{"id":16480,"date":"2021-07-23T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/07\/23\/gaw-capital-partners-forms-partnership-with-data-center-first\/"},"modified":"2021-07-23T01:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T01:30:00","slug":"gaw-capital-partners-forms-partnership-with-data-center-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/07\/23\/gaw-capital-partners-forms-partnership-with-data-center-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaw Capital Partners Forms Partnership with Data Center First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\"><!--<a class=\"format-txt\" href=\"{baseURL}\/View\/{release.id}?_download=1\">View this article in .txt format<\/a>--><\/p>\n<p>HONG KONG SAR \/ \u00a0SINGAPORE &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media OutReach<\/a> &#8211; \u00a023 July 2021 \u00a0&#8211; Real&#13;<br \/>\nestate private equity firm<b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gawcapital.com\/\">Gaw Capital Partners<\/a> today announced the&#13;<br \/>\nestablishment of a new joint venture operating company, Data Center First Pte Ltd.,&#13;<br \/>\nwith Mr. Wong Ka Vin as the Co-Founder &amp; Chief Executive Officer with its&#13;<br \/>\nmaiden project in Batam, Indonesia. <\/b>Data Center&#13;<br \/>\nFirst, headquartered in Singapore, is a data center operator and the first&#13;<br \/>\nplatform investment made by Gaw Capital Partners to support its IDC investments&#13;<br \/>\nin Asia outside of China.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Mr. Wong Ka Vin is an industry veteran with a track record in building&#13;<br \/>\nsuccessful data center platforms and professional teams like i-STT in 1999,&#13;<br \/>\nfollowed by Equinix Asia Pacific in 2002, CSF Group Asia which became ChinData&#13;<br \/>\nin 2011, and finally returning to Singapore to lead and re-brand 1-Net by&#13;<br \/>\nbuilding 1-Net North, Southeast Asia&#8217;s first Uptime Certified Tier III design&#13;<br \/>\nand constructed 30MVA facility in Woodlands, Singapore in 2013. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>The data center campus in Nongsa Digital Park is the maiden project&#13;<br \/>\nwith Data Center First.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>This project leverages on the fact that Nongsa Digital Park has been&#13;<br \/>\nslated as the &#8220;Digital Bridge&#8221; that connects Singapore to many of Indonesia&#8217;s&#13;<br \/>\nfast-growing cities. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>In addition to this maiden project in Batam, Indonesia, Data Center&#13;<br \/>\nFirst will also work with Gaw Capital Partners to originate, evaluate and&#13;<br \/>\ndevelop data center projects in Southeast Asia and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Kenneth Gaw, President &amp; Managing Principal of Gaw Capital Partners<\/b>, said, &#8220;I am excited to be working with Ka Vin and his team of&#13;<br \/>\nprofessionals in creating this data center operating platform. It signals a key&#13;<br \/>\nmilestone in Gaw Capital Partners&#8217; growth in the data center industry, an&#13;<br \/>\nindustry that enables digital transformation opportunities for organizations&#13;<br \/>\nglobally to continue to grow. We plan to grow our regional data center platform&#13;<br \/>\nrapidly through a combination of multiple asset and platform acquisitions and our&#13;<br \/>\npartnership with Data Center First is the first step in the execution of this&#13;<br \/>\nstrategy.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Gaw Capital&#13;<br \/>\nPartners sees the IDC development as part of the bigger story that will&#13;<br \/>\nencompass the broader and larger global opportunities that the digital economy&#13;<br \/>\nbrings. There is&#13;<br \/>\nan ever-growing amount of data traffic that is driving demand for data centers&#13;<br \/>\nto consolidate servers, store data and manage network support, thanks to&#13;<br \/>\ntechnological advancements in 5G communications, 4K transmission, the Internet&#13;<br \/>\nof Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Wong Ka Vin, Co-Founder &amp; Chief Executive Officer of Data Center&#13;<br \/>\nFirst<\/b>, said, &#8220;The next generation data center&#13;<br \/>\noperators will need a deep understanding on how to exploit M&amp;E and IT&#13;<br \/>\ntechnologies in combination to create a more effective and valuable service&#13;<br \/>\nexperience for our customers. Data Center First will keep pace with the latest&#13;<br \/>\ntrend and provide industry-leading experience in the market for our clients.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>IDC is a&#13;<br \/>\nfocus sector for Gaw Capital Partners. In September 2020, the company closed&#13;<br \/>\nfundraising for its first internet data center (IDC) platform, which has invested&#13;<br \/>\nin a portfolio of projects in partnership with IDC developers and operators in&#13;<br \/>\nChina, bringing the total equity raised of approximately US$1.3 billion, to&#13;<br \/>\nbuild &#8220;green, efficient, innovative and recyclable&#8221; data center clusters.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-07-23\/87360\/gaw-capital-partners-forms-partnership-with-data-center-first\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HONG KONG SAR \/ \u00a0SINGAPORE &#8211; Media OutReach &#8211; \u00a023 July 2021 \u00a0&#8211; Real&#13; estate private equity firm Gaw Capital Partners today announced the&#13; establishment of a new joint venture operating company, Data Center First Pte Ltd.,&#13; with Mr. Wong Ka Vin as the Co-Founder &amp; Chief Executive Officer with its&#13; maiden project in Batam, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16480"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}