The company says that the decision was driven by increased demand from its network, content and cloud service providers for a better solution to support their local and latency sensitive requirements in Central and Eastern Europe.
“We are very excited to announce our expansion into Warsaw and to work with Linxdatacenter on a smooth transition to continue the high customer service levels already in place,” said Dick Theunissen, managing director, EMEA, EdgeConneX. “As we continue to expand globally, we are prepared to meet the diverse needs of our customers to enable them to deliver the fastest and most reliable cloud, content, network and other services to their customers.”
Demand in Poland for better services is specifically driven by increased adoption of hybrid cloud, data regulations and the potential for Poland to become a gateway into neighbouring countries. According to the company, experts are predicting that Warsaw will become a one of Europe’s digital heavyweights, and this acquisition enables customer to be part of a highly connected digital ecosystem.
The newly acquired Linxdatacenter facility gives the flexibility to support deployments ranging from single racks to large custom cages or pods, as well as the capability to scale to support future capacity requirements. In addition, via a diverse fibre path customers can connect to the neighbouring LIM-Building ecosystem.
“We are pleased that our Warsaw data centre clients will be served in the future by EdgeConneX,” said Heiko H. Koop, chief executive officer of Linxdatacenter. “We look forward to transitioning our Warsaw data centre and the local support team, which will help ensure the seamless integration of customers into the EdgeConneX business. The divestment of the Warsaw data centre suits our 2020 business strategy whereby we focus on our cloud business and maintain our Russian assets.”
EdgeConneX says that it’s continued expansion into Europe will be selective based on specific customer demand and specific markets.
