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ASCENTY LAUNCHES FIRST ORACLE SOLUTION CENTER SATELLITE SITE IN LATIN AMERICA
Ascenty, an Oracle partner offering data centre and connectivity services in Latin America, has announced the deployment of the region’ s first Oracle Solution Center( OSC) satellite site as part of Oracle Customer Success Services.
Hosted in its data centre in Vinhedo, São Paulo, the OSC facility will enable customers to design, architect and validate their Oracle Cloud solutions in a secure, scalable and interoperable environment. Ascenty is a joint venture between Digital Realty and Brookfield Infrastructure, and this initiative reinforces the company’ s commitment to supporting high-performance hybrid environments with a focus on innovation, integration and customer proximity.
As part of Oracle Customer Success Services, the OSC satellite site is designed to help customers quickly validate architecture and improve performance for workloads spanning on-premises, hybrid and cloud environments. It operates as an extension of the OSC locations in São Paulo and Mexico City, enabling testing and demonstrations with lower latency and closer alignment to customer environments.
“ Our goal with this initiative is to contribute to what Ascenty does best: offering low latency, high availability, high-quality
infrastructure and exceptional service to maintain business continuity,” said João Walter, Director of Products, Solutions and Edge Strategies at Ascenty.“ We are committed to providing a connected infrastructure that can quickly respond to our customers’ constantly evolving demands.”
Equinix, a world’ s digital infrastructure company, is accelerating India’ s digital evolution and expanding its AI ecosystem with the opening of its first International Business Exchange( IBX) data centre in Chennai, CN1.
Located in Siruseri on a nearly six-acre plot of land, the new facility will be interconnected with Equinix’ s Mumbai campus, which consists of three IBX data centres, to support business digitisation and resilience, as well as AI development in India.
With an initial investment of US $ 69 million to provide 800 cabinets of capacity, this state-of-the-art facility will eventually support 4,250 cabinets. The data centre is engineered for a high reliability of 99.999 % uptime and features a full suite of Equinix interconnection services, including Equinix Fabric, which enables enterprises to leverage the full benefits of hybrid multicloud services. centre, CN1, in Chennai, marking Equinix’ s expansion in India and a pivotal step in advancing the nation’ s digitalisation journey. Our success in building the most interconnected ecosystem for cloud, carrier, content and enterprises in Mumbai will now be extended to customers in Tamil Nadu. Similarly, global enterprises planning to come closer to their customers in southern India now can leverage Equinix’ s IBX facility in Chennai.”
Exterior of Equinix’ s CN1 International Business Exchange™( IBX) data centre in India
As Tamil Nadu strengthens its position as a key hub for innovation, research and AI investment, Chennai is emerging as the country’ s focal point for this technological evolution, paving the way for India to increase its global competitiveness in digital services and AI development.
Manoj Paul, Managing Director, India, Equinix, said:“ We are delighted to announce the launch of our state-of-the-art IBX data
EQUINIX OPENS FIRST AI-READY DATA CENTRE IN CHENNAI
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