HYPERSCALE DATA CENTER MARKET EXPECTED TO REACH $71.2 BILLION BY 2022

According to a new report by Allied Market Research titled World Hyperscale Data Center Market, the world hyperscale data center market is expected to reach a revenue of $71.2 billion by 2022, with a CAGR of 20.7% from 2016 to 2022. Hyperscale data centers are most widely adopted by cloud service providers to house cloud-based resources and cloud services, accounting for a market share of around 63% in 2015. North America is the largest revenue-generating region for hyperscale data centers, followed by Europe and Asia-Pacific in 2015.

The Rise of the Build-to-Suit Cloud Data Center

Cloud computing is changing data center development, with action now shifting to a build-to-suit model in which cloud builders pre-lease entire buildings for themselves, representing 12 megawatts or more of new capacity. Wholesale data center providers, who have previously built multi-tenant buildings and leased them one data hall at a time, are adapting their model to accommodate the build-to-suit demand.

In the latest example, CyrusOne has just acquired a building in Northern Virginia, which has already been fully leased to a hyperscale data center customer. The 130,000 square foot building will provide 12 megawatts of IT capacity for the fast-growing cloud provider.

Etisalat rolls out Voice-over-LTE service

Service brings improved quality to voice, video calls, with Samsung S6 and S6 Edge devices enabled in first phase

Abu Dhabi: Etisalat announced on Sunday the launch of the UAE’s first Voice-over-LTE service (VoLTE) allowing mobile customers, both pre-paid and post-paid, to use LTE for full voice and data services.

The service will bring about improvements in the quality of voice and video calls, and will provide customers a range of advantages including high-definition voice calls and many rich-media services.

At the time of the launch, the VoLTE service will be enabled on Samsung S6 and S6 Edge devices, but there are plans to roll it out to other devices soon.

The new VoLTE service is based on Single Radio Call Continuity (SRVCC). It will reduce call set-up time significantly as compared to the current call set-up time and will provide high quality HD voice over Etisalat’s 4G LTE network.

It does not require users to download any application. Converged network infrastructure will also allow Etisalat to maximise network capabilities and speed up the deployment of many more LTE-based innovative services for its customers.

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