Dimension Data to open four global cloud data centres

Dimension Data has today announced the addition of four new global cloud data centers in the next quarter, in a bid to address the ongoing demand for enterprise-class cloud services.

The global ICT services and solution provider says the addition of the new Managed Cloud Platform (MCP) locations will bring the number of Dimension Data’s Public MCPs globally to 11, with multiple data centers in each of the Americas, EMEA, Asia Pacific and Australia regions.

Dimension Data’s MCPs host the company’s public cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Managed Hosting services.

Each MCP provides end-users in that region with low-latency access to secure, reliable, enterprise-class public, private and hosted private cloud services.

At present, Dimension Data MCP locations include: San Jose, California and Ashburn, Virginia, US; Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Sydney, Australia; Johannesburg, South Africa; Tokyo, Japan and Hong Kong, China.

“The addition of these four key MCP locations adds capacity to the United States, Australia and Europe, where our client base is growing rapidly and require multiple cloud data centers to support business continuity, backup and replication within the region," says Steve Nola, CEO of Dimension Data Cloud Business Unit.

"Sao Paulo, as Dimension Data’s first MCP in South America, will create availability for global enterprises to locate data in this region.”

Services will become available at the MCP locations as follows:

• Ashburn, Virginia – currently available

• Melbourne, Australia – November 2013

• London, U.K. – January 2014

• Sao Paulo, Brasil – January 2014

“Best-effort cloud providers do not meet the data sovereignty and security needs of global enterprises," Nola adds.

"By continuing to expand our footprint of global network-centric cloud availability, Dimension Data is helping our clients to leverage the cloud for enterprise and web applications globally.”