Tokyo stories

Turner & Townsend's report reveals London ranks 10th for expensive data centres, amidst rising challenges in power and supply chain amid AI demand.

Red Bull Basement invites young innovators in New Zealand to submit their start-up ideas by October 30, ahead of the global final in Tokyo this December.

Seagate broadens its Lyve Cloud with new features and sites in Germany and Japan, aiming to enhance cost optimisation, efficiency, and scalability for enterprises.

Thousands gathered at Auckland's Spark Arena for a gaming festival, Spark Game Arena Live. Highlights included an immersive virtual snake hunt and a Fortnite tournament with a prize pool over NZD $240,000.

PagerDuty launches PagerDuty Advance, a generative AI suite to enhance incident management and efficiency. Digital incidents in Australia surged by 41%, costing over AUD $1 million each.

OPSWAT has unveiled a new office and CIP lab in Tokyo, enhancing its efforts to secure Japan's critical infrastructure against rising cyber threats. The expansion aims to deepen partnerships and boost regional operations.

Tata Communications has secured a five-year deal to provide global host broadcasting services for World Athletics Series events.

Tanium concludes its Converge World Tour in Tokyo, featuring top industry leaders discussing security innovations and showcasing autonomous capabilities like Tanium Automate.

BlackLine opens its first APAC regional data centre in Sydney's Google Cloud facility, aiming to enhance data sovereignty and scale F&A operations.

Australian organisations are set to spend over AUD $23.3 billion on public cloud services in 2024, a 19.7% rise, fuelling innovation in GenAI.

AirTrunk has officially opened its second Tokyo data centre, TOK2, one of Japan's largest, providing 110 MW capacity for tech giants.

Japan's data centre market outshines the rest of Asia Pacific, with Tokyo and Osaka scoring highly in global established and emerging markets rankings, according to annual Global Data Centre Market Comparison report.

The global data centre market should brace for high-demand and swift AI adoption, led by significant growth in the Asia Pacific, says a report by DC Byte.

Rimini Street selects London, UK, as the next beneficiary of its yearly philanthropic programme, the RMNI Love Charitable Grant Programme, bringing £50,000 worth of grants to local charities in 2024.

Digital finance transformation leader, BlackLine, appoints tech industry veteran Sumit Johar as new Chief Information Officer, leveraging his SaaS acumen and AI knowledge.

Keeper Security's robust growth and product evolution shine in 2023 review, led by business solutions and global expansion.

Fujitsu and Palantir strengthen their global partnership to boost societal and business transformation using AI and data integration.

Equinix has announced plans to extend support for advanced liquid cooling technologies in over 100 of its global data centres. .

OpenSSF introduces new members including Patchstack and SparkFabrik, and outlines secure software development principles.

After a successful decade in Singapore, global firm Leaseweb rebrands its APAC branch to Leaseweb Singapore.