Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 15 | Page 54

INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Data Centres

ManageEngine announces new data centres in Amsterdam and Dublin

ManageEngine has announced the opening of its two new ISO 27001-certified data centres in the EU — one in Amsterdam , Netherlands and another in Dublin , Ireland . This announcement is a part of its efforts to help IT teams move operations to the cloud while adhering to the data privacy and security standards of the EU .

With cloud adoption in Europe on a trend of high growth , software vendors are taking steps to protect customer data . To remove security concerns associated with the cloud , the new ManageEngine data centres are certified Service Organisation Controls ( SOC ) Type II and reinforce the company ’ s efforts to facilitate cloud adoption by IT teams in the EU .
“ Our European customers are subject to some of the world ’ s strictest data privacy regulations , which apply to both on-premises and cloud applications ,” said Rajesh Ganesan , director of product management at ManageEngine . “ Our on-premises apps have maintained the highest degree of data privacy and regulatory compliance for years . With our new EU data centres , we ’ ve set the same standard for our cloud apps and eliminated the privacy barrier to adopting our cloud-based IT management solutions .”
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