investment

Fujitsu invests US$30m in new China data center

With US$30 million investment, the new Fujitsu South China Data Centre will become Fujitsu's "first world-class data center in China." It has been listed in the "Guangdong Top 500" modern industrial projects that provide advanced IT support, and professional data storage solutions for the South China region.
by: Carol Ko 03-May-2012

Fujitsu opens first data center in China

China's Foshan government and Fujitsu launch a data center in South China graded tier-3 plus with 12,000 sqm floor space. It will provide co-location and hosting services, managed services, project services and vendor management services to enterprises of all sizes in the region.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 11-Apr-2012

Savvis, Digital Realty to launch Hong Kong data center in 2013

Savvis and Digital Realty unveil the Hong Kong data center launch date following the joint venture set up announcement -- their first official joint venture in Asia Pacific. Senior executives of the two companies also exchange views on why Hong Kong is an "under-served" data center market in the world.
by: Carol Ko 10-Apr-2012
Savvis and Digital Realty to form JV, build HK data center
The two data center solutions providers formed a joint venture to acquire a 165,000 sq ft (15,247 sqm) property in Hong Kong. The property, located at Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate in the New Territories, will provide co-location and managed services.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 05-Apr-2012

Gartner: 5 trends to affect cloud strategy through 2015

Gartner identifies five short-term cloud computing trends that the enterprises should factor into their IT planning process -- as cloud trends and the related technologies evolve change rapidly, and there is continuing confusion and misunderstanding as vendors increasingly hype 'cloud' as a marketing term.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 04-Apr-2012

Movideo commits US$4m in APAC video SaaS delivery

Australia-based Movideo signs a four-year technical alliance with Microsoft to deliver its online video service on Azure. The company's CEO talks about how online video is delivered and consumed in Asia, the strongest business model for online video delivery, and his first steps taken to enter the Chinese market.
by: Carol Ko 02-Apr-2012
Pacnet opens 2nd cloud data center in Hong Kong
Pacnet's new cloud data center is a two-storey facility built to Tier III standard at the Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate. Delivering up to 10kVA of power per cabinet, the new facility is located just 100 meters away from its first CloudSpace data center Hong Kong CloudSpace1 (HKCS1).
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 22-Mar-2012
Savvis builds US$100m second data center in Singapore
Scheduled to open in six months, SG2 represents a 53,000-square-foot facility comprising 32,000 square feet of raised floor space and an IT capacity of 3.6 megawatts of power, offering co-location, managed hosting, cloud computing and network services.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 01-Mar-2012

Telstra predicts: 'Community of interest' clouds form for IT sharing

In 2012, Telstra International predicts organizations with common interests will club together to create 'community of interest' clouds around an industry or solution area for shared infrastructure, signaling the first step to create business process-based architectures.
by: Carol Ko 20-Feb-2012

Hong Kong govt 2012-13 IT spend to exceed US$80 million

Some of the government IT projects include the implementation of government cloud platform; the deployment of the next generation government Wi-Fi program, and the development of mobile apps to facilitate the government's delivery for the public.
by: Teresa Leung, Computerworld Hong Kong 02-Feb-2012