Issue 3, April 2009


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A facility is being built for Jurong Data Centre Development Pte Limited – which will act as landlord – and is a subsidiary of Japan Land Limited in Singapore.


The seven-storey facility will allow for more than 31 dedicated data suites, with separate occupation at Tier 1-4 levels. It is also possible to merge a number of suites into larger areas as required by the tenants.


AUSTRALIA


The Aus$1bn 14,000 square metre facility planned for the Australian Capital Territory fi nally received the go-ahead. The project, one of the most controversial ever, was fi rst planned for Tuggeranong, but following objections from residents the issue became politically heated, with Labour, Liberal and Green politicians becoming heavily involved. A new site has been chosen in the Canberra district of Hume. Developer Technical Real Estate director Andrew Campbell expects the site to be fully operational by July 2010. Canberra power utility ActewAGL plans to build a 500MW gas-fi red power plant for about $650m near the Hume Highway.


Primus suffered a major power outage at a Melbourne data center, which affected several ISPs and thousands of customers. The center at King St had diesel power backup, which failed to keep the center running, said reports. Westnet, iiNet, Netspace, Internode and TPG customers were among those affected.


The $220m Polaris data center near Brisbane opened for business on 3 February. It will have Polaris redundant power and cooling capacity, with a base


The facility will be ready to occupy in November 2009. In addition to the data suites, adjacent office accommodation will be provided for technical support staff and other commercial operations.


Overall, the new data center will have approximately 20,000 square metres of leasable data suite space. It will incorporate secure,


infrastructure design that can scale from 800W/m to 1,500W/m with 1,500kg/m fl oor loading capacity across all data center fl oors.


RUSSIA


Scandanavian consulting fi rm Tieto is planning a Moscow data center to accompany its recently opened facility in St Petersburg. The jointly owned Finnish/ Sweden company said the fi rst customers to sign up for the St Petersburg center is the Nordic If P&C Insurance. The new data center was opened last month and has been audited with international ISO certifi cate for its security and reliability, the company said. Tieto’s Russia country manager,


Tuomo Summanen, said: “Data center providers in Russia typically offer space rental and connectivity for servers they do not own and manage themselves. “Our new data center supports


Tieto’s strategic aims to expand in Russia. Tieto is also planning to open a data center in Moscow.”


INDIA


Indian fi nance fi rm Religare Enterprises (REL) is deploying three IBM Scalable Modular Data Centers (SMDCs) in a US$3.1m deal.


IBM will build and maintain the data centers, including the network infrastructure in Delhi, Noida and Mumbai for REL.


redundant infrastructure, including power supplies, airconditioning and communications, and will incorporate sustainable design principles and materials.


It will be registered with the Singapore Building and Construction Authority Construction Quality Assessment scheme and will be rated Green Mark.


The solution will help


REL reduce annual power costs by 30-35%, the company said. Power consumption is a major factor in the company’s operational cost.


Cisco and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) have joined forces to provide data center services, starting in India and then spreading to other territories. Under the deal, TCS will build a new technology practice focused on Cisco’s data center networking and security solutions. The companies also announced the formation of a Cisco Technology Lab at the TCS campus in Chennai, India. TCS will incorporate Cisco’s Data Center 3.0 technologies, with TCS’ IT services, business solutions and outsourcing. The alliance will initially focus on banking and fi nance services, telecom and government, as well as SME businesses.


ICELAND


An Iceland-based data center, fi rst announced 12 months ago by Verne Holdings, will open one year late, according to the company’s chairman. The data center is now scheduled to launch operations in the second or third quarter of 2010. “Negotiations are still taking place and we’re far


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Singapore: 20,000sq metres for lease


ahead,” said Verne Holdings chairman of the board, Vilhjálmur Thorsteinsson.


CHINA


NTT Communications Corporation launched the Yuanqu Data Center in Shanghai on 2 February, following an agreement with China Telecom Shanghai, a subsidiary of China Telecom Group. The collocation Tier 3 data center will introduce Global e-VLAN point of presence to provide international wide-area ethernet service, with customers able to connect their servers and systems to a high-speed backbone network directly on the premises of the data center. The facility provides


colocation, managed operation and network, including NTT Com’s Arcstar Global IP-VPN and Global e-VLAN services. Shanghai NTT Telecommunications Engineering Co will provide customer support in Japanese, Chinese and English on a 24/7 basis.


Redundant facilities will


be offered for commercial power supply, airconditioning, UPS, and electricity generation and distribution, with no single point of failure, enabling a Tier 3 ranking by The Uptime Institute.


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