Digital Parks Africa's (DPA) new Digital Parks Interconnect service (DP-IC) aims to address the challenges of interconnectivity faced by South African enterprises adopting multi-cloud and hybrid cloud strategies.
scalable multi-cloud and hybrid cloud strategies. However, until recently, enabling fast, reliable connections between different environments to support flexible hybrid computing has proved challenging for many organisations. Digital Parks Africa’s (DPA’s) new Digital Parks Interconnect service (DP-IC) has been launched to help South African enterprises overcome the challenges associated with interconnectivity, to achieve streamlined hybrid environments more cost effectively.
In addition to hosting an on-site exchange, DPA has become a remote data centre for third-party internet and cloud exchange points. Jacques de Jager, chief operating officer at DPA, says the new DP-IC links multiple data centre facilities with robust, fast and low-latency connections. This service is essential for companies who need colocation services or have complex digital strategies “DPA offers a high-availability and capacity, low-latency protected interconnect solution that extends our data centre footprint to other data centres with flexible, futureproof connectivity,” De Jager said. “This service is essential for companies who need colocation services or have complex digital strategies, ensuring that they can access both cloud resources and on-premises infrastructure with high performance and minimal latency. “We can connect customer infrastructure to other data centres in a matter of a few hours, giving them faster time to market, cost savings and the benefits of risk mitigation from a multi-vendor, multi-data centre operator perspective.” De Jager says: “DPA collaborates with several other data centres, and in data centres where we don’t have a presence, we have carrier engagements and customers who can also fulfil that need. So, we can cover the whole of Africa within our ecosystem.”He explains that more businesses are adopting multi-cloud and hybrid cloud models to balance flexibility, cost and contro
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