Digital Realty Announces Its New Global Cloud Marketplace
The marketplace will offer clients access to a cloud brokerage.
Digital Realty Trust, Inc. has announced it has partnered with ComputeNext to create the Digital Realty Global Cloud Marketplace (GCM). This cloud marketplace will offer Digital Realty clients of all sizes easy access from Digital Realty's global portfolio of networked data centers to a cloud brokerage, enabling instant provisioning of on-demand, burstable cloud services from cloud service providers, such as cloud servers, cloud storage, and cloud software. The initial slate of cloud service providers participating in the GCM includes IBM SoftLayer, Internap, Interoute, GoGrid, and SingleHop. Additional providers will be added in the coming months.
"Businesses are seeking a more flexible data center environment, with easier access to a hybrid solution of private, semi-private, and public cloud. By partnering with ComputeNext, we now offer access to a one-stop shop for cloud infrastructure services from trusted providers within the Digital Realty Global Cloud Marketplace," said A. William Stein, interim chief executive officer and chief financial officer of Digital Realty. "This partnership, in combination with other strategic alliances we are forging — such as those previously announced with tw telecom and Level 3 Communications to enable direct and secure connectivity to Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure — are important initiatives in our ongoing efforts to provide businesses with flexible data center solutions that fit their IT and business strategies."