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Hybrid, Proximity and Ecosystems Are Elevating the Importance of Colocation
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.
Edge Computing’s Role in Tackling Latency, Privacy and Resiliency Challenges
/in Blog /by Catie Merrill, Senior AnalystCloud adoption is on the rise, but for many customers, particularly those deploying workloads across multiple clouds, latency, data flow, privacy and overall business resiliency remain core challenges. Edge computing is an emerging segment in IT, giving customers a way to supplement their cloud and IT core investments by processing data locally for minimum latency and backing it up to an adjacent environment for use cases like analytics and application development.