Cloud storage provider Wasabi Technologies, Inc. (
Wasabi) has announced plans to open a European data center. Wasabi, which has headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, was established in 2017. The company bills itself as the “hot cloud storage company” delivering “fast to write, low-cost, and reliable cloud storage”. It promises to avoid vendor lock in and offers storage “1/5th the price and 6x the speed of S3”. Wasabi’s European data center will be located in the Dutch capital, Amsterdam.
Wasabi’s new center opens in December and will be the first time the company has opened a facility outside the United States. It will facilitate high-speed exchange between Wasabi’s storage and its customers’ multiple public and private compute resources. Wasabi’s data centers offer public cloud connections “via multiple and redundant 10 Gbps interfaces in either U.S. East (Ashburn, VA) or U.S. West (Hillsboro, OR) locations” - and soon its Amsterdam location. The data center will be located in ‘Amsterdam Science Park’ – a campus of Europe’s “most dense networking hubs”.
“Over 20 percent of our business comes from outside the United States despite not yet having opened our first international data center,” explained Wasabi’s CEO David Friend. “Our recent $68 million capital raise was specifically aimed at enabling Wasabi’s global expansion to serve the rapidly growing customer demand for our hot cloud storage services. Amsterdam is the perfect initial location to establish our presence in the EU and is the first of several planned international data center expansions to take place over the next 12-18 months.”
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