Digital everything, everywhere is the mantra of businesses throughout the world. To the chagrin of consumers, workers, and data centers alike, it’s about adapting or risking being left behind. This applies to everything from schools and remote learning to sectors, like the automotive industry, banking, health care, farming, transportation, energy, and almost anything else that can be automated, programmed, and digitized. Enabled and powered by the internet, almost anyone with access can order and review products/services, make payments, watch movies on demand or live TV, learn, and exchange information. With cloud computing becoming further adopted, localizing data and access points is more important than ever before.
Michael Leidinger, senior vice president and CIO of Hilton, put it most succinctly when he said, “One part of the digital experience in a global company is how to localize — getting the content and applications as close to the customer as possible [by] distributing content and core application functionality effectively to multiple locations around the world and out to the edge.”