G-Core Labs has launched a cloud point of presence in Chicago, its third in north America.

The new cloud PoP in Chicago provides both virtual machines and bare metal servers, powered by high-performance, fault-tolerant Intel CPUs.

Alongside the new Chicago location, G-Core Labs has two more cloud PoPs in Manassas and Santa Clara, as well as a further 15 locations offering cloud solutions.

The company now offers more than 140 points of presence internationally, including over15 cloud PoPs, located in more than 130 cities around the world.

Seva Vayner, Director of Edge Cloud Stream at G-Core Labs, said, “Our collaboration with leading technology vendors means that we are continuing to offer our customers market-leading performance, reliability and security. The Chicago point of presence makes use of the latest hardware from Dell and also the latest generation of Intel CPUs, including the 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable (Ice Lake) processors at two configurations.

“Our bare-metal and VM options provide zero trust 360° security and leverage CPU-based protection through the use of Intel Software Guard Extensions (Intel SGX) technology, protect against all types of DDoS and malicious bot attacks, and make use of a next-generation web-application firewall (WAF) offering protection from hacking and unauthorized access to confidential data at the application level also.”