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May/June 2016 • datacenterdynamics.com
The Business of Data Centers
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Contents
May/June 2016
VOL 04 // ISSUE 14
4 Meet the team
5 Global Editor
7 News
Cover Story 12 Asia Pacific
Building 14 Latin America Focus
Webscale 16 Building Webscale
The digital infrastructure
makes new demands 21 Colocation intro
16 22 Colocation changes
24 Colo Movers & Shakers
29 Ian Bitterlin
Asia Pacific
33 Power + Cooling
Singapore signs up to ‘green’ 35 Smarter cooling
its data centers
12 39 Cooling by other means
42 Power to the people
44 US & Canada Awards Winners
46 Max’s last words
Our tracks guide your path through
the DCD Magazine, website and
events
Ian Bitterlin Turn and face
Using waste heat is great in the change Colo + Cloud
theory, but tough in practice New thoughts on colocation
29 22 Design + Build
Core > Edge
Software - Defined
Power + Cooling
Power to the people Security + Risk
There’s more than one way
to feed your data center Servers + Storage
42 Open - Source
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Webscale
wonderland
50%
B
uilding at webscale is different. Data
centers created a new technology
discipline when they served a small,
defined community (say, the staff
and customers of a major bank).
But when web services and the
cloud went global, the reach of those data centers
multiplied and the game suddenly changed.
Engineering at webscale faces different challenges
and the cloud players have led the response to that. They
have monolithic applications, and they want millisecond
responses to requests from a user base around the world. of enterprises
But although their requirements are different, the will use
cloud giants are addressing some of the same underlying webscale
issues that face the rest of the data center world. We architecture by
can all learn from their efforts. 2017 (Gartner)
Power and cooling, along with network bandwidth,
remain the biggest fundamental needs of data
centers. Webscale players can adopt massively economic
giant-scale solutions, but everyone needs to keep
re-addressing the subject from first principles.
There’s a balance between power and cooling. All the
power that is used in a data center will become heat.
And all that heat needs to make its way out of the data
center racks, or else they get too hot. Webscale
So trimming the power needs of the IT kit reduces
the need for cooling, and improving the effectiveness of players are
cooling allows for more power.
Webscale players are pushing this forward, but there’s
pushing things
plenty of scope for anyone to up their game, and our forward, but
supplement looks at both sides of the coin.
there’s scope for
Colocation still lives. Despite the efforts of cloud
providers to blot up all the enterprise and consumer IT
everyone to up
needs of the planet, individual organizations still need to their game
put servers somewhere, and those that don’t have their
own facilities will put them in colo spaces.
The good news here is that those colo players are
learning the lessons of webscale builders. They don’t
have a monolithic application to run. In fact, they may
have a variety of clients renting parts of their space for
diverse jobs, and the rules of the game say that every one
of those customers is right. So colo players are getting
creative about how to satisfy all their customers.
And any colo player worth its salt is also (up)selling
the option, either directly or through a partner, of
shifting all or some of that IT resource into the cloud.
And if it works, just maybe, those players could
themselves reach webscale.
•
Peter Judge – Global Editor
@peterjudgeDCD
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Linking ARMs
Backers of ARM and Power
processors, including
IBM, AMD, Huawei
and Qualcomm, have
teamed up to make their
RISC processors more
compatible with the
dominant x86 instruction
set. The CCIX Consortium
will develop a Cache
Coherent Interconnect for
Accelerators (CCIX). This will
analyst at Andrasta Consulting. let processors with different
Equinix to sell
“Before Christmas they were instruction set architectures
inundated with interest from share data with application
investors, but they all fell by the acceleration engines.
eight data centers
wayside because of the inherent
difficulties in turning these sites Salesforce goes
into a new business.” to AWS
to Digital Realty
According to Hayes, Equinix Social CRM maker Salesforce
would have preferred to sell the has signed a deal with
sites off piecemeal, preferably Amazon Web Services
to newcomers, who would have (AWS) that could be worth
US-based infrastructure square feet of white space and trouble competing on a global $400m over four years.
specialist Digital Realty has 24.4 megawatts of IT load, serving stage. She added that the deal Salesforce will use the
agreed to acquire eight European more than 650 customers. The involves old data centers that AWS Analytics Cloud, App
data centers, which European properties are 72 percent utilized, will require substantial upgrades Cloud, Community Cloud,
regulators have instructed its and can be expanded to support – something that is difficult to Sales Cloud and Service
competitor Equinix to sell. another 14.9MW of IT equipment. achieve when the data halls are Cloud platforms, although
Digital Realty will pay Digital Realty will acquire nearly full. Only a company it still plans to retain its own
approximately $874m for an interest in one data center already in the industry with computing infrastructure.
