in cloud based services, we’re in prime position to deliver the availability that our customers need, with the flexibility and security that they want and with the reduced carbon footprint that everyone seeks.” n

VERNE GLOBAL WINS BITVEST DIGITAL MINING HOSTING AGREEMENT

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itVest Digital Mining Corp, a Bitcoin transaction processing (mining) business, has announced they have entered into a long-term hosting and power supply agreement with the Verne Global data centre, located in Keflavik, Iceland, reported Datacentres.com. Verne Global‘s 100% renewable powered data centre, located on a former NATO airbase, harnesses power from Iceland‘s dual-sourced

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power grid, comprised of hydroelectric and geothermal energy. The power needed to mine big data can oftentimes mean big costs for companies. For BitVest, the move to Iceland allows for significant savings and increased ROI. Verne Global will supply BitVest with an affordable 100% carbon-neutral power solution that offers unparalleled pricing and efficiency. Low-cost, reliable and sustainable power is

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crucial for Bitcoin mining computers that generate huge amounts of heat. In warmer climates, the majority of the costs for Bitcoin mining comes from expensive air conditioners and paying for the power to run them. By using Iceland‘s temperate climate to cool the equipment, BitVest can save as much as 30% in cooling costs. n

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SCOTTISH BUSINESS COMMUNITY LET DOWN BY POOR INTERNET CONNECTIVITY Over half (52%) of IT decision makers in Scotland believe the country’s broadband infrastructure is inferior to other parts of the UK, despite 61% of citing improved internet connectivity as key in supporting economic growth, a recent YouGov poll has reported.

The survey uncovers some alarming results from businesses across Scotland including cities like Edinburgh – home to important financial and growing tech clusters. 40% of respondents for example said they have regular concerns about poor internet having a negative impact on their company.

Commissioned by network infrastructure provider, CityFibre, the study found 92% of respondents view high quality, fast broadband as important to the success of their company. When asked about businesses in Scotland in general, improved internet connectivity was the most commonly cited driver behind economic and business growth (61%), this ranks higher than a reduced rate of tax (48%), improved national and international transport links (59% and 37% respectively) and increased housing construction (23%) according to a company press release.

65% of businesses in Scotland surveyed, said insufficient internet would cause a drop in office productivity, while 42% said it would affect their ability to grow and 69% said their customer service standards would suffer as a result. Worryingly, many companies (47%) felt that poor Internet would adversely affect their decision to invest in new technology – such as cloud and VoIP services. Most concerns could be addressed by the introduction of modern, digital fibre network services, according to the poll. For instance, 44% of respondents believe revenues will increase, while 55% and 68% believe cost efficiency and productivity would improve respectively should gigabit speed internet become commonplace. n

THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES APPOINTS KEYSOURCE FOR DATA CENTRE PROFESSIONAL SERVICES Following a competitive tender, The National Archives has appointed Keysource, the UK business critical environments consultant, to help reduce its energy consumption and carbon footprint in line with the Government’s strategic objectives, Industry Today reported. Under the terms of the deal Keysource will be responsible for providing data centre professional services in relation to one of The National Archives’ sites in Kew, which houses most of the storage, network and server infrastructure

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used to deliver corporate and customer facing technology services. The scope of the project focuses on Keysource developing a set of best practice principles and energy efficiency initiatives which can be implemented throughout the data centre. The four-week project, when completed, will enable The National Archives to tender out the required upgrade work identified during this initial piece of work.

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Paul Davies, Head of Estates and Operational Security at The National Archives, said: “The quality of the Keysource bid clearly demonstrated their approach to professional services was well established in this environment and appropriate for our needs. Their experience in previous project outcomes have delivered on objectives for best practice and energy efficiency.” n

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KNCMINER TO BUILD NEW 20MW DATA CENTRE MICROSOFT SEEKS CONSENT FOR ANOTHER DUBLIN DATA CENTRE Reports have emerged in Ireland that Microsoft, the US IT giant has applied for planning consent for a new data centre to be located on a campus that Microsoft has been developing at the Grangecastle business park in Clondalkin, west Dublin. The Irish Independent reported that extending over 7,600 sq m, which includes almost 1,600 sq m of office space, the data centre is likely to cost as much as €70m to build. "The increasing move of social and business life to the online or cloud world means the current facilities are approaching their capacity ahead of the most conservative predictions of five years ago" stated planning documents. submitted to South Dublin County Council. Grangecastle is already home to three Microsoft data centres, while other firms such as Google also have sites there. Microsoft is already developing the first phase of a new data centre in Grangecastle and that project is due to be completed in September. It's already involved in detailed design and development planning for the second phase of that centre. Microsoft declined to comment on its latest plans for Grangecastle. n

BITFURY TO BUILD GEORGIA DATA CENTRE BitFury Group, the Bitcoin Blockchain infrastructure provider and transaction processing company, has announced that it is acquiring a 185,000 sq. m land plot from the Georgian National Agency of State Property to develop the a new Technology Park project in the Gldani District in Tbilisi, a Company press release reported. BitFury will be the first tenant in the Technology Park where it will build a major data centre with up to 100 MW energy capacity to process transactions using its latest generation 28 nm and the upcoming 16 nm ASIC chips. The new project will take full advantage of the proprietary immersion cooling technology enabled by Allied Control which BitFury has acquired earlier this year. The company has developed its third generation immersion cooling system to create energy-saving data enter cooling systems for high performance computing applications. The CEO of BitFury Valery Vavilov commented: “We are pleased to commence our new project in the Republic of Georgia which envisages the development of the special technology zone with the aim of attracting international technology players, as well as building our latest mega data centre. Our investment decision was made based on our previous experience of doing business in the Republic of Georgia. Our current data centre located in Gori in Georgia, which was developed in cooperation with Georgian Co-Investment Fund, proved to be a major success, and as a result, we saw further potential in continuing doing business and investing in this country.”

The Swedish bitcoin company, KnCMiner to build new 20MW data centre in Boden, Sweden – an area marketed as the Node Pole, reported Datacentres.com. The blockchain capacity provider KnCMiner has seen rapid success since the foundation in 2013. Now despite recent speculation linking of it with possible new data centre in Finland, KnCMiner has announced a further expansion, building a new 20MW green hydro powered data centre in Boden. “Leading the way forward in one of the most rapidly expanding global markets is an equally demanding and inspiring task. Time-to-market is everything and we are very happy with how the local municipality, Boden Business Agency and the regional competences within The Node Pole have all come together to help us expand”, says Sam Cole – CEO & Co-founder of KnCMiner. Last year KnCMiner established its presence in the Boden area, located near the Arctic Circle in Sweden, with two centres totalling 30 MW. This new 20MW data centre is to be built in two stories, each measuring 1,700m2 (~18,000ft2), equalling the size of roughly four basketball courts. KnCMiner has also purchased land to prepare for a further expansion of the new build – all adjacent to a new hydro powered 120MW substation with quadruple redundancy, being built nearby. “Pending a lowering of the Swedish energy taxation rates, an area where Sweden lags behind the neighbouring Finland for attracting green energy capacity investors, we would like to expand more within The Node Pole. We and other global investors have shown good faith and the regional community is ambitious to firmly grasp global leadership for the sector. Now it is just up to the Swedish government to pave the way. We are most certainly ready to continue expanding our investment, building many more 20MW centres if the taxes are lower, creating new careers and securing many jobs for the future” continues Sam Cole. The new data centre is to be up and running during September. n

GOOGLE TO POWER EUROPEAN DATA CENTRES 100% WITH RENEWABLE ENERGY Urs Hoelzle. Google‘s infrastructure expert has been telling heise.de that the company’s four European data centres are soon to be run on 100% renewable energy, Telecom Paper reported. At present, the company operates three European data centres, in Finland, Belgium and in Ireland, with a fourth facility currently under construction in Eemshaven in the Netherlands. The Dutch facility will be based entirely on renewable resources from the start. Across all of the company‘s thirteen data centres worldwide, renewable energy accounts for 35%. Since 2007, all its sites have been carbon-neutral. The company has bought more than 1 gigawatts from wind, solar and hydro power, and plans to increase this amount significantly over the next two to three years. In addition to its own consumption, Google has also invested more than US$2 billion in green energies. n

BitFury currently has two data centres: in Iceland and the Republic of Georgia. The company chose Georgia because of the country’s attractive investment climate and ease of conducting business. Low energy cost and competitive labor market have also played big part in the decision-making. n

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DEUTSCHE TELEKOM KEEPS ITS SIGHTS SET ON EUROPE’S CLOUD MARKET

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UK BUSINESSES PLAN TO OUTSOURCE OVER A THIRD OF THEIR IT ENVIRONMENT BY 2020 The ICT solutions and services provider Daisy has produced new research that reveals that UK mid-market businesses plan to outsource over a third (37%) of their IT environments to managed service providers (MSPs) in the next five years. The survey highlighted that cost reduction (67%) remains the biggest reason for IT directors turning to managed services. However, organisational agility (50%) and a drive to optimise existing IT resources (40%) were also cited as significant drivers. Interestingly, in the face of increased security threats, over half (55%) of IT directors said they are looking to MSPs to provide them with additional support, Channel Asia reported. The research further revealed that the management of the network (56%), infrastructure (54%) and applications (53%) are the most common functions outsourced to MSPs today. However, looking to the year ahead, IT directors’ priorities are changing, with 58% highlighting application management as the main service they’ll be looking to outsource in the next 12 months. Service desk / IT service management (51%) and network management (48%) were cited as second and third most common functions likely to be outsourced. The survey also asked respondents what is most important to them when assessing the suitability of an MSP. Understanding the organisation’s exact needs ranked most highly, with nearly a third (32%) of IT directors rating this as most important. This was followed by the MSP’s security credentials (26%) and their sector and technology expertise (19%). n

FACEBOOK COMMITS TO NEW IRISH DATA CENTRE Reports emerged last month that the social media giant Facebook planned to set up a new data centre in the Irish County of Meath. Now more details have been revealed with confirmation that the company has submitted plans which will be its fifth such facility and it is due to be powered solely through renewable energy, reported Datacentres.com. There will be 40 new full time jobs, while hundreds of other jobs will be created during the construction phase. “Ireland has been a home for Facebook since 2007 and today’s planning application demonstrates our continued interest to invest in Ireland,” Rachel Peterson, data centre director in Facebook told RTE. She continues: “We hope to build an innovative, environmentally friendly data centre that will help us continue to connect people in Ireland and around the world while supporting local job creation and Ireland’s successful technology economy.” A spokesman for Facebook commented on the move saying, “Similar investments by Facebook have typically led to an economic impact in the order of hundreds of millions of euros, with thousands of jobs supported.”

