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Issue 16, June/July
JAPAN LOOKS FOR WAYS AROUND BLACKOUTS
Japan’s data center industry is drafting a proposal for the Government that could help data center operators in the Tokyo and surrounding areas overcome the costs associated with power cuts. The proposal, if enacted, could force business users to reduce power use by 25% between 10am and 9pm, from June to September this year.
The Japan Data Center Council said it believes the rolling blackouts are likely to go ahead. This would mean that all companies, including data center operators, would have to stop using power for about three hours a day.
The planned outages follow the earthquake
and subsequent Tsunami, which struck North- Eastern Japan on 11 March.
Instead of being forced to provision for the cuts individually the council believes data center operators would benefi t from being part of a coalition, which can manage the cuts as a group instead of as individual data centers, meaning less frequent but longer cuts on allocated days. This would reduce maintenance and fuel costs.
Meanwhile, cloud computing and other data center service providers have experienced an increased level of inquiries for disaster recovery, as companies look to outsource for backup and place applications in the Cloud.
Tokyo after the earthquake on 11 March 2011 Image by Shibuya, Creative Commons
JAPAN Internet Initiative Japan (IIJ) launched its data center park in the city of Matsue, which uses IIJ’s proprietary IZmo containers. Each container holds nine 46U racks and provides 60kVA of critical power. The park’s total area is about 86,000 sq ft supporting 2,000kVA. It said it plans to benefi t from companies that are moving IT equipment outside earthquake- and tsunami- ravaged east Japan,
Salesforce.com said it is planning to build a new data center in Australia, but it did not disclose when.
SINGAPORE
Data center provider i/o said it
is expanding beyond center in the
US, building its next modular data
Singapore. It is
currently looking for a large site in Singapore, according to CEO George Slessman. He said the site could be as big as its larger facilities – its Phoenix site is up to 800,000 sq ft. The Singapore data center will launch in the fi rst quarter of 2012.
Tata Communications is making a US$357m investment in data center capacity at its business in Singapore in the next four years. The Bombay Stock Exchange- listed company has set up its international headquarters in the country, where it already has two data centers totalling 72,500 sq ft. It plans to invest in staff, innovation and infrastructure.
A group of Singapore economic development organizations has developed a new certifi able set of best practices for ensuring energy effi ciency at the country’s data centers. The Singapore Standard for Green Data Centers – Energy and Environmental Management Systems provides
a framework
and methodology for increasing energy effi ciency. It includes metrics for measuring and tracking energy effi ciency.
INDIA India’s government is setting up a US$3m data center in Bangalore for the implementation of its new identity cards project. The Unique Identifi cation Card scheme was previously piloted in eight districts, and the government said it would soon roll out to 20. The cards will
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provide a unique ID number to all citizens enrolled and will hold fi ngerprint or iris scan details.
Pacnet and Bharti Airtel said they will combine their networks to create a new high-speed direct link to the US from India. They plan to spend US$120m on joining Bharti Airtel’s i2i cable system and Pacnet EAC-C2C.
AUSTRALIA The Australian government launched its list of preferred suppliers for data center services and migration. Dell Australia, Dimension Data, Fujitsu Australia, Hewlett Packard and The Frame Group and Colliers International Project Services will be called upon by government agencies and departments when they want to relocate data center operations. Equinix, Australian Data Centers and Canberra Data Centre, TransACT and iSeek are just some of the names on the preferred suppliers list.
Fujitsu is expanding its presence further in Australia, from 10 to 12 data centers, with two sites being commissioned for Sydney and Melbourne. Each will be able to
scale to about 30,000 sq m and will focus on data center hosting and cloud services.
HONG KONG Hong Kong’s government is considering setting up its own data center standards to control carbon emissions and energy effi ciency. Land in Hong Kong is at a premium, which brings a different set of concerns for data centers there, which can only be built on industrial parks earmarked for data center development.
CHINA
Chinese ISP Tencent has started construction on a 90,000 sq m data storage and processing center north of Tianjin, China, with an initial investment of about US$91.76m. The data center will be complete in 2013.
Tencent already has a 48,000 sq m compound, housing a research and development center in Chengdu Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone in Sichuan.
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