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throughout our interview , a key differentiator for the firm . This is a particularly exciting prospect , he continues , when you consider the scale of Digital Realty ’ s global platform , and their ongoing plans to grow its reach in APAC .
“ We ' re taking the idea of interconnectivity as a value-added feature a step further ,” he shares . “ When you ' re a company that has more than 290 data centres globally , that can start to be a very interesting ecosystem play , especially given the fact that we ' re totally open and neutral .”
“ People are now looking for a mixture of large hyperscale campuses , edge transit campuses , colocation edge locations , and even micro-edge facilities ”
ROBERT DAVIDSON DIRECTOR OF NETWORK SERVICES APAC ,
DIGITAL REALITY
New Horizons , New Markets 2021 and 2022 are going to be bumper years for Digital Realty . In APAC alone , they ’ re planning to bring six new data centres online in the next nine months . “ We ' re going to be in this rapid expansion phase as we open up data centres , and we ' re already working on the next set of new markets now ,” Davidson explains .
When it comes to breaking into a new market , Digital Realty goes where the demand is strongest , not necessarily for data centres ( there are often plenty of data centres in the countries they enter ) but for Digital Realty itself . “ We ' re being driven by the customers who want us to be in these new markets because they know that with Digital Realty they ' re going to get the same
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