Google Cloud is set to open a new data center in Salt Lake City Utah by 2020. In doing so Google Cloud will become “the only major cloud provider to offer availability zones in an area that is not only a data center hub, but a center for the healthcare, financial services, and IT industries.”
According to Datacenter Knowledge, “Customers like zones because they offer the opportunity to have compute located near endpoints for low latency, and in some cases, to comply with data retention regulations. Having them tied to regions offers resiliency. By utilizing more than one zone in a region, customers get some insurance against the single-point-of-failure individual zones represent.”
Mercy Owusu filed this report for ABC4.com:
Google says that Salt Lake City was chosen because it is known for its healthcare, financial services, and IT industries. The release also stated that this new region will enable customers in the Silicon Slopes area to easily run low-latency, hybrid cloud workloads.
Dan Tournian, PayPal’s Vice President of Employee Technology & Experiences and Data Centers said, “Google Cloud’s expanding infrastructure in Salt Lake City is a welcome development as our growing business continues to scale to meet the needs of over 250-million customers,” he added, “This new region will enable enhanced availability and performance for our customers, when every millisecond counts.”
Organizations operating in the western United States will be able to distribute their workloads and get higher connectivity across three regions in Los Angeles, California, Oregon, and soon Salt Lake City, according to the press release.
