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Keepit Opens UK Data Center With Equinix

To offer data no-transmission guarantee in response to demand from British clients ahead of Brexit

Keepit A/S, a Danish firm providing cloud-to-cloud backup of SaaS data, opened its first UK data centre, located in Slough, west of London, making it a vendor to physically move a data centre to the UK, in response to demand from British clients’ ahead of Brexit.

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Following a recent investment round of $30 million from One Peak, which has enabled expansion into new markets, Keepit is partnering with Equinix, Inc. to run the data centre, guaranteeing that all customer data remains on UK soil.

This avoids any data spill-over into other countries, as permitted by EU law, offering peace of mind to firm’s government and compliance-driven clients.

Frederik Schouboe, CEO, said: “Over the last 12 months we have been on a strong growth trajectory and we are excited to be officially entering the UK market and prioritizing our investment here ahead of Brexit. The rules for storage might not be clear going forward, but we can confidently guarantee that our infrastructure ensures all customers’ data will remain in situ, with no middleware transmissions outside regions – as is common with other data centres. We are proud to be the first and only vendor with that claim.

There is a growing demand for our unique backup and data recovery offerings from both global enterprise and regional businesses, and the pandemic’s effect on the economy has further escalated migration to the cloud. We look forward to making sure that our flexible, scalable and secure (backup) services are fully available to our UK customers during these uncertain times.

The opening of the data centre recognises the importance of providing a  fast and efficient (and secure) service to Keepit’s growing UK customer base, in addition to demonstrating expansion of its network. It will also increase the company’s ability to offer low latency backup and recovery services across platforms such as Office 365, Google G-Suite, and Salesforce.

Keepit’s data centre investment tracks with the wider growth in the backup-as-a-service (BaaS) and recovery sector, largely fueled by the increase in data volumes, resulting from the increased adoption of connected technologies and digital transformation drives.

The UK’s Home Office department also reported a 120% rise in data loss incidents during the financial year 2019-20, while the latest market research report ($2500, subscription required) by Technavio puts the global data centre backup and recovery market on a CAGR of more than 4% during the period 2019-2023.

Read also:
Keepit Raises $30 Million in Series A
Danish backup-as-a-service provider
September 15, 2020 | Press Release

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