MEDIA RELEASE
BRISBANE, Australia, 19th April 2017 – Cloudscene, the world’s largest directory of colocation data centers, cloud service providers and network fabrics, has launched a quarterly leaderboard that ranks the top ten data center operators in North America, EMEA, Oceania and Asia.
The new leaderboard rankings have been introduced due to increasing demand for more transparency and independent data comparing major colocation service providers worldwide.
Serial tech entrepreneur and Cloudscene’s founder, Bevan Slattery said: “We live in a fast-paced world where there is an expectation that information will be at your fingertips 24/7 and, until Cloudscene, this wasn’t the case when it came to finding a colocation data center.
“Now, we’re responding to market demands for neutral and independent data that helps with weighing up data center operators across important colocation regions,” said Bevan.
The top data center operators are selected from a pool of more than 4,900 service providers listed on Cloudscene. A combined score using density (number of facilities) and connectivity (number of PoPs) is used to determine the ranking.
The results for Q1, 2017 are as follows:
NORTH AMERICA LEADERBOARD
| North America Ranking | Data Center Operator | Overall Score* |
| 1 | Equinix | 2,276 |
| 2 | Digital Realty | 1,449 |
| 3 | CoreSite | 715 |
| 4 | Zayo | 428 |
| 5 | CenturyLink | 366 |
| 6 | Level 3 Communications | 365 |
| 7 | TierPoint | 360 |
| 8 | Verizon | 341 |
| 9 | Cologix | 315 |
| 10 | 365 Data Centers | 228 |
Notable mentions:
- Top Data Center in North America: CoreSite’s LA1
- Top Data Center Ecosystem in North America: Los Angeles
- Top Network Fabric in North America: Megaport
EMEA LEADERBOARD
| EMEA Ranking | Data Center Operator | Overall Score* |
| 1 | Equinix | 2,663 |
| 2 | Interxion | 1,471 |
| 3 | Telehouse | 604 |
| 4 | Digital Realty | 546 |
| 5 | Global Switch | 316 |
| 6 | Level 3 Communications | 265 |
| 7 | Nikhef | 124 |
| 8 | Colt Technology Services | 114 |
| 9 | Orange Business Services | 108 |
| 10 | NXDATA | 107 |
Notable mentions:
- Top Data Center in EMEA: Equinix’s FR5
- Top Data Center Ecosystem in EMEA: London
- Top Network Fabric in EMEA: NL-ix
OCEANIA LEADERBOARD
| Oceania Ranking | Data Center Operator | Overall Score* |
| 1 | Equinix | 508 |
| 2 | NextDC | 304 |
| 3 | Vocus Communications | 103 |
| 4 | AAPT | 98 |
| 5 | Global Switch | 96 |
| 6 | PIPE Networks | 51 |
| 7 | Datacom | 42 |
| 8 | Metronode | 40 |
| 9 | iseek | 40 |
| 10 | Data Centre Limited | 39 |
Notable mentions:
- Top Data Center in Oceania: Equinix’s SY3
- Top Data Center Ecosystem in Oceania: Sydney
- Top Network Fabric in Oceania: Megaport
ASIA LEADERBOARD
| Asia Ranking | Data Center Operator | Overall Score* |
| 1 | Equinix | 937 |
| 2 | SUNeVision (iAdvantage) | 231 |
| 3 | NTT Communications | 66 |
| 4 | Global Switch | 61 |
| 5 | Netmagic Solutions | 54 |
| 6 | GPX Global Systems | 48 |
| 7 | Tata Communications | 36 |
| 8 | AIMS Data Centre | 29 |
| 9 | PCCW | 26 |
| 10 | CenterServ | 24 |
Notable mentions:
- Top Data Center in Asia: Equinix’s SG1
- Top Data Center Ecosystem in Asia: Singapore
- Top Network Fabric in Asia: Megaport
Equinix has proven 
itself as a global data center leader, taking the top spot across all four leaderboards. Global Switch also performed strongly, securing a top five spot in three of the regions.
In this quarter’s leaderboard, the spread of connectivity was centralized to North America and EMEA. Of the 14,000+ PoPs managed by the data center operators, 41.6% of the PoPs were in North America, 40.4% in EMEA, 9.5% in Asia and 8.5% in Oceania.
There were 33 companies that made the inaugural leaderboard, of which 55% were publicly listed companies. This number rose to 70% for North America and dropped to 40% for Asia.
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Global data center operators, Equinix, CoreSite, Global Switch, CenturyLink and Digital Realty were also ranked in the top five service providers with the most private and direct connections across all of their colocation facilities. Officially launching this month, Cloudscene will release exclusive cloud on-ramps data providing insight into the private and direct connections offered within colocation data centers around the world.
Data center operators can update their company data on Cloudscene to ensure the accuracy of their listings and improve their rankings for the next quarter’s leaderboard. Cut-off for Q2, 2017 is Friday, 23 June 2017.
For further comment, images or quotes, please contact Renée Harper, Senior Marketing Manager, Cloudscene.
*Numbers are based on the combined score of number of data centers and number of service providers within those facilities as at 31st March 2017. Numbers are subject to change. Cloudscene data is based on public information or information provided by the data center operators. Any data center operators that choose not to publish their facilities or service providers publicly are not able to be considered for the Q1, 2017 Leaderboard.
2 Comments
Brian Roe
20 April 2017 at 12:44 amThis is a good representation of the largest Data Centre Operators in each region, but if leadership in this space is a function of number of facilities and PoPs, there will be little opportunity to change and the data will become pretty stale pretty quickly. Surely other criteria could be a factor in determining leadership tables (such as range of services delivered, client satisfaction, uptime, cost etc. rather than simply looking at size?
Pierre Col
22 April 2017 at 7:54 pmWhat about Africa and Southern America?
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