Colocations + Cloud + Edge

Many IT organizations worldwide have now successfully accelerated their efforts to shift their infrastructure to the edge to meet the needs of their universally distributed customer and user base.  These new technology capabilities will endure, as will the new workforce preferences they have created.

The past 10 years companies have been strategically distributing their IT infrastructure closer to where their customers and users are located.  These companies are now benefitting from a foundation that is positioned to leverage digital transformation to meet today’s business challenges.  It is predicted that by the end of 2023 over 50% of new IT infrastructure deployed will be at the edge rather than corporate data centers.

The major trend today is that companies are looking to the colocation providers to help them bring interconnection within colocation data centers that bring together dense network, cloud and business ecosystems, edge computing, all in one place.

Companies today have a global market for their goods and services and use a colocation provider such as Cyrus One, Digital Realty, Equinix, Flexential, or Iron Mountain to lease rack space and give them a regional presence in a remote city or country.  A network resilience platform provides secure remote access to your routers, switches, firewalls, servers over an out-of-band management network so the network infrastructure can be remotely deployed, accessed, and managed without physically being in the colocation.

Other colocation advantages include:

  • Tenant to space, power, and cooling
  • On-demand access to network elements
  • Deploying new cloud, saas, edge services and applications that enable new value for the customers and the business
  • Competitive business advantage is extending reach to new customers
  • Fast access to unified communications and collaboration
  • Edge proximity for digital services, communications, and collaboration
  • Internet of Things.  Low latency cloud, edge, sensors, and cameras
  • Guaranteed Uptime SLA’s

Extend Your Reach.  Optimize Your Visibility.

To facilitate deployments and access network infrastructure in a colocation, a Gearlinx™ Network Resilience Platform will provide the network team the remote hands to extend their reach to remotely manage critical IT infrastructure from anywhere at any time.  Gearlinx™ solutions are built to provide secure remote access over the wired management network or 4G/5G cellular management network to proactively monitor and alert so issues can be remediated minutes or even seconds after they occur. 

Many enterprise customers utilize colocations to deploy cloud solutions at the edge.  In fact, 50% of new infrastructure deployed is at the edge rather than corporate data centers.  Gearlinx™ ZERO cloud-base centralized management provides the visibility network teams require to make network decisions and keep issues at bay ensuring business continuity so their customers can use and enjoy the services they offer.

One of the problems a network team will experience in a colocation is visibility of their out-of-band management fleet.  Imagine having fifty units in colocations around the world and you are tasked with budgeting for warranty renewals.  A spreadsheet of serial numbers tells you nothing about what unit serial numbers are in what rack, the purchase date, and when the warranty is set to expire.  ZERO simplifies this and ensures Operational Resilience by putting the network team in control of life-cycle management and their assets’ subscriptions, serial numbers, and warranty information.

Simplify Deployments

Deploying and scaling up equipment in a colocation is important to extend services to new and existing customers.  Gearlinx™ provides organizations a management network to facilitate automation, drive day one deployments, and accelerate delivery of applications.

  • Cloud-Managed Automation Platform
  • Tools for Docker, Ansible, Python, RestAPI
  • Feature Containers
  • TPM 2.0 Security Module
  • Zero Touch Provisioning

Distributed Network Resilience

A distributed enterprise network requires distributed network resilience.  When your network infrastructure is collocated in multiple locations, it is essential to deploy a Network Resilience as a Service™ Platform to ensure end to end security and reliable connectivity.