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Juniper Networks, a provider of secure, AI-driven networks, announced enhancements to the Juniper Apstra platform that further simplify the deployment, troubleshooting and operations of data centre networks.

Ausconnex, Australian electrical infrastructure and equipment specialist, launched its dark fibre service, offering secure, high-speed communication and data transfer for businesses wanting to connect to Greater Western Sydney.

COMPANY NEWS: Today most people are experiencing a new hybrid world of work leading to an immense surge in demand for video conferencing software and chat applications, which have become fundamental for efficient and effective communications. In 2020, video conferencing apps recorded 62 million downloads^[1] or 8.1% growth globally^[2]. Equinix Inc,, (Nasdaq: EQIX), the world’s digital infrastructure company™, today announced that Pexip, a leading provider of enterprise video conferencing and collaboration solutions for large private and public organisations around the world, has deployed in Equinix International Business Exchange^TM (IBX^®) data centres in Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Silicon Valley, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, Toronto, and Washington DC, and leveraged  Equinix Connect and Equinix Fabric to scale its global business.

The total addressable market size for data centers and hosting services in Malaysia, in terms of enterprise spending opportunity, is forecast to increase at a CAGR of 5% over 2020-2025, with more and more businesses in the country adopting cloud-based services and accelerating their digital transformation efforts.

Hyperscale data centre specialist AirTrunk is planning a new Western Sydney data centre dubbed AirTrunk SYD3. With at least 320MW of capacity, the company says it will be the largest single campus in the Asia-Pacific region excluding China.

Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of China’s Alibaba Group has announced plans to expand its footprint by setting up data centres in South Korea and Thailand in 2022.

Alibaba Cloud, a major unit of the Alibaba Group, has announced an in-house processor design for use in its data centres.

GUEST INTERVIEW: A data centre that reduces latency, increases proximity, packs 10x the compute density into an area of equal size while delivering cost savings sounds too good to be true, but ResetData has arrived to reset expectations for the better.

GUEST INTERVIEW: A data centre that reduces latency, increases proximity, packs 10x the compute density into an area of equal size while delivering cost savings sounds too good to be true, but ResetData has arrived to reset expectations for the better.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Hyperscalers is the Australian next-gen open-OEM solving IT's complexity, eliminating proprietary hardware and software vendor lock-ins, delivering better technologies at competitive pricing. Doing it all from Canberra to Australian and global customers since 2014, in what is an inspiring and true success story its customers love.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Hyperscalers is the Australian next-gen open-OEM solving IT's complexity, eliminating proprietary hardware and software vendor lock-ins, delivering better technologies at competitive pricing. Doing it all from Canberra to Australian and global customers since 2014, in what is an inspiring and true success story its customers love.

ANALYSIS A Facebook engineer issued a command to assess the availability of global backbone capacity and this, unintentionally, took down all the connections in the company's backbone, effectively cutting off all its data centres, the company says.

GUEST OPINION by Aden Axen, Cloud Services Manager at Somerville:  Hear the term ‘data centre’ and it’s likely to conjure up images of massive warehouse-like buildings crammed floor to ceiling with rack-mounted servers. Increasingly, however, this is not always the case.

Data centre provider Digital Realty has achieved a 4.5-star NABERS Energy rating for its Sydney Erskine Park data centre infrastructure.