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10 Hyperscale Data Center Companies To Watch In 2021
Mark Haranas
From Amazon and Microsoft to Equinix and Nvidia, here are the 10 hyperscale data center companies you need to follow in 2021.
Microsoft
CEO: Satya Nadella
The software kingpin is investing billions each quarter on expanding its ever-growing data center footprint to accommodate demand for Microsoft Azure with more than 60 cloud regions in 140 countries. Microsoft has unveiled plans to build a slew of new data centers across the world in the coming year including in Poland, New Zealand, Mexico, Spain and Israel.
Microsoft is also preparing to begin the massive $10 billion Department of Defense JEDI cloud contract it has been awarded on two occasions.
On the data center innovation front, Microsoft is doubling down on investments in edge data centers and 5G with Azure Edge Zones, designed to embed compute, storage and networking at the edge of carriers’ 5G networks. In addition, Microsoft successfully pulled off a two-year underwater data center project that found that the servers were eight times more reliable than those on land.
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