KEPPEL DATA CENTRES
their own expansions into that growing market .
“ We can be in the eyes of customers a very valuable partner because we have all the businessconnections across the APAC regions ,” he says . “ It goes back to our idea of growing with the customer . We can really take their business to places like Singapore , Malaysia , Australia and Hong Kong and connect them to our expansive customer base .”
As a data centre provider , Keppel will be nothing without its customers and as it continues to grow and expand its customer portfolio , it can do so with the support and collaboration of its existing vendor base .
In acquiring an existing 40MW / 10.000 sqm data centre site from a financial institution in Frankfurt , Keppel took it upon itself to turn the site from a single tenant data centre into a multiple tenant site . This , Mueller describes , is like looking at the difference between a house for a family and a hotel .
“ You don ’ t have to have everything in your private household that you would need for a hotel ,” he says , “ and it ’ s the same when taking over a data centre that has already been built according to other plans .
“ Besides from having a strong foundation in the existing setup and a clear plan how to adopt to enterprise needs it is important to have other partners that are familiar with the rules of the data centre business , that know what the challenge is and that can serve you on an international basis .”
In this instance , partners that have proved instrumental on this German expansion have been
Being a part of the largest exchange in the world , it ’ s like sitting on a big switch where a customer can connect to just one port , and on the other side of that switch are all the peering partners and cloudplatforms of his choice , readily connected and available to exchange traffic ”
Jens Peter Mueller Country GM
124 May 2018