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Brazil Data Center Market – Growth, Trends, and Forecasts (2020 – 2025)
New York, Dec. 04, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report “Brazil Data Center Market – Growth, Trends, and Forecasts (2020 – 2025)” – https://www.reportlinker.com/p05989478/?utm_source=GNW
There are almost 120 data centers in the country. The need for low latency and high performance, along with the recent work from home culture due to nationwide lockdown, is mainly accelerating the adoption of data centers located near customers and businesses to enable hybrid multi-cloud ecosystems.
– The Brazilian government is also playing a significant role in the development of local data center infrastructure. According to the government, the country’s General Data Protection Act (LGPD), to be implemented from August 2020, is expected to force many enterprises in the country to migrate their cloud access to private networks and updating their encryption services to extend user data protection. Cloud is one of the fastest-growing markets in the country, and the growing investment in the segment is expanding the scope of the studied market. In July 2019, Ascenty opened four data centers in the greater São Paulo area of Brazil. The latest facilities are already fully leased and are located in Jundiai, Paulinia, and Hortolandia. Further, the data centers add 24MW of capacity to Ascenty’s network.
– In 2019, Oracle announced that it would build a third data center in Brazil. Insurance company Porto Seguro, the logistics company VLI and the satellite operator of AT&T, Sky are some of the Oracle’s big clients in Brazil. CenturyLink also recently expanded its capacity in Rio de Janeiro, owing to the growing demand for cloud and data center services. Recently, in August 2020, AMT, Brazil-based hybrid cloud services provider, selected CenturyLink to meet its increasing demand for cloud services as part of business expansion with management systems provider Sankhya, in the country. China-based Huawei is also planning to build cloud computing nodes or availability zones in Brazil, mainly to expand its global footprint in the cloud segment and compete with US competitors like AWS in the region.
– In June 2020, Amazon Web Services announced to invest BRL 1 billion to expand its data center presence in São Paulo and strengthen its cloud infrastructure in South America. São Paulo is the company’s only South American cloud region and has three EC2 availability zones with five edge network locations. In October 2019, the company announced its plans to spend approximately USD 800 million over a decade on a new South American data center in a free trade zone. In May 2020, Brazil-based market vendor, Scala Data Centers, established by US-based Digital Colony from its purchase of UOL Diveo in April 2020, announced the construction of a new data center in São Paulo. In 2019, Digital Colony also acquired Brazilian telecoms infrastructure solutions provider Highline from Pátria Investments.
– Furthermore, the recent COVID-19 has put high pressure on end-user companies to support remote working and are fast-tracking their cloud and digitization journeys. Companies like IBM and Microsoft claim that this will boost the data center market in the country as data center expansion enables organizations and government institutions to uphold data sovereignty by keeping data within their legal basis. As companies in Brazil look to gain greater control of their data in the face of upcoming tighter compliance and protection regulations, data center vendors, like IBM, are targeting customers by providing cloud capabilities and a hybrid multi-cloud environment. Many industry experts believe that the Latin American data center market is expected to witness significant growth in the coming years, in which Brazil will be a substantial driver for this growth.
Key Market Trends
Colocation Type is Expected to Hold Significant Share
– According to the data center map, currently, there are 65 colocation data centers from 21 areas in Brazil. São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro are the major hubs for colocation vendors. Many industry experts expect that the Multi-tenant data center markets will grow 15% in Sao Paulo and 8% in Rio de Janeiro in 2020, owing to the significant expansion of data center in 2019, and indicators point to a continuing upward trend in the coming months. Colocation services are mainly dominating the country’s data center revenue. Most of the local vendors are primarily leveraging on colocation services for growth expansion. Increased merger and acquisition activities have laid the foundation for significant investments in the industry.
– Brazil-based colocation service provider, Ascenty, has two data centers in São Paulo with Tier III certification, ISO 27001, SSAE 16 and ISAE 3402 Type II. In June 2020, the company started its operations for its third data center in São Paulo, with BRL 150 million and 4 MW of energy. By the end of 2020, the company announced to have 16 data centers in operation in Brazil. The company is also planning to expand its presence in Mexico and Chile and plan to have a total of 22 data centers across three countries, further expanding its ability to meet national and multinational clients’ needs. Like CenturyLink, companies reported that Rio de Janeiro is one of the main economic zones in Brazil; hence, they are investing in the region to have a strong customer base.