Deutsche Telekom is keeping its sights set on the European market for cloud services, with the intention of more than doubling the current annual figure of approximately one billion euros of revenue from business customers by the end of 2018. Building on its market position among business customers is an important step for Deutsche Telekom towards becoming the leading telecommunications company in Europe. Business in IT and telecommunications services from the cloud is growing unabatedly and in response, the Group is constantly expanding its cloud ecosystem with technology partners who are in turn market leaders. Deutsche Telekom and Huawei took the opportunity provided by the Huawei Innovation day to announce the extension of their cloud services cooperation, a Company press release reported. “At Deutsche Telekom, we want to grow by more than 20% each year in the field of cloud platforms, and to become the leading provider for businesses in Europe,” said Dr. Ferri Abolhassan, Head of the IT Division at T-Systems. Last year, revenue from cloud solutions, in particular in the highly secure private cloud, increased by double-figure percentage points at T-Systems alone. The market for services from the public cloud – infrastructure, platforms and applications – that can be accessed through the public Internet promises further growth. In conjunction with partners, Deutsche Telekom plans to pit itself more strongly against the Internet corporations Google and Amazon in future. To achieve this, the departments within Deutsche Telekom’s segments are now stepping up their cloud activities across the Group. “Huawei provides hardware and solutions expertise, while we offer cloud management with the best availability, via the best network,” was how Mr. Abolhassan summed up the new cooperation. “In this way, we are securing the best balance of price, service and quality for our customers when migrating their IT to the cloud.” Quality in the sense of failsafe services is the decisive purchase criterion for corporate customers, coming even before price, a study conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers has revealed. As one of the cloud pioneers, T-Systems has already been providing corporate customers with services from the cloud for ten years. It counts multinational companies such as Shell, Daimler and Thyssen-Krupp among its customers. With more than 2.6 million SAP users in the cloud, today Deutsche Telekom’s corporate customer arm is the biggest SAP cloud landscape operator in the world. Cloud services for Europe are provided from data centres in Germany, which means that they are subject to strict German data protection guidelines. “In cloud computing, data centre location brings the valuable advantage of security. Our customers and partners place their full trust in Deutsche Telekom in this regard,” said Mr. Abolhassan. Huawei and T-Systems had already announced the expansion of their collaboration in the private cloud field at CeBIT. “We are delighted that we are able to expand our partnership with Deutsche Telekom and its corporate customer arm T-Systems further. After we agreed on our cooperation regarding IT infrastructure and Private Cloud services during CeBIT we are now taking the next step and combining our know-how and cutting-edge technology in the Public Cloud area to ensure that companies of all sizes are provided with the Cloud of their choice,” said Haibo Zhang, President of Huawei Deutsche Telekom Key Account Department. n

Facebook already operates an energy efficient data centre in Sweden that can be remotely controlled by engineers based in Dublin using an internal Facebook technology known as Cyborg. n

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PULSANT EXPANDING EDINBURGH DATA CENTRE

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storage areas. Once complete, the new data centre will be ISO27001, 14001 and PCI-DSS compliant, as well as part of the G-Cloud and Scottish Government frameworks. The South Gyle facility, one of ten owned by Pulsant, currently supports over 800 racks and 12Mw of power in two secure, purpose-built data centres. It also hosts Scotland’s first dedicated internet exchange – IX Scotland.

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Matt Lovell, Pulsant CTO, says: “We’re delighted to break ground and see the planning come to fruition. This project is part of our overall expansion strategy and came about due to a real need in the region for additional secure data centres able to deliver the best technology solutions in terms of uptime, redundancy and support”. Construction is expected to complete in August 2015. n

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RESEARCH REVEALS DATA CENTRE SECTOR STILL ROCKED BY NATURAL DISASTERS Independent research commissioned by Zenium Technology Partners has indicated that 1 in 2 organisations are not operating a data centre environment that could withstand, or continue to operate after, a natural disaster. This lack of perceived preparedness is in spite of 45% of respondents stating that their data centre is flood resistant, 43% confirming facilities are earthquake resistant and 60% declaring their data centre is located in an area away from physical or environmental hazards, a Company press release reported. The report – “Managing Growth, Risk and the Cloud” – found that in the last 10 years, 1 in 2 companies (50%) questioned has experienced disruption to their data centre operation due to seismic activity or other natural disasters. On average, respondents experienced 5 such incidents in total, which amounts to 1 every other year. Unsurprisingly, of the territories included in the survey, Turkey has experienced the greatest number of incidents (65%) but the report also pointed to high figures in the UK at 45% and Germany at 39%. Of those that have experienced disruptions, 91% incurred expense to the business each time, with the maximum cited as £500,000. Surprisingly,

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34% of CIO/VP/director-level respondents did not know what the “exact” cost was, and were only able to say that ‘some’ loss was incurred. Perhaps more shocking is that twice as many of those that outsource - 58% - have experienced disruption caused by a natural disaster in the last 10 years, compared with those that do not outsource (25%). “I’m astounded by these figures but this could well be because companies have not chosen well when it comes to the data centre operator they selected as an outsourcing partner,” said Franek Sodzawiczny, CEO & Founder of Zenium Technology Partners. “Natural disasters are rightly top of the data centre business agenda and I believe that outsourcing continues to offer a viable risk-reduction strategy, a Company press release reported. “Discussions around scalability, connectivity and cost are of course important when selecting an outsourcing partner but this research demonstrates quite clearly that the location of the data centre should not be underestimated,” he added. “The data centre supports mission critical services and downtime is not only disastrous, but astronomically expensive, in today’s 24x7 business environment.

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No matter what SLA’s a company has in place, it all becomes immediately irrelevant if the data centre building is inaccessible, damaged or worse, destroyed.” Interestingly 64% of those that already outsource some data centre operations are considering outsourcing more to further reduce exposure to natural disasters and 36% of those that do not outsource are also considering taking this same route. It is also worth noting that 88% of those considering outsourcing to reduce risk would still prefer to host data within national borders and, interestingly, more IT professionals in the UK (86%) and Turkey (87%) feel this way, compared to Germany (75%). “I think it’s fair to say that it is highly likely that the demand for robust and resilient space to combat natural disasters will grow alongside an increasing preference to partner with a local data centre operator,” suggested Sodzawiczny. “The report found that 83% of respondents believe they will have to lease more data centre space from domestic providers as a result of the EU Data Protection Directive so making the right decisions about the data centre will continue to be about ‘location, location, location’ in the long term.” n

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IBM OPENS FIRST CLOUD DATA CENTRE IN ITALY

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customers can also use the new facility to reach local end users, create data redundancy, and achieve geographic diversity. The Milan location supports an emerging cloudcomputing market in Italy, which, according to The Polytechnic University of Milan’s Observatory of Cloud and ICT as a Service, saw 31% year-overyear growth in 2014, with a total market spend of more than €1.18 billion. “The Italian IT sector is changing as start-ups and enterprises alike are increasingly turning to the cloud to optimize infrastructure, lower IT costs, create new revenue streams, and spur innovation,” said Marc Jones, chief technology officer for SoftLayer, an IBM Company. “The Milan data centre extends the unique capabilities of our global platform by providing a fast, local

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onramp to the cloud. Customers have everything they need to quickly build out and test solutions that run the gamut from crunching big data to launching a mobile app globally.” “This data centre represents a financial and technological investment made by a multinational company that has faith in this country’s potential,” said Nicola Ciniero, General Manager, IBM Italy. “Having an IBM Cloud presence in Italy will provide local businesses with the right foundation to innovate and thrive on a global level.” The IBM Cloud data centre in Milan joins existing SoftLayer EMEA cloud centres in London, Paris, Frankfurt, and Amsterdam and connects to IBM Cloud’s growing network of facilities around the world. n

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DUTCH DATA CENTRE MARKET GROWING STRONGLY COUNCIL WANT MORE INFORMATION ON PLANNED APPLE DATA CENTRE Technology giant Apple plans for a new a new Irish data centre in Galway have been queried by the local County Council who have asked the company to provide more detailed information regarding its proposal to construct the facility outside Athenry. The planning application for the 500-acre forest site at Palmerstown and Toberroe in Derrydonnell was submitted earlier this year for a singlestorey data centre building measuring more than 263,000 sq ft, a singlestorey logistics and administration building measuring 56,000 sq ft, a single-storey maintenance building measuring 3,100 sq ft, two small ‘fibre huts’, a security hut, ESB substation and 18 standby generators. Accruing to RTE, A final decision from planners was expected this week but that has now been delayed after the local authority sought further details about the manner in which the plant would be powered and the impact construction might have on the landscape. Apple has six months to respond to the request for further information. The council wants to know how the developers would implement and fulfil a commitment to run the centre with 100% renewable energy. n

IO LAUNCHES WITH GOLDMAN SACHS DATA CENTRE CONTRACT IO, a US headquartered data centre services company, has launched its UK operation, with a new data centre facility in Slough, Berkshire. As part of its long-term, strategic technology partnership with IO, Goldman Sachs has signed on as the UK facility’s first customer, reported Datacentres.com. This opening is a sign of the company’s ongoing commitment to expansion, enabling it to serve its global customers in one of the fastest growing markets in the world. This is IO’s second modular data centre outside of North America, following Singapore in 2013. With more than 10,000 sq m, the Slough-based data centre features highly resilient power, a dedicated substation and will house the first international deployment of BASELAYER’s advanced ECO modules, designed to deliver ultra-efficient performance by using free, outside air, backed by traditional chilled water technology. “We are delighted to open the data centre with such a prestigious first customer,” said Nigel Stevens, IO’s UK Managing Director. “In preparation for our launch, we have assembled a great team of industry experts from the London area. We’re looking forward to helping existing customers expand their footprint into Europe, as well as attracting customers from the UK market.” Stevens adds: “What’s different about IO’s modular approach to data centres is that you only have to buy what you need. Historically, this industry requires that you overprovision in order to ensure sufficient capacity. At IO, that’s not the case. You simply purchase space and power as your business demands it. When you add to that the ability to scale power density up to 30kW per rack, and the visibility provided by our IO.OS software, it’s clear that we have a very compelling solution.” IO operates six facilities across three continents, and two of the largest data centres in the world. It is a global leader in software-defined data centres, pioneering the next generation of deployments in this field. n

