SoftLayer and the Intricacies of Asia-Pac Expansion

Feb 18, 2013

SoftLayer has always had a significant international customer base. When moving into AsiaPac, Director of International Operations Mark Quigley discovered some unique challenges to approaching the Japanese market in particular.

Dell To Build 3 Petabyte Storage Infrastructure For JAIST

Feb 08, 2013

Dell announced that Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) has selected Dell Compellent arrays to provide high-performance and large capacity storage for its growing, private cloud environment that supports its students and...

Equinix To Build Fourth Tokyo Data Center

Jan 10, 2013

Equinix (EQIX) announced a $43 million investment to build its fourth International Business Exchange data center in the Ōtemachi district of Tokyo.

Digital Realty Buys Fully-Leased Sydney Data Center

Jan 08, 2013

Data center developer Digital Realty continues to build its presence in the Asia-Pacific region. The real estate investment trust (REIT) has acquired a fully-leased data center in Sydney, Australia for $11.75 million ($12.3 million US).

Global News: Cisco, SingTel, Juniper, NTT, IBM

Dec 04, 2012

Cisco and SingTel launch Carrier Ethernet Network, NTT selects Juniper for next-generation video, IBM helps India's Nextra Teleservices.

Microsoft Brings Windows Azure Cloud to China

Nov 02, 2012

The Windows Azure public cloud is coming to China. Microsoft has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the municipality of Shanghai, and signed agreement to license Microsoft technologies to 21Vianet, who will offer Azure in China out...

Equinix Completes Fifth Shanghai Data Center

Sep 18, 2012

Equinix (EQIX) announced the launch of its newest data center in Shanghai to address the strong demand for premium data center services in China from global customers looking to expand in the market.

Network News: CenturyLink, Infinera, Ciena

Sep 07, 2012

CenturyLink (CTL) wins two Federal orders from FCC, Infinera (INFN) selected by PIPE networks in Australia, Ciena selected to support Janet6 Infrastructure. .

Data Center Links: HP, Silver Peak, Blue Coat

Jul 27, 2012

HP and Cloudera Partner on Hadoop deployments, Silver Peak expands Virtual Acceleration Open Architecture, Blue Coat Cloud selected by Kordia.

Roundup: Six Degrees Acquires Cloud Computing Centre

Jul 27, 2012

Owner IQ chooses Internap (INAP) for managed hosting, London-based Six Degrees acquires Cloud Computing Centre and gets new funding, Uptime Institute certifies GPX Mumbai facility as first Tier IV facility in South Asia.