Interconnectivity underpins scalable multi-cloud and hybrid cloud methods. Nevertheless, till just lately, enabling quick, dependable connections between completely different environments to assist versatile hybrid computing has proved difficult for a lot of organisations.
Digital Parks Africa’s (DPA’s) new Digital Parks Interconnect service (DP-IC) has been launched to assist South African enterprises overcome the challenges related to interconnectivity, to realize streamlined hybrid environments extra affordably. Along with internet hosting an on-site alternate, DPA has turn into a distant knowledge centre for third-party web and cloud alternate factors.
Jacques de Jager, chief working officer at DPA, says the brand new DP-IC hyperlinks a number of knowledge centre amenities with sturdy, quick and low-latency connections.
“DPA presents a high-availability and capability, low-latency protected interconnect resolution that extends our knowledge centre footprint to different knowledge centres with versatile, futureproof connectivity,” De Jager mentioned. “This service is crucial for corporations who want colocation companies or have complicated digital methods, guaranteeing that they will entry each cloud assets and on-premises infrastructure with excessive efficiency and minimal latency.
“We are able to join buyer infrastructure to different knowledge centres in a matter of some hours, giving them quicker time to market, value financial savings and the advantages of threat mitigation from a multi-vendor, multi-data centre operator perspective.”
De Jager says: “DPA collaborates with a number of different knowledge centres, and in knowledge centres the place we don’t have a presence, we’ve got provider engagements and prospects who may fulfil that want. So, we will cowl the entire of Africa inside our ecosystem.”
Flexibility, value and management
He explains that extra companies are adopting multi-cloud and hybrid cloud fashions to stability flexibility, value and management. “For corporations transferring to hybrid fashions, balancing knowledge management and value is vital. DPA’s interconnect service is a strategic enabler of this development. We provide the entire bundle, together with uptime, bodily safety and connectivity,” he says.
“We’re bridging the hole for organisations like monetary companies suppliers that require not less than three copies of their knowledge in separate knowledge centres. Our interconnect permits them to fast-track this and be compliant, affordably. It additionally helps enterprise continuity for any organisation,” he says.
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De Jager highlights DPA’s function as a change enabler for South African companies: “From a digital transformation viewpoint, we’re making it reasonably priced for digital innovators to usher in tools after which make these companies obtainable to the market. We create a house for the tools and ensure it’s at all times on and bodily protected and, from a connectivity view, that it’s at all times reachable,” he mentioned.
“As a 100% South African-owned firm, our mission and imaginative and prescient is to assist native enterprises and assist develop the economic system. A part of our firm tradition is to adapt, be agile, fail quick and transfer ahead, so we’re consistently innovating.”
DPA’s method to digital transformation and frequently assembly market wants has seen it turn into a trusted companion and knowledge centre of alternative: De Jager notes that since 2017, the corporate boasts a 98% buyer retention charge and progress of 40%/12 months, on common.
“Now we have a various set of consumers, from a hyperscaler and native cloud suppliers, by to particular person corporations that see the associated fee and safety advantages of transferring their on-prem tools into our knowledge centre. It’s a sport changer for them as a result of all their worries of load shedding and sustaining their turbines and UPSs is now outsourced to a co-location supplier, plus we’re consistently making the ecosystem extra feature-rich with threat mitigation and the supporting companies round their infrastructure.”
For extra details about DPA’s new Digital Parks Interconnect (DP-IC) service, please go to their web site or ship an e-mail to [email protected].
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