– Equinix provides colocation in Brazil and is one of the country’s significant carrier-neutral data center providers. The company’s data centers in the country’s top two business markets provide 17,695 square meters of colocation space. The company’s Brazil data centers have Uptime Tier III, ISO 9001:2008, ISO 27001:2013, ISAE3402 / SSAE16 SOC1 Type II, SAP Infrastructure Operations Services and PCI DSS 3.1 certifications to meet quality and security requirements. Their São Paulo data center SP1 is located less than 200 meters from the Bovespa stock exchange and houses numerous networks authorized to connect to it.
– According to the company, they are preferred vendors in Brazil to many thriving, diverse business ecosystems, including SMEs. More than 1,500 companies colocate in Equinix’s data centers in Brazil to connect to business partners and customers in their digital supply chains. Financial services in Brazil are the major end-users of the company’s data center services. According to the company’s survey, 76% of IT decision-makers named Interconnection as a fundamental facilitator in digital transformation. Therefore, by opting for Interconnection, a private and secure route for data traffic between partners, enterprises from various industries can respond efficiently to digitalization challenges.
IT & Telecom Sector Expected to Hold a Significant Share
– IT and Telecom is the most prominent segment for the Brazil Data Center Market. The IT infrastructure demand is the highest for this segment. Colocation providers, who are a substantial adopter of data center racks, are also considered under the study’s scope under the IT & Telecom sector. According to the Brazilian Software Association (ABES), Brazil is Latin America’s largest technology ecosystem. Also, according to the data published by Equinix, the IT investment in Latin America witnessed a 1.3% growth in 2019 and is expected an upswing of 4-5% in 2020. And in 2020, Brazilians’ investment in the IT industry and telecom sector will be around USD 40-50 billion, respectively. This is expected to provide a massive boost to the cloud computing market, and hence in the data center market too.
– The region is undergoing some enormous investment from IT & Telecom providers. For instance, Ascenty launched Its USD 73 million Data Centre Facility In Brazil, and the infrastructure has an available energy capacity of 20 MVA and 12,000 sq m of total area. By the end of 2020, the company aims to complete four more projects, totaling 17 data centers in Latin America (16 in Brazil and Chile). Besides, Digital Colony Management has announced the establishment of Scala Data Centres, a hyperscale data center platform headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Scala is Digital Colony Management, LLC’s second investment in Brazil and fourth in Latin America.
– The amount of data that is being stored and processed by this segment is huge. The advent of mobile data and subscriptions and their rapid usage have increased data traffic growth and, hence, data centers in Brazil. With the introduction of 5G and Cloud, the demand is expected to grow exponentially in the region. Owing to mergers and acquisitions, the increase in the market share of IT & Telecom companies are also rising sharply in Brazil. For instance, in 2019, Digital Colony acquired Brazilian telecoms infrastructure solutions provider Highline from Pátria Investments. In April 2020, it also funded Vantage Data Centers’ acquisition of Next Generation Data, and in March, it closed its USD 8.2 billion acquisition of Zayo.
– In April 2019, Angola Cables opened a data center in Fortaleza. The government of Ceará state estimates that by the end of 2021, Fortaleza will have 18 submarine fiber optic cables in operation. Therefore, Angola Cables also announced to invested BRL 100 million in the site, which is expected to provide international connectivity through SACS to local corporations, telecoms, and ISPs. Apart from that, the Brazilian government has invested heavily in the country’s internet connectivity to bridge the technology gap between rich and poor, where 83% of the Brazilian population has internet reach. According to Cisco Systems Inc., internet traffic will reach 4.8 Exabytes per month in 2021, up from 2.1 Exabytes per month in 2016.
Competitive Landscape
The Brazil Data Center Market is fragmented, and the competitive rivalry is high. The key players in this market are Arista Networks, Inc., Cisco Systems, Inc., Dell Technologies Inc., IBM Corporation, among others. Through research & development, strategic partnerships, and mergers & acquisitions, they have been able to gain a stronger hold in the market. These players are gradually growing their presence in the market by offering the latest technologies, thereby increasing their revenues in the market.
