DataSpace Today - 4 August 2020

A PUBLICATION OF SAFEGUARD SOLUTIONS – WORLD’S ONLY SOURCE OF HOLISTIC DATA CENTER NEWS & TRENDS

Most Essential Industries for Investment

Whether leaving for work or a quick trip to the convenience store, what can you not imagine leaving your home without, besides your wallet? Your phone, of course! In answering the question above, you just correctly identified cell towers, including 5G, as perhaps the only equally essential industry to our current society as data centers. This infrastructure is and will continue to play a key role in distributing compute power closer to the network edge, tremendously accelerated by the lockdowns and home-based activities.

 Servpac Opens Hawaii’s 1st Tier 4 Data Center

Servpac Inc., a company that provides next-gen cloud computing, data colocation, managed services, dedicated fiber internet, and VoIP telephone solutions, announced the official opening of their MTP Data Center, the only Tier 4 facility in the region. The 30K SF 0.66MW facility in Mililani Tech Park is built 10 miles inland and 850 feet above sea level. The largest data center in Hawaii, this facility has 150K SF of additional expansion space. The data center’s Central Oahu location makes it the most naturally secure environment for continued operations, especially during the Pacific hurricane season.

 Megaport Now Availabe in 15 TierPoint DCs

TierPoint, a leading provider of secure, connected data center and cloud solutions at the edge of the internet, announced that clients in seven more of the company's data centers now have access to Software Defined Interconnection services from Megaport, a global leader in Network as a Service (NaaS). Megaport’s on-demand NaaS platform connects with over 360 service providers, including many leading hyperscalers and SaaS providers.