Leaseweb’s five-year growth
exceeds double the market average
Leaseweb, a leading hosting cloud
company, has announced that
the growth in its global hosting
infrastructure and related network
capacity has grown twice the market
average. The accomplishment is
attributed to a focused approach to grow
the company’s global presence over five
years and has seen Leaseweb achieve
a 22% increase in data centre locations
worldwide. The result is a 55% increase in
network capacity and a leap in bandwidth
from 5.5 to 10Tbps, enabling Leaseweb to
successfully adapt to international market
change and meet customer demand for
local and global cloud infrastructures.
Following the launch of new locations in
London and Sydney at the end of 2017,
Leaseweb opened a data centre facility in
Miami last year, providing a springboard
into South America and bringing the total
number of data centre locations to 20
operating globally, with 80,000 servers
under management. Most recently,
Leaseweb completed the network
expansion of its Amsterdam data centre,
enabling further growth and paving the
way for applications that benefit from
100Gbps connectivity. Additionally, the
acquisition of US-based managed hosting
services companies, ServInt and NOBIS
Technology Group, has given more endusers
access to Leaseweb’s portfolio of
solutions via its existing data centres.
As well as growing its data centre
location and services portfolio, Leaseweb
extended its IaaS platform into Asia
via Leaseweb Cloud, completing the
full spectrum of its public and private
cloud products available in the region.
The company also enhanced its cloud
backup and protection offerings, allowing
the delivery of an easy-to-use, fast and
reliable data protection solution for cloud
and Internet professionals. Moreover,
Leaseweb began offering All Flash
FAS storage across its cloud portfolio,
reducing latency and increasing reliability
for business-critical cloud applications.
“Businesses that operate worldwide,
which take pride in their competitive
edge, seek the kind of global hosting and
infrastructure provider who can deliver
best-in-class user experiences locally
and reliably,” said Alexander Kalkman,
CMO at Leaseweb. “This need feeds
directly into our goal to grow globally
as the first provider businesses turn to
for the provision of cloud infrastructure
that not only meets local requirements,
but offers a footprint to reach customers
across borders. Looking forward, we
are committed to a continued growth
trajectory and delivering superior cloudhosting
technology globally, engaging
with our customers in a personalised,
human-to-human manner – an approach
unmatched by industry giants and highly
valued by our customers.”
Leaseweb’s commitment to helping
customers meet their hosting and
managed service needs is particularly
evident in the Adtech and Martech sectors,
which are key focus areas. Adjust, a
mobile attribution and analytics company,
leverages Leaseweb’s ability to provide
multiple private racks of dedicated servers
across the globe. Leaseweb provides
racks which are redundantly connected
to the core network with 2x200 Gbps and
offers high-speed links between servers
(varying 20–40 Gbps, depending on the
needs of the region). Algolia, a distributed
Search-as-a-Service API, chose to work
with Leaseweb due to its customercentric
and global mindset. Through this
collaboration, Algolia was able to build
a highly available API distributed over 12
regions, leading it to become one of the
top companies for custom search. ◊
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