Posts Tagged ‘Middle East’

LINX, STC extending JEDIX IX in Saudi Arabia

April 13, 2022
Sacha Kavanagh

LINX (London Internet Exchange) and STC (Saudi Telecom Company) are extending their JEDIX internet e...

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GCX opens Oman PoP with Equinix

April 11, 2022
Sacha Kavanagh

Connectivity provider Global Cloud Xchange (GCX) deployed a PoP in Equinix’s MSC1 data centre in M...

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New venture targets 300MW in Saudi Arabia capacity in five years

March 25, 2022
Sacha Kavanagh

Quantum Switch Tamasuk (QST) signed an agreement with Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Communications an...

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Equinix expands to new market in Oman; subsea cable angle

March 14, 2022
Sacha Kavanagh

There was an interesting addition to Equinix’s EMEA expansions outlined in its 4Q21 results presen...

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STC to spin off Saudi data centres, submarine cables and international network; retaining ownership

March 10, 2022
Sacha Kavanagh

Summary: Saudi Telecom Company (stc) plans to spin off its data centres, international submarine cab...

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New fibre network to boost Israel connectivity, position as alternative to Suez Canal

March 9, 2022
Sacha Kavanagh

Partner Communications signed an agreement with fellow Israeli telco Tamares Telecom to build a 300k...

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New data centres coming to Saudi Arabia

January 21, 2022
Sacha Kavanagh

Saudi Arabia’s Al Moammar Information Systems (MIS) will start building six data centres in the co...

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Google Cloud updates on cloud regions and expansion plans

January 11, 2022
Sacha Kavanagh

Google Cloud ended 2021 with 29 cloud regions and 88 zones. ...

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Moro Hub breaks ground on 100MW Dubai data centre

December 29, 2021
Sacha Kavanagh

Moro Hub broke ground on the 100MW data centre in Dubai it announced last May in an agreement with H...

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Serverfarm to build data centre in Israel

December 21, 2021
Sacha Kavanagh

Serverfarm announced it will open a 9MW data centre to the north of Tel Aviv in Israel in the second...

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MEEZA opens new Qatar data centre; Microsoft Azure a tenant

December 10, 2021
Sacha Kavanagh

Local media reports confirm that Qatari IT service provider and data centre operator MEEZA opened it...

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2Africa cable extended to Gulf, Pakistan, India

December 2, 2021
Sacha Kavanagh

The 2Africa cable that will loop the African continent will be extended to the Arabian Gulf, India a...

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