 Hey guys, welcome. Welcome is another edition of JSA's fast forward where we broadcast live via LinkedIn I'm Jamie Scott Okitaia founder and CEO of JSA and I'm Dean Perine executive vice president at JSA And we are here to bring you the stories from a very busy month in the world of tech telecom and Data centers Jamie I noticed in the script your name was spelled incorrectly at the very beginning. Oh But you know what, you know, you're so right. This is a super busy mom today We're gonna go across the country and around the globe to check in on headlines. So get your passport ready And what about my travel pillow sleeping mask? Maybe some snacks, you know, I love cookies Yeah, I'm gonna hope we're gonna be faster than all that but let's get right into it We are kicking it off in your neck of the woods actually Dino so fabulous Midwest of course of the United States You know, I love the Midwest. I love the Midwest sensibilities and Midwest pace It's not too slow not too fast like some of you east coasters or people from the east coast But yes, we are starting off in the Buckeye State of Ohio We're Lincoln property company and Harrison Street announced a joint venture to purchase 190 acre site near Columbus the site will soon be home to a new data center campus with 1.2 million square feet. That's right I said 1.2 million square feet and a hundred and forty four megawatts of a critical load capacity So very very big campus there in Columbus Definitely definitely and you know what another interesting bit of news coming out of Columbus from the fiber optic provider Horizon they recently hired a new vice president of marketing Michael Snyder and you know what they're hoping the move Strengthens their push to complete fiber to the home buildouts across the great state of Ohio And I love it way to go Midwest. We're doing good stuff over here in the middle of the country But let's hop on the interstate and head to Nebraska Also, our scriptwriter did an amazing job of giving it giving us all a geography lesson in today's fast forward So that's fun. So let's head to Nebraska where our friends at a 1623 forum are working on some fascinating new 5g use cases and Applications they recently published some great research on the topic. That is definitely worth checking out So that's 1623 for now. Check out some new new fund research on 5g from them And guys now we're heading north. We're gonna go ahead and cross that wonderful border of the great white north and guess what? We're gonna do it underwater That's right, Jamie And I think Collogix has announced a partnership with Cross Lake fiber to to offer high speed connectivity to its 151 front street location in Toronto, which is exactly where I think our scriptwriter is from from Canada We'll connect Toronto with the United States Networks through an innovative submarine cable under the Great Lakes again The Great Lakes are in the West And I'm glad that the underwater was around the Great Lakes not Anyway, um, all right now Let's go ahead and stay underground in Canada by heading west to Vancouver where Spencer Building Carrier Hotel SPCH is Constructing first of its kind access points to the city's manhole entries. This means that the facility will have its very own private secure Diverse entry points. Yeah, and let's follow the Rocky Mountains down to Kalerot for real. This is a geography lesson Let's follow the Rocky Mountains down to Cal Colorado the home of Corsite they made news this month by launching a brand new additions to their SDN platform called open cloud exchange the most exciting enhancements all Center around increased functionality with AWS and Microsoft Azure cloud through Corsite's own Full managed virtual routers. I love that story. All right now. We're heading south into the desert With some news out of Arizona. That's where in Volta held their inaugural golf tournament fundraiser They managed to raise over $20,000 for such a great cause guys Southern Arizona Center against sexual assault So thank you in Volta always doing things that are so meaningful to your community. We love you Yeah, absolutely. I love the fact that our industry is taking some very specific stands on some some social issues So that's awesome. Our headline journey is now taking us to the West Coast home of my captain and our CEO here JSA Jamie to Jamie's current home state of California So who are you rooting for Jamie? Oh, that's a good question Is that game with the big orange ball or where they have really squeaky sneakers? All right, okay? Okay I'm gonna we're gonna move forward. We're gonna go and stick to telecom news Jamie. What's what's next in the news? We've got a couple of pieces of news coming out of California starting off with Zenlayer announcing a new partnership with Amazon web Services AWS new customers will be able to use and layers global accelerator with Amazon Cloud front to deliver connectivity to emerging markets that were really tough to reach before This so great stuff. Yeah. Yeah, there's we're going places We haven't really gone before in the in the industry and that's good news for everyone But next up is some more news from Zenlayer who have been recognized as a platinum tier cloud service provider in the Dell Technologies Partner Program for the year so big congratulations to Zenlayer who is in the news a lot lately and By the way, aloha Dino. We're all To Hawaii are you ready to do some bullet dancing? You know, I am Jay and I've got my flowered shirt ready to go Anything whatever I can do to embarrass my children. That's basically that's how I that's how I roll that is that is a game That isn't like all right, so I'll be sure to save you a little pookie bowl And the real reason we're talking about Hawaii guys is it's a great recent episode of our podcast data movers It's getting so much attention along with our co-host Evan Kristal We had a really fabulous sit down a really great conversation with Rosa white of DR Fortress whom I love Rosa white Dr. Fortress. We cover some great topics guys including their presence in the Hawaii Their marketing their recent award of course from Hawaii business magazine. So it's definitely a podcast to check out Awesome, so it turns out our trip to Hawaii was just a layover because that's the best place for a layover is in Hawaii And we're heading all the way to Asia now where BDX has announced a huge expansion in Indonesia Indonesia is a major market and BDX is investing over 300 million Again, that's 300 million into their data center and digital transformation services in the country. Yeah, Indonesia Amazing market well done BDX. Yes. Yes. Yes. Okay. Let's stay international here. Let's head west to India now That's where Adani connects is