Viatel has signed a deal worth €1.4m with US multinational Kingston Technology that will see the American firm tap into Viatel’s Blanchardstown data centre.

Kingston will also occupy office space within the facility as part of the deal.

Viatel is an Irish cloud tech and telecoms company, providing voice, data connectivity, data centre and managed WAN solutions.

Kingston Technology is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of flash memory sticks, cards and other computer-related memory devices.

Viatel’s Blanchardstown data centre facility will house Kingston’s EMEA cloud computing, data storage and other mission-critical digital assets for the next five years.

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Kingston’s EMEA HQ is located in Dublin 15 and it employs more than 3,000 people globally.

Glenn Chegwidden is CEO of Kingston’s EMEA base. “Viatel demonstrated an intense eagerness to find solutions quickly and were only too happy to provide us with everything we needed to get things done,” he said. “That's the soil businesses thrive in.”

Photo: Viatel's Damien McCann and Glenn Chegwidden (right)