Hurricane Electric, the largest IPv4 and IPv6-native internet backbone in the world, has deployed points of presence (PoPs) at its data centres in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Sydney, according to an announcement made today by Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR), the world’s largest provider of cloud- and carrier-neutral data centre, colocation, and interconnection solutions. Customers will then have access to Hurricane Electric’s high-speed IP transit network, which will enhance traffic flow, lower latency, and boost the effectiveness of their data networks.
With this deployment, Digital Realty and Hurricane Electric are extending their partnership to the APAC area, which is currently the region with the fastest-growing data centre colocation market due to growing demand for online content, mobile gaming, and on-demand video. Data Gravity is the difficulty of transporting data at scale, which hinders organisational workflow performance, heightens security & regulatory concerns, and raises costs as a result of the consequent enormous growth in data.
The Data Gravity Index research from Digital Realty predicts that until 2024, the intensity of data gravity will more than quadruple annually. The locations witnessing the most dramatic rises are anticipated to include Singapore, Sydney, and Hong Kong.
Digital enterprises need to adopt a connected-community strategy and switch to a data-centric IT infrastructure that connects people, networks, and clouds closer to organisational data in order to address Data Gravity concerns. Customers can access the extensive centres of data exchange they need to scale their digital companies and get around data gravity restrictions thanks to PlatformDIGITAL®, Digital Realty’s global data centre platform’s reach and connectivity density.

Source: Prnewswire