AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR), the largest global provider of cloud- and carrier-neutral data center, colocation, and interconnection solutions, today announced the strategic integration of OVHcloud, a leading European cloud provider, into its ServiceFabric™ platform. This partnership will offer enterprises a secure, high-performance cloud solution with private connectivity, empowering them to accelerate digital transformation and seamlessly adopt hybrid IT strategies.
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As secure and reliable connectivity to the cloud becomes essential for successful digital transformation, Digital Realty's partnership with OVHcloud will empower enterprises to leverage private, direct access to a comprehensive portfolio of bare metal offerings and cloud solutions, spanning private, hybrid, and public cloud environments. This high-speed private interconnection bypasses public internet traffic, enhancing both performance and security, making it ideal for critical applications like big data processing, cloud storage, and disaster recovery.
"We're thrilled to integrate OVHcloud's cloud solution into our ServiceFabric™ platform, enhancing our ability to deliver seamless, scalable, and secure connectivity for enterprises across the globe. This partnership strengthens our platform's capacity to meet the growing demand for hybrid and multi-cloud solutions, ensuring that our customers can access critical cloud and bare metal offerings with the performance, resilience, and flexibility they require. We're excited to be building an open and foundational platform together with our valued partners," said Chris Sharp, Chief Technology Officer, Digital Realty.
"By integrating with Digital Realty's ServiceFabric™, OVHcloud enables businesses to confidently adopt cloud solutions across private, hybrid, and public environments. Our combined strengths support secure, efficient digital transformation, with performance and reliability at the core of our offerings," said Yaniv Fdida, Chief Product and Technology Officer, OVHcloud.
By facilitating direct, secure connectivity to OVHcloud through ServiceFabric™, Digital Realty's interconnection and orchestration platform, enterprises gain robust data security and streamlined access to critical applications — a priority for sectors such as finance, healthcare, and government, as well as for companies advancing AI applications within Europe — while fostering innovation through data-driven technologies.
With the full integration of OVHcloud, enterprises can immediately begin moving their data or start a free trial of the service. ServiceFabric™'s platform architecture provides superior performance for retrieving large datasets, making it particularly well-suited for applications like AI, data analytics, and integration with Digital Realty's Private AI Exchange (AIPx).
With more than 300 data centers globally, Digital Realty's global data center platform PlatformDIGITAL® will enable enterprises to connect to OVHcloud from 150+ Digital Realty data centers around the world, offering critical advantages in terms of operational efficiency, compliance, and scalability. This global accessibility supports both multinational corporations and regionally focused enterprises, ensuring that organizations can securely host and manage data in locations aligned with their specific compliance and operational needs.
Through this partnership, Digital Realty and OVHcloud reinforce their role in advancing Europe's position as a leader in secure and private cloud connectivity solutions, empowering enterprises to thrive in today's interconnected, data-driven economy.
About Digital Realty Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company's global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents. To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and X.
About OVHcloud OVHcloud is a global cloud player and the leading European cloud provider operating over 450,000 servers within 43 data centers across four continents to reach 1.6 million customers in over 140 countries. Spearheading a trusted cloud and pioneering a sustainable cloud with the best performance-price ratio, the Group has been leveraging for over 20 years an integrated model that guarantees total control of its value chain: from the design of its servers to the construction and management of its data centers, including the orchestration of its fiber-optic network. This unique approach enables OVHcloud to independently cover all the uses of its customers so they can seize the benefits of an environmentally conscious model with a frugal use of resources and a carbon footprint reaching the best ratios in the industry. OVHcloud now offers customers the latest-generation solutions combining performance, predictable pricing, and secure, private data connectivity to support their unfettered growth.
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