Digital Realty, one of the world’ s largest cloud- and carrierneutral data centre platforms, has announced it is targeting nearly S $ 7 billion of total investment in Singapore, reinforcing the market’ s critical role as an AI infrastructure hub for Asia Pacific, with more than S $ 4.3 billion planned for new data centre developments, building on existing investments.
“ Singapore is emerging as a critical hub for AI inference in Asia Pacific,” said Serene Nah, Managing Director and Head of Asia Pacific, Digital Realty.“ As organisations deploy AI in real-world environments, they need secure, highly connected infrastructure close to where data is created and consumed. This S $ 7 billion investment target demonstrates our confidence in Singapore’ s role as the region’ s AI infrastructure anchor. We’ re not just expanding capacity, we’ re building the operational capabilities, innovation facilities and local talent base needed to support customers as AI enters production at scale.”
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Snowflake has completed an Infosec Registered Assessors Program( IRAP) assessment for its deployment in Google Cloud’ s Melbourne region.
Developed by the Australian Signals Directorate( ASD), IRAP is an independent assessment of the effectiveness of a system’ s security controls. Public sector organisations, particularly at the Federal Government level, use IRAP Assessment outcomes to evaluate a system’ s suitability for their security requirements.
Snowflake’ s Google Cloud Melbourne region instance was assessed by a certified third-party IRAP assessor and found to be aligned with IRAP’ s PROTECTED level control requirements. The IRAP assessment enables Australian Government agencies to deploy a wide array of workloads on the Snowflake AI Data Cloud.
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