five facilities in London, two in Amsterdam and leasehold existing data centers in these
in Amsterdam and one in interests in the other seven markets, such as Digital Realty, HPE spits out EDS
Frankfurt. Equinix has been facilities, lasting an average could pull this off. Hewlett Packard Enterprise
told to sell some of its estate as of 23 years. In return, Equinix Tim Anker of Colo-X added (HPE) will spin off its
a condition of approval for its will get an option to acquire that the deal was “good news Enterprise Services division
$3.8bn acquisition of European Digital Realty’s data center at rue for the customers and people and merge it with CSC to
colocation player TelecityGroup. Ambroise Croizat in Paris, where who worked in those data form a new company with
European regulators imposed Equinix is currently a tenant, for centers,” adding that Digital expected annual revenues of
the sale to stop Equinix from a purchase price of approximately Realty’s possible move into retail $26bn. This follows HP’s split
having a dominant position on the $215m. This part of the deal is yet colocation, using the Telx brand into HPE and HP Inc in 2015,
retail colocation market. to pass regulatory scrutiny. it acquired, would be good for and effectively spits out
According to Digital Realty, “Selling to Digital has got to competition here. EDS, the services company
the portfolio of eight facilities have caused pain for Equinix,” then-CEO Mark Hurd
contains approximately 213,000 commented Nicola Hayes, http://bit.ly/1sLFjKJ bought in 2008.
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There is a great deal of discontinuity increase the efficiency of our
between the liquid-cooled camp, data centers in a small footprint,
so we incorporated all the parts
and the air-cooled camp, but
of a water-cooled chiller plant –
they will coexist. The reality is that including the economizer – on
right now, liquid cooling is a very a footprint the same size as an
small percentage of the market. equivalent air-cooled chiller. We
What’s driving liquid cooling is high can do one-for-one swaps and
performance computing (HPC), increase the efficiency five times.
and there is great interest because It allows us to upgrade a facility
Julius Neudorfer energy efficiency for liquid cooling is William Gast without going inside and causing
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Roundup
report, the company’s CEO, has come at a time of growth Germany and Japan underscores
Digital Realty William Stein, said: “Leasing for Digital Realty, which closed the importance of scale and a
activity included a multi- a deal to buy Telx for $1.9bn global platform in providing
fills Japan site megawatt lease with a last October. This has data center solutions to meet
hyperscale cloud massively boosted its customer needs.”
with one deal service provider presence in the US Plans for the Osaka center
in Osaka, fully and given Telx the were announced in late 2013,
leasing phase global reach it when it bought the 15,000 square
Digital Realty Trust has closed one of our first lacked before. meter facility (160,000 square
a deal with an unnamed project in Japan. “Data center feet) for $10.5m. The company
cloud provider that has fully We also entered demand remains started work in April 2015 and
occupied the first phase of its Germany with robust, driven offers multi-rack, cage and
data center in Osaka. the acquisition by a rapidly private suites configurations,
The center occupies 8,271 of a six-acre growing trend with power capacities ranging
square meters (80,000 square land parcel.” towards corporate from 2kW to over 2,400kW.
feet) at a facility 20km from The first-phase deal IT outsourcing, Stein
the Japanese city. In a financial for half of its Osaka provision added. “Our activity in http://bit.ly/1P4Z98F
Africa expansion brings South Korea to host
first facility to Chad Microsoft’s cloud
Chad has its first data center, as a big expansion is Microsoft has announced plans to
predicted for facilities on the continent. deliver cloud services from two new data
Swedish prefabricated data center specialist center regions in South Korea, which
Flexenclosure has constructed the first data center in include a facility based in the capital
the landlocked country, sometimes referred to as the of Seoul. Microsoft’s Azure cloud will
“dead heart of Africa.” The news comes as a report also expand in Canada, with local data
predicts fast growth for the continent’s facilities. centers in Toronto and Quebec City, and
The communications and colocation center was Canadian data residency for Office 365
built by Flexenclosure for Millicom subsidiary Tigo. for business customers.
At a cost of $6m, the 374 square meter facility, built in Microsoft has invested more than
Sweden and shipped to Chad’s capital N’Djamena, is $15bn in its cloud operations to date and
designed to support an IT power load of 400kW. The announced a total of 32 Azure regions around
building can double in capacity if needed. The design the world, 24 of which are generally available.
also had to take into account that N’Djamena is one According to Microsoft cloud VP Takeshi
of the hottest cities in the world, with an average daily Numoto, that’s more regions than any other
high temperature of around 40° Celsius. major cloud provider.
Africa has growth potential, according to a report In 2014, reports suggested Microsoft is
published by BroadGroup for the Data Center Africa planning a multi-billion-dollar data center
Summit held on June 8, thanks to the availability in the South Korean city of Busan. While
of greater surplus power, more submarine cables, a Busan wasn’t mentioned by name here,
growing population that is increasingly affluent, and the updated Microsoft Azure website does
stabilizing government regimes. list a “Korea South” region, in addition to
Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa are the a “Korea Central” region, with the location
growth leaders, and the continent’s grid now allows shown as Seoul. This strongly suggests that
some to produce a power surplus that is exported for
profit, while new cables and satellites also arrive.
