Digital Realtys new platform revolves around centers of data

Digital Realty has launched a first-of-its-kind global data center platform and an accompanying roadmap to support the platform. Digital Realty’s PlatformDIGITAL is designed to help customers scale digital business and solve challenges such as global coverage, capacity and ecosystem connectivity needs with a single data center provider. Digital Realty’s chief executive officer A. William Stein cites Gartner statistics that suggest by 2022, 60% of enterprise IT infrastructures will focus of centers of data rather than 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," he explains. The company took the ‘centers of data’ approach to PlatformDIGITAL, in order to bring users, things, applications, clouds, and networks to the data. To support the platform, Digital Realty outlined a platform roadmap that applies a Pervasive Data center Architecture approach (PDx). The approach provides a step-by-step strategy to create the new IT architecture required for digital transformation.