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A new report - ‘Dutch Data centre Report 2015’ from the Dutch Data centre Association suggest that the data centre market in that country is growing strongly and playing a key role in the local economy and international market, Telecom Paper reported. Growth is the strongest around the cities Rotterdam, Eindhoven and Groningen. The study found the capacity including office space has reached 460,000 sq m and 350 MW. Among large operators, 70-90% of capacity is in use, while smaller players are more around 25-50% utilisation. Despite the overcapacity, half the data centres have plans to expand this year, and 50% of respondents said they expect construct a new building within the next five years. A large share (45%) of the data centres are occupied by technology companies, such as hosting providers, independent software vendors and online service providers, and this is expected to grow further due to growing adoption of cloud services. n

COUNCIL WANT MORE INFORMATION ON PLANNED APPLE DATA CENTRE Technology giant Apple plans for a new a new Irish data centre in Galway have been queried by the local County Council who have asked the company to provide more detailed information regarding its proposal to construct the facility outside Athenry. The planning application for the 500-acre forest site at Palmerstown and Toberroe in Derrydonnell was submitted earlier this year for a single-storey data centre building measuring more than 263,000 sq ft, a single-storey logistics and administration building measuring 56,000 sq ft, a single-storey maintenance building measuring 3,100 sq ft, two small ‘fibre huts’, a security hut, ESB substation and 18 standby generators. Accruing to RTE, A final decision from planners was expected this week but that has now been delayed after the local authority sought further details about the manner in which the plant would be powered and the impact construction might have on the landscape. Apple has six months to respond to the request for further information. The council wants to know how the developers would implement and fulfil a commitment to run the centre with 100% renewable energy. n

DATA4 RAISES DATA CENTRE EXPANSION FUNDS The European owner, developer and operator of carrier-neutral, multi-tier data centres, DATA4 Group, has announced has raised €80 million in share issue and secured a €150 million loan to fund its growth plans, Telecom Paper reported. Data4, which is present in Luxembourg, France and Italy, aims to double its revenue to €100 million by 2019-2020. Just before Christmas last year, the company announced that it had signed an agreement with an un-named global Infrastructure as a Service provider, which will see the latter lease a new data centre. The facility is located on Data4’s campus in Milan and will be delivered to the customer in the second quarter of 2015. Data4 is looking for further acquisition targets in Europe. CEO Olivier Marcheli told Les Echos that the company will have a fourth data centre in Milan next year. He added that a plan to build a new facility in Aubervilliers, France, has been put on hold because of problems connecting it to the power grid. Data4 has opted instead to build a new facility in Marcousssis, south of Paris. n

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E-SHELTER OPENS FIRST AUSTRIAN DATA CENTRE The German headquartered data centre provider, e-shelter has opened its eight data centre – and it’s first in Austria – with a celebration involving more than 200 guests, Datacentres.com reported. The first phase of the data centre is approximately 2,800 sq m, with a further three phases planned which will eventually total over 8,400 sq m of pure data centre space. The total development cost is around €140 million when completed. “An excellent infrastructure is the foundation for the held digital transformation. Our data centre in Vienna is affiliated with our data centres in Germany and Switzerland, so that here a central Web page addresses and cloud hub not only

for Vienna but also for Central and Eastern Europe is produced, “says Rupprecht Rittweger, founder and CEO of e-shelter, at the opening. One of the first tenants Atos Origin signed a contract in April for a new data centre at the facility - Atos Data Centre South. e-shelter operates a total of approximately 90,000 sq m data centre space at eight locations. Of these, only 60,000 sq m area at its headquarters in Frankfurt am Main, the order is Europe’s largest single data centre location. Other sites are located in Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, Vienna and Zurich. In March 2015 e-shelter was acquired by the Japanese NTT Communications Corporation and therefore has access to a network of 140 worldwide data centres. n

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nteroute, owner operator of Europe’s largest cloud services platform, has launched a new Interoute Virtual Data Centre zone in Zurich. Interoute VDC is integrated into Interoute’s private network to form its global networked cloud. This fully automated platform gives customers free data transfer and the ability to fully control data location, a Company press release reported. Interoute says that it is the first global cloud provider to offer two cloud computing sites in Switzerland. Businesses can use the new Zurich zone together with Interoute’s existing Geneva zone to build secure, in-country, dual-site resilience, as well as enjoy global reach to the

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12 other zones available across Interoute’s cloud footprint. The new Interoute Virtual Data Centre zone in Zurich has been built in response to customer demand for location sensitive cloud sites across Europe. Interoute is continuously expanding its Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform, now offering a total of 14 Virtual Data Centres across the world. Switzerland is the third European country where Interoute offers dual-site capability for its cloud platform, with paired locations already available in the UK (London – Slough) and Germany (Berlin – Frankfurt). Users can enjoy speeds as fast as 4 miliseconds2 for sending a data packet between the Zurich and Geneva zones and back. The global reach of

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Interoute’s cloud infrastructure extends from the west coast of the US, through a dense network of VDC zones covering the economic hubs of Europe, and stretching eastward to Asia. Interoute VDC has an easy to use online interface or can be controlled via an extensive API functionality. Customers can select any of 14 zones for the storage of their data, giving them complete control of where their files and applications are hosted. Not only this, but data transfers between zones are free for Interoute VDC customers, making it extremely flexible and cost efficient to create multi-zone compute and data architectures, and to reach multiple markets across the globe. n

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ST TELEMEDIA INVESTING IN VIRTUS DATA CENTRES NTT COM ACQUIRES 86.7% STAKE IN E-SHELTER NTT Com, the ICT solutions and international communications business, e-shelter, the German headquartered data centre provider, and ABRY Partners, a private equity investment firm, have jointly announced that NTT Com acquired a 86.7% stake in e-shelter. The acquisition elevates the NTT Com’s data centre space in Europe to 92,000 sq m in nine cities, up from 19,500 sq m in four cities, reported Datacentres.com. No financial details with the regard to the transaction were released. As the designer, builder and operator of high-availability data centres, e-shelter offers infrastructure based on the highest standards of physical security and operational reliability. The company, led by CEO Rupprecht Rittweger, was established in 2000. It operates over 70,000 sq m of server room space, including 40,000 sq m at its main site in Frankfurt, Europe’s largest data centre facility. The company has additional sites in Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Munich, as well as in Vienna, Austria and Zurich, Switzerland. Clients of e-shelter include providers of financial, telecom, IT and cloud services, and governmental institutions. Last week, -shelter has opened its eighth data centre in Vienna, it’s first in Austria. The first phase of the data centre is approximately 2,800 sq m, with a further three phases planned which will eventually total over 8,400 sq m of pure data centre space. Going forward, NTT Com will continue to expand its data centre’s to offer strengthened global seamless ICT solutions that meet the business needs of corporate customers on the European continent, where the demand for data centres continues to grow. n

FIDELITY OFFER TO TAKE COLT PRIVATE The UK headquartered Telecoms provider Colt Group has seen its largest shareholder, Fidelity - which owns 62.4% of Colt’s shares - make an offer to buy out minority shareholders in an all-cash bid that values Colt at about £1.72 billion, Reuters reported. Under the terms of the deal, Fidelity offered to pay 190 pence a share to the minority shareholders of Colt, representing a 21.3% premium to its closing price on Thursday. Colt provides data network, voice, cloud computing and data centre services in 28 countries in Europe, Asia and North America. If the deal is finalised, Fidelity plans to delist the company’s shares and take it private. Colt said that its independent directors believed the offer “undervalues” the company and its prospects but did not oppose it outright. “The independent directors believe that the financial terms of the offer may be considered by some shareholders to be acceptable in the circumstances, and accordingly make no recommendation to shareholders whether or not to accept the offer,” the company said. Fidelity responded this morning (Monday) with a statement that “Fidelity has committed to holding its investment in Colt and not to sell or take any other steps to dispose of its Colt shares to any third party prior to 31 December 2016. This commitment stands whether as a consequence of the offer Colt becomes a private company, or remains as a public listed company should the offer lapse.” Ruffer and Standard Life Investments, which together own 23.4% of Colt’s shares, have agreed to sell their shares in the offering, Reuters reported.n