IBM has opened its first data center in South
10% any new data center located in Korea South
is likely to be in Busan.
There is no question that Microsoft
Africa, and Teraco is building Africa’s largest Growth in global has been investing heavily in data center
data center there. infrastructure over the past few years as it
colocation market refashions itself from a software vendor into
http://bit.ly/22xCHg7 2015-2016 a services company. However, it is also facing
intense competition from cloud providers
such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and
41%
IBM SoftLayer in the Asia Pacific region.
For example, AWS South Korea went live in
January as part of an accelerated expansion
in the region, and it is reportedly building as
Growth in NTT many as five data centers in Mumbai, India.
data center revenue
2015-2016 http://bit.ly/22xCnxQ
(Synergy)
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Green Revolution France’s OVH has plans down under
Cooling launches
Hosting provider OVH of France wants to open a data center in Australia; sites in the
the customizable US and Asia are also in the works. Maxim Hurtel, the public cloud product lead at
OVH, revealed the plans in a speech at the OpenStack summit in Austin, Texas.
Minimus range OVH builds its own servers and currently has 250,000 servers in its infrastructure,
with 500 new ones added every day. According to Hurtel, OVH also builds and
operates its own networks around the world, and has 32 points of presence globally.
OVH had announced plans for 12 new data centers on top of the existing 17 it
already runs. These new data centers will be built over the span of two years, said OVH
vice president Pascal Jaillon.
OVH could be entering the Australian market at an opportune moment, when the
cloud-first policy of the Australian government is driving demand for more public
cloud platforms. OVH could provide an alternative for organizations that prefer not to
invest in Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure.
http://bit.ly/1O552b1
Liquid cooling specialist Green Revolution China launches quantum
Cooling (GRC) has partnered with Supermicro
and Gigabyte to release a range of stripped- communications satellite
down servers that eschew most of the features
traditionally offered by large OEMs.
The Minimus range enables customers China is set to launch the first-ever quantum communications
to configure the hardware before they buy, satellite in an experiment that could potentially lead to an
and specify the exact components they need. unbreakable encrypted wireless network. Later this year, the
According to GRC, this approach helps cut nation also hopes to complete an $80m, 2,000km quantum
data center hardware costs in half. communications link that will connect government offices
The model is similar to the thinking in Beijing to those in Shanghai.
behind the Open Compute Project, but is Project leader professor Pan Jianwei, from the University
more suitable for smaller organizations, of Science and Technology of China, successfully implemented
GRC said. “We saw that most OEM servers quantum communications to exchange information securely
were not only full of unused features, among government officials during a military parade. “China is
they also cost significantly more than completely capable of making full use of quantum communications in
the cost of their components,” explained a regional war,” Pan told news service Caixin. “The direction of development in the
Christiaan Best, founder and CEO of Green future calls for using relay satellites to realize quantum communications and control
Revolution Cooling. that covers the entire army.”
“There was a time in the industry when The network and satellite will transmit encoded data through quantum key
everyone believed that ‘nobody gets fired for distribution (QKD), which secures a channel using quantum entanglement. Two
buying blue (IBM).’ But those days are long particles can share the same quantum state, irrespective of their spacial distance from
gone, as servers are becoming a commodity, each other, but the entanglement collapses when it is observed – so eavesdroppers
and paying a $2,000 premium for a nameplate cannot monitor data without immediately changing the quantum state and being
is no longer acceptable… or necessary.” noticed. “The Edward Snowden case has told us that the information in the transmission
According to research carried out by the networks are exposed to risks of being monitored and attacked by hackers,” said Pan.
company, the main reason customers buy Weighing in at 500kg, the experimental satellite contains a quantum key
more expensive branded kit is reliability. communicator, quantum entanglement emitter, entanglement source, processing
But GRC claims that, when it looked at its unit and a laser communicator. It will orbit at an altitude of 1,000km and is expected
own custom servers, the annual failure rate to go live two years.
stood at less than one percent. Quantum physics researcher Anton Zeilinger, of the University of Vienna, had
The company has collaborated with hoped for the European Space Agency to develop its own satellite but found the
major server manufacturers Gigabyte and organization too slow. “Its mechanisms are so slow that no decision was made,”
Supermicro to develop a standardized server he told Nature in 2012. Instead, Zeilinger, who was previously Pan’s Ph.D adviser,
design based on the ATX motherboard, with collaborated with the Chinese. In 2013, Austria and China announced the Quantum
integrated rack-based liquid cooling and Experiments on Space Scale collaboration, with a ground station for the Chinese
power distribution. satellite being built in Vienna.
