Mitsubishi Corporation Announces New Joint Venture for Data Center Solutions
2017年10月23日 - 12:26PM
JCN Newswire (英)
Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (DLR) and Mitsubishi Corporation (MC)
are pleased to announce that they have reached an agreement that
the parties will launch a joint venture to deliver data center
solutions in Japan.
Under this agreement, a data center operating and holding company
will be established on a 50/50 basis under the name MC Digital
Realty with an initial capital of over 400 million JPY. Using
Digital Realty's Saito facility in Osaka and Mitsubishi
Corporation's Mitaka facility in Tokyo, jointly worth approximately
40 billion JPY, as seed assets, MC Digital Realty aims to manage
over 200 billion JPY worth of assets by 2022 through the
acquisition and development of new and existing property. The data
center operating company is seeking to provide clients with robust
facilities, high level physical security, steady electricity
supply, air conditioning and other key requirements, utilizing the
operational expertise that both DLR and MC have developed through
years of experience. The new joint venture represents the fusion of
Digital Realty's global client base, industry-leading design and
construction capability, and high-capacity data center operational
experience with Mitsubishi Corporation's significant expertise in
the Japanese real estate and IT markets.
Data centers are increasingly important to global business due to
the explosion of data being created by the spread of AI, IoT and
cloud usage, generally known as the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
With the growth of cloud-based applications and storage, a
significant amount of data is now processed and stored in the
cloud, meaning inside data centers. Based on the Cisco Global Cloud
Index forecast, global cloud data traffic is estimated to nearly
quadruple from 2015 to 2020(1). While cloud service providers are
demanding greater data center capacity, there are not enough
facilities to meet these needs in Japan. This joint venture will be
one of the few carrier-neutral, high-capacity data center providers
in the country. Also, the field of interconnection, which allows
clients (e.g. cloud service providers and enterprises) to exchange
traffic privately and securely, is expected to grow, and the joint
venture shall incorporate the service in its scope of work in the
future.
In Japan, IT vendors, carriers and financial institutions have
tended to own their data centers, and thus small data centers are
scattered across the country. By contrast, in the US, where DLR is
based, and in Europe, where DLR has extensive facilities, there has
been a shift to high-capacity third-party data center providers,
such as DLR, which provide data center capacity as a service. The
same trend is expected to take place in Japan, and the joint
venture aims to be the leader of the shift in the data center
industry.
(1) MC's estimation based on the Cisco Global Cloud Index
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About Mitsubishi Corporation
Mitsubishi Corporation (MC; TSE:8058) is a global integrated
business enterprise that develops and operates businesses across
virtually every industry including industrial finance, energy,
metals, machinery, chemicals, foods, and environmental business.
MC's current activities are expanding far beyond its traditional
trading operations as its diverse business ranges from natural
resources development to investment in retail business,
infrastructure, financial products and manufacturing of industrial
goods. With over 200 bases of operations in approximately 80
countries worldwide and a network of over 500 group companies, MC
employs a multinational workforce of nearly 60,000 people. For more
information, please visit www.mitsubishicorp.com.
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