AT&T is going to start broadening their collocation services by partnering up with Digital Realty in order to incorporate the Digital Realty collocation capacity directly into its solutions.
"We have enjoyed tremendous success in working together and today's alliance announcement highlights the opportunity for both AT&T and Digital Realty to help end-users deploy their IT workloads in our data centers via the collocation program and to provide greater performance, security and control via AT&T NetBond," said Bill Bradley, senior vice president of Partners and Alliances at Digital Realty. "We are looking forward to working together to deepen our relationship with AT&T, already one of our largest customers, as we continue to build out our network-rich ecosystem of data center solutions and network of partners to provide openness and choice to our end-users."
According to their press release in PR Newswire, AT&T and Digital Realty will be working together to deliver collocation services. The two companies are going to broaden AT&T NetBond®, AT&T's foremost cloud connectivity service, to key Digital Realty data centers. This will let AT&T expand the reach of its NetBond to existing and new cloud service providers. The partnership will add Digital Realty to the strong AT&T NetBond ecosystem. Digital Realty's data center portfolio is built on the groundwork of first class real estate expertise, and the company brings this knowledge and its ecosystem of network-rich data centers to this alliance.
"The speed of business growth is outpacing IT. This is driving an insatiable appetite for data center capacity, bandwidth and cloud connectivity," says Rene Dufrene, associate vice president, AT&T Mobile & Business Solutions. "This alliance with Digital Realty enables us to extend our product offerings enabled by Digital Realty's data center footprint and provide highly secure, high-performing and reliable connectivity to business workloads wherever they reside."
With this deal, customers can connect to the growing suite of AT&T NetBond cloud service providers from its locations within a Digital Realty data center in 2016. End-to-end reliability and network security for cloud connectivity will also be improved with the help of AT&T NetBond for cloud connectivity.
