A new press release reports, “Digital Realty, a leading global provider of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions, announced today PlatformDIGITAL™, a first of its kind global data center platform designed to enable customers to scale digital business. With the digital economy set to reshape both private and public enterprises across all industries, organizations recognize the need to transform their IT infrastructure so that they can operate ubiquitously and on-demand, informed by real-time intelligence.”

Digital Realty Chief Executive Officer A. William Stein noted, “Gartner predicts that by 2022, 60% of enterprise IT infrastructures will focus on centers of data, rather than traditional data centers.* As a result, there is a growing industry imperative to create new centers of data that reside between the core and the edge… With the announcement of PlatformDIGITAL™, we uniquely enable customers to deploy their IT infrastructure at the centers of data exchange around the world, bringing users, things, applications, clouds and networks to the data. Our customers get the advantage of access to fit-for-purpose infrastructure that can power their digital transformations at the scale and speed they require today and into the future.” 

The release adds, “PlatformDIGITAL™ provides a trusted foundation enabling customers to: (1) solve global coverage, capacity, and ecosystem connectivity needs with a single data center provider; (2) tailor infrastructure deployments and controls matched to business needs irrespective of data center size, scale, location, configuration or ecosystem interconnections; (3) operate deployments as a seamless extension of any global infrastructure with the consistent experience, security, and resiliency that business demands; (4) enable global distributed workflows at centers of data exchange to remove data gravity barriers and scale digital business.”

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