The data centres will be resourced, managed and run by Microsoft and offer full intelligent cloud with Azure, Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365, says regional head
UTV | Dubai: Microsoft is set to open its first data centres in the Middle East in Dubai and Abu Dhabi by early next year, the company’s regional head has stated to media.
Sayed Hashish, regional general manager for Microsoft Gulf, revealed that four new data centres will be opened across the world: Switzerland, France, Germany and the UAE.
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“The data centres that are being created will be resourced, managed and run by Microsoft and offer full intelligent cloud with Azure, Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365,” he said.
Big tech companies have shown interest in the region, especially in the UAE, to open its data centres. Amazon Web Services has a data centre in Bahrain and an office in Dubai while Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, is set to open its second data centre in Dubai this year and Oracle is going to open the Abu Dhabi data centre by August.
Over the last three years, Hashish said that Microsoft has more than doubled the number of regions where Azure, the cloud-computing platform of Microsoft, is available.