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EUROPE
Wasabi, a cloud storage company, has announced
the opening of its first European data centre based
in Amsterdam. The new data centre will accommodate
Wasabi’s accelerating growth in the EU region, aiming
to bring affordable, fast, enterprise class cloud storage
closer to the company’s European customer base.
With an EU data centre, European users will be able to
access Wasabi’s very short latency times and ease of
compliance with GDPR.
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EAST
Khazna Data Center (Khazna), the only
dedicated commercial wholesale data centre
provider in the UAE, has announced it has received
the Tier III Certification of Design Documents (TCDD)
from Uptime Institute for its data centres expansion
project in Abu Dhabi and Dubai. The award recognises
that Khazna meets the highest standards for infrastructure
functionality and availability and validates that the system
design of the facility is consistent with Uptime objectives,
in line with international best practice. Khazna currently
has two UAE facilities in Meydan, Dubai and Masdar
City, Abu Dhabi. Each data centre facility
comprises six independent performance
optimised data centres (PODs).
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