industry news
Cloudscene launches
comprehensive
directory of data
centres and cloud
service providers
Australian technology entrepreneur
Bevan Slattery has announced
the launch of Cloudscene, a
comprehensive connectivity reference
point for colocation data centres, cloud
service providers and interconnected
fabrics with the directory now available
to the public.
Cloudscene was established to
improve industry transparency and
consolidate the fragmented marketplace
for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS),
colocation and other cloud solutions.
With more than 4,700 data
centres and 4,200+ cloud/Internet
service providers across 110 countries
listed, Cloudscene offers a robust
platform allowing service providers
to be found and freely analysed by
prospects and customers.
Cloudscene’s founder, Bevan
Slattery said, ‘It’s been evident for
some time that the traditionally long
and difficult buying process for data
centre and enterprise cloud services
was not going to change. It was
out of frustration that the concept
of Cloudscene was born. Having
invested significantly on these
services myself, it became obvious
that there was an information gap
that needed to be filled.’
Digital Realty, Telstra, VentraIP,
EU Networks, Megaport, Vocus
Communications, Epsilon, Superloop
and NextDC are just some of the
service providers already actively
using Cloudscene.
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Record take-up in european data centre market in Q2 2016
Take-up of colocation space peaked at a record 35.5MW in Q2 2016 across the four
major markets of London, Frankfurt, Amsterdam and Paris, according to CBRE.
Driving this impressive activity were strong performances in three key hubs. The Paris
market excelled with 7.4MW of take-up over the quarter. Whilst this figure is lower than
that seen in London and Frankfurt, it represents greater take-up in the French capital than
in 2014 and 2015 combined. London set a record for quarterly performance, with 15.5MW
of IT power transacted, whilst Frankfurt reached 10.8MW.
Take-up in Paris was driven principally by Data4 Group, which sold more than 6MW of
colocation space in Q2 2016 at its Marcoussis campus. Given France’s two year downturn in
performance, this is a significant turnaround. In line with CBRE’s 2015 prediction, the Paris
market has returned to strength and is primed to benefit from the wave of demand from cloud
service providers deploying IT infrastructure throughout the major hubs in Europe.
In London, Gyron benefited from strong demand for space at its new campus
facility in Hemel Hempstead and in Frankfurt e-shelter continued to see strong interest.
Incidentally, these two companies are both owned by Japan’s NTT, highlighting their
strength in the market.
Andrew Jay, executive director in the Data Centre Solutions team at CBRE,
commented, ‘It’s encouraging that in a quarter which ended with the UK referendum,
the colocation market had its strongest ever performance from the four major markets
in Europe. Two key factors aligned to produce such a remarkable quarter. We saw
strong demand from corporate and enterprise clients as well as cloud service providers.
Furthermore, a significant amount of space was pre-let, and contributed to our statistics, as
individual buildings or phases became operational in Q2 2016.’
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