Data center-as-a-service solution from Mirantis is all set to make its debut

Mirantis, a popular OpenStack startup, pivoted toward cloud-native techs a few years ago and started focusing on microservices, Kubernetes, and containers. Recently, Mirantis made an announcement regarding its latest offering, Mirantis Flow. An open-source set of services that were curated for companies to manage their cloud-native data center and environment irrespective of infrastructure type. Co-Founder and CEO of Mirantis, Adrian lonel, has stated that the company is gearing up to deliver its clients a cloud-to-cloud experience on the edge, public cloud, and data center.

He furthermore added that several big companies like Netflix, Apple, and Facebook have managed to figure out how to manage their data in the hybrid cloud-native world, but there are various companies out there who lack the basic resource needed to manage their cloud. Mirantis’ new offering will focus on giving capabilities that were exclusive to big companies to everyone. Lonel stated that there are other big names in the segment like Microsoft, Amazon, and Google who tend to focus on this very problem, but the issue is that their offerings tend to focus more on being proprietary. This eventually leads to a lock, and various companies at the global level are trying their best to avoid this.

 

Princeton Digital Group to Invest $150M to Establish a New Data Center in Indonesia

Asia's leading data center provider Princeton Digital Group (PDG) has announced $150 million to develop a new data center facility in Jakarta, Indonesia. The move comes as the company looks to expand its presence in its footprint across Asia.

Since its establishment less than four years ago PDG has built 19 data centers. Recently, the company also announced $1 billion to open a 100 MW flagship data center campus in Japan.

The new data center in Jakarta will be a 22 MW data center named Jakarta Cibitung 2 (JC2). This data center is being built within the same 19,550m2 facility that houses PDG's existing data center JC1. The expanded campus of 35 MW will serve global cloud companies, domestic internet companies, and enterprises.

"Jakarta is an exciting market, Cibitung being the pre-eminent cloud cluster in the region. With the expanded campus, PDG has become a significant player in the Indonesian market. With the explosive economic growth and rapid digitalization by both government and private sectors in Indonesia, the market is core to PDG’s strategy," said Stephanus Tumbelaka, PDG’s Managing Director of Indonesia.

With the ever-increasing adoption of cloud-based services in the public and private sector in Indonesia, the new data center in Jakarta will help deliver unmatched scalability, connectivity, and reliability.

 

Telangana State and Microsoft are in the final leg of discussion for setting up a new data center

Tech giant Microsoft is all set to open a data center in Telangana state, India. The talks for the same are in the final leg, and the company is expected to invest almost Rs 15,000 crore. Microsoft has also chosen the land where this new data center would be constructed. The new effort is a part of the company’s attempt to develop such facilities in India under the name of BAM Digital reality. It is a well-known fact that the Telangana State is receiving investments from major corporations and growing unprecedently in the IT space.

Microsoft is looking forward to setting up a data center in Telangana, and the announcement for the same is expected shortly from the company. It must also be noted that back in 2019, Reliance Jio and Microsoft had struck a long-term deal to establish several cloud data centers in India. As part of the deal, the tech giant was supposed to bring in its cloud computing services to Jio’s network and target the SMEs keen on moving their business practices to cloud technology infrastructure. Apart from Microsoft, other major tech names like Amazon Web Services and Google are working tirelessly to strengthen their presence in the Indian data segment.