By Lee Gyung-jin, Maeil Business News Korea Microsoft Corporation will add two data center regions in South Korea and expand its cloud service capacity to ensure stable and fast services to Microsoft Azure and Office 365 users. Microsoft Korea CEO Ko Soon-dong said in a press conference held on Wednesday in the company’s Seoul headquarters that the new data center regions will be located in Seoul and Busan early next year. Microsoft Korea CEO Ko Soon-dong. Photo courtesy of Pulse/Maeil Business News Korea These regions do not refer to a particular data center, but a geographic region in which multiple data centers are located for backup purposes. Ko, who served at Samsung SDS Co., had his first press conference after his inauguration as CEO of Microsoft Korea in February. The company selected candidate sites for the new data center regions according to its internal standards of power supply, technology, and [...]