It then put all the pre-tested options into This January, Pan said: “Our first mission is to see if we can establish quantum key
an online framework to enable customers distribution between a ground station in Beijing and the satellite, and between the
to mix and match components without any satellite and Vienna. Then we can see whether it is possible to establish a quantum
reliability or compatibility worries. key between Beijing and Vienna, using the satellite as a relay.”
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Equinix plans expansion CyrusOne grows
finance-focused
Colocation giant Equinix will expand capacity over the
next few quarters by pushing out its existing facilities Chicago site
and building extra data centers. In all, the company has
16 expansion projects underway and plans for four new
facilities, according to CEO Steve Smith. Data center operator CyrusOne is expanding
The capacity increase was announced in the company’s the data center it bought from Chicago
2016 Q1 earnings conference call, where Smith also said Mercantile Exchange (CME) in March.
Equinix’s Internetwork Business Exchange (IBX) centers are CME is still in the building as a tenant, and
at 80 percent occupancy. CyrusOne wants to bring in other Chicago-
The New York NY5 site will add 1,200 sellable cabinet based financial firms.
equivalents (2.5 square meters per cabinet), with the commencement of a second phase In March, CME sold its building to
of expansion. Japanese expansion is capped, following the acquisition of Bit-isle in 2015. CyrusOne and signed a 15-year lease to
In San Jose, California, Silicon Valley demand is being met with 2,600 cabinets in a new remain as the anchor tenant for the facility.
SV10 facility on land purchased adjacent to Equinix’s existing Great Oaks campus. CyrusOne is now taking advantage of the
In São Paulo, Brazil, a slightly larger facility SP3 will be created to provide approximately site’s prime position in Chicago to build
2,775 cabinets, and the Sydney SY4 build will contain 3,000 cabinets opened in two 1,500 on 15 acres of empty land included in the
cabinet phases. A second phase of 1,385 cabinets is due this year at London LD6. original deal. The extension will add another
500,000 square feet (46,500 square meters)
http://bit.ly/22xCKby of space, which the two firms will offer to
other financial services players.
CyrusOne has said there is significant
demand for additional colocation, and the
deal allows both CyrusOne and CME to
ST Telemedia buys Tata’s Indian sites provide colocation services to interested
customers in the original CME data center.
However, space is limited in that
Singapore Technologies Telemedia (ST Telemedia) is to buy a majority stake in the building. CME occupies over 72,000 square
data center business of Tata Communications, which has been on sale for nearly feet (6,700 square meters) of a data center
a year. The deal, valued at around $170m, sets up a joint venture, with Tata keeping which is reported to be more than 400,000
a minority stake. square feet (37,000 square meters) in size.
ST Telemedia will buy 74 percent of the data centers in India and Singapore CyrusOne now says there are only 36,000
owned by Tata Communications. Tata will keep the remaining 26 percent, and square feet (3,350 square meters) available to
shift its focus back to its core business of networks and managed services. ST rent in the building, which indicates there
Telemedia has been the frontrunner to buy the data centers since soon after may be other customers already, or other
they were put on the market. limitations with what can be done in the
Tata Communications, part of the giant Tata conglomerate, rapidly built up a existing facility.
massive data center portfolio, mostly through acquisitions in 2013 and 2014. The When the original acquisition of
organization runs about a quarter of India’s data centers. the data center was announced, both
The company says it has more than a million square feet of data center space, CyrusOne and CME talked about potential
in 44 facilities, distributed around the world, including Singapore, the US and the partnerships between the two firms to grow
UK. This deal only affects Tata’s three sites in Singapore and 14 colocation facilities the business. The pair have said they plan
in India, in cities including New Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, Kolkata and to build additional space and to focus on
Pune. In 2014, Tata transferred these sites to an independent subsidiary – Tata “becoming the nexus for financial, energy,
Communications Data Centers (TCDC) – and then in 2015 set about selling a social media, and cloud companies.”
majority stake in the business.
When this deal goes through, the TCDC data centers, along with http://bit.ly/1TXDwvj
Tata’s three facilities in Singapore, will be a joint venture, effectively
run by ST Telemedia Global Data Centers (STT GDC). This
group has a stake in data centers in all major economic
areas, and last year bought a stake in Virtus of the
UK. “I think Tata’s priority here is to raise cash
and pay down some of its debt,” said Adi
Kishore, analyst at DCD Intelligence. “Its
Indian portfolio was probably the
most attractive to ST Telemedia,
which wants to expand in
India and China. Long term,
though, Tata would like to
migrate its business to managed
services and cloud.
