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Global data centre provider Digital Realty has acquired land in the South Korean capital of Seoul for the development of a new, carrier-neutral data centre facility.

Global data centre operator Equinix has appointed 10-year IT industry veteran and current Australian managing director, Jeremy Deutsch, as president of Asia-Pacific.

Global data centre operator Equinix is planning to open 12 new data centres and expand 23 of its existing IBX data centres this year — including opening its fourth in Melbourne and eighth in Sydney — as part of an expected US$1.730 billion to US$1.920 billion capital expenditure program for 2019.

Data centre company Equinix is collaborating with UK-based global law firm HFW in a move it says is aimed at building out the firm’s digital edge in key markets including Melbourne, Dubai, London, Hong Kong and Paris.

Listed Australian data centre operator NextDC’s Brisbane-based operations have been appointed by the Queensland Government as a new enterprise provider on the ICT supplier panel to deliver data centre-as-a-service solutions to government departments and agencies.

Google's plans to expand its data centre network in the US will have to be complemented by an increase in the feature set of its cloud offering if it wants to grow its cloud market share, the head of a hybrid cloud management platform claims.

Internet search giant Google is expanding its US data centre network, spending US$13 billion on new data centres and office facilities this year.

Data centre operator NextDC's corporate operations have been certified carbon neutral under the Australian Government's National Carbon Offset Standard.

Sweden-based prefabricated data centre specialist Flexenclosure has delivered its flagship eCentre data centre solution to Australian data centre operator NextDC.

Chinese tech behemoth Alibaba Group’s cloud computing arm has launched a second data centre 10 months after launching its first data centre in Indonesia as part of its South East Asian expansion strategy.

Data centre operator NextDC has announced that Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute is now available at their P1 Perth data centre, offering customers direct connections to Microsoft Azure cloud.

Retailers across the globe are quickly moving away from traditional data centre infrastructure as cloud usage accelerates, with 93% identifying hybrid cloud as the ideal IT model — above the 91% global average across industries — according to a new report.

Apple has announced that it will expand its operations in Austin, Texas, with a new campus to be built in North Austin at an estimated cost of US$1 billion.

Global data centre provider Digital Realty continues to expand its investment in Australia with the opening of a new data centre at Erskine Park in Sydney and plans for further land acquisitions and a third facility, bringing total investment in Australia to more than $1 billion.

Data centre operator NextDC has sealed a deal for APAC network provider Superloop to connect the new Indigo subsea cable system to its data centres in Perth and Sydney.

Data centre operator NextDC is on a track to open its new Sydney S2 data centre in the first half of 2019 and says the facility has now increased its contracted commitments by approximately 9MW to more than 14MW — or 47% of total planned capacity — since 30 June.

Data centre operator Data Exchange Network has appointed two senior managers as it gears up to go live with first two colocation data centres early next year.

Modular data centre colocation services operator Data Exchange Network has shipped its global cross-connection modules to its colocation data centre in Sydney.

Pulse Data Centre, built by construction firm FKG Group as part of its Toowoomba Technology Park, has been appointed to the official Queensland Government information and communications technology supplier panel for the provision of data centre as a service.

Bankwest, a division of the Commonwealth Bank, has been accused of launching an "aggressive and overhanded enforcement default" in the case of Asia Pacific Data Centre, by the head of data centre operator NextDC, Craig Scroggie.