As Malaysia continues to grow as a strategic regional hub for digital interconnection between businesses, Equinix plans to open its first data centre in Kuala Lumpur in Q1 2024, following its expansion announcement last year to enter Malaysia with a data centre in Johor. Spurred by strong cloud growth and e-commerce adoption, as well as […]

BDx Data Centres, a portfolio company of US-based private equity firm, I Squared Capital, is expanding its business growth strategy with the appointment of Manish Prakash as President and Chief Business Officer. Prakash brings 25 plus years of executive leadership in turnarounds, building sustainable organisations and Digital Transformation across leading global technology and telecom firms. […]

Data centre cooling experts at Vertiv, a global provider of critical digital infrastructure and continuity solutions, have issued updated guidance for managing the extreme heat. Summer in the northern hemisphere just started, but already devastating heatwaves have washed over much of the US, Mexico, Canada, Europe and Asia. Widespread wildfires in Canada have triggered air quality […]

A vast amount of the world’s largest and historical data collections sit idle and inaccessible on tape media because it was one of the cost-effective places organisations could store records since the 1970s. With advancements in digital technologies, Perth-founded and headquartered technology company, Tape Ark – which specialises in tape-to-cloud migration – is liberating these […]

Natalya Makarochkina, Senior Vice President of the Secure Power Division, Schneider Electric, discusses the remarkable progress of Digital Transformation in the Asia Pacific region, driven by widespread tech adoption and unprecedented speed and scale. She outlines the growing influence of media services such as TikTok and Instagram on consumer preferences and the rise of three […]

SentinelOne, a global leader in autonomous cybersecurity, has announced the launch of a virtual data centre in Mumbai. It will enable the growing number of Indian companies which rely on SentinelOne to shield their business from cyberattacks in a simple, compliant way.   “Cybercriminals are moving faster than ever and companies must move with even […]

The PLDT Group, through its ICT subsidiary ePLDT, has announced new plans to further boost its 65% data centre market capacity share by building its 12th data centre facility. This development was officially announced by ePLDT President and CEO Victor S. Genuino during his keynote presentation at the W.Media Philippines Cloud and Datacenter Convention 2023.  […]

The 2023 Global Smart Green Data Center Summit was held in Ulanqab, Mongolia, on July 4 2023, with the theme of ‘Smart DC, Building the Green Future’. More than 600 data centre industry leaders, technical experts and ecosystem partners from around the world gathered to discuss new opportunities, demands and challenges for the global data […]

Addressing the growing demand for cloud services in Tokyo, Japan, Equinix, a digital infrastructure company, has announced the opening of TY13x, its second Tokyo-based xScale data centre. The new facility will serve the unique core workload deployment needs of hyperscale companies, including the world’s largest cloud service providers. International Data Corporation forecasts the public cloud services market in […]

This month’s news that Vertiv has unveiled the Vertiv EnerSav initiative reinforces the case for future data centres being built to ecologically sustainable standards.  When a specialist global operator like Vertiv gets it, the debate doesn’t hedge bets.  Now, surely, it’s only a matter of how.  The Vertiv service, available throughout Asia, Australia and New […]