– April 2020 – Digital Colony Management LLC has announced the establishment of Scala Data Centres, a hyperscale data center platform headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Valued to be worth USD 300- USD 400 million, the scala Data Centers will be one of the largest in Brazil, and the company will attempt to grow the new facility through acquisitions.
– September 2019 – IBM Corporation announced to build a second data center in Brazil, its third in Latin America, to provide public cloud services. With this, IBM expects to deliver more robust cloud services, from infrastructure to services such as artificial intelligence. In addition to the new datacenter, IBM also announced to spend USD 10 million for the development of a research and engineering center focused on AI in São Paulo in partnership with state research promotion agency Fapesp.
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SAS advances industry solutions with packaged AI models
Tailored, lightweight AI models facilitate rapid deployment with low overhead
LAS VEGAS, April 17, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — SAS INNOVATE — Today at SAS Innovate, SAS – a pioneer in data and AI solutions – unveiled a game-changing approach for organizations to tackle business challenges head-on. Introducing lightweight, industry-specific AI models for individual license, SAS is equipping organizations with readily deployable AI technology to productionize real-world use cases with unparalleled efficiency.
AI software provider SAS is uniquely positioned to flex its decades of expertise in applying scalable and trustworthy AI models for prominent global financial, health care, and manufacturing brands, as well as government institutions.
“SAS is evolving its portfolio to meet wider user needs and capture market share with innovative new offerings,” said Chandana Gopal, Research Director, Future of Intelligence, IDC. “An area that is ripe for SAS is productizing models built on SAS’ core assets, talent and IP from its wealth of experience working with customers to solve industry problems.”
In today’s market, the consumption of models is primarily focused on large language models (LLMs) for generative AI. In reality, LLMs are a very small part of the modeling needs of real-world production deployments of AI and decision making for businesses. With the new offering, SAS is moving beyond LLMs and delivering industry-proven deterministic AI models for industries that span use cases such as fraud detection, supply chain optimization, entity management, document conversation and health care payment integrity and more.
Unlike traditional AI implementations that can be cumbersome and time-consuming, SAS’ industry-specific models are engineered for quick integration, enabling organizations to operationalize trustworthy AI technology and accelerate the realization of tangible benefits and trusted results.
Expanding market footprintOrganizations are facing pressure to compete effectively and are looking to AI to gain an edge. At the same time, staffing data science teams has never been more challenging due to AI skills shortages. Consequently, businesses are demanding agility in using AI to solve problems and require flexible AI solutions to quickly drive business outcomes. SAS’ easy-to-use, yet powerful models tuned for the enterprise enable organizations to benefit from a half-century of SAS’ leadership across industries.
Delivering industry models as packaged offerings is one outcome of SAS’ commitment of $1 billion to AI-powered industry solutions. As outlined in the May 2023 announcement, the investment in AI builds on SAS’ decades long focus on providing packaged solutions to address industry challenges in banking, government, health care and more.
“Models are the perfect complement to our existing solutions and SAS Viya platform offerings and cater to diverse business needs across various audiences, ensuring that innovation reaches every corner of our ecosystem,” said Udo Sglavo, Vice President for AI and Analytics, SAS. “By tailoring our approach to understanding specific industry needs, our frameworks empower businesses to flourish in their distinctive environments.”
Bringing AI to the massesSAS is democratizing AI by offering out-of-the-box, lightweight AI models – making AI accessible regardless of skill set – starting with an AI assistant for warehouse space optimization. Leveraging technology like large language models, these assistants cater to nontechnical users, translating interactions into optimized workflows seamlessly and aiding in faster planning decisions.
“SAS Models provide organizations with flexible, timely and accessible AI that aligns with industry challenges,” said Sglavo. “Whether you’re embarking on your AI journey or seeking to accelerate the expansion of AI across your enterprise, SAS offers unparalleled depth and breadth in addressing your business’s unique needs.”
The first SAS Models are expected to be generally available later this year. Learn more about SAS Applied AI and Modeling here: https://blogs.sas.com/content/tag/applied-ai-modeling/.
