China Unicom and Telefónica have agreed to share their international data center capacity for multinational clients across Europe, The Americas and Asia, as a first step toward broader and larger scale cloud cooperation.
The telcos said the initial agreement covers three major data centers from each operator with the inclusion of additional facilities over time.
The cooperation across the cloud computing service segment will include among others IaaS with virtual servers and multi-cloud solutions. These additional initiatives are designed to further enhance the global capabilities of both companies.
Specifically, China Unicom’s customers will be able to benefit from Telefónica’s three world leading main data centers located in Brazil (Sao Paulo), USA (Miami) and Spain (Alcalá de Henares in Madrid).
This will be further enhanced as Telefónica commits additional investment towards new infrastructure, facilities and multi-cloud solutions.
Conversely, Telefónica will be able to leverage the robust cloud capabilities of China Unicom’s data centers located across China in Langfang, Shanghai and Chongqing to enable end-to-end service delivery for its multinational customers.
Collaboration of this kind also frees up resources for strategic tasks that are more valuable to enterprises and multinationals, the two telcos further said.