New offering bolsters the existing product
set, providing customers access to an innovative solution that
supercharges AI capabilities and unlocks value from
data
AUSTIN,
Texas, Aug. 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital
Realty (NYSE: DLR), the largest global
provider of cloud- and carrier-neutral data center, colocation, and
interconnection solutions, today announced the availability of
high-density colocation services across PlatformDIGITAL®, the
company's global data center platform. With high-performance
computing (HPC) ready infrastructure configurations, Digital
Realty's high-density colocation services enable businesses to
overcome the processing and proximity challenges associated with
the unstructured and exponential growth of data, as well as the use
of artificial intelligence (AI).
In today's digital landscape, businesses face the
ever-increasing challenge of managing and harnessing the power of
vast amounts of data. This rapid data expansion presents numerous
challenges including performance bottlenecks, compliance
complexities, and scalability limitations. Businesses are
increasingly turning to emerging technologies like AI to analyze
and process this data more effectively. These new technologies
consume large amounts of power, which require specialized
infrastructure to support them, providing high-power densities
while safely and efficiently regulating the temperature to ensure
performance is not impaired.
Key Features:
- High-density support: supports workloads of up to 70
kilowatts per rack.
- Cooling: utilizes innovative Air-Assisted Liquid Cooling
(AALC) technologies.
- Global availability: solution supported in 28 markets
across three regions, including North
America, EMEA and Asia-Pacific.
- Extensible and sustainable: scale up and out with
flexible and sustainable consumption models.
"We recognize the data management challenges that companies are
facing, where the exponential growth in data can hinder performance
and innovation. As a trusted infrastructure partner, Digital Realty
is committed to addressing these challenges by leveraging our
longstanding experience in delivering high density infrastructure
solutions. While we already support hundreds of high-performance
computing deployments across our portfolio, we've listened to our
customers and taken it a step further, providing standardized
configurations and ultra-high-power densities. This offering will
enable businesses to unlock new possibilities, quickly deploy high
performance infrastructure on a global platform, and achieve
optimal performance in the age of AI," said Scott Mills, Senior Vice President Engineering
and Customer Solutions at Digital Realty.
Industry perspective
- "As Cirrascale continues to deploy the latest AI accelerators
for its AI Innovation Cloud, we're relying on global data center
providers like Digital Realty to supply high-density colocation
services that can support the massive per rack kilowatt demands
that the next generation of accelerators require. By supporting up
to 70 kilowatts per rack, Digital Realty is enabling us to be able
to quickly deploy our infrastructure in a dense environment without
fear of overheating, throttling, or damage to our high-density
servers," said Dave Driggers, Chief
Technology Officer, Cirrascale Cloud Services.
- "IDC is forecasting data consumption will grow at a strong rate
of over 20% annually in the coming years. Enterprise applications
stimulated by the increasing adoption of AI capabilities will drive
a significant portion of data consumption. Colocation providers
such as Digital Realty are central to the digital ecosystem for
managing data workflows. As a global leader in the colocation
segment, Digital Realty is ideally positioned to cater to these
burgeoning high-density colocation requirements of enterprises as
they implement and leverage AI capabilities," said Courtney Munroe, Research Vice President,
IDC.
- "Undoubtedly AI, HPC and video streaming workloads are driving
increased demand for capital-intensive, dense computing solutions.
To effectively implement these solutions at scale, customers
require facilities and services that not only support seamless
deployment but also maximize capital utilization. In
partnership with Digital Realty, Avnet Integrated acts as a point
of engagement, offering end-to-end services for the evaluation –
including Avnet Virtual Platforms – design, deployment, and
maintenance of cutting-edge, liquid-cooled solutions across Digital
Realty's PlatformDIGITAL®," said Nicole
Enright, President, Avnet Integrated Solutions.
By leveraging PlatformDIGITAL®, Digital Realty's global data
center platform where companies, technologies and data come
together to innovate and grow, customers can capitalize on a
comprehensive ecosystem of connected data communities that
facilitate secure, low-latency connections and high-speed data
transfer to the businesses that matter most, enabling them to get
the most out of their high-density colocation deployments.
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 communities that matter
to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in
50+ metros across 27 countries on six continents. To learn more
about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow
us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
For Additional Information
William Reynolds
Digital Realty
+44 7469
695775
wreynolds@digitalrealty.com
Investor Relations
Jordan Sadler / Jim Huseby
Digital Realty
+1 737 281 0101
InvestorRelations@digitalrealty.com
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