Meeting the challenges of Japan’s shit towards digital business and government.
MC Digital Realty has launched a collaboration project with Arteria Networks Corporation to provide new connectivity that will directly link the MC Digital Realty NRT connected campus and the new submarine cable landing station near Inzai City, bypassing the need to interconnect in downtown Tokyo. The project will enable customers to deploy their critical applications at a key centre of data exchange on PlatformDIGITAL.
MC Digital Realty a joint venture between Mitsubishi Corporation and Digital Realty providing a full suite of data centre solutions in Japan,
Digital Realty’s recent research highlights Japan’s leading role at the forefront of the growth in data volumes in the Asia Pacific region, with data gravity intensity in the Tokyo metro expected to more than double annually through 2024.
As a result of this data growth and rapid shift to always-on digital business, enterprises are redesigning their IT architectures to embrace a data-first approach to infrastructure.
In early March 2021, AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) announced it will expand the existing AWS Osaka Local Region, which opened to select customers in February 2018. The new region consists of three availability zones (AZs) and joins the existing 25 availability zones in eight AWS Regions across Asia Pacific in Beijing, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Ningxia, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo.
Takuya Hirai, Member of the House of Representatives and Minister of State for Digital Transformation said the mission of the Japan Digital Transformation Agency, scheduled to be established in September 2021, is to think about how systems should be run on the cloud in order to promote standardisation and interoperability, which are necessary for both national and local governments to promote digitalisation.
MC Digital Realty’s development in Japan reflects the need to enable this new approach in developing new communities centre around customers’ most strategic asset — data.
In January 2020, MCDR began construction of a key centre of data exchange in the Tokyo II data centre in the Inzai area of Chiba Prefecture and unveiled its connected campus @ Inzai development roadmap with plans to build a 100-megawatt campus by securing adjacent land for data centre development.
The Japanese network company it would also expand its optical network in Inzai City, Chiba Prefecture, and announced its plan to build facilities for a dedicated fibre connection at MCDR’s NRT 10 data centre supporting a maximum capacity of 100 Gbps.
Networks, which benefits from strategic access to international submarine cable landing stations in the northern part of Ibaraki Prefecture and Minami-Boso area of Chiba Prefecture, and MCDR, which develops and operates data centres for leading global cloud providers and content providers, are collaborating to meet the growing data centre demand of global cloud and content providers in the Inzai area.
In addition, by harnessing the global coverage options provided by international submarine cables, the two companies are contributing to the expansion of digital business in the Inzai area.
