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Message from our CEO

‘We’ve made tremendous progress finalizing the build of our JAK2 facility launching this September.’


Welcome to our first newsletter!

We trust you’ve been safe and well as lockdown measures begin to lift across the world. During COVID-19, SpaceDC has deployed drone and remote working technology to provide our customers and staff the needed information and intelligence to complete tasks. We are also pleased to have tremendous progress finalizing the revitalization of our JAK2 facility that will launch this September.

We are thrilled to receive confirmation from the Open Compute Foundation Project (OCP) community as Asia’s first OCP colo solution provider. With this OCP certification, customers can trust our ability to provide reliable, scalable and efficient data center solutions.

In the last 12 months, our team has grown 400% to meet data center development activity. This directly relates to the work we do for our customers, providing them space to grow. As part of the team’s growth, it is a great pleasure to introduce Elisabeth Simatupang as our Indonesian country manager. Elisabeth spearheads our data center operations in Indonesia with over 11 years of experience managing data centers around the world, notably AWS and Bali Towerindo. Elisabeth and our Jakarta office have worked tirelessly to build the JAK2 operations and maintenance team who have the international experience and expertise to operate local facilities.

Throughout the year, SpaceDC has received numerous awards and recognition within the data center industry. The most recent award is Carolyn Harrington, COO of SpaceDC, who was recognized as one of the world’s most influential marketeers by Data Economy.

2020 has been a challenging time for businesses, we would like to thank our staff and their partners who have made it possible for us to thrive amid difficult circumstances. We have progressed greatly since 2017 when we first viewed over 50 sites before ultimately selecting the location we would build our ID01 campus. The fiber rich and strategic location between the airport and city will give customers access to a resilient and robust campus network like no other. It will be a proud moment for the team when our facility goes live and we welcome our first customers, providing them the space to grow.

Looking to the future, watch out as we break ground for our next 24MW facility, JAK1, located on the ID01 campus in October. This will be quickly followed by announcements of our expansion plans across Asia. Stay tuned!

All the best,
Darren Hawkins
CEO of SpaceDC

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SpaceDC becomes the first OCP Ready facility and colo solution provider in APAC

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SpaceDC becomes the first OCP ready facility and colo solution provider in APAC

7th July 2020 – The Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) announced today that Singapore-based data center provider SpaceDC Pte Ltd has achieved OCP Ready™ certification for their new data center in Jakarta, Indonesia. This is the first data center in Asia to receive this OCP certification and demonstrates the growing awareness of creating highly efficient facilities designed for the new wave of open infrastructure deployments.

SpaceDC’s Jakarta facility has met guidelines created by the OCP Data Center Facility Project Team, and serves as a reference for data center operators and tenants who want to understand the fundamental facility requirements to deploy this gear into their IT space. Facilities that meet these guidelines and approved by the OCP Data Center Facilities Project receive the certification as an OCP Ready™ facility.

Along with the facility, SpaceDC Pte Ltd has achieved colo solution provider status, which is a specific designation for members who are part of the OCP reseller ecosystem. OCP colo solution providers must exhibit strong technical, service and support capabilities to enable scalable deployments of OCP infrastructure.

SpaceDC is committed to lowering the environmental impact of their data centers and they have taken great care in all areas of the data center design. From site selection to modular construction, the energy source that they’ll be using to power the facility and the recycling of waste heat, these are all aspects that will help SpaceDC achieve their mission.

“We’re thrilled to be a part of the OCP community – the same community shared by tech giants such as Google and Facebook. As the first OCP colo solution provider in Asia, this certification certainly affirms SpaceDC’s mission of being an efficient, reliable, and scalable data center platform for businesses looking to expand in the region. By being OCP certified, we have distinguished ourselves as a brand whom our customers can depend on for world-class data center solutions,” said Darren Hawkins, CEO of SpaceDC.

“SpaceDC recognizes the capacity for OCP solutions to continue growing and evolving across Asia, resulting in a need for more facilities and operators who understand the needs of enterprise companies looking to adopt more open hardware designs. I would like to congratulate SpaceDC for becoming the first OCP Ready™ facility in Asia, which is an incredible achievement,” stated Steve Helvie, Vice President of Channel Development for the Open Compute Project Foundation.

“Throughout the process for JAK2 to be certified as OCP Ready™, their team has demonstrated a deep technical knowledge and understanding of what it means to create an optimised data center facility for hosting OCP IT gear. This new colo facility is a fantastic addition to the growing portfolio of OCP Ready™ data centers and will enable SpaceDC’s OCP customers to take full advantage of the TCO benefits of deploying OCP technology,” stated Mark Dansie, a key member of the OCP Data Center Facilities Project Team and leader of the OCP Ready™ program.

SpaceDC’s OCP Ready™ facility is now listed on the OCP Marketplace here.

About the Open Compute Project Foundation

The Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) was initiated in 2011 with a mission to apply the benefits of open source and open collaboration to hardware and rapidly increase the pace of innovation in, near and around the data center’s networking equipment, general purpose and GPU servers, storage devices and appliances, and scalable rack designs. OCP’s collaboration model is being applied beyond the data center, helping to advance the telecom industry & EDGE infrastructure.

About SpaceDC

Headquartered in Singapore, SpaceDC is passionate about creating data centers that provide our customers with the infrastructure they need to grow their business across Southeast Asia’s fast moving digital markets. With over 60 years’ experience designing, building and operating facilities around the globe, we know how to construct and manage state-of-the-art data centers.

No matter the business sector or size, you can count on SpaceDC to meet your data solution needs – today and tomorrow.

Our campuses are strategically located to tap the cities’ natural resources and maximize accessibility. They feature multiple layers of security, dark fiber connectivity and very low PUEs to ensure your business-critical data is always secure and accessible. We offer a collaborative partnership that enables you to hyperscale on a long term lease.