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This month’s newsletter is out - did you miss it? Read it here

November’s news includes:

- Feature highlight: Markets - Hot tips for users: Maps & Rankings - Most read blog posts: Notable Industry Announcements and Data Center Certification Standards - Top data centers: LA1 and SY3

Today’s data centers are subject to more rigorous compliance standards than ever before. 

Expectations from customers regarding uptime, environmental impact, quality, operations, security and safety are encouraging best practices from colocation providers and operators.

Certifications such as ISO, Uptime, Leed and SSAE16 are just some of the standards proving of significant importance to those in the market for colocation data centers. 

In particular, Uptime Institute’s Tier Classification System for data centers is now considered the global standard for third-party validation of data center critical infrastructure. Uptime Institute alone boasts that it has awarded 800+ certifications across 80 countries as detailed in the map below.

To help differentiate data centers on Cloudscene, service providers and data center operators can publish certifications for the following regulatory and standards organisations: 

- Uptime Institute - SSAE16 - ISO - Leed - NABERS - US EPA - PCI - Open-IX - OHSAS - ISAE - HIPAA - EU Commission - DataCenter Star Audit - BCA-IDA - ANSI/TIA

Take a look at some of the data centers that have recently updated their profiles on Cloudscene to also include certifications:

- Webair - Jaguar - NextDC - TTC - Centron

Service providers and data center operators can ‘claim’ their Cloudscene listings in a matter of clicks. Owning a profile on Cloudscene allows the organisation to self-manage the published information and add important data such as certifications! For any support, please reach out to us via [email protected] or visit our support page.

Who are the top data center providers in your region? Finding out is easier than you think. In fact, you can view the Top 10 Data Centers across 110+ countries in just two simple clicks.

Cloudscene’s free Rankings tool pulls global data from our comprehensive cloud directory to rank the top colocation data centers based on the number of service providers, followed by the number of known PoPs in each respective data center.

Let’s say you were looking for Chicago colocation data centers. To find the rankings for this region, you’d simply select United States of America from the Country dropdown and Chicago from the Market dropdown:

The top data centers and top service providers for the Chicago market are then populated in order of ranking which, at the time of this post, are as follows:

1. CH1 - Equinix 2. CH2 - Equinix 3. CH1 - Coresite 4. CH3 - Equinix 5. 350 E. Cermak Road - Digital Realty 6. CH4 - Equinix 7. Chicago - 365 Data Centers 8. 600 S Federal - Zayo 9. Chicago - Alteredscale 10. CH-1 - Latisys

Rankings are updated automatically and can change at any given point of time based on the updates made both by Cloudscene’s data analysts and the data center operators or service providers themselves. 

If you have any feedback regarding the data published on our site, please reach out to us via [email protected] 

Finding colocation data centres has been a lengthy and unreliable process for enterprise IT professionals for some time. 

If one were to search for a data centre in Sydney it used to require scouring countless provider/operator sites individually to gain so much as an address, let alone technical specifications. 

At Cloudscene, we liken this to the days where tenants or prospective home owners were required to do the same when renting/buying a home. This is of course before the likes of realestate.com.au or domain.com.au 

Cloudscene’s free cloud directory is shaking things up and providing comprehensive data on colocation data centres, cloud service providers and interconnected fabrics around the globe.

If you’re looking for a data centre in Sydney, Australia for example, Cloudscene can find it. If you’re looking for rankings of data centres or service providers in Sydney, Australia, Cloudscene can deliver it. 

Did you know there are 56 colocation data centres in Sydney and a total of 211 colocation data centres in Australia?

The Top 5 Data Centres in Sydney are:

1. SY3 - Equinix 2. SY1 - Equinix 3. SY2 - Equinix 4. Sydney West - Global Switch 5. S1 - Next DC

The Cloudscene team attended Data Centre World Asia to showcase our world-class cloud directory in Singapore.

Tens of thousands attended the event which saw many data centre operators, service providers and other industry professionals taking a test drive of Cloudscene for the first time. 

The feedback was overwhelmingly positive and we’re excited to welcome all of our new users!