Small and Medium Businesses Working with Partners Is Big – Interconnections – The Equinix Blog
Maintaining with an ever-evolving digital market
The speed of digital transformation appears to be accelerating past the experience of many SMBs, which don’t have a group of IT specialists on-hand and the place most individuals are carrying a number of hats. The distributed nature of right now’s digital companies and the sophisticated hybrid multicloud architectures required to run them current SMBs with the right storm. They should be competent on a number of digital platforms and keep aggressive within the enterprise providers their clients require. Many SMBs discover they can’t realistically do each properly. As a substitute, they search for a accomplice or companions that may care for the digital infrastructure in order that they will do what they do finest: run their enterprise.
We see main SMBs in search of help from companions to assist them rework their IT infrastructures to be digital-first, with “turnkey” providers within the following areas:
- Interconnection/networking
- Compute and storage
- Cloud entry
- Edge safety
- Enterprise continuity/catastrophe restoration
The time period “providers” has some significance in that the majority companies (massive and small) don’t wish to add CAPEX; as an alternative, they’re on the lookout for OPEX alternatives to construct out their digital infrastructure capabilities. In accordance with the Equinix 2022 Global Tech Trends Survey, over two-thirds (71%) of IT decision-makers throughout the globe say they’re shifting towards an “as a service” (XaaS) mannequin, with greater than half saying that an XaaS mannequin simplifies their IT infrastructure. Additionally, the Global Interconnection Index (GXI), Volume 5 exhibits that enterprises are leveraging service supplier marketplaces to optimize community and multicloud capabilities with adjoining devoted information as they exit conventional core information facilities in favor of XaaS OPEX fashions.
Specializing in compute and storage and networking/interconnection providers, listed below are examples of how SMBs can harness the sources and experience they want from among the 1000’s of partners on Platform Equinix.
Partnerships in compute and storage providers
Constructing out compute and storage providers in edge metro markets at a second’s discover was crucial for a lot of corporations as they wanted to fulfill the appliance entry wants of a distant workforce through the world pandemic. Nonetheless, the necessity for a extra agile and versatile IT infrastructure that may be turned up or down on demand has not diminished. These capabilities proceed to be a saving grace for a lot of SMBs that want quick entry to sources to develop their enterprise.
Many of those pay-as-you-go providers are cheaper options to cloud providers that may have escalating cloud egress charges when shifting information and workloads. These charges generally is a large hit to an SMB’s backside line.
Equinix Platform Companions and 2021 Associate Award winners HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform and Dell APEX Data Storage Services allow SMBs to maximise their compute and storage capabilities to assist any utility stack, whereas decreasing prices utilizing a extra versatile, turnkey digital infrastructure setting. These options ship the identical safety and cost-savings that non-public, on-premises IT infrastructure gives, with out the CAPEX overhead or recurring cloud egress expenses.
For instance, an organization can save thousands and thousands of {dollars} in cloud egress expenses by deploying an on-premises, cloud-adjacent compute and storage resolution, together with quick and safe cloud interconnection. Our partnerships with HPE GreenLake and Dell APEX can even ship high-performance, low-latency software-defined interconnection through Equinix Fabric™ to main community and cloud service supplier ecosystems to deploy hybrid multicloud architectures.
Partnerships in networking/interconnection providers
