Many workloads are best in the cloud, with ease of use and scalable the most outstanding benefits, especially when there are workloads that grow and ebb on a predictable basis. For example, Amazon, Etsy, and many other e-commerce sites have increased traffic between mid-November through the end of the year due to the holiday shopping season while Amazon Prime Video, Apple, HBO Max, and Netflix will see traffic surges when they release the latest movies and TV shows.
However, public cloud cannot provide the economics or high-speed performance needed by demanding workloads such as artificial intelligence/machine learning, cryptocurrency, edge computing, finance, and real-time data analytics. Colocation has become the essential solution for applications requiring HPC/ compute-dense resources, low-latency response times and using massive amounts of storage— usually all three. Enterprises use colocation facilities to build customized, hyperscale resources that are precisely tuned for effectively running demanding workloads.
Colocation has become the essential solution for applications requiring HPC/ compute-dense resources, low-latency response times and using massive amounts of storage— usually all three.
Colocation also offers additional security and regulatory benefits over cloud and data center options. As countries and regions pass and refine data privacy and compliance measures, physically housing data in the country of origin becomes increasingly necessary.
Download the full report Hybrid Cloud, courtesy of NTT to learn more about how workloads are continuing to shift between data center, cloud, and colocation. In our next article, we’ll look at cloud repatriation and edge computing.