{"id":13642,"date":"2015-04-16T09:16:56","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T09:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/?p=222392"},"modified":"2015-04-16T09:16:56","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T09:16:56","slug":"digitalocean-drops-into-frankfurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/digitalocean-drops-into-frankfurt\/","title":{"rendered":"DigitalOcean drops into Frankfurt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_189662\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 310px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/122\/files\/2014\/06\/Germany.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-189662\" alt=\"DigitalOcean is among a number of US-based incumbents moving into Germany\" src=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/122\/files\/2014\/06\/Germany-300x184.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">DigitalOcean is among a number of US-based incumbents moving into Germany<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In a bid to tap further into the European market DigitalOcean has expanded its presence in Germany with a new datacentre in Frankfurt.<\/p>\n<p>The dev-focused cloud provider already has a presence in Amsterdam and last year partnered with Equinix to make its cloud platform available in one of the company\u2019s London-based Tier III datacentres.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re here to give our full support to developers throughout the world by offering a simple, ideal cloud solution and infrastructure experience for hosting applications,\u201d said DigitalOcean co-founder and chief exec Ben Uretsky. \u201cInnovative companies in Germany deserve the best tools possible in order to continue to grow and succeed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The company also said it wanted to appeal to local companies with strong data residency requirements, a common theme among cloud providers throwing their weight into the German market.<\/p>\n<p>Germany \u2013 particularly Berlin \u2013 has a big startup scene, but putting the datacentre in Frankfurt means it can benefit from being close to a number of large fibre interconnections. Other US-based incumbents to move into Frankfurt over the past few months include IBM (which also partners with Equinix) and AWS.<\/p>\n<p>The facility is DigitalOcean\u2019s third datacentre in Europe and tenth globally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a bid to tap further into the European market DigitalOcean has expanded its presence in Germany with a new datacentre in Frankfurt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2314,1992,1535,2315,1665,1976],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ben-uretsky","category-datacentre","category-digitalocean","category-frankfurt","category-germany","category-news-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13643,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13642\/revisions\/13643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}