Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR), the largest global provider of cloud-neutral data centers and operators, colocation services, and interconnection, announced today the availability of high-density colocation services on PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform. With infrastructure configurations tailored for high-performance computing (HPC), Digital Realty’s high-density colocation services enable companies to overcome the processing and proximity challenges associated with the exponential and unstructured growth of data, as well as the use of artificial intelligence (AI).
In today’s digital landscape, companies face the increasing challenge of managing and harnessing the power of massive amounts of data. This rapid expansion of data presents numerous challenges, including performance bottlenecks, compliance complexities, and scalability limitations. More and more, companies are turning to emerging technologies like AI to analyze and process this data more effectively. These new technologies consume significant amounts of energy, requiring specialized infrastructure to support them, providing high energy densities while safely and efficiently regulating temperature to ensure performance is not affected.
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: scales up and out with flexible and sustainable consumption models.
“We recognize the data management challenges that companies face, where 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 extensive experience in delivering high-density infrastructure solutions. While we already support hundreds of high-performance computing deployments across our portfolio, we have listened to our customers and have taken it a step further, providing standardized configurations and ultra-high energy densities. This offering will enable companies to unlock new possibilities, quickly deploy high-performance infrastructure on a global platform, and achieve optimal performance in the AI era,” said Scott Mills, Senior Vice President of Engineering and Customer Solutions at Digital Realty.
Industry perspective:
“As Cirrascale continues to deploy the latest AI accelerators for its AI Innovation Cloud, we rely on global data center providers like Digital Realty to supply high-density colocation services that can support the enormous demands of kilowatts per rack that the next generation of accelerators requires. By supporting up to 70 kilowatts per rack, Digital Realty allows us to quickly deploy our infrastructure in a dense environment without fear of overheating, limitation, or damage to our high-density servers,” said Dave Driggers, Chief Technology Officer, Cirrascale Cloud Services.
“IDC predicts that data consumption will grow at a strong rate of over 20% annually in the coming years. Business applications driven by the increasing adoption of AI capabilities will drive a significant portion of data consumption. Colocation providers like 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 address these emerging high-density colocation requirements of companies as they deploy and leverage AI capabilities,” said Courtney Munroe, Vice President of Research, IDC.
“Undoubtedly, AI, HPC, and video streaming workloads are driving increased demand for dense, capital-intensive computing solutions. To effectively deploy 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, implementation, and maintenance of cutting-edge liquid-cooled solutions on 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 enable secure, low-latency connections and high-speed data transfer to the businesses that matter most, allowing them to make the most of their high-density colocation deployments.