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The UK based data centre provider VIRTUS Data Centres and ST Telemedia, a Singapore-based global investor focused on building and growing innovative communications, media and technology businesses, have announced a strategic investment to accelerate VIRTUS’ business growth. Under the partnership, ST Telemedia, through its wholly owned subsidiary, STT GDC will make a significant investment into VIRTUS committing to a 49% stake via a Joint Venture with VIRTUS’ existing owner Brockton Capital. The new investment from ST Telemedia will be used to fund VIRTUS’ continued growth and footprint expansion in the UK, reported Datacentres.com reported. Alongside Brockton Capital’s continued support and UK-focused real estate expertise, the new partnership will allow VIRTUS to leverage ST Telemedia’s extensive data centre experience and expertise to strengthen its market position, accelerate growth and continue its mission to lead the industry. ST Telemedia has a track record of successfully building, growing and transforming businesses into market leaders with diverse investments and operations spanning the Asia-Pacific region, the Americas and Europe. It is a pioneer in data centres with experience dating back to the late 1990s when it introduced advanced internet exchange services into Asia. ST Telemedia launched i-STT in 2000 which was later merged into Equinix in the US. ST Telemedia was the largest strategic shareholder in Equinix, during which time, Equinix developed into one of the world’s largest carrier-neutral and advanced data centre companies. It has since divested its interest in Equinix. Within ST Telemedia’s portfolio companies, Level 3 Communications owns and operates over 350 carrier-neutral data centre facilities throughout North America, Latin America and Europe; whilst GDS Services operates 17 high-availability carrier-neutral data centres in primary economic hubs across China. In March 2015, ST Telemedia announced its plan to develop a 150,000 sq ft, high quality, state-of-the art flagship data centre facility in Singapore. The Singapore data centre will be carrier-neutral, offering customers a full suite of best-in-class, highly scalable data centre services including physical and virtual colocation, connectivity and infrastructure management which will also support the growth in the cloud services market. Neil Cresswell, CEO, VIRTUS Data Centres said: “VIRTUS has experienced rapid growth in the last five years with increasing customer demand for our innovative and high quality services. The addition of ST Telemedia to our existing relationship with Brockton Capital will support our growth plans to expand our data centre footprint and services in key markets.” “It’s exciting to be forming a partnership with a global organisation with the pedigree and track record of ST Telemedia. Its experience and reach, in particular its growing Asian portfolio with the likes of GDS in China and its data centre platform in Singapore, will hugely benefit our customers.” n

GOOGLE OPENS SECOND BELGIAN DATA CENTRE Search engine giant, Google has expanded its data centre presence in Belgium with the opening of a second data centre facility located on its existing site in Saint-Ghislain, near Mons, reported Datacentres.com. The new facility – built at an investment worth some €300 million - has been opened in response to what is termed the exponential growth of data. Google opened its first facility on the site in September 2010 and now serves Google users across Europe and around the world. It was the first Google data centre worldwide to run entirely without refrigeration, using instead an advanced evaporative cooling system that draws grey water from a nearby industrial canal. Google announced in 2013 a second phase in which the data centre would be expanded to meet the growing demand for the services of the company. Google also has other European data centre facilities in Dublin, Ireland, Eemshaven in the Netherlands and Hamina, Finland. n

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Internet giant Google has announced that it is to invest some US $600 million in establishing a new data centre on the site of a former coal-based power plant, site at Widows Creek in Stevenson. Alabama, reported Data centres.com. The new facility will be the company’s 14th such facility across the globe and follows recent expansions of data centres in Iowa, Georgia, Singapore and Belgium. Patrick Gammons, Senior Manager, Data Centre Energy and Location Strategy expanded the rationale behind the new facility in a company blog as such: “This time, we’re doing something we’ve never done before: we’ll be building on the grounds of the Widows Creek coal power plant in Jackson County, which has been scheduled for shutdown. Data centres need a lot of infrastructure to run 24/7, and there’s a lot of potential in redeveloping large industrial sites like former coal power plants. Decades of investment shouldn’t go to waste just because a site has closed; we can repurpose existing electric and other infrastructure to make sure our data centres are reliably serving our users around the world. At Widows Creek, we can use the plants’ many electric transmission lines to bring in lots of renewable energy to power our new data centre. Thanks to an arrangement with Tennessee Valley Authority, our electric utility, we’ll be able to scout new renewable energy projects and work with TVA to bring the power onto their electrical grid. Ultimately, this contributes to our goal of being powered by 100% renewable energy”. Gammons, goes on “In 2010, we were one of the first companies outside of the utility industry to buy large amounts of renewable energy. Since then, we’ve become the largest corporate renewable energy purchaser in the world (in fact we’ve bought the equivalent of over 1.5 percent of the installed wind power capacity in the U.S.). We’re glad to see this trend is catching on among other companies. Of course, the cleanest energy is the energy you don’t use. Our Alabama data centre will incorporate our state-of-the-art energy efficiency technologies. We’ve built our own super-efficient servers, invented more efficient ways to cool our data centres, and even used advanced machine learning to squeeze more out of every watt of power we consume. Compared to five years ago, we now get 3.5 times the computing power out of the same amount of energy.” Google e say that the Stevenson data centre will act as a hub for Internet traffic, operating in a network that keeps the Google search engine and company products such as Gmail and YouTube up and running for global users 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Construction on data centre will begin in 2016.

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CORESITE ANNOUNCES DEVELOPMENT OF NEW SILICON VALLEY DATA CENTRE CoreSite Realty, a provider of data centre solutions across the U.S., has announced today the development of SV7 on its Santa Clara campus. CoreSite is initiating the build of SV7 in order to continue to meet growing demand for multi-tenant data centre space in the Silicon Valley market, a Company press release reported. SV7 will comprise approximately 230,000 sq ft, of which CoreSite has pre-leased approximately 35,000 sq ft under a lease executed in Q2 2015. Currently in preconstruction and anticipated to break ground in Q3 of this year, CoreSite expects to substantially complete Phase 1 of the building in Q2 2016. The completion of SV7 will increase the size of CoreSite’s Santa Clara campus to approximately 600,000 sq ft. “We are pleased to announce the continued growth of our Santa Clara campus and to be able to provide a valued customer with a scalable, flexible data centre solution,” said Tom Ray, CEO of CoreSite. “Santa Clara has continued to be among the top markets in the U.S. in terms of annual absorption of data centre capacity, and we believe that our SV7 development will bring added best-in-class capacity to this robust market. Further, the nearly 180 customers currently deployed within CoreSite’s data centres throughout Silicon Valley benefit from our continued expansion of the highly-interconnected environment in which their performance-sensitive IT applications are deployed.”

SWITCH RENO DATA CENTRE UNDERWAY Last January, Nevada, Gov. Brian Sandoval announced that the Las Vegas based data centre company Switch, were planning to build 3 million sq ft data centre project in Reno. Now Switch Vice President Andy Kramer has told the Reno Gazette-Journal that work has commenced on the site. The planned data centre campus will be built in phases on a 1,000-acre site at the Tahoe Reno Industrial Centre just east of Reno. Switch expects the overall project to take five to 10 years but its first facility should be open by the second quarter of 2016. Switch operates two data centre facilities in Las Vegas, providing security, power and cooling for stacks of thousands of servers owned by more than 1,000 clients, including eBay, Xerox and Amazon.

DIGITAL REALTY LOOKING TO BUY TELX Global data centre REIT, Digital Realty Trust is reported to be preparing a bid to buy Telx Group, the US based private equity-owned data centre firm in a deal that could cost some US$2 billion accruing to Reuters. Digital Realty is said to be one of several U.S. and international bidders for Telx, according to Reuters sources. The auction for Telx, which is owned by ABRY Partners and Berkshire Partners, is at its early stages, the people added. Reuters first reported April 28 that Telx was exploring a sale. New York-based Telx manages 1.3 million sq ft of data centre space and more than 50,000 network connections. The company owns 20 data centres, including three major ones in New York City. Its customers range from small businesses that only need half of a cabinet in data centres to global companies requiring a full-floor lease. Telx, Digital Realty and Berkshire Partners declined to comment, while ABRY Partners did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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ydro-Québec, the Canadian hydroelectric power producer will have new data centre built for it that will leverage free cooling technology. Hydro-Québec, has signed a 20-year lease and operation agreement, with consortium partners Pomerleau, Veolia and Ehvert who will design, construct and operate the data centre.

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By implementing a cooling system that uses outside air, the data centre is projected to achieve a PUE rating of 1.3 or lower. Leveraging a scalable approach, Ehvert is designing the data centre to augment its power capacity in stages from 1.6 MW to 4.5 MW over the course of the 20-year term, Energy Manager Today reported.

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Once construction is completed by Pomerleau in 2016, Veolia will provide operations and maintenance services for the data centre under a 20-year lease and operation agreement, including technical data centre operations, facility maintenance and property management, 24/7 physical security and ongoing energy management support.

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INFOMART DALLAS ADDS WHOLESALE DATA CENTRE SUITE Infomart Data Centres, a US based wholesale data centre provider, has completed commissioning of 3 megawatts of turnkey capacity in the Infomart building, located at 1950 Stemmons Freeway in Dallas. This new supply, designed to Tier III standards, represents the first of several phases for this site, ultimately supplying over 500,000 sq ft of data centre space and more than 40 megawatts of additional critical IT power to the building within the next decade, Business Wire reported daacentres.com.

ORACLE TO OPEN NEW SAO PAULO DATA CENTRE Oracle is planning to open its new data centre in Campinas, Sao Paulo in August as it seeks to help companies throughout Latin America embrace cloud computing to reduce IT complexities and boost productivity, reported Datacentres.com.

The 3 megawatt, 24,000-sq ft suite, operated by Infomart, is the first wholesale data centre space in the building.

This state-of-the-art facility also supports growing demand for Oracle’s comprehensive cloud portfolio and was designed to help customers embrace Oracle Cloud Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings. Oracle Cloud SaaS applications are best-of-breed and integrated with social, mobile, and analytic capabilities to help companies deliver the experiences customers expect, the talent to succeed, and the performance the market demands.

“Our first wholesale suite in Dallas differentiates itself by tapping the region’s most connected network. Everyone connects to the Internet through our Dallas facility. All of the major carriers are interconnected here. Every application hosted here will have a performance edge,” said John Sheputis, president of Infomart Data Centres. “This is the first step to making Infomart Dallas the most connected, valuable and strategically positioned data centre facility in the country.”

“This new data centre in Brazil signals our commitment to helping companies in Latin America fully embrace cloud computing, modernize their business and become the leaders in their industry,” said Oracle CEO Mark Hurd. “This is great news for our customers throughout Latin America who are ready to capitalize on the region’s growing economy and take advantage of the unlimited possibilities cloud computing offers.”

Infomart invested nearly $40 million to build and optimize the data centre within the 1.6-million-sq ft building and meet customer demand for reliable data centre capacity in a highly connected, secure and efficient environment. The first wholesale data centre suite features an adjacent carrier-neutral Building Meet-Me-Room for seamless connectivity, 24/7 responsive engineering support and power costs at rate, without mark up.

