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Equinix & Digital Realty Extend Colocation Leadership via Major M & A Deal
Equinix has now completed the acquisition of 29 major data centres from Verizon , while Digital Realty and DuPont Fabros have announced their intention to merge – a deal which should complete later this year .
New Q1 data from Synergy Research Group shows that Equinix and Digital Realty were already the clear leaders in the colocation market , accounting for 11 per cent and seven per cent of worldwide revenues respectively .
Had those major M & A deals been effective from the beginning of the year , Equinix worldwide market share in Q1 would have been 13 per cent and Digital Realty nine per cent . Their closest competitors are NTT with a six per cent market share , KDDI / Telehouse with three per cent and a group of operators that each has a two per cent share – including China Telecom , CenturyLink ( now Cyxtera ), CyrusOne , Global Switch and Interxion . Across the two major market segments , Equinix / Verizon would have had a 17 per cent share of retail colocation , while Digital Realty / DuPont Fabros would have had a 31 per cent share of the smaller wholesale segment .
The Q1 data , covering both wholesale and retail colocation , shows that the market continues to expand steadily across all regions , with APAC having the highest growth rate .
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451 Research : Cloud Price Index finds serverless offerings cheaper than virtual machines and containers
451 Research has found that , for the majority of new applications , serverless offers a lower cost of ownership ( TCO ) than virtual machines ( VMs ) and containers .
When analysing serverless offerings from the big four cloud providers – Amazon Web Services ( AWS ), Google , Microsoft and IBM – 451 Research ’ s Cloud Price Index shows that IBM generally offers the least expensive service , with Microsoft leading for certain configurations .
The TCO of serverless tends to be lower than VMs , even when the VM is hosting containers , because there is no need for developers to provision , configure and manage the infrastructure .
451 Research ’ s Cloud Price Index finds that IBM is cheapest for 0.1 second duration scripts , and Azure is cheapest for 10-second scripts , assuming memory requirements match predetermined size allocations . Plus , IBM offers a distinct cost advantage by allowing users to choose exact memory requirements , whereas other providers round up the figures , resulting in users paying for unused capacity .
Considering the similarities in pricing methods and offerings between providers , 451 Research believes serverless is poised to undergo a round of price cutting this year .
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IN BRIEF
New Dutch data centre provider DCValley has announced that Deniz Arslan and Vincent Wammes have joined the organisation as commercial manager and managing director respectively . Both have many years of experience in the data centre industry .
Big Switch Networks has appointed Claudio Perugini as vice president , worldwide channels . Claudio has extensive channel and sales experience in the networking industry , which spans more than 30 years . Most recently Claudio was EVP , worldwide sales at LightCyber and began his career as a founding member at Fluke Networks , where he spent more than 25 years .
The Cloud Industry Forum ( CIF ) has announced that BT has become the latest company to join its growing membership roster . BT ’ s portfolio strategy , the Cloud of Clouds , is a powerful combination of cloud services , IT integration skills , global network and professional security expertise , helping organisations transform into digital businesses .
London based provider Databarracks has been recognised in Gartner ’ s Magic Quadrant for Disaster Recovery as a Service 2017 . This is the third consecutive year Databarracks has been included in the Magic Quadrant for DRaaS .
Secure IT Environments has announced that it has achieved the requirements of the UK Government ’ s Cyber Essentials scheme . The Cyber Essentials scheme has been developed by Government and industry to provide a clear statement of the basic controls all organisations should implement to mitigate the risk from common internet based threats .
8 | July 2017