Digital Realty, the largest global provider of cloud- and carrier-neutral data center, colocation and interconnection solutions, has announced that Hurricane Electric, a global internet service provider, has deployed points of presence (PoPs) at its data centers in Singapore, Hong Kong and Sydney which will give customers access to Hurricane Electric’s high-speed IP transit network, which will boost data networks’ efficiency by lowering latency and streamlining traffic.
With this deployment, Digital Realty and Hurricane Electric are extending their partnership to the APAC region, which is currently the region with the fastest-growing data center colocation market due to growing demand for online content, mobile gaming, and on-demand video.
Data Gravity, the difficulty of transporting data at scale, is created as a result of the subsequent enormous growth in data. This obstacle hinders organizational workflow performance, raises security and legal concerns, and raises costs.
The Data Gravity Index research from Digital Realty predicts that until 2024, the intensity of data gravity will more than double annually. The locations witnessing the most dramatic rises are anticipated to include Singapore, Sydney, and Hong Kong.
Digital enterprises need to adopt a connected-community strategy and switch to a data-centric IT infrastructure that connects people, networks, and clouds closer to organizational data in order to address Data Gravity concerns. Customers can access the extensive centers of data exchange they need to scale their digital companies and get around data gravity restrictions thanks to PlatformDIGITAL®, Digital Realty’s global data center platform’s reach and connectivity density.
Through this collaboration with Hurricane Electric, customers of Digital Realty will have direct access to Hurricane Electric’s expansive IPv4 and IPv6 network via 100GE (100 Gigabit Ethernet), 10GE (10 Gigabit Ethernet), and GigE (1 Gigabit Ethernet) ports. This will allow customers to gain access to a rich connected data community with over 4,000 customers in 53 metro areas across 27 countries on six continents without having to upgrade their last mile network connection.
Additionally, customers will also be able to exchange IP traffic with Hurricane Electric’s extensive worldwide network, which offers more than 30,000 BGP sessions with more than 10,000 different networks via more than 280 key exchange points and thousands of customers and private peering ports.
According to Govind Choudhary, Head of Service Provider and Market Strategy, Asia Pacific, Digital Realty, with businesses everywhere facing an explosion in the volume and complexity of the data they are managing, Hurricane Electric’s expansion to their facilities in Singapore, Hong Kong and Sydney will help their customers access a variety of new connectivity options to overcome data gravity barriers and scale their digital businesses.
“This extension of PlatformDIGITAL® across Asia Pacific through Hurricane Electric’s global network connectivity will further enhance Digital Realty’s position as an industry leading interconnection platform.” said Choudhary
Moreover, for Walt Wollny, Director of Interconnection Strategy at Hurricane Electric, this network expansion builds on Hurricane Electric’s commitment to ensure that they provide connectivity to as many places as possible across the globe.
“Hurricane Electric is delighted to expand our relationship with Digital Realty by extending our global network to its fast-growing customer base at key locations in the APAC region,” said Wollny.