Each day, Oracle Cloud supports more than 33 billion transactions and this latest data centre in Latin America brings Oracle’s computing footprint to 19 data centres worldwide. Having a data centre in Brazil allows Oracle to better manage the service level objectives and data governance for customers throughout Latin America. The system environment at the data centre in Brazil was built using Oracle Engineered Systems to give customers high performance, and stable and secure cloud services.

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he IT giant Microsoft is to open two data centres in Canada, reported Datacentres.com.

The company’s worldwide chief operating officer, Kevin Turner, made the announcement that Microsoft will build new facilities, one to be located in Toronto while the other in Quebec City, The company expects both data centres to be ready for operation by 2016. Turner said that the data centres will help with the provision of the company’s cloud services in Canada.

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“Soon, the Microsoft Cloud will be truly Canadian,” said Turner,. “This substantial investment in a Canadian cloud demonstrates how committed we are to bringing even more opportunity to Canadian businesses and government organizations, helping them fully realize the cost savings and flexibility of the cloud,” said Turner. According to IDC, total public cloud spend in Canada is projected to grow to $2.5B by next year. The fastest growth will be

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from Public cloud infrastructure with a strong 45% increase by 2016. These new locally deployed services will address data residency considerations for Microsoft customers and partners of all shapes and sizes who are embracing cloud computing to transform their businesses, better manage variable workloads and deliver new digital services and experiences to customers and employees.

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T5 DATA CENTRES LAUNCHES NEW DALLAS FACILITY T5 Data Centres, a provider of multi-tenant data centres with a portfolio of facilities across North America, is set to open a new data centre in Downtown Dallas, reported datacentres.com. Located in the Dallas Central Business and Design District, 899 Stemmons will be a ground up, fully commissioned, purpose-built data centre facility

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offering tenants and customers a Central Dallas location, dependable long term power and access to multiple long-haul, and metro fibre networks. The overall facility size will stand at an initial 100,000 sq ft which could in time be expanded to some 350,000 sq ft. The data centre will feature

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some 8 MW of critical power expandable to 12 MW. 899 Stemmons is being offered for lease as a ground up purpose built data centre byT5 Data Centres—designed by Corgan and is expected to be delivered in the first quarter of 2017.

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DREAMWORKS ANIMATION HAS SELECTED HP TO AUTOMATE ITS IT INFRASTRUCTURE DreamWorks Animation has selected HP to automate its IT infrastructure. By deploying HP Datacentre Care - Infrastructure Automation, HP is providing an agile deployment model, enabling DreamWorks Animation to manage its infrastructure as code to continuously deliver applications and services more quickly and reliably, a Company press release reported. According to IDC, the average number of application deployments per month for Fortune 1000 companies is expected to double in two years. By automating, high-performing organizations can deploy code 30 times more frequently with 50% fewer failures. “As we continuously push the boundaries of digital animation, we require a much faster and more reliable way to deliver applications and IT services.

With a strong technology partner like HP, we are moving toward a new agile model that will enable IT with a greater capacity to innovate,” said DreamWorks Animation head of global technology operations Derek Chan. For more than a decade, HP solutions and services have supported all areas of DreamWorks Animation’s production processes, digital infrastructure and business divisions. This latest collaboration with HP will provide advice, support and tools to help DreamWorks Animation transform business ideas into customer value through software development and IT service delivery with agility, speed, efficiency, and reliability. For IT operations, this service will enable fast release cycles without interrupting production systems.

NASDAQ MIGRATES DISASTER RECOVERY TO EQUINIX’S CHICAGO DATA CENTRE Nasdaq and Global Access Services, the exchange group’s market solutions provider for the financial services community, and Equinix, the global interconnection and data centre company, have announced that Nasdaq is moving its Disaster Recovery site for the US equities and options markets in a phased approach from Ashburn, Virginia to Chicago, Illinois beginning in August 2015, Globe Newswire reported. The new DR will be located in the Nasdaq Point of Presence (Nasdaq POP) within the Equinix Chicago data centre (CH4) located in 350 E. Cermak on the 8th floor. The recently launched Nasdaq POP in Chicago, along with the Nasdaq POP in Equinix’s Secaucus, New Jersey campus, allows customers to connect directly to any of the Nasdaq market systems from remote financial data centres. “Migrating our disaster recovery facility to Chicago will be convenient, cost effective and more efficient for our market participants,”

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said Tom Wittman, Head of Global Equities and Executive Vice President of Global Trading and Market Services at Nasdaq. “Chicago is home to many primary and disaster recovery engines. We will continue making the DR facility available to additional Nasdaq markets throughout 2015 and beyond.” Equinix provides a neutral meeting place for the world’s leading financial market participants, including trading venues, buy- and sell-side firms, market data providers, technology providers and financial networks. More than 850 financial services customers locate servers and infrastructure within Equinix data centres to support mission-critical financial services applications with highly reliable, low-latency connectivity. The expansion by Nasdaq further enhances Equinix’s global electronic trading ecosystem, providing the interconnection options that companies need to meet business demands.

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“As one of the largest carrier hotels in the country, 350 Cermak is the focal point for Chicago’s financial markets and is ideally located to provide connectivity to more than half a dozen exchanges plus hundreds of broker dealers, crossing and other network providers, market data distributors, liquidity providers, and application providers all located in the same building or nearby in downtown Chicago,” said Stewart Orrell, Senior Director, Global Market Development. “Equinix and Nasdaq have a long-standing relationship and we are excited Nasdaq continues to leverage our global data centre platform to meet their changing business needs.” The eSpeed platform was Nasdaq’s first market to launch its DR facilities in Chicago in the fourth quarter of 2014. The Nasdaq Futures, Inc. (NFX) will go live with Chicago as its primary DR site when the platform launches later this year.

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ASIA/PAC EQUINIX EXPANDS IN HONG KONG

Global data centre company Equinix, has announced its plans to further expand its footprint in Hong Kong. It will invest over $40 million to build the third phase of its second International Business Exchange data centre (HK2). It will also build the ninth phase of its first data centre (HK1). The new facilities will meet strong demand from cloud and content and digital media (CDM) companies for data centre and interconnection services in Hong Kong, reported Data centres.com. Located in the western part of Hong Kong, the third phase of HK2 will provide space for an additional 900 cabinets, bringing the total capacity of the data centre to 2,350 cabinets. It is slated to open in Q4, 2015, in conjunction with the additional phase of HK1-IX, which will add 275 cabinets. The expansion of HK1 and HK2 will enable businesses to better address the huge consumer appetite for online media and video content. In Hong Kong alone, 79% of the population is active on the internet, with 66% active on social media and 64% mobile internet users. Given this high penetration, content and digital media companies are deploying in Equinix’s Hong Kong data centres at a rapid rate to be in closer proximity to end users and lower network latency to provide an optimal end-user experience. Equinix Hong Kong’s content and digital media customer base grew 16% year-over-year in 2014. Content companies such as ChinaCache, Casale Media and MediaMath are deploying with Equinix Hong Kong to access its network-dense ecosystem of more than 1,000 networks, carriers, mobile providers and internet service providers (ISPs), such as China Unicom. Content companies are also deploying with Equinix to develop agile, hybrid cloud environments with access to multiple clouds including Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud Platform and networks via Equinix Cloud Exchange. Equinix’s cloud and IT ecosystem also continues to gain momentum in Hong Kong, as local and international internet security and cloud service providers (CSPs) are increasingly choosing to deploy with Equinix Hong Kong as an entry point into Asia-Pacific. With IDC predicting the cloud market to grow 23% in 2015, driven by rising interests from enterprises2, internet security, network and cloud service providers such as Macroview, Microware, Netswitch, Nexusguard and OneAsia are turning to Equinix Hong Kong to connect with an established ecosystem of over 6,300 potential customers and partners. The expansion of Equinix’s footprint in Hong Kong is the latest in a series of expansions across Asia-Pacific to meet the rising demand for interconnection services. Most recently in March 2015, Equinix opened its third Singapore data centre (SG3) and its first data centre in Melbourne (ME1) in December 2014.

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LG ‘MEGA’ DATA CENTRE TO OPEN SHORTLY The South Korean telecommunications and Mobile phone operator, LG Uplus is shortly to open what is claimed is one of the largest data centres in Asia. The new facility – named the Mega Centre - is located in Pyeongchondong, Anyang just south of the company’s HQ in Seoul – is reported by Asia One News be 90% complete at present and on track for its scheduled opening in late August.

GOOGLE TO GROW SINGAPORE DATA CENTRE PRESENCE In a new blog post, Joe Kava, Vice President of Data Centres at Google has revealed that the search engine giant will build a second data centre in Singapore. Google are currently working on the design of the second facility to be built “On a plot of land about the same size as and just next to our current site (opened in 2011),” but hope to have the facility online in 2017.

The facility totalling some 27,770 sq m houses some 24 computer rooms and consists of an office facility and two data centre buildings with 500 racks of servers, each of which can be mounted with around 50 individual servers.

Kava, ‘s post went to reveal that “this expansion takes our long-term investment in our Singapore data centre to US$ 500 million and our long-term investment in data centres in Asia as a whole to over US$1 billion”.

“One of the most important factors in running a data centre is energy efficiency, and the Mega Centre will show off the highest energy efficiency level among commercial data centres located in metropolitan cities around the world,“ Choi Young-bum, general manager of LG Uplus‘ New IDC task force, told Asia One.

In addition “This new facility will be built on the same principles as the “old” one. It will be one of the most efficient and environmentally friendly sites in Asia, using 100% recycled water for its critical operations (i.e. just about everything other than drinking water). It will provide jobs for a small team of full time staff, as well as a number of contractors.”

The LG Uplus data centre utilizes renewable energy sources including solar and geothermal energy to power the servers, and received the Uptime tier III design certification, which recognises the high performance of a data centre, for the first time in Korea. “What is also meaningful is that all equipment used at the data centre to maintain a high level of energy efficiency are manufactured in Korea,“ the LG Uplus general manager said.