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Month 20XXThe Paris Agreement
on Climate Change
Singapore signs
• Aims to keep global
warming “well below 2C”
• Signed by 176 states
• Ratified by only 17 states,
mostly small island nations up to ‘green’
its data centers
• The agreement comes into
force only when ratified by
the largest 55 countries
• Under a non-binding
promise, developing As Singapore signs the Paris Agreement, new
countries could get
$100bn. So far $3bn and old data centers will have to consider their
is committed climate impact, says Paul Mah
S
ingapore signed the in Singapore, despite accounting
Paris Agreement on for just one percent of the total
Climate Change in land area. With new data centers
April, and also pledged expected to launch just about every
to reduce its emissions other month for the rest of 2016,
intensity by 36 percent the percentage is likely to increase,
by 2030 compared with 2005 levels. and industry will have to get moving
Paul Mah This milestone will be of small to fall into step with the Singapore
SEA Correspondent interest to the general public, but government’s plan.
data center and cloud providers
@paulmah will take notice given Singapore’s New data centers are more
position as a data center hub efficient and tend to be huge, multi-
with limited access to renewable story facilities in land-strapped cities
sources of energy. such as Singapore and Hong Kong.
Data centers consume 6.9 “A lot of them are very large, with
percent of the total energy used very large energy consumption,”
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entail a rethinking of the systems that are
implemented and integrated with the rest
of the data center.
“[For] something designed many years
ago, there could be a newer or better way
of doing the system. First, understand
where you are. Second, put together a
pragmatic plan to drive improvement
and efficiency,” he says.
Air-conditioning equipment doesn’t
run as efficiently after 10 years if it is not
maintained properly, and may need to be
overhauled or even replaced. “If you don’t
pay attention to it all the time, if you’re
not constantly trying to improve things,
then you fall behind,” explains Grant.
Other improvements can be
uncovered with the right data, says
Pankaj Sharma, vice president of IT
business in Schneider Electric’s APAC
region. Sharma recommends DCIM
software to improve efficiency.
“DCIM looks at your cooling system
and turns things on and off to ensure the
most efficient use of DCs,” says Sharma.
“Software takes it to the next level: How
many of these components need to run
on a constant basis? What is the best way
to get them to work together?”
Energy-efficiency projects don’t
says Hal Grant, executive vice president have to be monolithic. DCIM vendors
of IT business at Schneider Electric. are increasingly willing to hook up
“Maximizing the efficiency on every to products from competitors to get
watt is very, very important to them.” usage information. “We partner with
There are innovations in cooling other companies, we train them, we
systems, and the designs of pods within sell them tools, we don’t have to do
data centers, and even how storage is everything ourselves,” says Grant.
lined up within the facilities. Data centers It is clear that energy efficiency is
must be continually upgraded, because now being driven by several factors:
even a new data increasing consumer
center today will be awareness can overcome
an “old” data center possible inertia by data
in five years’ time, Data centers center operators, while
says Grant: “It is a government initiatives
lifelong challenge.” need constant and standards also push
High power-
density data centers
upgrades: data center operators to
make improvements.
are not necessarily the today’s new Government green
most energy efficient, standards include the
as a high power facility will BCA-IDA Green Mark for
deployment tends
to mean more heat,
be “old” in Data Centres, explains
Sharma. “While they
which translates into five years provide these standards,
the need for more they also provide
cooling. But there subsidies. It’s like you get
is a strong demand rewarded twice.”
for higher density; for example, NTT’s
recently opened FDC2 data center in “If you have a finite number of
Hong Kong has a power density of square meters, and you are going to pack
up to 24kVA per rack backed by a thermal more into those square meters, then
storage system, while Singtel’s upcoming by definition you have to constantly be
DC West data center in Singapore has searching for efficiency in the data center
rooms dedicated for higher power and the buildings,” says Grant. “And if
deployments. we’re really going to make a dent in energy
Improving an existing center isn’t just efficiency, you have to spend just as much
a matter of swapping out older hardware time on an existing data center as you
for new components, says Grant. It could would on a new one.”
Issue 14, May/June 2016 • datacenterdynamics.com 13Market Focus:
Latin America
Data centers are developing in major emerging
markets within the region, reports Peter Judge
T
he countries that comprise (ICREA). Within the constraints
Latin America aren’t a mentioned, this year is expected to
homogeneous set, but be strong. Prefabricated data centers
they do share some are predicted to grow in the region,
common features – to a says Fernando Garcia of Ingenium
greater or lesser degree. Engineering. They can be delivered
Their economies are struggling and quickly in a market that faces rapid
their currencies are often weak. Their change.
Peter Judge
governments are unstable and often There are a few large greenfield
Global Editor
accused of corruption. projects or new data centers, but many
Despite this, there is strong investment brownfield jobs and upgrades to existing
@peterjudgeDCD
in the tech sector in the region, and facilities are being fulfilled by new
mobile services are expanding. As in players, says Garcia.
other countries, concerns over privacy However, the market for brownfield
are driving a move towards more local projects – in other words adjustments,
data storage, and public cloud services are remodels and updates for existing sites –
competing to overcome inertia and win is bullish since companies are beginning
over in-house IT. to make common sense investments
Data centers are worth $2bn in Latin in infrastructure by capitalizing on the
America, according to the International existing infrastructure they already own
Computer Room Experts Association and optimizing further investments.
