Vodafone, which has established a three way partnership firm with Edgnex Knowledge Facilities by DAMAC, one of many world’s main digital infrastructure suppliers, will open a brand new information heart in Izmir in step with this partnership. The info heart, with an funding of roughly 100 million USD, is anticipated to be operational within the first quarter of 2025. The middle, which can begin its actions with information transportation and internet hosting companies within the first stage, will attain a capability of as much as 6 Megawatts in the long run, changing into certainly one of Vodafone’s largest capability information facilities within the Aegean Area. With the brand new information heart, which shall be designed as a construction appropriate for progress as much as a complete capability of 12 Megawatts, the variety of Vodafone’s information facilities in Turkey’s metropolitan cities will attain 6 and the white space dimension will attain 13,500 sq. meters.
Turkey ought to take its place within the cloud financial system
A press convention was held in Istanbul for the Vodafone İzmir Knowledge Middle mission with the participation of Vodafone Turkey CEO Engin Aksoy and Edgnex Knowledge Facilities by DAMAC Vice President and Board Member Aqil Ali. Vodafone Türkiye CEO Engin Aksoy mentioned:
“Now we have an necessary function in our country’s funding local weather and we’re one of many gamers contributing to the Turkish financial system. The true worth of the funding we made within the final 17 years exceeded 157.6 billion TL. Because the Vodafone ecosystem, we contributed 68 billion TL to Turkey’s GDP within the 2022-23 fiscal 12 months alone. One in all our future targets is to develop exponentially over the subsequent 5 years with our investments in information heart, cloud options, cyber safety, personalized cellular community and IoT. The worldwide cloud computing market dimension is predicted to achieve 947.3 billion USD by 2026. It’s unthinkable for Turkey not to participate on this rising financial system. Investing in dependable and high-capacity information facilities for cloud computing stays a necessity. With this understanding, we joined forces with DAMAC and established a three way partnership firm to convey a brand new information heart to our nation. Our intention with this strategic partnership is to develop information heart amenities in Turkey and different world markets. On this context, we anticipate the overall funding quantity of our joint information heart mission to be established in Izmir to achieve 100 million USD. When our new information heart is accomplished, it’s going to kind one of many strongest hyperlinks of our investments in expertise. We are going to proceed to contribute to the sustainable progress of our nation with our world expertise and native skills.â€
Talking on the ceremony, Aqil Ali, Vice President and Board Member of Edgnex Knowledge Facilities by DAMAC, mentioned: “The three way partnership we now have established with Vodafone is a large milestone for DAMAC and can present an necessary digital infrastructure within the rising market on the west coast of Turkey. On account of its location, Izmir is extraordinarily handy to satisfy the info heart demand of the Japanese Mediterranean Area. We connect significance to establishing world strategic partnerships the place we will have most affect on native digital economies. Subsequently, our work with Vodafone will present a world-class facility in a quickly creating market.â€
Design shall be based on Tier 3 requirements
Ä°zmir is situated near many subsea cable transit stations offering entry to Europe, Africa and Asia. On account of this strategic location, the continuing undersea cable growth work within the area turns into enticing for web alternate factors and content material distribution community (CDN) suppliers. The submarine cable system, which can join Turkey and Greece, will join Ä°zmir to Athens and Crete. On this method, information heart prospects shall be supplied with low latency entry service because of redundant connection routes.
The brand new information heart, which could have the newest expertise, shall be designed based on Tier 3 requirements. Accordingly, within the information heart business, information facilities with 99.982% availability, full again up, and excessive expertise options, together with near-zero error working circumstances, are thought-about to have reached the Tier 3 stage. The brand new information heart, which shall be constructed based mostly on earthquake resistance requirements, will meet all the mandatory standards for the Tier 3 stage with its redundant infrastructure capability together with cooling system, redundant computing methods and a dependable expertise heart that may be maintained even whereas it’s working. The brand new information heart could have inexperienced vitality elements and renewable vitality shall be used within the heart.
Finish-to-end service
Deliberate as a carrier-independent information heart, the info heart shall be a middle of attraction for purchasers from all segments. The middle, which can make Vodafone a “one-stop shop†within the area, shall be linked to Europe through each terrestrial and submarine cables, particularly for content material producers within the area, corporations offering companies at wholesale stage and company corporations in want of catastrophe response heart (DRC) companies. It will play an necessary function in making the middle most well-liked by prospects. The brand new information heart can even be a vital heart for the “over the web media service providers†(OTT) and “hyper-scaler†segments. It will allow the section to obtain information heart companies on a geographically different route.
Vodafone at present gives service with a complete of 5 information facilities, 2 in Ä°stanbul and one every in Ä°zmir, Ankara and Adana. Because of the companies supplied with redundant infrastructure by way of these facilities, crucial purposes of companies are managed in an uninterrupted, secure and environment friendly method. Vodafone helps companies to give attention to their very own enterprise with end-to-end options akin to Connection, Cloud Applied sciences, Web of Issues, Cyber Safety, and Managed Providers.
