City Network selects Equinix Dubai datacentre for public cloud service expansion in MENA

City Network selects Equinix Dubai datacentre for public cloud service expansion in MENA

Equinix, the global interconnection and datacentre company, has announced that City Network, a leading provider of IT infrastructure services built on OpenStack, has deployed in Equinix’s Dubai International Business Exchange (IBX) to accelerate the expansion of the company’s high-performance public cloud service, City Cloud, to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. By deploying on Platform Equinix, City Network can quickly expand its global reach and provide high-performance connectivity and ultra-low latency.

City Network’s public IaaS platform, City Cloud, has grown significantly across Europe, the US and Asia, and to meet customer demand, the company is now looking to expand the service further. The company has identified the MENA region as a key geography for future growth, and is partnering with Equinix Dubai and its DX1 datacentre — the most densely connected datacentre in the region — to launch its high performance public OpenStack City Cloud.

To expand within existing markets and prepare for future market growth, City Network will leverage Equinix’s global footprint of 150 IBX datacentres, presence in 41 global markets and the proven operational reliability of Platform Equinix (with a global uptime of 99.9999%) to provide direct virtual connections to its services. Equinix’s global interconnection platform enables maximum connectivity to partners across City Network’s digital supply chain. The company’s customers will also benefit from a low-latency solution via direct connection, which will help it to achieve industry-leading scalability and expansion, and ultra-fast distribution to multiple content delivery networks (CDNs).

Jeroen Schlosser, Managing Director, Equinix MENA said: “The Equinix Dubai datacentre is the first world-class, network-neutral aggregation point in the MENA region. Facilitating the Dubai deployment of industry leaders such as City Network constitutes a great opportunity, showing the value of Equinix in enabling access to fast-growing markets, interconnection and business acceleration with high-speed connectivity to anywhere in the world.”

Johan Christenson, CEO and founder, City Network added: “In an increasingly regulated world where digitisation puts enormous pressure on data capacity, there is a substantial demand to operate and store data in a location of choice. Therefore, proximity to our customers has always been a key part of our growth strategy. By partnering with Equinix, we take yet another important step in our growth strategy and enable the speed, resilience and reduced latency our customers have come to expect from City Cloud.”

Built on OpenStack, City Cloud is a flexible and scalable IaaS that provides intuitive cloud management, secure servers, storage and global private networks. Leveraging all the benefits of open source, including open APIs and no vendor lock-in, City Cloud provides organisations with a cost-effective and easy to use, high-performance infrastructure across the globe.

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