14 datacenterdynamics.com • May/June 2016, Issue 14Latin America
Brazil Colombia
At the time of writing, Brazil is contorted in After a long-running guerilla war with
a political crisis over suspended President Marxist groups including FARC, Colombia is
Dilma Rousseff’s handling of the economy. becoming more stable as peace talks progress
Inflation has been at 10 percent and the under President Santos. As Colombia is
country has been plagued by the Zika virus, Latin America’s third-largest oil producer, its
a public health crisis that remains difficult economy has been hit by the recent fall in oil
to quantify and predict, and which threatens prices. Despite this, growth in telecoms has
the success of the Olympic Games. driven data center growth. This year, GTD
Nevertheless, the country has seen Flywan has opened a Tier III reliable facility
investment in several major new colocation in Colombia, and Level 3 has launched its
data centers. CapGemini has put $3.6m (13m third data center there, in Santiago de Cali,
reals) into a new data center in Campinas. alongside two facilities in Bogota.
Meanwhile, Equinix has put $21m (76m reals) As in Brazil, marine cables are used to Brazil
into a data center in São Paulo. Players from provide connections between Colombian
• Population 201 million
neighbouring countries are also investing. cities, with Level 3 opening a link between
Colombia’s Internexa has opened an Cali and Buenaventura that depends on a • GDP $1.8tr
820 square meter data center in Rio. 300km link along the Caribbean coast.
Alongside data centers, networks are Smaller than the Latin American giants
being developed, and Brazil’s position on Brazil and Mexico, Colombia is a prime
the continent makes it a popular landing location for subsidiaries of Brazilian and
point for international fiber. Telefonica is Mexican companies, and is seen as a route
linking Rio with Virginia Beach in the US to access smaller markets such as Honduras,
via Puerto Rico, with an 11,000km link due Guatemala and Nicaragua. Tier IV opened a
to be operational in 2018. Colombian subsidiary in 2015 and expects it to
Meanwhile, contrary to the usual Northern provide half of the company’s growth in 2016.
Hemisphere dominance, NEC is laying a
6000km fiber link for Angola Cables directly
between Angola and Brazil. Peru
Links along Brazil’s coast are also proving Peaceful since the end of the insurgency and
useful to connect its cities: Google is funding the self-imposed exile of President Fujimori Mexico
the “Junior” system, which will link Rio and in 2000, Peru has been consistently one of • Population 113 million
São Paulo via a sea-going loop. the fastest-growing economies in the region,
• GDP $1.2tr
although with a GDP of $180bn, it is only
one-tenth the size of Brazil.
Mexico Nevertheless, Peru’s economy is expected
Mexico’s government appears to be more to grow at 5.4 percent per year until 2018,
stable, despite international criticism over its leading the region in growth terms, according
handling of the case of 43 students apparently to LatinFocus.
abducted by police in 2014. The country’s The country’s data center sector has been
relationship with the US is perhaps more characterized by a slow-moving but well-
strained, thanks to the meaning public sector, while the
inflammatory language of US rest of the tech community shows
Republican hopeful Donald Data centers a will to innovate and get involved
Trump. in emerging areas of technology,
Despite this, data centers are worth including securityh and satellites.
in Mexico appear to be $2bn in Latin of data Recent announcements
healthy, and the country centers in Peru have Colombia
makes up some 20 percent America, and therefore come from aerospace • Population 45 million
of the Latin American data and academia. The new academic
center scene. The market for this year is complex of the Universidad • GDP $274bn
data centers in Mexico grew expected to Nacional del Altiplano (UNA Puno)
18 percent in 2014, and will will contain a 24,000 square meter
continue to grtow, according be strong data center valued at 30m soles
to ICREA. (about $9m), in the basement of a
As elsewhere, telecoms is growing fast, 15-story, high-tech research center.
as the middle class expands, and uses more Meanwhile, the National Commission for
mobile services. Government data centers are Aerospace Research and Development has
not growing so fast in Mexico. created a virtual data center to gather images
The colocation market in Mexico is from a Peruvian satellite in low polar orbit.
dominated by just three players: Kio, Alestra More conservatively, the ubiquitous Latin
and Triara, which between them own 80 American provider Telefonica has achieved
percent of the space. This will make life Tier III certification for its data center in
difficult for any new entrants. Monterrico, Surco, and the National Bank
Alestra’s position will be strengthened by has adopted free cooling technology. And
its merger with Axtel, a large Mexican telco. the National Bureau of Government of Peru Peru
Axtel now has six data centers, and says it will (Onagi) has modernized with a data center, • Population 29 million
invest $250m a year in its infrastructure. costing $330,000 (991,000 soles). • GDP $131bn
Issue 14, May/June 2016 • datacenterdynamics.com 15BUILDING
WEBSCALE I N F R A S T RU C T U R E
As the human race constructs the greatest project the world
has ever seen, the architects behind it consider its human
impact. Peter Judge reports
T
echnology is changing human and drive the creation of digital structures.
existence more rapidly than These people are “Infrastructure Masons”,
ever before, and the digital according to Dean Nelson, who has set
infrastructure is being built up a group of that name. The masons of
faster than any other building medieval Europe built cathedrals and created
project in history. The scale organizations to develop and preserve
of the project is unprecedented, and the knowledge of how to build in stone and
Peter Judge underlying technology is being invented as regulate the morality of the profession.
