NEW YORK, Nov. 7, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- MarketplaceLIVE
– Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR), a leading global provider of data
center, colocation and interconnection solutions, announced today
PlatformDIGITAL™, a first of its kind global data center platform
designed to enable customers to scale digital business.
With the digital economy set to reshape both private and public
enterprises across all industries, organizations recognize the need
to transform their IT infrastructure so that they can operate
ubiquitously and on-demand, informed by real-time
intelligence.
"Gartner predicts that by 2022, 60% of enterprise IT
infrastructures will focus on centers of data, rather than
traditional data centers.* As a result, there is a growing industry
imperative to create new centers of data that reside between the
core and the edge," said Digital Realty Chief Executive Officer
A. William Stein. "With the
announcement of PlatformDIGITAL™, we uniquely enable customers
to deploy their IT infrastructure at the centers of data exchange
around the world, bringing users, things, applications, clouds and
networks to the data. Our customers get the advantage of
access to fit-for-purpose infrastructure that can power their
digital transformations at the scale and speed they require today
and into the future."
PlatformDIGITAL™ provides a trusted foundation enabling
customers to:
- solve global coverage, capacity, and ecosystem connectivity
needs with a single data center provider
- tailor infrastructure deployments and controls matched to
business needs irrespective of data center size, scale, location,
configuration or ecosystem interconnections
- operate deployments as a seamless extension of any global
infrastructure with the consistent experience, security, and
resiliency that business demands
- enable global distributed workflows at centers of data exchange
to remove data gravity barriers and scale digital business
Platform Roadmap
To support PlatformDIGITAL™, Digital
Realty's Pervasive Datacenter Architecture approach (PDx) provides
a step-by-step strategy to create the new IT architecture required
for digital transformation. PDx was developed by enterprise IT
practitioners and was created by codifying hundreds of product
deployment combinations into repeatable implementation patterns to
enable companies to accelerate deployment and improve the precision
of their infrastructure to scale digital business
globally.
"It is becoming increasingly clear that organizations are faced
with a growing number of locations, applications and sensors, all
generating information at the edge, and must find new ways to
aggregate and optimize data exchange to survive," said Kelly Morgan, VP of Services at the 451 Group.
"Our enterprise IT research published today shows that over 70% of
enterprises plan to expand geographically within the next two
years, putting further pressure on their IT infrastructure.
Deploying data hubs in professionally-managed multi-customer data
centers will be one of the essential elements of a successful
enterprise strategy to harness the value of this data by moving
elements of IT closer to where it is being processed and
utilized."
Introducing New Enterprise IT Solutions
Digital Realty
is uniquely positioned to address this shifting IT paradigm,
providing customers with access to new centers of data exchange in
more than 210 data centers deployed on PlatformDIGITAL™ across
36 metros and 15 countries. Building on this foundation, Digital
Realty is launching four new enterprise IT solutions today, based
on successful architectural blueprints, that can be rapidly
deployed on PlatformDIGITAL™:
- Network Hub for Rewiring the Network:
consolidates and localizes traffic into ingress/egress points to
optimize network performance and cost
- Control Hub for Implementing Hybrid IT Controls:
hosts adjacent Security & IT controls to improve security
posture and IT operations, tailored infrastructure deployments
matching hyper-converged infrastructure configurations and density
requirements for control points
- Data Hub for Optimizing Data Exchange: localizes
data aggregation, staging, analytics, streaming and data management
to optimize data exchange and maintain data compliance
- SX Fabric for Interconnecting Global Workflows:
adds SDN overlay to service chain multi-cloud and B2B application
ecosystems. Connects hubs across metros and regions to enable
secure, highly-efficient and distributed workflows
PlatformDIGITAL™ and PDx provide organizations the strategy and
tools to meet next-generation digital needs and are now available
to enterprise customers globally. For more information, please
visit www.digitalrealty.com/platformdigital
Industry adoption
Customers including
Mavenir, Syngenta and others are already seeing the
benefits of deploying their IT infrastructure on PlatformDIGITAL™.
For example, Syngenta, a global agrochemical innovator, chose
Digital Realty to develop a new edge infrastructure leveraging
Network and Control Hub solutions that will support the company's
mission to address food scarcity through smart farming practices.
Deploying on PlatformDIGITAL™ enables Syngenta to
get closer to their global customers and improve application
performance, all while consolidating and reducing their network
costs.
"As a global innovator, we need partners that help our research
scientists collaborate internally and with the wider industry in
real-time using distributed data sets generated around the
world," said Bartek Madej, Syngenta's Global Head of
Network and Collaboration. "Digital Realty provides the
flexibility and customization required for us to scale our IT
architectures, operate at higher densities and extend workflows
globally. The integrated platform approach provides the network
diversity and cloud connectivity we need to usher in the future of
smart agriculture."
Business Mobility on PlatformDIGITAL™ with
Mavenir
Mavenir, the industry's only end-to-end,
cloud-native Network Software Provider, chose PlatformDIGITAL™ to
deploy its Mobile Business Fabric™, a dynamic and fluid business
communications framework designed to meet the evolving digital
needs of businesses as mobility becomes a primary driver and
customers demand change.
