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By James Bourne 26 April 2017, 12:12 p.m. remark
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Server farms, Data Management, Europe, Infrastructure
Chinese Internet firm Tencent has reported extension gets ready for its server farms, opening five new offices crosswise over three mainlands before the current year's over.
The primary new server farm in Silicon Valley formally opened its entryways not long ago, with future destinations being arranged in Frankfurt, Moscow, Mumbai, and Seoul. The organization included the offices will be utilized to serve 'web based amusements, online back, video and other Internet-related businesses'.
Tencent expects to take the general number of its abroad server farms to eight with this development. The organization as of now has locales in Hong Kong, Singapore and Toronto, and also working more than twelve server farms in territory China.
"We need to improve our abroad cloud ability to take care of the rising demand from organizations around the globe as they search for quick, solid, secure and financially savvy administrations amid the worldwide development and movement to the cloud time," said Rita Zeng, VP of Tencent Cloud in an announcement. "I am sure that we can address their issues with our specialized ability, worldwide system, and in addition encounter aggregated in serving the gigantic client base in our home market."
The move is comparative in center to Alibaba, another Chinese merchant with genuine cloud yearnings. The eCommerce supplier reported in November a year ago its arrangements to open new server farms in Germany – likewise in Frankfurt – the Middle East, Australia, and Japan before the year's over.
A month ago, Tencent gave another sign as to its concentration by reporting its cloud administrations would be expanded with GPU quickening agents from NVIDIA, with a more extensive plan to give clients machine learning and normal dialect preparing abilities by joining a conventional CPU with a design handling unit. Most by far of driving cloud players are NVIDIA clients, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, Google, and IBM.