Global Editor the project proceeds. “I am proud to be a part of the global
We are building at webscale, and the community of people who build and manage
@peterjudgeDCD size and shape of the infrastructure is this digital infrastructure,” says Nelson, who
dictated by massive issues and tiny concerns. previously ran ebay’s data centers. “I think
Where do you build a data center that it’s time the world recognizes them and
can store and process billions of pages for appreciates the work they do.”
billions of people? And how do you collect
data and send instructions to minuscule The word ‘Masons’ gets across the scale
sensors that monitor and control more of the projects and the need for human
and more of our lives. ingenuity in their delivery. In the Industrial
The architects and designers of the world’s Revolution and the Machine Age, similar
digital infrastructure are gathering at the roles were taken by people like Isambard
DatacenterDynamics’ Webscale event in San Kingdom Brunel and Henry Ford, who
Jose, on July 19-20, and the agenda includes understood the possibilities and honed
the technical, the organizational, and the the technology of their times.
political questions raised by the arrival of the Morality should be at the heart of the
colossal, granular, interconnected systems. new infrastructure, according to Patrick
Some see the emergence of a new Flynn, director of sustainability at Salesforce,
professional class: of people who understand partly because they are so big: “The internet
16 datacenterdynamics.com • May/June 2016, Issue 14Cover Feature
is a species-wide central nervous system,” directly and the systems in buildings that are center builder at Apple and Yahoo. “They’re
he says in a TEDx talk. “Data centers are controlled by other divisions of the business. completely isolated from each other.”
the information factories. They are the Facilities management has been separate Merging those two silos results in cost
biggest thing we will ever build, consuming from the technology division, and that has savings at the very least, Noteboom points
more electricity than all but two led to a disappointing – and arguably out, but they can also allows the kind of moral
countries on Earth.” immoral – situation. Power and systems that Flynn wants to see. A system
Previous big structures have cooling systems need to be can’t reduce its impact on the environment,
had unintended consequences, managed more intelligently, until it is connected in such a way as to enable
he says. The highway system
enabled transport and
84%
revenue growth of
but all too often the systems
with the brainpower to do
it to see what that environmental impact is.
The Internet of Things brings new
communications but created that can’t talk to them. connectivity, but it has the potential to create
top four public cloud
smog, traffic congestion and Even when air-conditioning continually fragmenting infrastructure
providers, 2015
the loss of community. systems are connected, they controls. In this world, Noteboom reminds
(Synergy)
When our children look often use old technology such data center people yet again of the
back on the information as dial-up modems. “Those importance of avoiding the silo effect, where
system, Flynn wants them to systems are designed to never different technology requirements result in
approve: “Unlike past mega projects, change,” says Scott Noteboom, independent infrastructures being developed,
this one can have morals and values.” Just another Webscale speaker, and a former data in this case between IT and facilities. u
making sure that the structures don’t harm
humans or the environment is a step towards
this: control logic embeds morals into
machines, he argues.
Flynn thinks that making data centers
efficient is a moral imperative, and he’ll bring
that perspective to the DCD Webscale event.
Twenty percent of the servers are comatose
in today’s data centers – forgotten servers
still running and using power but doing no
useful work. That gets Flynn’s goat: “If a
server were moral, it would send a message
if it thought it was forgotten.”
Infrastructure Masons doesn’t yet have
a formal work plan, but it has made a
start on morality. Its first get-together, in
California, got members sharing ideas and
gave them a first look at some unreleased
technology – and it also raised $50,000 to pay
for a school in India.
