Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. (TSE) will launch a new "TSE Co-Location Service" at its data centre.
This represents an interesting departure because it effectively offers colocation and a form of managed services to its investor and trading customers. The TSE will introduce 2 new trading systems as a response to changes in the development of financial engineering and information technology, as well as the increasing speed of trading systems. The new systems, the Tdex+ new options trading platform, and arrowhead, next generation cash equity matching engine, will offer higher capacity, throughput, and what is billed as an extremely rapid response time. As applications with automated order placing functions have become popular for market users like trading participants, the demand for colocation services has also increased. The new colocation service will be available when Tdex+ and arrownet are introduced, and then for the derivatives trading system following connections with arrownet. TSE has also been in discussions with NTT Communications Corporation about providing customer connectivity service at the TSE arrownet access point. NTT operate a data centre at the TSE arrownet access point, which is planned to be launched in early 2009.
Thursday, 28 August 2008
Wednesday, 27 August 2008
Leading Thailand bank migrates to new Data Centres
Datacraft has planned and project managed the migration of a leading Thailand bank's core data centre and backup facilities to its two separate new premises. The data centre will also be upgraded to boost its computing performance and systems resilience to assure 24x7x365 business continuity and disaster recovery for the bank's business critical applications.The 12-month, complex data centre relocation exercise entails the relocation of the bank's main data centre to its new headquarters in Bangkok, as well as the consolidation of the two existing backup facilities into a single state-of-the-art backup centre located in the outskirts of Bangkok.
Monday, 25 August 2008
Rackspace looks to expand in Asia
In its IPO prospectus, Rackspace (ww.rackspace.com) has said its goals for the flotation are to grow its hosting efforts around the world, particularly by expanding into markets in Europe and Asia. It has experienced fast revenue growth between 2005 and 2007 of USD 138 million to USD 362 million which has strained its operating and financial resources, hence the IPO. Joint book-running managers for the IPO are Goldman, Sachs & Co., Credit Suisse Securities and Merrill Lynch & Co. W.R. Hambrecht + Co., Jefferies & Company, Cowen and Company, RBC Capital Markets, JMP Securities, Signal Hill Capital Group, and E*TRADE Securities are the co-managers for the offering. Interestingly the company has launched CloudFS, an offering in beta mode from Rackspace's Mosso division, which will add a new storage option to its range of services, and can be accessed on-demand and scaled to greater storage amounts as needed.
Taiwan Data Centres Go Green
Among the companies involved in IBM's Project Green are 10 enterprises in Taiwan. China Steel, one of the largest on the island, has upgraded its data centre under the scheme, and China Development Industrial Bank, became the first-ever financial company in the Asia-Pacific region to have a green data centre according to IBM. The project now has more than 2,000 clients worldwide.The IBM project targets corporate data centres where energy constraints and costs can hamper their ability to grow, and utilises a global team of more than 850 energy efficiency experts.
Wednesday, 20 August 2008
IBM moves ahead with Cloud Computing platform build
IBM plans to spend USD300 million this year to build 13 "cloud computing" data centres. Sites selected across 10 countries are reported to include China, Japan, Turkey, Poland, France and the United States. The acquisition last year of Arsenal Digital Solutions, will provide the rack-mounted storage appliances for information and applications data. There does not appear to be an indication yet of the size of these centres.
This investment follows on from the establishment of cloud computing research centres - around 200 researchers worldwide (in China, Ireland, South Africa) and the company is also collaborating with universities and government agencies including the Vietnamese Ministry of Science and Technology and Kyushu University in Japan.
Tuesday, 19 August 2008
Data Centres in Asia at inflection point
Current research by BroadGroup suggests that Asia is now positioned for significant growth in the data centre sector. The market holds many similarities to Europe around 2-3 years ago, although the player landscape is markedly different. There are few pan-Asian players - with SingTel's EXPAN and PacNet formed from the recent merger of Pacific Internet Singapore and Asia Netcom - as leading contenders in this space. A recent alliance between 4 independent data centre operators in Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam may also herald a shift in market play. The presence too of property players, investors and entrepreneurs across the region is also evident. Much of the remaining data centre sector is dominated by telcos. It will be interesting to observe developments now as enterprises outsourcing to third parties demand increasingly tough conditions to comply with legislative mandates, but also the well honed corporate social responsibility (CSR) requirements for Green data centres at a time when it is at its most challenging moment to upgrade and mitigate power and cooling requirements.
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