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Equinix invests € 32 million to expand its data centres in Finland resulting from the pandemic-driven need to work remotely . Equinix is increasing its capacity in Finland to meet this demand .
Equinix , a digital infrastructure company , has announced it is continuing to invest in growing its data centre capacity in Finland . The company is expanding two of its International Business Exchange ( IBX ) sites – HE5 and HE7 – in Helsinki , with a € 32 million investment boosting the capacity for further digitisation of local and international customers . To date , Equinix has invested approximately € 147 million into its data centres in Finland .
The volume of data generated , processed and utilised across industries worldwide continues to grow at a rapid pace , reinforced by the huge demand for network services
This investment is part of Equinix ’ s continuing metro growth strategy in the Nordics region , with Finland being a good location to reach the 27 million consumers in the Nordics area . The expansion also utilises and further supports Finland ’ s standing as a connectivity hub between Europe , the Baltics and Russia . Finland is seeing a rapid increase in cloud adoption and deployment , with the hyperscale sector expected to grow to US $ 17 billion in Finland by 2025 .
Through Equinix ’ s expanded data centre capacity , Finnish and Nordic customers further afield have increased access to Equinix Fabric , a global interconnection service enabling businesses to connect their digital infrastructure and services on demand , at software speed .
Commvault debuts major new SaaS and hybrid cloud workloads for Metallic
Commvault , a recognised global enterprise software leader in the management of data across cloud and on-premises environments , has announced another expansion of its awardwinning Metallic Backup-as-a-Service ( BaaS ) portfolio . On the heels of last quarter ’ s accelerated innovation , Metallic is adding new data protection solutions , features and enterprise workload support including : enhanced SaaS application protection with the introduction of Metallic Salesforce Backup and Microsoft Teams recovery enhancements , the addition of Oracle and Active Directory to Metallic Database Backup and the expansion of its hybrid cloud capabilities with the addition of HyperScale X as a fully integrated appliance and Edge offering for Metallic .
In addition , Metallic is now generally available in 23 countries , announcing support for nine new countries in EMEA , including Austria , France , Germany , Norway , Poland , Portugal , South Africa , Spain and Switzerland .
“ As we continue our global rollout of Metallic , we ’ re finding more and more customers around the world are immediately grasping the value and inherent simplicity that cloud-native , as-a-Service data protection can bring to their environments ,” said Manoj Nair , General Manager , Metallic . “ With our new offerings like Salesforce and Oracle backup and our unique SaaS Plus capabilities , Metallic solutions offer customers what no other cloud-delivered backup service can match – the most comprehensive portfolio of BaaS solutions and the flexibility to backup each data source to the optimal storage target – whether that be cloud or on-premises storage , or the new HyperScale X for Metallic at the Edge for ultimate performance with BaaS simplicity .” p
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