Secure infrastructure Cyxtera has expanded availability of its Cyxtera Extensible Data Centre (CXD) platform.
For those who came in late, CXD is an intelligent, software-defined platform that enables customers to sort out connectivity and dedicated hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) on-demand within and across Cyxtera data centres.
It is provisioned via API or web portal, enterprises leveraging CXD can easily procure, deploy, and configure services in less than a day, allowing for rapid expansion of existing colocation environments and speeding time to market in new locations.
Cyxtera Data Centre Services President Randy Rowland said that CXD was created to bring cloud-speed provisioning and automation to colocation.
“The success of our launch in Dallas led us to accelerate our deployment of CXD into six top tier markets. We’re discovering customers have an ever-increasing appetite for secure, cost-effective infrastructure that is available in hours, not months, yet still gives them complete control of their environment.”
By 2025, 80 percent of enterprises will have shut down their traditional data centre, versus 10 percent today, according to Gartner in its report, “Prepare for the Death of the Data Centre as We Know It”
This reality is driving customers to seek alternative solutions, like hybrid infrastructure and the cloud. However, a cloud-first strategy isn’t suitable for every application or workload.
Cyxtera believes these forces are accelerating interest in CXD, which offers features of the cloud – including speed, flexibility, and a consumption-based model plus the added benefit of complete control of the computing environment.
It’s been very busy – yesterday it was all about the cloud.
