Big Data

Singapore-listed data center real estate investment trust Keppel DC REIT Management Pte. Ltd has entered Japan with acquisition of a hyperscaler data center in Tokyo for S$201 million ($149 million).

Tencent Cloud, the cloud business arm of global technology company, Tencent, has on Thursday sealed a partnership with Nokia, a global provider of network infrastructure solutions, to support enterprises in Singapore and Asia Pacific as they level up their cloud and network infrastructure for the next phase of digital transformation.

Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, announced Tuesday the extension of its collaboration with Sarawak Information Systems Sdn. Bhd. (SAINS), an information and communications technology (ICT) systems integrator and solutions provider in Sarawak of Malaysia.

Malaysian information technology (IT) services firm Systech Bhd has partnered industrial-grade servers and storage solutions provider EH Integrated Systems Sdn. Bhd. (EISSB) to develop and operate data centers.

Malaysian telecommunications firm Telekom Malaysia (TM) is partnering Nxera, the regional data center arm of Singapore-based Singtel’s Digital InfraCo unit, in a joint venture to develop data centers in Malaysia starting with a sustainable, hyper-connected artificial intelligence (AI)-ready data center campus in Johor.

Google has on Monday announced the completion of its latest data center and cloud region campus expansion in Singapore. This milestone brings the company’s total investments in technical infrastructure in the country to $5 billion, up from $850 million in 2018.

Google announced Thursday that it has committed an investment of $2 billion in Malaysia, including the development of its first Google data center and Google Cloud region to meet the growing demand for cloud services locally and around the world, and artificial intelligence (Al) literacy programs for Malaysian students and educators.

CHEQUER Inc., the South Korea-based innovative developer behind the cloud security solution 'QueryPie', has on Monday announced the successful closure of its strategic investment round, joining Shinhan Venture Investment, raising a total of $27.82 million.

Oracle Corporation Japan has on Wednesday announced that it plans to invest more than $8 billion over the next ten years to meet the growing demand for cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure in Japan.

VAST Data, the data infrastructure company for the artificial intelligence (AI) era, has launched its regional headquarters in Singapore to service the Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) region.