TELIN STARTS BUILDING JURONG DATA CENTRE Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk (Telin Singapore), Indonesia’s biggest telecommunication operator, has started construction on a new data centre in Singapore, reported Telecom Paper. The 20,000 sq m, five-storey data centre and telecommunication hub is being built at at Singapore’s Data Centre Park in Jurong. This facility will be the third data centre owned and managed by Telin Singapore. Telin Singapore’s existing data centres are located in Changi and Tai Seng. The new facility to be branded as ‘Telin-3’ will provide premium data centre services to support Singapore’s Smart Nation vision and is scheduled for completion by the third quarter of 2016.

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mail archiving vendor, Mimecast, will open two new data centres in New South Wales in response to increased demand for its services in Australia. Mimecast Australia country manager Nicholas Lennon told IT Wire that the company is investing in Australia to help local companies deal with the emerging threat landscape surrounding email which has become a “primary target for attack”.

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“This investment will allow Australian companies to archive their growing volumes of email while maintaining local data residency and provide powerful search tools that allow users to easily access this information. The company will establish services in two identical data centres in separate locations in NSW, with the new centres joining a global network of 10 data centres in five countries around the world.

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By establishing these services in two geographically distinct data centres allows the company to meet continuity of service commitments - in the event of issues or maintenance at one of its data centres it is able to switch operations to the second to maintain customer email and data services. Mimecast services and data are hosted on its own proprietary cloud infrastructure and software architecture.

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The Thai real-estate developer, The Boutique Group of Companies, has formed an alliance with the Canadian cloud service provider Cloud Dynamics to develop data centres.

Last week, an Indonesian non-governmental organisation filed criminal charges against Indonesia’s State-Owned Enterprises Minister Rini Soemarno for authorising Telkom to build a data centre in Singapore, the minister said the data centre “will not host” Indonesian government data.

The two companies have met with Thai Deputy Prime Minister Pridiyathorn Devakula to express their interest in the national cloud-based data-centre project and exchange ideas on the development of the “digital economy” in the country. Prab Thakral, chief executive officer of Boutique, said the government’s project had drawn great interest from both local and foreign investors and told The Nation “This signifies a bold and transformative change in Thailand’s information-technology development. “Boutique and our partner Cloud Dynamics, in conjunction with Malaysia-based CSF Group, would like to be part of this historical initiative in transforming the Thai economy towards an increasingly digital one, and we look forward to developing and investing in data centre projects in Thailand,” he said.

Ms Soemarno said Telkom’s data centre, which is being built with Singtel, was purely to tap Singapore’s potential market, reported Today Online. “It’s for businesses in Singapore only. Telkom is building its third data centre in Singapore after winning a tender, through Telekomunikasi Indonesia International Singapore (Telin Singapore), for permission to operate a data centre in Jurong. Telin is fully a subsidiary of Telkom,” she said. Last week, Indonesia Club filed criminal charges against the minister, accusing her of authorising Telkom to build the data centre in Singapore on the assumption that “it would host” Indonesian government data.

The project will consolidate data from all state agencies except the Defence and Finance ministries and ensure connectivity among all data centres. About Bt30 billion is needed to build up to 40 data centres, according to the government’s plan. Companies investing in a data centre with minimum capacity of 2,000 sq m qualify for Board of Investment privileges for eight years and preferential electricity rates.

AIRSERVICES SEEKS APPROVAL FOR NEW DATA CENTRES Airservices Australia, the Government body responsible for the aviation industry, has asked the parliamentary public works committee for approval to spend A$35.4 million to build two new data centres in Melbourne and Brisbane to support the OneSky Australian air traffic systems project according to an IT News report. Under OneSky, the Department of Defence and Airservices Australia will combine their individual air traffic systems - which are approaching end of life and no longer fit for purpose - into one civil and military platform. Airservices is leading the project. The two agencies expect buying one platform will reap several

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hundred million dollars in savings alone, not counting service delivery benefits. The $600 million project is expected to be based on Thales’ TopSky-ATC platform after the contractor was handed a deal for advanced work in March. But to house the range of communications equipment required for the new platform, Airservices will need to build new rooms at its air traffic service centres in Melbourne and Brisbane - its current facilities cannot service both the new and old systems, which will need to run in parallel for four years. “The existing equipment rooms are nearing the end of their design life,” Airservices told the public works committee.

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“Construction technology, architectural design and security technology has evolved significantly since [the current TAAATS system was implemented in] 1998 and this project intends to utilise the latest data centre design and technology to house the OneSKY equipment for the next 25 years.” The new facilities are forecast to be complete by late next year to allow for testing and compliance of the new OneSky equipment before the rollout starts in 2018. The Melbourne facility is expected to cost A$16.8 million while the Brisbane facility has been forecast to cost A$18.6 million. The public works committee will conduct hearings on the proposal in August.

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COMPANY RESULTS EUROPE: EUNETWORKS REPORTS FIRST QUARTER 2015 RESULTS euNetworks Group Limited, Europe’s provider of bandwidth infrastructure services, announced results for the three months ended 31 March 2015. Sales achieved were €789k in Q1 2015, up 7% from Q1 2014. While the value of services installed in the quarter fell, the units installed from Q1 2014 grew 28%. Disconnection management remained strong, with 44% of disconnections due to service replacements. Average churn was 1%, improving from the average 2014 level of 1.1%. Solid sales performance and low disconnections delivered €209k in monthly incremental service revenue (MISR), up 35% from Q1 2014. This positions the company well for growth in recurring revenue in quarters to come. “Our sales performance continues to be solid, with our ability to deliver high bandwidth network solutions to the wholesale, content, media and finance segments driving us forward,” said Brady Rafuse, Chief Executive Officer of euNetworks. “MISR is our lead indicator for future growth in our monthly recurring revenue, with of course some lag due to installation timings. The solid Q1 growth in MISR positions us well for revenue growth in 2015.” “The financial results reported today reflect the continued momentum we see in the business,” said Rafuse. “Our recurring revenue, gross margin and adjusted EBITDA positions continue to improve.”

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ASIA PAC: 21VIANET REPORTS FIRST QUARTER 2015 RESULTS 21Vianet Group, a carrier-neutral internet data centre services provider in China, has announced its unaudited financial results for the first quarter of 2015, reported Market Watch.

operator agreement for public cloud services with Microsoft for four additional years. The extension further strengthens our leadership position in China‘s cloud computing services market and speaks to our unique competitive advantage in the market. However, we also experienced some softness in our MNS and CDN businesses this quarter, due to stronger than expected seasonality and the continued industry-wide decline in bandwidth prices. We are actively working with our customers and suppliers to further optimize our cost structure and address these challenges. As we enter seasonally strong second half of 2015, we are confident in our ability to re-accelerate our growth and continue executing on our strategies to capture a greater share of the growing data centre and cloud services markets.

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EUROPE: ALCATEL-LUCENT REPORTS Q1 2015 RESULTS Alcatel-Lucent’s results for Q1 2015 demonstrate strong growth in next-generation revenues and continued improvements in margins and free cash flow, despite a softer spending environment in North America, a Company press release reported. Michel Combes, CEO of Alcatel-Lucent, said: “Our first quarter 2015 results reflect not only strong growth in our next-generation products, but also the diligent efforts we have made to turn Alcatel-Lucent around and build a more resilient organization. Evidence of our progress is shown through the continued improvement in margins and cash flow. Execution of the Shift Plan is and will continue to be our top priority, underlined by our commitment to reach our positive free cash flow target in 2015. These results help pave the way for successful execution of our goals as we prepare for our combination with Nokia.” Highlights of Q1 2015 included: Group revenues, excluding Managed Services and at constant perimeter, increased 12% year-on year, with strong growth coming from next-generation products, which are up 25%. At constant exchange rates, group revenues, excluding Managed Services and at constant perimeter, are down 2% while nextgeneration revenues are up 9%.

Mr. Josh Chen, Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, stated, „Our year is off to a solid start with demand for our internet data centre („IDC“) and cloud businesses driving top-line revenue growth and EBITDA expansion. For our IDC business, we had a strong quarter of cabinet sales and a robust pipeline. We further expanded our data centre portfolio to a total of 22,024 cabinets at the end of the first quarter, representing a growth of 46.1% year-over-year. In the first quarter, we also extended the commercial

Gross margin reached 34.6% of revenues in the quarter, expanding 230 bps year-on-year, driven notably by improved profitability across several business lines and a higher-than-usual proportion of software sales in the Access segment.

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First Quarter 2015 Financial Highlights included: Net revenues increased by 46.8% to RMB860.1 million (US$138.7 million) from RMB586.0 million in the comparative period in 2014 and Adjusted EBITDA1 increased by 47.8% to RMB166.9 million (US$26.9 million) from RMB112.9 million in the comparative period in 2014.

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Adjusted operating income totalled €82 million in the quarter, or 2.5% of revenues, compared to €33 million in Q1 2014, or 1.1% of revenues. Core Networking operating income was €41 million or 2.8% of revenues, compared to €96 million or 7.1% in the year-ago quarter, primarily reflecting reinvestments to promote future growth, a temporary softer spending environment in North America and Japan, and variations in product mix.

EUROPE: IOMART ANNOUNCES 18% REVENUE GROWTH The Glasgow based cloud computing company iomart has announced a £10 million growth in annual revenue in its final results for the year ended 31st March 2015, a Company press release reported. In its annual statement issued to the London Stock Exchange iomart reported revenue growth of 18% to £65.8 million (2014: 55.6 million); adjusted Profit Before Tax growth of 14% to £16.6 million (2014: £14.6 million) and adjusted EBITDA growth of 23% to £29.1 million (2014: £23.6 million). Among the operational highlights iomart listed were the strengthened relationships built with major vendors such as Microsoft and EMC in the past 12 months to exploit the opportunities arising from the market for Hybrid Cloud solutions. iomart augmented its organic growth through the addition of ServerSpace and the post year-end acquisition of London consultancy SystemsUp was noted as giving iomart specific expertise in the design and delivery of Public Cloud services. Angus MacSween, CEO of iomart, said: “We are working hard to ensure we remain at the leading edge in terms of the skill sets and experience to provide an ever more complex set of services to our customers and are confident of our abilities to do so, reinforced by the acquisition of SystemsUp in recent days. We are well positioned for further significant growth.”

