• About Us
  • Partnership Opportunities
  • Privacy Policy

Data Center Frontier

Charting the future of data centers and cloud computing.

  • Cloud
    • Hyperscale
  • Colo
    • Site Selection
    • Interconnection
  • Energy
    • Sustainability
  • Cooling
  • Technology
    • Internet of Things
    • AI & Machine Learning
    • Edge Computing
    • Virtual Reality
    • Autonomous Cars
    • 5G Wireless
    • Satellites
  • Design
    • Servers
    • Storage
    • Network
  • Voices
  • Podcast
  • White Papers
  • Resources
    • COVID-19
    • Events
    • Newsletter
    • Companies
    • Data Center 101
  • Jobs
You are here: Home / Voices of the Industry / Hybrid Cloud Evolves for High Performance

Hybrid Cloud Evolves for High Performance

By Voices of the Industry - April 24, 2017 Leave a Comment

Hybrid Cloud Evolves for High Performance

As enterprise adoption has increased, the hybrid cloud solution has evolved to meet today’s transformational requirements across multiple lines of business. (Photo: Digital Realty)

LinkedinTwitterFacebookSubscribe
Mail

In this week’s Voices of the Industry, Chris Sharp, Chief Technology Officer at Digital Realty, explores how the hybrid cloud is evolving to suit today’s high performance computing landscape. 

The way enterprises consume IT services is changing, along with their expectations. The connected workforce is table stakes, and the need for ubiquitous access to high-performance business applications, with data and compute hungry requirements such as big data, neural networks, and artificial intelligence (AI), is pushing IT departments to serve as key business enablers.

CHRIS SHARP of Digital Realty

Chris Sharp, CTO, Digital Realty

Therefore, an agile multi-cloud architecture has become a critical business asset. Being able to quickly and securely deploy products and services is a competitive advantage that can directly impact a business’ bottom line. Though finding comprehensive solutions that ensure critical business applications remain available, and help to simplify cloud deployment, is not easy.

As enterprise adoption has increased, the hybrid cloud solution has evolved to meet today’s transformational requirements across multiple lines of business. For best results, the environments comprising the hybrid cloud solution should be seamlessly interconnected. The difficulty of establishing that seamless connection has been part of the major challenge in the adoption of hybrid and multi-cloud computing.

So what’s changed in hybrid cloud?

The good news is that the components used to create a well-designed hybrid cloud environment are different now, and better for enabling high performance.

The Rise of Cloud

While most public cloud provider solutions started with standard computing models in which a provider offered shared resources, such as applications and storage, to the general public mostly over the Internet – now their products have evolved to much more complex business applications like big data and business analytics.  New technology, such as neural networks and AI, are the hot topic right now, with cloud providers working to outdo each other in innovating new services.

This means that offerings between cloud providers can, and often do vary widely. Prices are subject to change, and outages – unfortunately – are a fact of life.

[clickToTweet tweet=”Chris Sharp: The hybrid cloud solution has evolved to meet today’s requirements across multiple lines of business.” quote=”Chris Sharp: The hybrid cloud solution has evolved to meet today’s transformational requirements across multiple lines of business.”]

The end result to the enterprise is that no single cloud solution, or even provider, is as capable as leveraging multiple solutions from multiple cloud providers. We call this multi-cloud, or hybrid-multi-cloud.

Because of this situation, many companies built their hybrid cloud environment using a combination of three component types: private compute infrastructure, public compute services, and network connectivity – which is often public internet. However, relying on public internet – especially the same public Internet that’s being used for web browsing, emails, and probably some streaming media – to access cloud compute services can limit the entire solution.

Some have since learned that’s much like sharing an Internet connection with a family of five and a couple of neighbors you don’t even know. The connection can be often unreliable, slow due to congestion, and not very secure.

The Evolution of Hybrid Cloud is here

Todays’ well-designed hybrid multi-cloud environment uses your private infrastructure, along with a secure, private network delivering connectivity between enterprises, cloud resources, and relevant networks, to deliver one efficient solution.

[clickToTweet tweet=”Chris Sharp: Hybrid multi-cloud architecture offers scalability and cost effectiveness. ” quote=”Chris Sharp: Hybrid multi-cloud architecture offers scalability and cost effectiveness. “]

Using private access dedicated to your organization, a well-designed hybrid multi-cloud architecture offers scalability and cost effectiveness by making the most of elastic cloud computing. This means enterprises can dynamically add, expand, or scale applications from multiple IT environments into a choice of service providers as needed, without incurring high upfront costs or being locked into complex, long-term contracts.

Service Exchange in our Connected Campus

The recent addition of Service Exchange to our Connected Campus further enables the optimum hybrid multi-cloud strategy by offering you a solution built for growth. By bringing all the critical data center capabilities in scale, collocation, and networking into a single, secure environment, our Connected Campus enables you to harness the power of proximity by enabling you to deploy alongside the essential computing resources that support your business.

