Continent 8 Technologies – the ISP with a global network spanning over 60 locations and a client portfolio featuring many of the world’s biggest iGaming brands – has announced a strategic expansion into the Latin American market.

It begins with the launch of their cloud solution (which offers a multi-tenanted, scalable and resilient IaaS platform to host customer infrastructure as virtual machines) launching in Colombia in November 2020. The Colombian platform – connected to the ISP’s Backbone Global Network – is based in Bogotá’s free trade zone just minutes away from the capital’s international airport. Offering a fully regionalised product, the company’s Colombian entity will be able to conduct business with local customers in Colombian Pesos.

Continent 8 already operates clouds in Atlantic City, Isle of Man, Montreal, Taiwan, Dublin and Malta. Further expansion in LatAm will follow in Argentina and Uruguay.

Continent 8 have a strong regional LatAm based team including General Manager Gabriel Szlaifsztein, and led by Americas Managing Director Nick Nally. The multi-lingual team include fluency in Spanish among their skillsets.

Gabriel Szlaifstein

Gabriel Szlaifsztein said: “This is a very exciting, strategically significant step for Continent 8, and great news for the iGaming sector in Latin America. As a globally respected iGaming supplier, we have a proven track record of supporting businesses ranging from start-ups to major corporations at every stage of their development. But we are far more than a technology provider because we have such a wealth of knowledge, experience, and industry contacts that we can also act as advisers and introducers to key players in the industry. We know iGaming inside and out. Our reputation for operating in strongly regulated jurisdictions is respected by regulators, and that is an important factor in clients’ choosing to work with us. That, combined with our ability and willingness to understand every client’s unique needs, has been a key USP behind Continent 8’s success. We’re really looking forward to delivering the same expertise and experience to Latin America.”

Continent 8’s cloud platform is built on clustered Nutanix Hyper Converged Infrastructure (with SSD storage acceleration) and VMware vSphere, ensuring the highest levels of performance, functionality and resilience. A full web-based management portal (using VMware vCloud Director) is provided, giving customers the ability to self-provision and fully manage their environments directly.

Continent 8’s LatAm expansion builds on its 20 year history as a provider of world class solutions to connect and protect data. Its connectivity, managed hosting, and security solutions, are supported by Continent 8’s rapidly growing global network which already spans over 60 locations in the Americas (13 US states), Europe and Asia.

Meet Fadi Albasha, our Data Analyst Intern based in Montreal! Fadi, who is currently a software engineering student at Concordia University, enjoys biking, hiking, kayaking and enjoying the beautiful Canadian countryside. Having now been with the team for a few weeks, we caught up with him to see how he’s enjoying his new role.

Why did you choose to conduct your internship at Continent 8?

“The offered job description was of great interest to me, as a Data Analyst Intern, I would be able to give meaning to data. My interest in the company only grew after visiting the Continent 8 website and reading about the services the company provides and the global presence that it has. I knew that conducting an internship at Continent 8 would be a great start to my career. Finally, during my job interview, I sensed a friendly work atmosphere that I believed would help develop my skills.”

What does your day-to-day role as a Data Analyst Intern involve?

“Data analysis is all about querying data, so I usually spend most of my day going through data from different sources and writing queries. These queries merge, filter, slice and perform statistical operations on raw data to transform it into useful information. I also spend part of my day in meetings with my supervisor where we discuss the results of my work, and he makes sure I am still on the right track and offers some advice on where things can be improved.”

What skills do you hope to develop during your time at Continent 8?

“As this is my first work experience in the field of software engineering, I am looking to learn how software development projects are accomplished in a real-world work settings. Also, as I am “getting my hands dirty” in software development problems, I am expecting to improve my problem-solving skill and gain planning/prioritizing skills. Moreover, I am confident that the friendly atmosphere at Continent 8 is going to help me improve my teamwork and communication skills.”

What has been your highlight so far?

“From the start of my internship. I dove right into real life data and created dashboards that teams will be using in their day to day life. A highlight so far, was the ability to assist in a company-wide presentation, where I demoed a couple of dashboards. This is helping me gain confidence doing presentations and improve my communication skills in a real-life setting.”

 

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