Digital Realty, one of the world’ s largest cloudand carrier-neutral data centre platforms, has announced its entry into the Milan market, marking a significant expansion in one of Europe’ s most economically powerful and digitally dynamic regions.

Digital Realty’ s expansion into Milan strengthens its leadership in digital infrastructure across the Mediterranean and Southern Europe, connecting key hubs in Athens, Marseille and Sofia, with new sites underway in Barcelona, Crete and other key markets. Positioned at the crossroads of Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia, this region is emerging as a vital digital interconnection point and Digital Realty remains committed to delivering the digital infrastructure needed to support the growth in digital transformation, cloud and AI throughout Southern Europe and beyond.

Cubbit, the first geo-distributed cloud storage enabler, and Worldstream, a Dutch cloud infrastructure provider operating its own European data centres and network, have announced a new Business Alliance Partnership to equip Dutch enterprises with fully sovereign, secure, cost-predictable and flexible cloud storage services.

Under this agreement, Worldstream is integrating DS3 Composer – Cubbit’ s software-defined object storage – across its three data centres in the Netherlands to create and offer its own S3 cloud storage service, fully hosted and operated by Worldstream on its strategic assets. This partnership marks Cubbit’ s first Business Alliance Partner in the Netherlands, expanding the availability of geo-distributed storage through an in-country service built on 100 % European technology.

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