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Equinix to open new data centre in Warsaw
Equinix, a global interconnection
and data centre company, has
announced the development of
a new data centre in Warsaw, opening in
Q1 2020.
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Known as WA3, the new International
Business Exchange (IBX) data centre will
offer state-of-the-art colocation, as well as a
host of advanced interconnection services.
By bringing this capacity to market,
Equinix is helping Polish businesses to
advance their business digitisation and
cloud transformation initiatives, as well as
enabling global businesses to expand their
digital operations in Poland. traffic to explode worldwide, accelerating
the need for connectivity. Companies can
extend network infrastructure to the Edge
and enhance workload performance by
shortening the distance between digital
services and users.
Modern organisations are working hard to
transform the way they create value in a
digital world. Digital disruption is causing IP By providing this increased capacity in
Warsaw, Equinix will expand its role in
advancing the digital economy, in which
businesses are demanding increasing
levels of interconnection to accelerate
business performance.
Robert Busz, Managing Director,
Equinix Poland, said: “For our Polish
customers and indeed the market
generally, data sovereignty is both topical
and a big concern for local organisations.
WA3 will be a big milestone and aid in
further establishing cloud data s
overeignty in Poland. Through our
interconnection platform, large footprint
in WA3 and via ECX Fabric, we can offer a
perfect local ecosystem for global cloud
service providers.”
Nutanix hosts Enterprise Cloud Conference in KSA
Nutanix, a leader in enterprise
cloud computing, has hosted
its annual .NEXT on Tour
event with the theme ‘Invisible Clouds,
Visible IT’ in Riyadh.
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The conference focused on helping
enterprises in KSA free themselves
from the complexity and cost of legacy
IT and embrace the power of cloud.
Mohammad Abulhouf, Country Manager –
Saudi and Bahrain at Nutanix, said: “.NEXT
on has become a premier event for the
latest in cloud technologies.
“With our company’s well-earned
reputation as a global leader in
hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI),
we aim to help regional organisations
embrace the power of hybrid clouds by
eliminating pain points and enabling
them to manage, govern and optimise
applications across public and private
cloud architectures.”
Executives from Nutanix delivered
a number of informative sessions
including latest insights into data
centre modernisation, multi-cloud and
automation and application workloads.
The event featured keynotes and talks,
hands-on learning with experts and a
first-hand look at the latest Nutanix
products. The solutions-oriented event
educated attendees on how they can
build virtual apps and desktops on
Nutanix. One of the attractions at
the event was Sophia the Robot, the
world’s first robot citizen who is a
Saudi national.
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