A secure cloud hosting company has gone live into the Asia Pacific (AsiaPac) region with FireHost’s launch of a secure data centre in Singapore. This mainly serves global customers based in North America, Europe and the Middle East.
Chris Drake, CEO of FireHost, said: “The market for our managed, secure infrastructure continues to grow rapidly, as evidenced by our successful expansion into Europe over the past two years. Our customers have market opportunity in the AsiaPac region and our infrastructure will help them meet those opportunities. We view this move into Asia as a vital progression both for our business and for our customers’ businesses.”
The firm said it chose Singapore for its dense network availability, power resilience, and connectivity into the Middle East and Australia. The new site maintains an MPLS connection with the company’s other data centre locations in Dallas, Phoenix, London and Amsterdam.
“Singapore makes sense for FireHost and its customers as multi-regional coverage is increasingly a minimum requirement to attract enterprise buyers of cloud services,” said Philbert Shih, founder and managing director of Structure Research. “Enterprise customers need better performance and decreased latency in their systems, and their IT-decision making is also driven by data location and compliance requirements. These types of market demands are pushing cloud infrastructure services to move quickly across the globe and Singapore is a natural location of choice being at the centre of Asia-pacific growth.”
