DENVER, April 24, 2019 /PRNewswire/
-- Cologix, a network-neutral
interconnection and Hyperscale edge data center company, today
announced the launch of its new Software-Defined Networking (SDN)
connectivity platform, Cologix Access Marketplace, designed to
directly connect customers to the cloud—in real time. Beginning
with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Direct Connect and Microsoft Azure
ExpressRoute, Cologix will offer a new virtual cloud on-ramp
solution, allowing private, secure, and cost-effective connectivity
to these Cloud Service Providers (CSPs). Within existing Cologix
owned interconnection hubs, customers can now customize secure
connectivity to one or multiple clouds in minutes from an automated
self-serve portal.
This new service enhances Cologix's current cloud on-ramp
solution offerings, providing greater reach and control to
enterprises. By combining the new automated connectivity solution
with Cologix's robust interconnection hubs, including hundreds of
Network Service Providers, CSPs, and additional Internet Exchange
options, Cologix Access Marketplace will allow customers to utilize
a self-serve portal to quickly and efficiently meet the
connectivity, security, and growth needs of their business.
"Cologix Access Marketplace supports our core vision, helping
customers build and scale their businesses dynamically with
on-demand, direct cloud access. We are simplifying interconnection
processes and improving our product offering with a self-serve, SDN
tool for enterprises to respond to their changing business needs
with real-time provisioning, easily scaling up and down as needed,"
said Bill Fathers, Chairman and CEO
of Cologix. "We are putting our enterprise customers in the
driver's seat, helping them to lower costs, adapt quickly and
improve efficiencies. With Cologix Access Marketplace, CSPs not
only increase their reach, they also can deliver more consistent
end-user experiences with secure, private connections."
To allow enterprise customers a seamless connection to multiple
clouds, Ciena's Blue Planet Multi-Domain Service Orchestration
helps Cologix orchestrate and automate their new cloud service
offerings and ultimately deliver a seamless and consistent end user
experience. By leveraging Blue Planet, Cologix helps enterprise
customers increase their service agility and business velocity by
eliminating their reliance on manual cloud connect
processes.
"At Blue Planet, we deliver automation across multi-domain,
multi-layer and multi-vendor networks, which improves operational
efficiency and simplifies the way customers provision services,"
said Rick Hamilton, Senior Vice
President, Blue Planet, a division of Ciena. "With Blue Planet's
Multi-Domain Service Orchestration, Cologix can help enterprises to
build adaptive networks that keep pace with their business needs
and take advantage of today's multi-cloud world."
Cologix will roll out connectivity to other major cloud
providers with Cologix Access Marketplace soon.
About Cologix Inc.
Cologix provides reliable, secure,
scalable Hyperscale edge data center solutions from 28 prime
interconnection hubs across 9 strategic North American
markets. Over 1,600 leading network, MSPs, cloud, media,
content, financial and enterprise customers trust Cologix to
support their business critical infrastructure and connect them to
customers, vendors and partners. Our dedicated, experienced
local teams and scalable solutions enable us to provide
industry-leading customer service and the ability to successfully
support customers at the Internet's new edge. For a tour of
one of our data centers in Ashburn, Columbus, Dallas, Jacksonville, Lakeland, Minneapolis, Montreal, New
Jersey, Toronto or
Vancouver visit www.cologix.com or
email sales@cologix.com. Follow Cologix on LinkedIn and
Twitter.
About Blue Planet
Blue Planet, a division of Ciena
(NYSE: CIEN), provides market-leading intelligent automation
software and specialized professional services to help clients
modernize their IT and network operations. Driven by policy and
AI-based insights, Blue Planet delivers the closed-loop automation
tools needed to align IT and networking processes—critical to
facilitating digital transformation. For updates on Blue Planet,
visit www.blueplanet.com.
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