This thought leadership article was sponsored by QTS
An interesting transformation is taking place in the world of connectivity for enterprises of all types.
In recent years the concept of digitization has exploded exponentially and globally. Content creation has been happening at an incalculable pace resulting in data-driven ecosystems all around us. Brick and mortar businesses are transforming into digital enterprises delivering online services and building massive data repositories, creating the need to fundamentally re-think the digital infrastructure underlying this trend.
This flood of data creation, combined with new, compute-intensive technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning and predictive analytics, is increasing enterprise requirements for even larger technology stacks to store, compute, analyze and move the data. It has also fundamentally changed the requirements for connectivity required for enterprises to deliver their products and services to their customers.
While the world’s largest hyperscale companies continue to purchase space, power and connectivity at enormous scale, enterprise organizations are starting to ask, “How do I balance the ever-increasing complexity of compute, storage, connectivity with service delivery to end users both now and for the long-term? How do I meet the demands and expectations of our customers across multiple platforms and geographies in a way that is scalable and does not introduce undo risk?”
On one hand, enterprises need a home for scalable digital infrastructure in the form of a rapidly expanding number of servers, switches, routers, et cetera. On the other hand this digital infrastructure requires risk-adjusted access to a myriad of networks to serve their end users. This requires a long-term view, particularly when it comes to data center space, power and access to critical in-building connectivity ecosystems similar to today’s hyperscale strategy and purchasing model.
Enterprises require a data center partner with a similar long view of scalable space, power, and sophisticated, risk-adjusted connectivity ecosystems. Conventional approaches small colocation deployments that rely on carrier hotels and single network ecosystem providers are not built to serve this new dynamic technically or economically. As the enterprise continues to increase investments in digital infrastructure so too are the requirements for a colocation partner to demonstrate it can enable a pristine experience from content to end user in a constantly scaling environment.
QTS is in a unique position to serve this evolving dynamic. We have mega scale data centers in all the major markets that can support large scale space and power deployments. We are also unique in our commitment to provide and grow risk-adjusted connectivity ecosystems in these same buildings. This translates to a combination of mega infrastructure with access and connectivity to the world’s largest cloud providers, the world’s largest IP networks, Internet Exchanges, fiber providers, diverse transport paths and subsea cables.
It all comes back to data and innovation for customers
In an industry not generally known for innovation, QTS stands apart in our approach, and our customers are telling us through surveys and feedback channels that our focus on scale and network access are truly differentiating.
We know we are on track as evidenced by the company’s consistent financial performance and positive feedback we have been receiving across the industry from our customers, partners, analysts and Wall Street.
Frost & Sullivan recently chose QTS as the recipient of its Global Visionary Innovation Leadership Award. Following a five-month independent vetting process of 34 companies, QTS, who is not a Frost & Sullivan client, was chosen as the winner of the global award.
The award report (accessed here) highlights QTS’s key characteristics including its connectivity leadership and innovation that contributed to its selection.
Frost & Sullivan noted, “It is only fitting to say that QTS is a torch bearer when it comes to addressing this connectivity predicament. With its pioneering vision, the company has created multiple network access points (NAPs); which are essentially data centers acting as ubiquitous global interconnection hubs that allow services utilizing subsea cables to peer and interconnect in an ideal manner.”
For more information, check out this white paper on evolving enterprise connectivity requirements.
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NIST is doing some very interesting work in the Zero Trust Architecture area and a pleasantly surprising approach at looking at this from top to bottom, which includes the physical layer.
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