Verizon Expands Asia-Pacific Cloud Capabilities

Verizon expanded its cloud offering in in Hong Kong, Melbourne and Singapore. The enhancements offer customers improvements in memory, storage and network uptime, as well as enhanced flexibility and control. Verizon Cloud customers can now request a specific amount of computing, memory and storage capacity, in addition to the existing preset virtual machine configurations.

“Cloud has become the default delivery platform for almost all of our customers fueled by the growth of data and the Internet of Things,” said Francis Yip, regional vice president at Verizon Asia-Pacific”

Verizon operates nearly 50 state-of-the-art data centers around the globe, including 13 top-tier network access point facilities. Verizon facilities in Asia-Pacific include data centers in Australia (Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra), Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan. Verizon’s Secure Cloud Interconnect, enables secure connections to six leading cloud service providers (Microsoft, Salesforce, Amazon, Google, HP and Verizon).