Issue 12, Oct/Nov
FOCUS ASIA
ASIA SPECIAL
SINGAPORE SGX Page 56
SIEMENS IN CHINA Page 60
JAPAN GOVERNMENT Page 64
ASIA - BUBBLING AT THE SURFACE Soaring populations, increasing demand and the westernization of business dominate the Asian business environment, where some of the most interesting ground-swell data center stories are coming to the fore. From government initiatives to standardization and the sheer need for more power, at lower costs, Asia is providing a backdrop that should be interesting for data center operators around the world.
DatacenterDynamics, in its upcoming conferences, will encapsulate the Asian market of the next 12 months, as operators, thought leaders and Asian market specialists meet to discuss some of the key issues affecting individual regions.
In this Asian special, alongside our London FOCUS, we speak to Singapore’s stock exchange – SGX – to fi nd out how it is coping with demand for low latency brought on by the growth of algo trading in the region. We also chat with Siemen’s head of data center operations in China about its new headquarters, and the challenges of being in China. And we get a run-down on the new Japanese effi ciency standards coming into play as Japan strives towards a low-carbon economy with a targeted approach in which it hopes to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 25% by 2020.
SINGAPORE STABILITY
Singapore has long been an attractive location for international operations in Asia with its stable government and keen support of business and, of course, great network connections and standing as one of the major trade hubs in the region. So it comes as little surprise that Singapore is also growing in the data center space.
On page 56, Ambrose McNevin speaks to Singapore SGX about its low-latency US$250 million data center that it hopes will attract more algo trading to it’s exchange.
This is only one of the stories Singapore has to tell. Last month the nation was named as Asia’s cloud computing hub, a trend driven by the telecommunications companies positioning themselves there. It was also named an early adopter of the technology in the region. But this doesn’t mean Singapore is clear of the competition.
JAPAN’S LESSONS
Japan is setting out its own rules on energy effi ciency for the data center industry as its businesses move towards virtualization and high density environments. We talk with Dr Takao Shiino, chairman of the Environment Department of the Japan Information Technology Service Industry Association (JISA) and author of Nomura Research Institute’s white paper, Japan’s Approach to Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Data Centers. On page 64, he tells us why Japan thinks it needs a more appropriate metric for data center effi ciency than PUE.
DatacenterDynamics has a number of key events in Asia during the rest of this year: Tokyo on 18 October, Singapore on 21 October and Beijing on 9 December.
See page 88 for full event details
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CHINA RISING China is also making a concerted push towards the cloud. Siemens acknowledges this in our interview on page 60. The nation is not being pulled by demand, so much as sheer need. And, as a fast developing nation, China is also getting a lot of help from the rest of the world in both research and business terms.
Last month, with the help of some of the world’s largest IT providers, including IBM, HP, EMC, Intel and Cisco, China’s fi rst cloud- enabled data center opened – Shanghai AtHub – as part of a broader cloud computing scheme set up by the government.
China’s government has big plans for the cloud – it is pushing its companies into the area by making a commitment to create 100 cloud computing enterprises with an annual income of more than US$74.57 billion it says it will match today’s most infl uential providers.
Off the mainland, Hong Kong is also attracting a lot of attention. It is already graced by the presence of a number of high-profi le data centers, and only last month Equinix announced its plans to build a new data center there – its fi rst on the island (and the company says it is already more than two-thirds committed to tenants!)
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