Whether due to existing legacy investments, divisional or regional nuances, or acquisition and divestiture activity, heterogeneity will remain in most IT environments. At one point, the benefits of public cloud made organizations consider a homogeneous, fully cloud-based IT delivery strategy, but those visions have faded for most. The challenge — and goal — is to embrace the hybrid heterogeneous approach and find the best way to integrate, manage and optimize services across these diverse sets of delivery methods and assets. Colocation data centers play a critical role for customers, offering a hybrid approach to facilities and in the interconnection of cloud and on-premises services.

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