celebrating its very first anniversary Congratulations guys Adani connects of course a venture by edge connects to bring their data center expertise to India And it's off to a very winning start with its first facility coming online this month Yeah, there's some really cool stuff I'm gonna tease some some cool sustainability Issues or items rather that are gonna come out of that one-year anniversary So be sure to check out the edge connects Adani connects news here over the next couple of weeks And get ready for the biggest leg yet as we are going all the way to Finland to talk about digital nine infrastructure and their investment in Ficola a Finnish leader in climate neutral data center services This is the latest in a string of acquisitions by digital nine including others in Iceland and England. Yeah I love those Ficola guys. They are so innovative of course They were the chapter in data. They're they're their data centers Amazing builds like underground in tunnels in caves Super cool doing amazing stuff for the planet. So I love this Digital nine infrastructure Investment as well. Well done guys. All right, so let's go ahead and Continue this on around the country around world So now we from Asia to Europe But again kind of home say guys Let's go ahead and head back across Atlantic to good old US of a our port of entry New York City And New York is let's talk about it All right, I'm gonna get ahead and let you try again when the jet lag fades a little Thank you. Sometimes you gotta shoot your shot Jamie. You know as the kids say so what's happening in New York? Our friends over at like I have opened a brand new office in midtown Manhattan the business hub to help manage sales and customer service for this huge fiber network They have in the area so well done like that. Yeah, right light path recently celebrated a major milestone with that network 20,000 root miles. That's significant, right? That's along with 2000 wireless towers. It's a lot of towers Jay. Yeah 20,000 miles ton ton for a fiber network, but it's nothing for Travelers like us, right? You know, that's right. In fact, we're about to travel 300 miles right now To Vermont. That's where Virtec recently announced an integration with connect base to companies I am intimately familiar with we love Virtec and connect base That means Virtec's order to activate service delivery solution will have quoting times that are double the speed Thanks to the addition of connect bases sass Quoting platform so congratulations all around there to customers of both companies. Oh My goodness love that. Okay, so let's go ahead and head do south my friend. How about hot Lana? That's where t5 data centers announced their new data center sustainability newsletter called forever green it's free to subscribe and We'll deliver all the latest trends and innovations in green data center technology something that we've hopped Absolutely, right and there are big things happening in hot lanta That's where data bank recently announced its fourth data center in Atlanta metro area The campus will be linked through dark fiber to two of its other complexes in the region and provide metro regional and long-haul capacity Yeah, I feel like I should be like a flight attendant like this is their data centers and they're linking over here I'm sure the passengers. We just love that That's good Can I get a little drink, please? I don't even know. Oh my gosh. Yes big things happening long-haul capacity. That's almost a wrap-up of our world tour Let's finish it off in the industry's largest hub. Shall we data center alley in Virginia? Yeah, that's where prime data centers is senior vice president Jeff barber will be speaking on a panel about Green designs and builds at the dice East data center event It will be a great chat JSA will also be at dice East, right Jamie. We sure will in fact You can get a 20% discount offer registration through our website. So go ahead and check us out as a dot net Yeah, yeah, yeah speaking of events. How did things go at ITW in Maryland last month? I saw that you were transmitting all of JSA TVs interviews live from the show floor for the first time Jamie it was shocking to me how cool this was thinking about where we were five six seven years ago Doing these and uploading and doing it get and doing all this and you did it all of that live. How'd it go? Oh my gosh amazing and absolutely a hundred percent due to our kick butt team Mary I'm looking at you right now my friend and so many Here at JSA that made that all happen. So big hit. Thanks guys so much for all that support light camera action And thanks to the community who came out and was like, yeah, I get I want to be on that. I want to be interviewed. So Really, yeah, there's really no going back at this point if it's not live it didn't happen, right as they say That's right, that's right It's not is it news if it if it happens three weeks later I think not but you can check out all of those interviews online through our website or the JSA TV YouTube channel Jamie may have broadcast live But there was a ton of great information. That's definitely worth checking out on YouTube. So go check that Okay, that's right at ITW. We also celebrated the release of our very first book, of course I don't know if I mentioned this lately But it is an anthology of industry experts writing about a sustainable future for our industry For by our industry guys so powerful and of course as y'all know our industry being a core For how businesses have been transforming digitally and we're running other industry vertical So obviously we're at the core here. What we do makes a world of difference and by the way guys It's a bestseller the book was Insanely well-received Amazon bestseller. We had the book signing and the author talk right at ITW went so well capacity has that video also that they'll be releasing of our live event and I'm just just so excited and guess what this is just the beginning make sure you go ahead and check out Greener data net greener data net for more information Yeah, Jay, it feels like it was yesterday But it was probably a year ago maybe even longer when when you said to the team here This is going to be a movement. We are going to start this movement We are going to be at the front end of this movement and here we are so kudos to you captain and to the rest of the JSA team With that we have made it back home safe from our trip around the world Just a little dizzy fat all good So guys, thank you so much. It is time I guess for us to start collecting highlights for our next month's trip Yeah, and me without my dramedy Anyway, it's great to see you Jay as always so stay safe everyone and as always guys Think green and happy networking