GULF DATA HUB
“ OUR PLAN IN THE NEXT 12 TO 18 MONTHS IS TO AT LEAST MULTIPLY OUR CAPACITIES BY THREE- OR FOUR-FOLD , WHICH IS ALREADY IN THE PIPELINE . WE ARE ROLLING OUT IN BAHRAIN , WE ARE ROLLING OUT MULTIPLE DATA CENTRES IN SAUDI , KUWAIT , MOROCCO AND EGYPT ”
HIMMATH MOHAMMED HEAD OF SALES & STRATEGIES , GULF DATA HUB
“ This has driven a lot of push , especially with government entities releasing a law stating that , whatever data of any company , their data should reside within the country . So earlier , the data was being hosted on the cloud and the cloud was in a different country . Now , though , the push is to bring back that data into each country – which means , if such data is coming back into this country , then all these business entities bringing back their data need to host it in a purpose-built data centre . This means there is a huge demand to build infrastructure in the coming few years in an advanced manner ,” he adds .
238 June 2022