Du enters into deal with Equinix

Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (Du) and the global interconnection and data center company Equinix, on Tuesday announced they have entered into an alliance to deliver data center and interconnection services to customers in the Middle East. This alliance will establish the first world-class, carrier-neutral hub in the region where carriers, content providers, cloud providers, financial service and enterprise customers collocate critical data infrastructure. To underpin the alliance’s initial business offering, Equinix has acquired a newly built data center facility in Dubai.