CyrusOne’s ‘Sky for the Cloud’ Platform Launches With Nirvanix as Its Initial Customer
CyrusOne has announced an enablement platform for the cloud, branded the “Sky for the Cloud.” This platform provides a home for the cloud in a customized data hall, designed for maximizing power usage effectiveness (PUE), and interconnectionto an ecosystem of business partners, content providers, networks, carriers, Internet service providers, and Ethernet buyers and sellers. Nirvanix is the first customer to leverage this platform to provide unlimited cloud storage capacity to its customers for back-up, archival and large-scale content collaboration.
“The rapid adoption of the cloud, both public and private has created more pressure on the data center’s performance,” said Josh Snowhorn, vice president and general manager of Interconnection, CyrusOne. “The cloud requires redundancy in data center power infrastructure, connectivity and capacity on demand. We created this platform, to truly enable the performance of the cloud by designing dedicated data halls that are well-suited for the cloud.”