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NTT Com to Double Data Supply Capacity in OsakaNTT (News - Alert) Communications Corporation (NTT Com), the ICT solutions and international communications business within the NTT Group (TOKYO:9432), announced today it will launch its Osaka 6 Data Center (Osaka 6) and Osaka 7 Data Center (Osaka 7) by the end of 2019 and thereby expand its data-supply capacity 2.2-fold. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180910005944/en/ Rendition of Osaka 6 Data Center (Graphic: Business Wire) The Osaka 6, which will be located in a building that NTT West Corporation is constructing in downtown Osaka, will launch with 460m2 of server space and eventually expand to 1,370m2 and 400 racks. The Osaka 7, which will be situated in a dedicated datacenter building in Ibaraki, Osaka Prefecture, will boast initial server space of 3,800m2 and eventually grow to 9,500m2 and 4,200 racks. "In response to the strong demand for massive data from cloud-service providers and other hyper-scale customers in the greater Osaka area, despite having launched our Osaka 5 Data Center in 2016 we have decided to build two new datacenters to further satisfy customers' needs," said Kenichiro Iida, Senior Vice President, Head of Cloud Services. "Data demands among hyper-scale companies are already robust, but we foresee even more data needs for hybrid cloud services that combine colocation and multi-clouds." Features of Osaka 6 and 7
• Convenient locations to serve diverse customers
• Ideal network environment
• High disaster tolerance
• Flexible equipment compliance Background Japan's colocation market that was worth around 540 billion JPY in 2018 and datacenter business has been growing steadily at around 7% per annum. Cloud-service providers and other hyper-scale companies, as well as enterprise customers, continue to generate massive demand. In addition, the use of datacenters for hybrid clouds that combine colocation and multi-clouds is expected to expand. About NTT Communications (News - Alert)
NTT Communications solves the world's technology challenges by helping
enterprises overcome complexity and risk in their ICT environments with
managed IT infrastructure solutions. These solutions are backed by our
worldwide infrastructure, including industry leading, global tier-1
public and private networks reaching over 190 countries/regions, and
more than 400,000m2 of the world's most advanced datacenter
facilities. Our global professional services teams provide consultation
and architecture for the resiliency and security required for your
business success, and our scale and global capabilities are unsurpassed.
Combined with NTT Data, NTT Security, NTT DOCOMO and Dimension Data (News - Alert), we
are NTT Group.
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