Microsoft announces first major customer for New Zealand data center region

Microsoft New Zealand has announced the signing of a new strategic partnership with Fonterra that will see the dairy co-operative migrate many mission-critical operations to Microsoft Azure to support its global growth plans. Once Microsoft’s New Zealand data center region is launched,...

Five-year forecast: Huawei predicts 10 trends shaping data centre facilities

Yang Bifei, Data Centre Facility Product and Solution Planning Director at Huawei, gives us the lowdown on data centre facilities five years from now as we explore the 2025 Huawei trend forecast. From 2010 to 2019, the data centre industry experienced exponential growth. The move towards hybrid...

Leaseweb’s five-year growth exceeds double the market average

Leaseweb, a leading hosting cloud company, has announced that the growth in its global hosting infrastructure and related network capacity has grown twice the market average. The accomplishment is attributed to a focused approach to grow the company’s global presence over five years and has...

Singapore’s Keppel Capital builds its second Greater Bay Area data center in Huizhou

Keppel Capital, the asset management arm of Singapore’s conglomerate Keppel Group, has agreed to invest 1.5 billion yuan (US$213.8 million) to build a data center in Huizhou, China. The data center, located in Tonghu Smart City, an industrial complex developed by Country Garden Holdings,...