Digital Realty Launches ‘Direct Link Colo’ Solution
The solution is designed to enable customers to directly connect to IBM Cloud.
Digital Realty Trust, Inc. has introduced Direct Link Colo, a solution that connects customers in Digital Realty data centers directly to IBM Cloud via SoftLayer's global cloud infrastructure platform. With Direct Link Colo, customers in Digital Realty data centers gain access to incredible network performance, including latency as low as 1.5 milliseconds — one of the lowest latencies for a hybrid cloud solution in the industry.
IBM Cloud data centers are colocated at Digital Realty's hub locations in the Asia Pacific region, Europe and the U.S., with direct dark fiber connections between them. According to Chris Sharp, Digital Realty's chief technology officer, "By eliminating the role of the public Internet or the need for costly private networks, Direct Link Colo enables customers and partners to have greater control over access to their infrastructure and services, the speed of their connection to IBM Cloud, and how the data is routed."