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ZSCALER EXPANDS PUBLIC DATA CENTRE FOOTPRINT IN THE KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA TO SECURE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
Zscaler, a leader in cloud security, has announced the strategic expansion of its public data centre( DC) infrastructure in Saudi Arabia, reinforcing its long-term commitment to the Middle East’ s dynamic digital economy. This move enhances the availability of Zscaler Private Access( ZPA) in the region and supports growing customer demand for secure, scalable cloud solutions that align with local compliance and data sovereignty requirements.
As Digital Transformation accelerates across the Kingdom, Zscaler’ s expanded infrastructure ensures lower latency, improved performance and full alignment with Saudi Arabia’ s regulatory landscape. The data centre investment allows organisations across the region to embrace cloud-first strategies with greater confidence, enabling seamless, secure access to applications and data – regardless of user location.
“ We’ re deeply invested in the Middle East’ s digital future,” said Saeed Agha, Vice President of Emerging Markets at Zscaler.“ Our growing presence in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a reflection of our commitment to helping organisations adopt Zero Trust architecture at scale while assuring to meet the highest standards of data privacy, sovereignty and operational resilience.”
Zscaler’ s approach is anchored in three core pillars:
• Data localisation and customer control: Zscaler adheres to strict Privacy by Design principles. Customer content is not stored, logs are tokenised and encrypted, and logging data is retained only as long as necessary – within preferred geographies.
• Transparency and government access: Zscaler maintains a firm stance on transparency. In 2024, the company received 91 government requests for user data and disclosed none – reinforcing its customer-first data protection philosophy.
• Built for resilience: Zscaler’ s global cloud infrastructure is engineered with multi-layered failover, Disaster Recovery and service continuity, ensuring businesses remain securely connected even during outages or disruptions.
With over 150 data centres globally – including an expanding footprint in Saudi Arabia – Zscaler’ s Zero Trust Exchange platform enables organisations to securely connect users, workloads and devices across distributed environments, all while reducing risk and complexity. This latest milestone follows Zscaler’ s successful presence at LEAP 2025 and further strengthens its position as the trusted security partner for governments, enterprises and critical sectors across the Middle East.
Cirion Technologies has announced a strategic partnership with Megaport, a global leader in Network-as-a-Service
( NaaS), to further expand its digital ecosystem in Brazil.
Through this partnership, Cirion’ s data centres in São Paulo( SAO1) and Rio de Janeiro( RIO1) will offer customers direct access to Megaport’ s connectivity platform, providing instant network access to more than 280 cloud on-ramps and 410-plus service providers, 30-plus Internet exchanges globally.
“ Partnering with Megaport marks a significant step in strengthening our digital ecosystem,” said Nelson Fonseca, President of Cirion’ s Data Center business unit.
“ By combining Cirion’ s presence across Latin America with Megaport’ s global reach, we’ re enabling businesses to access a broader range of cloud and network services with greater speed and simplicity”.
Access to Megaport’ s Network-as-a-Service platform from Cirion’ s data centres provides customers with instant private, low-latency connections to leading cloud and GPU providers across the globe.
“ This partnership with Cirion is a key milestone in expanding Megaport’ s footprint in Brazil and across Latin America,” said Michael Reid, CEO, Megaport.
CIRION DATA CENTERS PARTNERS WITH MEGAPORT TO EXPAND DIGITAL ECOSYSTEM IN BRAZIL
“ By bringing our platform into Cirion’ s data centres, enterprises can now connect to the world’ s leading cloud providers and our purpose-built AI-exchange, a connected ecosystem of GPUaaS providers. As AI, Machine Learning and other next-gen technologies reshape how businesses operate, this partnership ensures that companies have the network infrastructure to innovate, move fast and scale without limits.” �
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