Issue 1, December 2008
FOCUS NEWS ASIA PACIFIC
NEW ZEALAND
IBM OPENS CENTERS IN VIETNAM, KOREA, AND INDIA
IBM announced a software and services collaboration website and cloud data centers in Asia and South America.
New Zealand’s high profile cinema special effects company Weta Digital invested in a multimillion dollar data center built on over 150 double density 1280 blade servers from HP. The company behind the effects for the Lord of the Rings films said its water cooling system from German supplier Rittal was among on of the most important aspects of the project.
BANKING
Saigon Commercial Bank (SCB) signed IBM for its Scalable Modular Data Center (SMDC) to cut energy use while supporting business growth. IBM will partner with SCB to transform its current existing data center to a 50-100 square meters modular set up.
Philippine Savings Bank (PSBank) will implement the New Enterprise Data Center (NEDC) strategy from IBM. PSBank, will migrate its
database to IBM System z and use the mainframe for seven Linux-based online transaction processor (OLTP) applications and its Data Warehouse.
Schneider Electric was picked by IBM India to supply electrical distribution, high density cooling and power solutions for a data center build for Indian telecoms firm Bharti Airtel. The firm will use APC’s Galaxy range of UPSs, InRow RC Cooling Solution for high density racks alongside its electrical distribution and energy management solutions and TAC’s building automation, security and safety systems. Hand over is due in 2009.
In Vietnam IBM is opening two cloud centers in Ha Noi and HCM city. And IBM also announced three other newly launched cloud computing centers in Korea, India and Brazil, joining nine others located throughout the world. The firm is attempting to put structure on its cloud computing push with a series of announcements including a beta version of “Bluehouse”
AUSTRALIA
Vietnam will be the location for 2 IBM data centers
a networking and collaboration website and “Saas enablement network” running on IBM servers. The firm says it has the largest network of cloud computing centers in the world combined
Successful data center projects are being jeopardised by the disconnect between the greater demands of IT and the power and cooling needed to optimise their operation amid a warning that poor design will cause millions of dollars to be wasted.
According to the man responsible for building the AUS$220 million Polaris data center in Queensland, Australia, “Chinese walls of secrecy” surround projects and IT companies lack facilities expertise. Mike Andrea, a director of Strategic Designs, told the Canberra Times that computer vendors were selling higher-capacity storage systems, but lacked expertise when it came to the large amounts of power and water or the buildings needed for them. Andrea said millions of dollars risk being wasted because governments and user companies don’t understand the issue.
The government of the state of New South Wales set out a plan to consolidate 130 data centers into two facilities.
The project will start at the end of 2009 with work due to begin
in 2011 and end in 2021. The state’s chief information officer Emmanuel Rodriguez said: “We have 130 data centers and counting and migration will probably take about 10 years because there are many factors to consider including energy requirements,” it was reported in The Australian. “Health and DET (Department of Education and Training), our mega-agencies, have already committed to be anchor tenants for the two data centers.” The federal Government also plans to streamline the number of data centers its largest departments and agencies rely on.
MALAYSIA
TECH PARK TO GET 100,000 SQ FT CENTER
Malaysia’s Kulim Hi-tech Park will be the location for a 20,000 sq ft data center in phase one of an eventual 100,000 sq ft three phase project.
The park is based in Kedah in Malayasia’s northern territory and will host the RM135 million data center built by Northern Data Exchange Centre (NDEC). Phase one is scheduled to complete in the third quarter of 2009 with the main second phase (70,000 sq ft) expected to be ready and fully operational by 2010.
The data center will be designed, developed, set up and maintained by NDEC Sdn Bhd and Kulim Technology Park Corp Sdn Bhd (KTPC).
with its five enterprise global data centers.
FURTHER READING
Page 38, Cloud computing and the virtual data center
PHILIPPINES
EYP MCF, the data center builder bought by HP earlier this year declared the Philippines as a key growth market. Kfir Godrich the firm’s chief technology officer has said that the Philippines has huge potential for mission critical data center building for internet, telecoms and financial services firms. The company is in initial talks with a number of potential Philippine customers about future proofing existing data centers and building new facilities.
HONG KONG
IT hosting firm Rackspace opened a 10,000 sq ft data center in Hong Kong as part of a US$20 million planned investment. The center is the company’s first foray into Asia. Lanham Napier, president and CEO, Rackspace Hosting, said: “Hong Kong has a strong local economy and growing customer demand for hosting, especially in the financial services area.” The data center, located in the Fo Tan district of Hong Kong, will represent an investment of at least US$20 million when complete, inclusive of data center lease obligations and infrastructure, equipment and personnel expenses. The new data center will initially have approximately 9,500 sq ft and will be expandable to about 18,000 sq ft.
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