EC News DeskThe world is digitising at a rapid pace as major macro, technology and regulatory trends are mandating a business shift to the digital edge. Building a digital business requires the ability to reach strategic global destinations on demand, to access everyone that matters, and to bring people, clouds, data and things together.
The rise of innovation in cloud technology, edge computing, colocation and hosting services, and adopting SD-WAN, SDN and APIs for implementing a multiconnected environment, are transforming the future of data centre.
According to the Gartner analyst report, by 2025, enterprise data centers will have five times more computational capacity per physical area square feet than today. The number of micro data centers will quadruple, due to technological advances, such as 5G, new batteries, hyperconverged infrastructure HCI and various software-defined systems SDx.
Futuristic datacentres
Whether it is fuel cells, cooling or large-scale energy battery storage, so much work is happening to develop the technology that will power a redefined future of the data centre in our always-on society. With the immense potential of 5G, the proliferation of connected devices, and download speeds, the levels of data being consumed are set to grow even further.
For these huge data sets to move around the world, there needs to be a robust, secure and scalable digital infrastructure that interconnects dispersed locations, allowing this traffic to be transferred reliably and cost-effectively.
Scaling digital transformation is a pressing priority but, in order to realise this potential, businesses need to enable themselves to transform. They must establish new metrics, realign organisational structures, rearchitect technology platforms and develop greater digital capabilities.
One of the ways businesses can use the cloud more securely is through direct, dedicated interconnections between network and cloud providers and users and data, bypassing the hacking and performance risks of the public internet.
As an Equinix global report shows, interconnection is key to ensure full digital transformation and for this, businesses will need to grow their interconnection bandwidth capacity and data exchange capacity. Every MENA business must understand and leverage Interconnection Bandwidth to compete in the digital age. This will require a regional drive among IT chiefs to re-architect their companies’ IT platforms.
Products and solutions
Equinix’s Platform Equinix is a global interconnection platform that enables customers to implement Interconnection Oriented Architecture strategies. This approach to interconnecting people, locations, clouds and data integrates the physical and virtual worlds where they meet. This shifts the fundamental delivery architecture of IT from siloed and centralised to distributed, interconnected and co-located.
Currently, the global footprint of Platform Equinix spans more than 200 IBX data centres across 55 markets and 25 countries, providing data centre and interconnection services for nearly 10,000 customers. Its position as a leading meeting and interconnection point for ecosystems of networks, clouds, and enterprises, give it a unique and holistic lens to view critical digital infrastructure trends and solve for customer requirements.
