Aligned Data Centers expands into Pacific north-west with Hillsboro campus
NEWS ligned Data Centers , a leading technology infrastructure
A company offering innovative , sustainable and adaptive scale data centres and Build-to-Scale solutions for global hyperscale and enterprise customers , has announced its expansion into the Pacific north-west with a 27-acre , 10 MW data centre campus in Hillsboro , Oregon .
The campus caps a year of accelerated growth for Aligned , which saw the launch of new sites or expansions of existing facilities in Chicago , Dallas , Frederick County , Maryland , Northern Virginia , Phoenix and Salt Lake City , as well as its recently announced planned acquisition of LATAM data centre provider , ODATA .
“ The rapidly expanding Hillsboro data centre market offers a host of advantages to hyperscale and large enterprise customers , especially as compared to other western data centre locations ,” said Andrew Schaap , CEO of Aligned . “ Hillsboro offers a business-friendly environment , affordable power and renewable energy options , diverse metro and long-haul connectivity to major cities and tech hubs such as Los Angeles , Seattle and Silicon Valley , as well as proximity to international subsea cable networks that reduce latency between the US and high-growth markets in the Asia-Pacific region .”
Master-planned for two new buildings , the initial data centre at Aligned ’ s Hillsboro campus is expected to offer 72 MW of critical capacity . The second building is currently planned for 36 MW . The campus is strategically located within the region of the State of Oregon ’ s Enterprise Zone programme .
AtlasEdge and Megaport announce strategic partnership to provide customers with direct multi-cloud connectivity
tlasEdge , a leading pan- European Edge data centre
‘ A provider , and Megaport , a leading global Network-as-a-Service ( NaaS ) provider , have announced a strategic partnership which will see AtlasEdge utilise Megaport ’ s on-demand Software-Defined Network ( SDN ) across its expanding portfolio .’
The partnership will commence with two of AtlasEdge ’ s key UK locations becoming Megaport-enabled . The sites , which are in London and Manchester , will offer AtlasEdge customers :
• Choice : Dedicated private access to an industry-leading 243 cloud on-ramps and more than 700 on-net locations .
• Security and performance : Reliable , direct , private connections that bypass the public Internet .
• Marketplace : A global ecosystem of more than 350 service providers , including , AWS , Google Cloud , IBM Cloud , Microsoft Azure , Nutanix , Oracle Cloud , Salesforce , Rackspace and SAP , as well as leading IP Transit , VIOP allowing customers to easily consume services from within the ecosystem .
• Ease-of-Use : Delivered from the selfservice easy-to-use portal , Megaport services can be enabled and adjusted as required in real-time .
• Optionality : Enable hybrid cloud , multi-cloud and cloud-to-cloud architectures via point-and-click provisioning with the intelligent Megaport Cloud Router .
• Performance : Localise applications and terminate traffic closer to the edge where performance matters .
• Scalability : Elastic connectivity supports business needs and aligns to cloud consumption models .
The Megaport SDN is then intended to be rolled out to more AtlasEdge locations across Europe , providing customers with the ability to take a hybrid approach to data storage and computer functionality .
The collaboration is one of many growing partnerships entered into by AtlasEdge and will play a key role in supporting the company ’ s ongoing mission to deliver seamless , localised and ultra-low latency digital infrastructure across the continent .
“ This strategic partnership provides our customers with enhanced choice , security , performance and optionality ,” said Giuliano Di Vitantonio , CEO , AtlasEdge . www . intelligentdatacentres . com
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