Worldwide spending on public cloud services and infrastructure will more than double over the 2019-2023 forecast period, according to the latest update to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Semiannual Public Cloud Services Spending Guide. With a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 22.3%, public cloud spending will grow from $229 billion in 2019 to nearly $500 billion in 2023.
Read MoreDigital Realty has appointed Christian Zipp as Vice President, Sales, with responsibility for Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands. Mr. Zipp brings more than 20 years of experience in the telecommunications and IT sectors, most recently serving as Regional Vice President, Sales at Equinix, and having previously led regional sales at Verizon Deutschland GmbH. He will be based in Frankfurt, and his appointment is effective immediately.
Read MoreWhen Interxion decided to expand its operations in Marseille, real-estate and power constraints led the company to build a second data centre four kilometres from the original site, and connect the two facilities with a super-fast Data Centre Interconnect (DCI) network. This allowed Interxion to create a single virtualised data centre campus, giving its clients light-speed access to subsea cables, platforms, connectivity providers and other partners at both sites.
Read MoreEquinix has announced the signing on June 27, 2019, of a greater than U.S.$1.0 billion initial joint venture in the form of a limited liability partnership with GIC, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, to develop and operate xScale data centers in Europe.
Read MoreDue to increased member and capacity demands, the London Internet Exchange is pleased to announce considerable port upgrades to their VIRTUS Data Centre peering location.
Read MoreDigiPlex, the Nordic leader for innovative, sustainable and secure data centres, is announcing a new collaboration with Megaport Limited, a global leading Network as a Service (NaaS) provider. The collaboration brings DigiPlex customers direct, secure and on-demand access to a global ecosystem of over 300 service providers, including leading Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform, and Oracle Cloud.
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