Scotland’s east-west digital divide is to close after two of the country’s leading data centre providers agreed a new partnership.
Dundee-headquartered brightsolid and Chapelhall-based DataVita are pooling resources to create a new critical digital infrastructure network.
The pair said the move would improve communications and cloud computing service accessibility for businesses across Scotland by closing the digital divide between the major economic centres in the east and west. .
“This partnership with DataVita delivers a critical digital infrastructure for Scotland to help equality in communications,” Richard Higgs, CEO of brightsolid said.
“This new infrastructure enables us to close a digital divide by providing businesses of all sizes and security compliance with secure data, cloud and communication services with value for money, collaboration and environmental benefit in mind.”
Mr Higgs said DataVita’s facility “really blew me away” and said the firm was the other in the country that met brightsolid’s quality assurance standards.
DataVita commercial director Gareth Lush said being chosen to partner with brightsolid was a huge endorsement of the firm’s abilities.
“Quality and security are our priority at every level and partnering with brightsolid means our service offering is now completely unique,” he said.
“The collaboration means increased security and connectivity with greater access to data and cloud services for our customers.”
brightsolid – which delivers private and Azure-certified hybrid services – and DataVita both hold multiple certifications placing them at the highest tier of data centre accreditation in Scotland.