A photo from SoftLayer's Flickr page of its Singapore data center
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –Web hosting provider SoftLayer (www.softlayer.com) is shopping for data centers in Australia, according to a report by IT News.
The report says that SoftLayer CEO Lance Crosby confirmed that he is in talks to lease space from data center provider Digital Realty Trust.
SoftLayer and Digital Realty Trust have worked together in the past. Last year, SoftLayer signed an agreement to lease data center and office space in Dallas, where SoftLayer has its headquarters.
According to the report, Digital Realty Trust has data centers in Western Sydney and Melbourne. Crosby says SoftLayer will look at both sites.
Crosby says that over the next 12 to 18 months, SoftLayer will look at Brazil and Australia for an expansion. The report says SoftLayer will build a 4000-server pod and several telecommunications PoPs in Australia.
SoftLayer has 13 data centers in the US, and is set to open its first data center in Singapore at the beginning of October. It will open a facility in Amsterdam in November, according to the report.
These moves come after the realization that half of its customers are outside of the US, and represent about 40 percent of revenues.
SoftLayer’s initial investment will be $20 million in servers, storage and switches, according to the report.
Recently, SoftLayer upgraded the edge network routers and dedicated internet access ports in its US data centers.
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