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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is planning to open an infrastructure region in Hong Kong in 2018, making the city the eighth AWS Region in Asia Pacific. AWS’ launch of the Hong Kong infrastructure region will allow Hong Kong customers to store their data locally,…
Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group, announced today that it plans to establish a new data center in Jakarta, Indonesia. It’s scheduled to open before the end of Q1 next year. “Alibaba Cloud will significantly increase its computing…
Fujitsu and Oracle Japan have launched Oracle Cloud Platform services, including Oracle Database Cloud Service, via a Fujitsu data center, a first for Japan. Oracle and Fujitsu have a long history of collaboration when it comes to processors, servers, and…
Philippines cloud services and data center provider IPC (IP Converge Data Services) has teamed up with 1-Net in Singapore to provide its customers with an interconnected data center network. This collaboration enables both organization to extend their data…
Equinix is expanding its Hong Kong footprint to accommodate local interconnection needs and increasing numbers of inbound cloud service providers. This latest expansion of Equinix’s Hong Kong footprint adds over 1,400 new cabinets and brings the company’s…
Web application firewall (WAF) service provider Cloudbric announced the opening of five internet data centers, including facilities in Hong Kong and Vietnam, in response to the growing, global demand for cloud services. The new data centers are located in New…
Equinix revealed plans yesterday to raise at least $2.875 billion in public offerings over the next few weeks. The data center giant is lining up the necessary funds to make their previously announced purchase of a selection of US operator Verizon’s data…
PCCW’s HKT has revealed plans to build what it is calling a “fiber super highway” connecting the Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate (TKOIE) with the Chai Wan area. The Ultra Express Link will be a 3km high-capacity, low-latency subsea cable system spanning the…
Alibaba Cloud has announced plans to open four new data centers by the end of 2016 in the Middle East, Europe, Australia and Japan. The new centers are expected to boost its data center network to 14 locations, covering key economic centers around the world.…
US-based global operator CenturyLink has arranged to sell its data centers and colocation business to a consortium led by BC Partners and Medina for $2.15 billion. CenturyLink plans to use the net proceeds from this sale to partly fund its acquisition of…
Equinix has completed the second phase expansion of its 10th International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Tokyo, the TY5. Phase two adds an additional 375 cabinets to the facility, bringing the total capacity of the data center to 725 cabinets. The…
Philippine service provider PLDT has opened the country’s biggest data center at major business district Makati City. The new facility has been built to serve a wide range of organizations, particularly those handling vital data such as banks, business…
Cisco has announced Cisco Tetration Analytics, a platform designed to help customers gain complete visibility across everything — packet, flow, speed — in the data center in real time. Cisco Tetration Analytics gathers telemetry from hardware and software…
gen-E launched its business intelligence platform OpsCenter InfiniView, which “goes deeper and broader than current advanced analytics software” by combining and analyzing data across an entire business and comparing it against thousands of industry best…
LinkedIn has opened its first data center in Singapore, spanning 23,500 square feet in Jurong. This is one of six data centers for LinkedIn globally, and the first outside the United States. LinkedIn has invested S$80 million ($587.4 million) so far in the…
Oracle has launched a new family of services designed to help remove some of the biggest obstacles to cloud adoption. While organizations are eager to move their enterprise workloads to the public cloud, many have been constrained by business, legislative and…