Back from the moral frontline, building
at webscale involves rethinking the
organizations whose infrastructure we
are in charge of. Data centers have been
inefficient because they are isolated from the
consequences of their actions. IT systems use
power but the IT department doesn’t pay for it
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management currently often takes a “North add user- and system-defined orchestration
Korea” approach to providing security for capabilities. These user-created tools allow The social side
the physical infrastructure. The machinery devices on LitBit’s RythmOS platform to work of open source
of the physical plant is hidden and isolated, together, and can be shared. Scott Noteboom was the go-to data
while the other features of the data center get Webscale generally refers to the cloud center guy at Yahoo for two years,
the advantage of an open and highly visible providers and telcos that provide the massive and then went to Apple for six years,
approach to security and management. capacity, the servers and communications, providing the data center muscle
Noteboom is putting forward practical required by the users of the internet. to power the new Siri generation
solutions to this with LitBit, based on Customer-facing firms such as Google and of products and services. His new
the Apache Iota protocol, designed to Facebook have billions of users and petabytes company, LitBit, has just emerged
automate information gathering and of data to store and manage. from stealth mode, with the
control in the Internet of Things, the One step down, firms such as LinkedIn announcement of $7m in funding for
emerging galaxy of networked devices are still webscale, but at a smaller level. an open-source software company
that could make our lives better. It’s still worth their while making their with a focus on the IoT.
own kit and acting as good infrastructure
LitBit’s RhythmOS is an open-source, builders. Another Webscale speaker is Yuval Open source is a crucial component
orchestration backbone with open APIs Bachar, principal engineer at LinkedIn. He of data centers and the rest of
for the development of third-party has presided over a program where the new digital infrastructure,
applications, tools, and compatible the social media site designs its Noteboom will tell DCD Webscale.
hardware and software that own network switches and It doesn’t just provide server and
manage sponsor-driven propounds its own data center networking software but also
devices. Within and beyond architecture. serves as a methodology to drive
the data center it obviously DCD Webscale LinkedIn has designed the building and running of the
has potential applications. is at the San Jose the “Pigeon” network switch, digital infrastructure.
Noteboom’s LitBit Convention Center, so all parts of its data centers
company is based around on July 19-20 get 100Gbps through a single Facebook’s formation of the Open
the group that originally set fiber pair. Inside the racks Compute Project has created a
off the Apache Iota project, this feeds a lot of activity, generation of efficient open-source
designed for the Internet of which is provided by servers hardware, while Noteboom says open
Things to eliminate the silo effect, operating at such high densities source is needed to supply the tools
while also providing a new and practical that Bachar has adopted cabinets with necessary to manage the physical
approach for dealing with these issues. doors cooled by liquid. side of the data center, from cooling
Project Iota set out to create industrial- “There are no hot and cold aisles like fans to diesel backup generators.
grade open-source IoT tools, including you would find in a typical data center,”
hardware components and software says Bachar. “Everything is cold aisle. The Open-source solutions are often felt
platforms. Since the Iota platform itself is hot aisle is contained within the rack itself.” to be off-putting for less technical
a Linux computer, more capable hardware Savings from this can reach millions of people, but Noteboom wants to have
platforms increase the size of the managed dollars in CapEx, and the resulting systems management that doesn’t require
device environment. Improved performance run better and faster. a specialist or heavy-duty manuals.
can be achieved by the use of multiple It’s a standout example where moral After his years at Apple, Noteboom
management platforms in parallel. considerations and technical considerations believes that humans shouldn’t
Initial hardware platforms under are perfectly in line, where one of the need to read a manual, learn a
consideration include devices on the scale of builders of the digital infrastructure can programming language or need to
the Raspberry Pi. The system lets users create take a pride in his work. hire a subject management expert
in order to be successful in such an
important world-changing activity.
This is important. Letting in ordinary
people could help raise awareness
of the issues that need to be solved
before IoT and the rest of the digital
infrastructure can be an effective
development for business.
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Good news,
Bruce Taylor
bad news…
T
EVP, North his is the best of times. And if not the worst of
America times, then it’s the most interestingly complex of
times for the colocation industry.
@btaylor46 The good news: the continued growth of the
third-party, off-premises colocation data center
is assured. Globally and unrelentingly. Data will
grow ten-fold by the end of the decade. It is
currently doubling year-over-year, more or less
following Moore’s and Metcalfe’s Laws.
The colocation industry is on track to
double in size to $50bn by the end of this decade.
But the nature of colo is transforming under
our feet. Enterprise hybrid and multi-cloud will
drive that, and it will be a complex mélange of
IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, DRaaS and E[verything]aaS.
In the coming time of data center as code,
the physical facility and services industry will
be both vital and volatile.
The bad news is that the colocation and
cloud host data center industry is in the same
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transformation sector.
Precisely because of that transformation,
along with the dizzying velocity of data growth
in all economic sectors, and the equally dizzying
array of potential solutions to managing the
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era, more will be required of colocation
infrastructure services providers than ever before.
Meanwhile, for those enterprises willing to
try to manage on-premises data centers, the
technology odds are tilting in their favor, but
only if they are extraordinarily competent.
A colocation facility, at some point, may
become just another physical expression of the
true autonomous, software-defined data center,
serving both enterprises and the cloud.
At the recent DCD Enterprise conference
in New York City, at least two speakers looked
out at the audience and said: “Don’t worry, if
you’re smart, you’ll all have jobs for a long time
to come.” But those jobs will consist of managing
and mediating disruptive change.
•
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@btaylor46
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