Today’s announcement was made at SAS Innovate, the data and AI experience for business leaders, technical users and SAS Partners. Keep up with the latest news from SAS by following @SASsoftwareNews on X/Twitter.
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Expanded SAS Viya uses generative AI to accelerate customer productivity
Leading data and AI platform helps explain and integrate large language models to augment existing processes; SAS Data Maker will address critical challenges without compromising sensitive data
LAS VEGAS, April 17, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — SAS INNOVATE — So many organizations have jumped on the GenAI bandwagon in the last year, but are those efforts delivering results yet? If the organization uses the SAS® Viya® data and AI platform, the answer is a resounding yes. Infused with large language model (LLM) orchestration strength, SAS Viya is already helping customers accelerate efficiency and productivity. Throughout 2024, SAS will continue delivering innovation by broadening its trustworthy GenAI footprint with the introduction of its own synthetic data generator – SAS Data Maker – and by offering industry-specific GenAI assistants.
Learn more about Viya LLM orchestration and other GenAI capabilities in this solution brief: Accelerate productivity with generative AI and SAS Viya.
“SAS’ guiding principle is everyone should be able to query data and perform complex analytical operations in every phase of the data and analytics life cycle, and generative AI is crucial in this democratization journey,” said Wiktor Markiewicz, Senior Market Research Analyst at IDC. “But most leaders don’t understand AI technology and how they can apply it meaningfully. Having an already trusted data and AI platform available removes the guesswork and kickstarts the generative AI journey.”
Georgia-Pacific and wienerberger rely on Viya for AI and GenAI capabilitiesManufacturer Georgia-Pacific is a SAS customer using Viya. “When challenges emerge with our manufacturing equipment or process, we leverage sensor data, business rules, recommender systems and generative AI to suggest the appropriate next best action and resolve the problem,” said Roshan Shah, Vice President, Collaboration & Support Center, Georgia-Pacific. “Streaming analytics and intelligent decision management support from SAS Viya helps us capture immediate value by making the right decisions as events occur.”
About Georgia-Pacific, SAS Executive Vice President and CTO Bryan Harris said, “One of SAS’ core strengths is our deep bench of industry knowledge. We understand manufacturing, and we understand Georgia-Pacific’s unique challenges. We help them appropriately scale LLM orchestration and manufacturing-specific GenAI assistant strategies so their employees can use those cutting-edge applications to troubleshoot real-time operational issues.”
Global brick manufacturer wienerberger also uses SAS for AI support. The company reduces energy consumption, cuts greenhouse gas emissions and improves product quality using SAS on Microsoft Azure. “We use AI and IoT analytics from SAS to connect all our data streams and analyze the entire production process,” said Florian Zittmayr, Team Lead for Data Science at wienerberger. “SAS Analytics brings intelligence to the kiln by helping our engineers and employees to gain valuable information about each step and identify specific target values to make the drying and firing of bricks more economical.”
And a global consumer goods manufacturer uses Viya and its GenAI capabilities to optimize warehouse space, allocate inbound shipments and compare “what-if” scenarios based on product demand. SAS helped develop an LLM-based digital assistant by dynamically updating SAS Visual Analytics dashboards so the company’s supply chain teams can easily save time and improve warehouse space usage with in-depth analytics. This conversational assistant allows both technical and business users to generate fast and accurate results and improve decision making using SAS’ trustworthy, explainable analytics.
Organizations are enthusiastic about adopting and deploying GenAI, but there’s often a gap between preparedness and execution. Learn more by reading the US Executive Summary from a new study: Generative AI Challenges and Potential Unveiled: How to Achieve a Competitive Advantage.
