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NEWS 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. F 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. M 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. www.intelligentdatacentres.com Issue 10 7