FOCUS NEWS APAC
Issue 20, Feb/March
INDIA NOW HOME TO WORLD’S THIRD-LARGEST DATA CENTER
Tulip Telecom has officially opened Asia’s largest, and the world’s third-largest, data center in Bangalore – Tulip Data City. The colocation and hosting data center spans 0.9m sq ft and can house 12,000 racks with 100MW of power.
The facility has been built to Tier IV and Tier III standards by IBM and Indian consultancy Schnabel,
consultancy
with IBM handling the for data
center
AUSTRALIA The Australian Securities Exchange
(ASX) launched
its first services for etrading customers colocated at the Australian Liquidity Center (ALC) – the exchange’s new data center in Sydney. ALC will host ASX infrastructure and provide colocation space for more clients than ASX’s older data center was able to support.
The ASX invested AU$32m in the 10,800 sq ft data center, according to website ITnews. The data center floor at launch was expected to support 100 ASX cabinets and 500 cabinets of colocation customers.
Australia’s Sydney Water is upgrading its Homebush Data Centre, a job that will require the staged demolition of an existing facility to make way for a completely new design.
It said it is looking to reduce the risk to staff posed by the data center, built in 1993, and ensure critical production systems are provided in a reliable and secure environment.
A private Australian submarine cable developer is constructing a submarine cable between Perth – a growing data center hub – and Singapore. The four-fiber pair
8 NTT’s Serangoon Data Center INDIA
NTT has finished building a 5,000 sq ft data center in Singapore that uses high-density cooling that connects to trading markets around the world using ultra-low- latency infrastructure connections. The Serangoon Data Center has been designed to cater for the growth
of algorithmic trading currently taking place in Asia.
CHINA Hong Kong is changing planning terms and offering to waive fees for certain types of commercial buildings
being
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KPMG International opened a
data center in the World
Trade Center, Bangalore, for its IT
solutions and business applications. KPMG said it chose to hold its high-performance computing capacity in India because of the country’s strong skillsets. In April last year, KPMG said it was consolidating 30 European data centers into one in Frankfurt to form a private cloud that will service all European KPMG users.
MALAYSIA Malaysian data center firm CSF
design operations
including power, cooling, rack layout and chillers, and Schnabel offering peer review of the build upon completion.
Suppliers include Schneider Electric, Cisco, EMC, IBM, HP, Panduit and Corning.
Tulip wanted the build to have a keen focus on efficiency, and it has already been labelled India’s greenest and most power efficient data center, with a PUE of about 1.5.
cable system set up by ASSC-1 Communications will be able to handle 6.4 terabits per second and will cover a distance of 4,600km, with one fiber pair communicating between Perth, Jakarta in Indonesia and Singapore,
with
connections to Europe. It will eventually cater to 100Gbps.
SINGAPORE
Tulip Telecom’s massive Tulip Data City
more high-tier data centers to be built on existing industrial lots. The Government of Hong Kong said it will exempt the waiver fee for changing parts of industrial buildings aged 15 years or older for data centers of all tiers.
China Telecom is close to establishing a national cloud computing subsidiary out of Beijing that will service the whole of China, according to
Hostingtecnews.com.
The telco’s cloud strategy will be operated using virtual resources at established data centers designed to host its unified cloud management platform.
Group opened the first block of its CX5 data center development, comprising three blocks of five- storey buildings with a planned total gross floor space of 580,000 sq ft, and including 200,000 sq ft of data center space.
A tenant has already been secured for Block A and CSF said it is currently identifying tenants to occupy Blocks B and C.
AZERBAIJAN
Microsoft is setting up a data center dedicated to cloud computing services in Azerbaijan, the Eurasian country positioned between both the Western Asian and Eastern European markets. According to the Turkish Weekly, it is working with the Azerbaijani Communications and IT Ministry on the project.
Microsoft international President and VP Jean-Phillipe Courtois met with Azerbaijan’s government on January 26 at Davos, where the World Economic Forum was being held, to discuss issues such as energy supply and costs of associated with having a data center in the country.
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