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EUROPE: PHOENIX IT GROUP POSTS PROFIT The UK IT services company Phoenix IT has reported that its profit before tax for the year ended 31 March 2015 was £8.8 million compared to a loss of £29.2 million last year. This improvement has been achieved in part by the reduction of one-off non-recurring items, RTT News reported. Annual profit was £7 million, compared to a loss of £30.3 million last year, whilst Revenue for the year declined to £212.4 million from £233.4 million in the prior year. This was mostly the result of the previous year‘s supplier contract termination. In addition, one of its customers decided to take its services in house at the end of last year and despite the one-off benefit of the transitional services and provision of intellectual property, the year-on-year effect has resulted in a reduction in revenue.

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EUROPE: MOUNTFIELD GROUP REPORTS DISAPPOINTING RESULTS Mountfield Group has reported that a £3.9 million pre-tax loss in 2014, a considerable change in fortunes since the £65,339 pre-tax profit reported for the prior year, hurt by the performance of its building group business, reported Alliance News. The company is engaged in two main types of business: Mountfield Building Group Ltd (MBG), a specialist in the installation of data centres; and Connaught, which installs flooring to commercial offices and data centre installations. Revenue slipped to £11.8 million from £2.3 million as administrative expenses rose to £1.7 million from £1.6 million, meaning that - even before a £3.9 million goodwill impairment - the company‘s operating profit fell to £74,385 from £844,512. „In summary, as a result of the review MBG will now concentrate primarily on construction contracts where its contractual relationship is made directly with the client and the board is satisfied that the risk profile and margins are satisfactorily robust. The board is satisfied that it was the collapse of margins on three particular subcontract contracts that were undertaken in 2014 coupled with the high level of overhead costs that MBG had taken on in order to service them that caused the substantial decline in MBG‘s profitability in that year,“ Chairman Peter Jay told Alliance News. Mountfield said it is „extremely optimistic“ about the future because of a series of changes recommended by a strategic review. The company said the review is creating a company focused on growth and „substantially improving“ profit by cutting operating costs and pursuing a „more focused approach to the selection of contracts.“

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A key part of the group‘s strategy was the decision that profitability is not „predominantly dependent“ on demand from the data centre construction market. „It is for this reason that it has sought to widen the scope of the group‘s activities by seeking to ensure that the group has a strong presence in other areas where there is demand for high quality construction services and project management skills. The directors are pleased to report that around half of the group‘s revenue is now earned from non-data centre related activities,“ Peter Jay said.

AMERICAS: RED HAT REPORTS FIRST QUARTER RESULTS Red Hat, a global provider of open source solutions, has announced financial results for its fiscal year 2016 first quarter ended May 31, 2015, reported a Company press release. Highlights include: First quarter total revenue of US$481 million, up 14% year-over-year First quarter subscription revenue of US$425 million, up 14% year-over-year

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First quarter operating cash flow of US$209 million, up 27% year-over-year

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“Our solid start to fiscal year 2016 was evidenced by strong constant currency revenue growth of over 20%,” stated Jim Whitehurst, President and Chief Executive Officer of Red Hat. “This strong growth reflects in part the demand for our open, hybrid cloud technologies across four footprints: bare metal, virtualization, private cloud and public cloud deployments. Red Hat’s portfolio of technologies becomes increasingly strategic to customers who are looking to expand their capabilities and agility to build and deploy applications across these data centre footprints.”

Oracle has announced fiscal 2015 Q4 results. The results were significantly impacted by the strengthening of the U.S. dollar compared to foreign currencies. Total Q4 Revenues were US$10.7 billion, down 5% but would have been up 3% without the strengthening of the U.S. dollar. Software and Cloud Revenues were US$8.4 billion, down 6%, but up 2% in constant currency. Cloud software as a service (SaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) revenues were US$416 million, growing 29%, and up 35% in constant currency. Cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) revenues were US$160 million, growing 25%, and up 31% in constant currency. Hardware Systems Revenues were $1.4 billion, down 4%, but up 5% in constant currency, a Company press release reported. For fiscal year 2015, Total Revenues were US$38.2 billion, essentially unchanged, but up 4% in constant currency. Software and Cloud Revenues were US$29.5 billion, up 1%, and up 5% in constant currency. Cloud SaaS and PaaS revenues were US$1.5 billion, up 32%, and up 35% in constant currency. Cloud IaaS revenues were US$608 million, up 33%, and up 36% in constant currency. Total Hardware System Revenues were US$5.2 billion, down 3%, but up 2% in constant currency. Operating Income was US$13.9 billion, and the Operating Margin was 36%.

“We delivered Q1 results which exceeded the highend of our guidance for total revenue, non-GAAP operating margin and non-GAAP EPS before the adjustment which added the incremental US$5 million of earned revenue from our CCP program,” stated Charlie Peters, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Red Hat.

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“We sold an astonishing US$426 million of new SaaS and PaaS annually recurring cloud subscription revenue in Q4,” said Oracle CEO, Safra Catz. “We expect our rapidly increasing cloud sales to quickly translate into significantly more revenue and profits for Oracle Corporation. For example, SaaS and PaaS revenues grew at a 34% constant currency rate in our just completed Q4, but we expect that revenue growth rate to jump to around 60% in constant currency this new fiscal year.”

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As always, participants will comprise industry experts, thought leaders, C-level decision makers, key private-sector and government stakeholders, and our own IDC experts.

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Practical Cloud 2015, London

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? 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? Through to further info http://www.cvent.com/events/western-europe-events-2015/custom-20-964bc 723509944aea8b7df2d05ec160e.aspx

20th August 2015 DataCentre 360, Johannesburg IDC is proud to pioneer a one of a kind roadshow that will for the first time encompass a holistic 360 degree view of the data centre. The roadshow will showcase the key aspects of data centre technologies covering overall adoption trends and dynamics, economics and cost optimization, management, capacity planning, business continuity and key implementation strategies. The conference will accommodate a niche audience that consists of key industry players and decision makers that have an strong impact on the IT related strategic decisions within an organization. The panel discussions would be based on technologies adopted and implemented in the region and will be centred around uncovering best practices. This will enable every participant of this roadshow to gain tremendously from knowledge sharing and networking and to also remain in the loop with regards to technological buzz. Through to further info http://idc-cema.com/eng/events/60635-datacentre-360-conference

9th September 2015 - IDC Cloud computing IT Security & Data Centre Roadshow. Algiers IDC’s Security Clouds and Data Centre Roadshow 2015 will focus on the impact of 3rd-Platform technologies (mobility, cloud, big data, and social business) on security, both as an enabler of innovative solutions and a source of new risks.

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16th September 2015 - IDC Cloud computing IT Security & Data Centre Roadshow. Casablanca IDC’s Security Clouds and Data Centre Roadshow 2015 will focus on the impact of 3rd-Platform technologies (mobility, cloud, big data, and social business) on security, both as an enabler of innovative solutions and a source of new risks. As always, participants will comprise industry experts, thought leaders, C-level decision makers, key private-sector and government stakeholders, and our own IDC experts. Through to further info http://idc-cema.com/eng/events/60450-idc-cloud-computing-it-security-datacentre-roadshow

17th September 2015 – IDC Cloud Innovation Forum, Prague IDC’s Cloud event series is a unique opportunity to hear from leading experts in the field about top cloud strategies, developing a cloud-first approach, improving overall cloud performance, and operational best practices for managing and optimizing the new cloud models. Open Source versus Proprietary Hypervisor technologies, Through to further info http://idc-cema.com/eng/events/60163-idc-cloud-innovation-forum

21st - 22nd September 2015 – Gartner Digital Workplace Summit, London Our agenda offers you opportunities to explore how to exploit consumeroriented styles and technologies to create the kinds of collaborative and data driven work environments that drive agility, innovation and workforce effectiveness. Through to further info http://www.gartner.com/events/emea/digital-workplace#!section_whyattend

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22nd September 2015 – IDC Cloud Innovation Forum, Vienna

6th October 2015 – Datacentre Dynamics Converged. Paris

IDC’s Cloud event series is a unique opportunity to hear from leading experts in the field about top cloud strategies, developing a cloud-first approach, improving overall cloud performance, and operational best practices for managing and optimizing the new cloud models. Open Source versus Proprietary Hypervisor technologies,

Through to further info (in French) http://www.dcdconverged.com/conferences/france

16th October 2015 – Datacloud Nordic 2015, Oslo

Through to further info http://idc-cema.com/eng/events/60134-idc-cloud-innovation-forum

22nd September 2015 – IDC Cloud computing IT Security & Data Centre Roadshow, Casablanca Through to further info http://idc-cema.com/eng/events/60450-idc-cloud-computing-it-security-datacentre-roadshow

29th September 2015 – IDC Practical Cloud, London Through to further info: http://www.cvent.com/events/western-europe-events-2015/custom-20-964bc 723509944aea8b7df2d05ec160e.aspx

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 data centre 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 data centres, and how enterprises can successfully manage the transition to cloud. Through to further info

30th September 2015 – IDC Cloud computing IT Security & Data Centre Roadshow, Bucharest IDC’s Cloud event series is a unique opportunity to hear from leading experts in the field about top cloud strategies, developing a cloud-first approach, improving overall cloud performance, and operational best practices for managing and optimizing the new cloud models. 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.

20th October 2015 - IDC Cloud computing IT Security & Data Centre Roadshow. Tunis IDC’s Security Clouds and Data Centre Roadshow 2015 will focus on the impact of 3rd-Platform technologies (mobility, cloud, big data, and social business) on security, both as an enabler of innovative solutions and a source of new risks. As always, participants will comprise industry experts, thought leaders, C-level decision makers, key private-sector and government stakeholders, and our own IDC experts. Through to further info

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28th October 2015 - IDC Cloud Computing Conference 2015, Budapest

11th November 2015 DataCentre 360, Kuwait

IDC’s Cloud event series is a unique opportunity to hear from leading experts in the field about top cloud strategies, developing a cloud-first approach, improving overall cloud performance, and operational best practices for managing and optimizing the new cloud models. 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.

IDC is proud to pioneer a one of a kind roadshow that will for the first time encompass a holistic 360 degree view of the data centre. The roadshow will showcase the key aspects of data centre technologies covering overall adoption trends and dynamics, economics and cost optimization, management, capacity planning, business continuity and key implementation strategies.

