Digital Realty enters into a partnership with Zayo Group Holdings, Inc. Together they create new next-gen interconnection and security capabilities that connect the key data exchange hubs. In this way, they lay the virtual foundations for a new, open business structure for organizations. Zayo is a leading provider of fiber-based communication solutions.
Fabric-of-Fabrics
Digital Realty and Zayo Group are thus building the largest open 'fabric-of-fabrics', a platform that hosts other software platforms that allow different applications and data servers to work together faster. By 'fabrics', the organizations mean solutions that enable endpoints in data chains to communicate more effectively. Instead of servers and devices exchanging data streams separately, the fabric brings the data together and orchestrates the data flows in a more effective, faster way.
Earlier this year, Digital Realty outlined an industry-wide roadmap in the manifesto for open interconnection and next-gen co-location. The partnership with Zayo is an important milestone in that. The joint approach focuses on tapping into so-called 'trapped value' and removing legacy obstacles that hinder digital transformation, by better aligning with the hybrid IT and security considerations of multinationals.
PlatformDIGITAL
The initiative builds on new and existing innovative solutions, including Zayo's extensive global fiber and networking resources, and PlatformDIGITAL®. PlatformDIGITAL® is Digital Realty's first global data center platform (operating in Europe as Interxion: A Digital Realty Company) and already brings together more than four thousand participants in connected data communities around the world.
Digital Realty's Data Gravity Index DGx™ predicts that Forbes Global 2000 companies will add a combined rate of more than 620 terabytes per second of storage for data aggregation and exchange in 53 metropolitan areas by 2024. This rapid growth reflects a rising trend among global customers towards implementing and connecting large private data infrastructure footprints across multiple global locations.
Gartner® predicts that in 2023 more than 50 percent of the primary responsibility of data and analytics leaders will consist of data created, managed, and analyzed in edge environments. As a result, a new, pervasive data center infrastructure is needed to enable digitized endpoints and mobile users to fully participate in globally distributed workflows. By eliminating outdated obstacles and barriers in the interconnection industry, the consortium aims to truly enable connected data communities and support changing outcomes for customers across all sectors.