Originally posted to Data Center Frontier by Voices of the Industry.

IMG_0364Providing large scale, secure space and power has been the focus of wholesale data center providers for many years. Until recently, innovation in wholesale data center solutions has centered on developing data center designs that improve power resiliency and building efficiency. The result being that wholesale customers today are receiving data centers that are more flexible, scalable, and cost effective than ever before.

The cloud and surge in wholesale data center demand are changing the industry, but not in the way that many expected. Interconnection between wholesale data centers and public cloud environments is becoming a key decision criteria rather than an afterthought or “nice-to-have”. Interconnection has become a major component of the wholesale data center colocation strategy.

The Hybrid-Cloud Changes Everything.

The demand for interconnection is being driven by the changing market dynamics, specifically in hybrid cloud. Over the past five years, enterprise organizations have been successfully adopting the public cloud as a complement to rather than as a replacement for their enterprise or colocation environments. The term “hybrid cloud,” came from the desire for enterprises to utilize a combination of clouds, in-house data centers, and external colocation facilities to support their IT environments.

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