Our Service Exchange, which delivers Connectivity-as-a-Service, offers the scalability and flexibility required by IT departments to deploy efficient and cost-effective elastic hybrid multi-cloud architectures. Additionally, Service Exchange customers can dynamically access high-performance cloud services quickly and reliably from leading providers through our self-service portal. Best of all, it also gives you control of your bandwidth, so you can self-provision to meet peak demands and unforeseen bursts, or adjust during slow times so you’re no longer paying for something you don’t need.

Whether you’re enabling online financial transactions or interactive gaming, streaming video or broadcasting medical images, a low-latency, high-performance network is critical to ensuring you and your customers can access information quickly and on short notice.

Chris Sharp is Chief Technology Officer at Digital Realty. 

LinkedinTwitterFacebookSubscribe
Mail

Tagged With: cloud services, Digital Realty, HPC, Hybrid cloud

Newsletters

Stay informed: Get our weekly updates!

Are you a new reader? Follow Data Center Frontier on Twitter or Facebook.
voices@richmiller.biz'

About Voices of the Industry

Our Voice of the Industry feature showcases guest articles on thought leadership from sponsors of Data Center Frontier. For more information, see our Voices of the Industry description and guidelines..

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter

Voices of the Industry

Dataverse Growth Requires Sustainable Data Solutions

Dataverse Growth Requires Sustainable Data Solutions Damien Gaynor, Chief Marketing Officer  from Echelon Data Centres,  explores the dataverse and how its growth requires sustainable data solutions. 

DCF Spotlight

The COVID-19 Crisis and the Data Center Industry

The COVID-19 pandemic presents strategic challenges for the data center and cloud computing sectors. Data Center Frontier provides a one-stop resource for the latest news and analysis for decision-makers navigating this complex new landscape.

An aerial view of major facilities in Data Center Alley in Ashburn, Virginia. (Image: Loudoun County)

Northern Virginia Data Center Market: The Focal Point for Cloud Growth

The Northern Virginia data center market is seeing a surge in supply and an even bigger surge in demand. Data Center Frontier explores trends, stats and future expectations for the No. 1 data center market in the country.

See More Spotlight Features

White Papers

COVID-19 IT Response

COVID-19 IT Response & Recovery Report

Thirty-seven percent of IT professionals surveyed said that their spending was cut in the short-term during the early months of the pandemic. But the good news is that 2021 spending outlooks shows signs of rebounding. Learn how IT professionals nationwide responded, repositioned and are rebuilding in light of COVID-19, via a new report from Service Express.

Get this PDF emailed to you.

We always respect your privacy and we never sell or rent our list to third parties. By downloading this White Paper you are agreeing to our terms of service. You can opt out at any time.

Newsletters

Get the Latest News from Data Center Frontier

Job Listings

RSS Job Openings | Peter Kazella and Associates, Inc

  • Sr Technical Recruiter - Dover, NJ
  • Sr Technical Recruiter - Waxhaw, NC
  • Entry Level Recruiter - Waxhaw, NC
  • Data Center Construction Manager – Owners Rep - Cheyenne, WY
  • Data Center Mechanical Engineering Specialist - Montreal, Canada

See More Jobs

Data Center 101

Data Center 101: Mastering the Basics of the Data Center Industry

Data Center 101: Mastering the Basics of the Data Center Industry

Data Center Frontier, in partnership with Open Spectrum, brings our readers a series that provides an introductory guidebook to the ins and outs of the data center and colocation industry. Think power systems, cooling, solutions, data center contracts and more. The Data Center 101 Special Report series is directed to those new to the industry, or those of our readers who need to brush up on the basics.

  • Data Center Power
  • Data Center Cooling
  • Strategies for Data Center Location
  • Data Center Pricing Negotiating
  • Cloud Computing

See More Data center 101 Topics

About Us

Charting the future of data centers and cloud computing. We write about what’s next for the Internet, and the innovations that will take us there. We tell the story of the digital economy through the data center facilities that power cloud computing and the people who build them. Read more ...
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter

About Our Founder

Data Center Frontier is edited by Rich Miller, the data center industry’s most experienced journalist. For more than 15 years, Rich has profiled the key role played by data centers in the Internet revolution. Meet the DCF team.

TOPICS

  • 5G Wireless
  • Cloud
  • Colo
  • Connected Cars
  • Cooling
  • Cornerstone
  • Coronavirus
  • Design
  • Edge Computing
  • Energy
  • Executive Roundtable
  • Featured
  • Finance
  • Hyperscale
  • Interconnection
  • Internet of Things
  • Machine Learning
  • Network
  • Podcast
  • Servers
  • Site Selection
  • Social Business
  • Special Reports
  • Storage
  • Sustainability
  • Videos
  • Virtual Reality
  • Voices of the Industry
  • White Paper

Copyright Data Center Frontier LLC © 2021