Viya stands out in the GenAI crowd because of pragmatic, industry-driven applicationsAs organizations explore GenAI, SAS prioritizes identifying industry-driven and ethically applied use cases. SAS enables secure adoption and fosters accelerated productivity and trusted results across diverse industries and regulatory landscapes. SAS’ GenAI functionality lives in leading products like Viya and SAS Customer Intelligence 360:
GenAI orchestration: Viya integrates external GenAI models with existing business processes and systems, orchestrating LLMs for end-to-end enterprise use cases. These capabilities are now available in SAS Viya.Viya Copilot: Enhances productivity for developers, data scientists and business users with a personal assistant that accelerates analytical, business and industry tasks. Viya Copilot offers diverse tools for tasks like code generation, data cleaning, data exploration, marketing planning, journey design and knowledge gap analysis. The first iteration of Viya Copilot is available through an invitation-only private preview.SAS Data Maker: Addresses data privacy and scarcity challenges by generating high-quality synthetic tabular data without compromising sensitive information, enabling organizations to address data privacy. SAS Data Maker is now available in private preview.Customer engagement. SAS continues to infuse GenAI capabilities into its flagship MarTech solution, SAS Customer Intelligence 360, to help marketers elevate the customer experience. SAS Customer Intelligence 360 already offers GenAI assistance on streamlining marketing planning, journey design and content and creative development. SAS is now introducing three new capabilities in SAS Customer Intelligence 360 for marketers: using GenAI to build recommended audiences based on natural language prompts, a chat experience to interpret audience data and a GenAI suggestion service for email subject lines.The GenAI functionality of Viya makes a meaningful difference to customers planning to:
Accelerate innovation: Seamlessly integrate GenAI models into decisioning workflows, AI/ML applications and existing business processes by using decisioning flow tools like SAS Intelligent Decisioning.Protect data: Support user privacy and security with robust data quality measures, including synthetic data generation, data minimization, anonymization and encryption, so sensitive information remains safeguarded.Create trustworthy and explainable results: Data experts can apply natural language processing techniques to preprocess data and explain the generated output, minimizing hallucinations and token costs.Enhance governance: Use built-in tools to create workflows that validate the life cycle of LLMs, including model risk management.Make more precise decisions: Quantitative decisioning capabilities, critical for successful GenAI reasoning, are built into the Viya platform.Today’s announcement was made at SAS Innovate, the data and AI experience for business leaders, technical users and SAS Partners. Keep up with the latest news from SAS by following @SASsoftwareNews on X/Twitter.
About SASSAS is a global leader in data and AI. With SAS software and industry-specific solutions, organizations transform data into trusted decisions. SAS gives you THE POWER TO KNOW®.
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LTA’s Padel Programme Teams Up with Skylab for Enhanced Performance Analytics
MANCHESTER, England, April 17, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Skylab, a UK-based specialist in sports technology and performance analysis, proudly announces its partnership with LTA Padel, solidifying its position as a premier provider of specialised services in the sports industry. This collaboration underscores Skylab’s commitment to excellence and showcases its ability to deliver innovative and diverse solutions tailored specifically for elite sports organisations like LTA Padel.
The LTA’s Padel performance programme in Great Britain will utilise Skylab’s Game Intelligence product and Performance Analysis services. The software will empower athletes and coaches alike with interactive and detailed match data, seamlessly integrated into intuitive dashboards that create automated video playlists. The Padel team at the LTA will gain a deeper understanding of padel at the elite level to support their talent identification, player pathway and coaching strategies as they strive to compete with the world’s best.
“Previously, Padel players lacked accurate and robust performance data, which made it impossible to analyse the opposition in detail. Coaches couldn’t answer their players’ key performance questions quickly, and performance directors had to rely on gut feeling and experience when evidencing what elite Padel looks like. However, our product and services provide practitioners with insights into the technical and tactical aspects of the game, as well as the physical demands required for elite-level performance. This allows practitioners to understand and predict the future performance of their players, enabling them to make data-informed decisions” says Ciaran Skinner, Business Development Manager, Skylab.
Skylab is a first-of-its-kind sports technology firm, offering tailored, market-leading Performance Analysis services and bespoke web platforms to elite sporting clients. It revolutionises how elite sports teams and individuals interact, use, and visualise their data. By packaging performance analysis with industry leading UX and bespoke software, partners will be in the position to make better decisions in sport.
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About Skylab
Skylab is a first-of-its-kind sports technology firm, offering tailored, market-leading Performance Analysis services and bespoke web platforms to elite sporting clients. It revolutionises how elite sports teams and individuals interact, use, and visualise their data. By packaging performance analysis with industry leading UX and bespoke software, partners will be in the position to make better decisions in sport. Current clients include elite teams and organisations across Padel, Football, Athletics, Tennis, Rowing and more.
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