"When we introduced our new business mobility portfolio, we
needed to be able to interconnect multiple Mavenir data centers
across different geographies without impacting the user experience
and without having to go for complex architecture," said
Guillaume Le Mener, SVP/GM,
Enterprise Business Unit, Mavenir. "With Digital Realty, we are
able to grow our business in different geographies around the
world, collaborating with other network operators smoothly and
efficiently on PlatformDIGITAL™."
Partner Community for PlatformDIGITAL™
Digital
Realty is building a rich community of technology, alliance and
channel partners, including Cisco, IBM Cloud and Bridgepointe
Technologies who bring unique expertise to customers to extend the
value of the enterprise IT solutions offered on PlatformDIGITAL™ to
scale digital transformation.
"We are excited to be able to deploy Cisco Secure Agile Exchange
as a network hub solution within Digital Realty's global footprint
of data centers, at the crossroads of Internet traffic," said
Sridhar Sikha, Product Solution
Manager, Cisco. "Bringing our solution to PlatformDIGITAL™ will
help enable enterprises to quickly and securely interconnect users
to applications by virtualizing the network edge and extending it
to colocation centers globally."
"The majority of businesses today want to modernize their
operations in order to stay competitive, and many are adopting
hybrid cloud strategies in order to make this transformation," said
Paul Hertzfeldt, Offering Manager
for IBM Cloud. "Through our partnership with Digital Realty,
and with the release of PlatformDIGITAL™, we're giving enterprises
even more choice in how they securely migrate workloads
to IBM's public cloud and harness the technologies that can
truly impact their bottom line."
"Our customers are looking for a partner who can help them scale
as they open new locations, establish new business relationships
and expand their footprint into new markets," said Brian Miller, Founder of Bridgepointe
Technologies. "PlatformDIGITAL™ allows us to start small and have
scope to easily scale for our customers as their digital business
grows, with a single data center provider. We're very excited to be
taking our collaboration with Digital Realty to the next
level."
Digital Realty and Vapor IO announced last week that they have
formed an alliance to deploy Vapor IO's Kinetic Edge® Exchange
(KEX) in Digital Realty's centers of data exchange
campuses. At MarketplaceLIVE, Digital Realty is announcing
today that the Kinetic Edge Exchange will be offered as part of the
PlatformDIGITAL™ Network Hub Solution. Vapor IO's KEX will be
deployed in centers of data exchange on Digital Realty's connected
campuses, starting with Atlanta
and Chicago in early 2020. By
integrating the KEX into Digital Realty's campuses as part of
PlatformDIGITAL™, workloads in these locations can elastically span
to the edge, making it possible to build new distributed workflows
spanning from core to edge to dynamically scale digital
business.
This Core to Edge Network Hub solution incorporates the Kinetic
Edge Fabric (KEF) and KEX to connect and coordinate traffic
exchange between PlatformDIGITAL™ and Vapor IO's Kinetic Edge
deployments. As a result, endpoint workloads computed at the
Kinetic Edge are passed to the Digital Realty Campus to connect to
upstream workflow processing, data analysis and
retention.
"Digital Realty's approach to edge complements Vapor IO's
nationwide deployment strategy and allows us to, together, deliver
a true core-to-edge continuum. Integrating the Kinetic Edge
Exchange with the PlatformDIGITAL™ Network Hub solution will create
a 'network-effect' of new value and unleash a new generation of
applications," said Cole Crawford,
Founder and CEO of Vapor IO. "By combining Vapor IO's edge
footprint with Digital Realty's centers of data exchange, our
mutual customers can extend digital workflows all the way out to
the edge and can also connect to any of the Service Exchange
networks."
About Digital Realty
Digital Realty supports the data
center, colocation and interconnection strategies of customers
across the Americas, EMEA and APAC, ranging from cloud and
information technology services, communications and social
networking to financial services, manufacturing, energy, healthcare
and consumer products. To learn more about Digital Realty,
please visit digitalrealty.com or follow
us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
* Gartner, Infrastructure Is Everywhere: The Evolution of Data
Centers, July 2019
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Digital Realty
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Digital Realty
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Safe Harbor Statements
This press release contains
forward-looking statements which are based on current plans,
expectations, estimates, forecasts and assumptions that are subject
to change. These statements may involve risks and
uncertainties that could cause actual outcomes and results to
differ materially, including statements related to PlatformDIGITAL™
and Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx). These risks and
uncertainties include, among others, increase demand in digital
transformation; decreases in information technology spending; the
suitability of our data centres and data centre infrastructure,
delays or disruptions in connectivity or availability of power, or
failures or breaches of our physical and information security
infrastructure or services. Any strategies, IT footprint and
capabilities are subject to executed contracts and agreed services
that are required for successful implementation and architecting.
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and of its affiliates regarding the elements of the Pervasive
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