Through to further info http://idc-cema.com/eng/events/60861-idc-cloud-computing-conference-2015

3rd November 2015 DataCentre 360, Dubai IDC is proud to pioneer a one of a kind roadshow that will for the first time encompass a holistic 360 degree view of the data centre. The roadshow will showcase the key aspects of data centre technologies covering overall adoption trends and dynamics, economics and cost optimization, management, capacity planning, business continuity and key implementation strategies. The conference will accommodate a niche audience that consists of key industry players and decision makers that have an strong impact on the IT related strategic decisions within an organization. The panel discussions would be based on technologies adopted and implemented in the region and will be centred around uncovering best practices. This will enable every participant of this roadshow to gain tremendously from knowledge sharing and networking and to also remain in the loop with regards to technological buzz. Through to further info http://idc-cema.com/eng/events/60208-datacentre-360-roadshow-2015

The conference will accommodate a niche audience that consists of key industry players and decision makers that have an strong impact on the IT related strategic decisions within an organization. The panel discussions would be based on technologies adopted and implemented in the region and will be centred around uncovering best practices. This will enable every participant of this roadshow to gain tremendously from knowledge sharing and networking and to also remain in the loop with regards to technological buzz. Through to further info http://idc-cema.com/eng/events/60211-datacentre-360-roadshow-2015

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 Centres. 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 centre community, those people comsuming data centre services with the people building them, in order to help accelerate the understanding and adoption of this exciting new technology shift. Through to further info

5th November 2015 DataCentre 360, Abu Dhabi

http://www.dcdconverged.com/conferences/europe-2015

IDC is proud to pioneer a one of a kind roadshow that will for the first time encompass a holistic 360 degree view of the data centre. The roadshow will showcase the key aspects of data centre technologies covering overall adoption trends and dynamics, economics and cost optimization, management, capacity planning, business continuity and key implementation strategies. The conference will accommodate a niche audience that consists of key industry players and decision makers that have an strong impact on the IT related strategic decisions within an organization. The panel discussions would be based on technologies adopted and implemented in the region and will be centred around uncovering best practices. This will enable every participant of this roadshow to gain tremendously from knowledge sharing and networking and to also remain in the loop with regards to technological buzz. Through to further info http://idc-cema.com/eng/events/60210-datacentre-360-roadshow-2015

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AMERICAS 18th -19th November 2015 – Datacentre Dynamics Converged. London SDN, Hyper Converged, Open Architecture, NFV, Web Scale, Disaggregation…. it’s getting confusing isn’t it? The data centre stack keeps on getting more complicated, that’s why the smartest crowd in town converges on London’s ExCeL every November. As the Internet of Things, Smart Cities, Big Data and Clouds drive the industry, DCD Europe is about NOT forgetting the engine. Join 3,000+ other professionals whose day job is to keep the digital world up and running. With 100+ hours of expert presentations, interactive workshops and innovation labs… Not to mention an expo with over 100 of the latest technologies on show... In less than 48 hours you will network, learn and share your way to a more decisive 2016.

2nd December 2015 DataCentre 360, Riyadh IDC is proud to pioneer a one of a kind roadshow that will for the first time encompass a holistic 360 degree view of the data centre. The roadshow will showcase the key aspects of data centre technologies covering overall adoption trends and dynamics, economics and cost optimization, management, capacity planning, business continuity and key implementation strategies. The conference will accommodate a niche audience that consists of key industry players and decision makers that have an strong impact on the IT related strategic decisions within an organization. The panel discussions would be based on technologies adopted and implemented in the region and will be centred around uncovering best practices. This will enable every participant of this roadshow to gain tremendously from knowledge sharing and networking and to also remain in the loop with regards to technological buzz. Through to further info http://idc-cema.com/eng/events/60212-datacentre-360-roadshow-2015

Through to further info http://www.dcdconverged.com/conferences/europe

30th November – 1st December 2015 – Gartner Data Centre, 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.

8th December 2015 – Datacentre Dynamics Converged. Turkey Our event in Istanbul will celebrate its 6th year in 2015. Its ever-growing reach is reflected in the name change to DatacentreDynamics (DCD) Converged Turkey, drawing in participants from around the region. The 4-track conference programme brings together practitioners and experts from the facility level right through to the virtual machine and cloud infrastructure. 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.

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 help you position I&O as a key contributor to business strategy and competitive advantage

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9th December 2015 DataCentre 360, Doha

http://www.gartner.com/technology/summits/emea/data-centre/

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IDC is proud to pioneer a one of a kind roadshow that will for the first time encompass a holistic 360 degree view of the data centre. The roadshow will showcase the key aspects of data centre technologies covering overall adoption trends and dynamics, economics and cost optimization, management, capacity planning, business continuity and key implementation strategies. The conference will accommodate a niche audience that consists of key industry players and decision makers that have an strong impact on the IT related strategic decisions within an organization. The panel discussions would be based on technologies adopted and implemented in the region and will be centred around uncovering best practices. This will enable every participant of this roadshow to gain tremendously from knowledge sharing and networking and to also remain in the loop with regards to technological buzz. Through to further info http://idc-cema.com/eng/events/60213-datacentre-360-roadshow-2015

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7th July 2015 – Datacentre Dynamics Converged. Lima Peru

22nd September 2015 – Datacentre Dynamics Converged. Toronto

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DCD Canada brings together the people, processes and technologies to help our attendees develop a world class data centre 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 centres’ to ‘software defined ‘ and everything in between, DCD Converged is sure to keep North America’s most senior data centre professionals up to date with an industry changing at lightning speed.

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30th-31st July 2015 – Datacentre Dynamics Converged. San Francisco DatacentreDynamics is consolidating nine one-day regional-market events to three much larger-scale two-day conferences focused on the three primary data centre vertical classes – Enterprise, Internet and Services. DCD Internet has been specially designed as the ultimate knowledge and networking platform for senior data centre professionals from the world’s most important internet based businesses. If your company is a significant operator or end-user of data centre 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 centre infrastruction market. Through to further info http://www.dcdconverged.com/conferences/dcd-internet

6th August 2015 – IDC Chile Cloud Conference, Chile Through to further info http://www.idclatin.com/events/

10th-13th August 2015 – Gartner Catalyst Conference, San Diego 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, cross-discipline learning that drives meaningful change.

Through to further info; http://www.dcdconverged.com/conferences/canada

23rd September 2015 – Datacentre Dynamics Converged. Colombia Through to further info; (in Spanish) http://www.dcdconverged.com/conferences/colombia

6th-7th October 2015 – Datacentre Dynamics Converged. Mexico Through to further info; (In Spanish) http://www.dcdconverged.com/conferences/mexico

27th-28th October 2015 – Datacentre Dynamics Converged. Chicago DatacentreDynamics is consolidating nine one-day regional-market events to three much larger-scale two-day conferences focused on the three primary data centre vertical classes – Enterprise, Internet 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 centre strategy, deployment or operations of data centre infrastructure within those organisations or a significant end-user of their services, this a must-attend event. Our multitrack conference program boasts presentations from the industry’s most forward thinking practitioners and is a reference point for the data centre market. Through to further info http://www.dcdconverged.com/conferences/se-asia

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6th-7th October 2015 – Datacentre Dynamics Converged. Mexico Through to further info; (In Spanish) http://www.dcdconverged.com/conferences/mexico

10th-11th November 2015 – Datacentre Dynamics Converged. Brazil Enterprisie, Sao Paulo Through to further info; (In Portuguese) http://www.dcdconverged.com/conferences/brazil-enterprise

19th November 2015 – Datacentre Dynamics Converged. Chile Through to further info (in Spanish): http://www.dcdconverged.com/conferences/chile

7th -10th December 2015 – Gartner Data Centre, Infrastructure & Operations Management SummitT, Las Vegas The premier destination for I&O leaders around the world focusing on todays 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 help you position I&O as a key contributor to business strategy and competitive advantage Through to further info http://www.gartner.com/events/na/data-centre/

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ASIA PAC 15th-16th July 2015 – DatacentreDynamics Converged, Bangalore

28th July 2015 – Gartner Outsourcing & IT Management Summit, Tokyo

The DatacentreDynamics Converged Bangalore is back and will once again bring together professionals in the data centre industry within the span of two days to connect, network and share current industry trends as well as challenges.

The Gartner Outsourcing & IT Management Summit is the definitive annual event delivering practical guidance and strategic advice on outsourcing and IT Management. Delegates will participate in an immersive learning experience where they’ll engage with leading Gartner analysts, hundreds of peers and world-class outsourcing providers.

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 centre 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 centre revolution is currently taking place. As the data centre industry in India focuses more towards Bring Your Own Devices (BYOD), Internet of Things, Cloud Services and Big Data, the 5th Annual DatacentreDynamics 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 Centres to Seamless Scaling Up and Artificial Intelligence in addition to technology experts highlighting what’s new in the market. The 5th Annual DatacentreDynamics 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. Through to further info http://www.dcdconverged.com/

23rd July 2015 – DatacentreDynamics Converged, Hong Kong

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3rd August – 4th August 2015 – DatacentreDynamics 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 Through to further info http://www.dcdconverged.com/conferences/australia

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 centre 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 centre strategy for the year ahead! Through to further info http://www.dcdconverged.com/conferences/hong-kong

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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.

13th October 2015 – Datacentre Dynamics Services. Beijing DacentreDynamics 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 centre strategy, deployment or operations of data centre infrastructure within those organisations or a significant end-user of their services, this a must-attend event. Our multitrack conference program boasts presentations from the industry’s most forward thinking practitioners and is a reference point for the data centre market. Through to further info http://www.dcdconverged.com/conferences/services-china

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15th September 2015 – Datacentre Dynamics Converged. Singapore Converged South East Asia, at the Marina Bay Sands Singapore, is the largest regional data centre event in the Asia Pacific Region. As part of the Singapore Data Centre 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.

12th November 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/

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 information-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. Through to further info http://www.dcdconverged.com/conferences/se-asia

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