Partner content Businesses face immense pressure to balance enterprise agility with digital transformation. As interconnectivity grows, they must address challenges such as secure and efficient data exchange, data sovereignty, privacy, interoperability, and compliance. Additionally, organizations need to manage the surge in data volume, cybersecurity threats, and AI advancements, all while maintaining a consistent customer experience across multiple touchpoints.
Together, Telstra and Equinix help businesses to thrive by using cutting-edge technology to stay competitive. Their digital infrastructure solutions accelerate enterprise digital transformation by ensuring agility and enhancing performance.
Embracing agile with hyperconnected digital infrastructure
Hyperconnected digital infrastructure (HDI) is an advanced IT framework that combines multiple technologies to guarantee smooth and uninterrupted connectivity between all its parts. It offers virtualization, high-bandwidth connectivity, scalability, security, and interoperability. HDI helps organizations to stay competitive and responsive in a rapidly changing market. Organizations can use it to keep their operations secure, efficient, and scalable, allowing them to innovate while maintaining core business activities while connecting with partners and customers.
Integrating AI, network transformation, and multicloud environments introduces several challenges. AI requires significant computational power and sophisticated data management that can strain existing infrastructure. Network transformation demands continuous upgrades and maintenance to support new technologies and increased data traffic, leading to more robust and automated networks. Multicloud environments provide flexibility and resilience by distributing workloads but also add complexity in managing and securing data across different platforms.
These advanced technologies are reshaping HDI, making it more dynamic and capable of supporting innovative business models. Despite the challenges, adopting these technologies is essential for businesses to remain agile, responsive, and resilient in today’s digital economy. Embracing these services means embracing a future-ready approach to business.
Telstra and Equinix empower businesses to embrace agility through a hyperconnected digital infrastructure. Telstra’s managed services offer comprehensive technology solutions, ensuring seamless connectivity, robust security, and efficient management of digital assets. This allows businesses to focus on innovation and growth without worrying about the complexities of IT operations. Equinix provides a global platform for digital business, enabling companies to interconnect with partners, customers, and services across a vast ecosystem. Their digital services facilitate rapid deployment and scalability, ensuring that businesses can quickly adapt to changing market demands.
Trends impacting global enterprise hyperconnected digital infrastructure and strategies
As workflows and their requirements evolve, hyperconnected infrastructure architecture helps organizations with challenges such as:
- Technological: The transformation of global enterprises is driven by key technology trends such as AI, cloud computing, IoT, 5G networks, cybersecurity, and edge computing. These advancements enhance decision-making, automation, connectivity, and data security, enabling businesses to operate more efficiently and stay competitive in a rapidly evolving market.
- Rise of AI: To future-proof network and datacenter capacity for AI, organizations should invest in scalable infrastructure, ensure high-bandwidth connectivity, implement robust security measures, optimize energy efficiency, use hybrid and multicloud strategies, and develop sophisticated data management practices. These strategies will help support the growing demands of AI while maintaining flexibility, security, and efficiency.
- Data privacy and security: With increasing data breaches and stringent regulations, ensuring data privacy and security is a major concern. Organizations must invest in advanced network and security technologies and practices to protect sensitive information and comply with evolving data protection laws. At the same time, they can create a highly reliable and flexible network infrastructure that can adapt to changing market conditions.
- Regional: Regional momentum and relentless economic growth promise enormous business opportunities. However, the complexity and cost involved in preparing IT infrastructure for the future in some regions, such as Asia-Pacific, present significant challenges.
Solutions and services to support hyperconnected infrastructure
Managed hybrid cloud:
Telstra’s Managed Hybrid Cloud solution eases cloud migration road maps, cloud rebalancing requirements, and private AI investments. It features a fully managed hybrid cloud deployment, enabling rapid environment provisioning through infrastructure as code, and a flexible integrated ecosystem of leading private cloud platform providers.
Seamlessly integrated with Equinix datacenter and networking services, Telstra connects distributed infrastructure globally via software-defined interconnections. It optimizes workloads from the cloud to the edge with end-to-end managed cloud services covering compute, storage, networking, security and software platform components.
Key benefits:
- Dedicated secure environment: Ensure security with a dedicated, single-tenanted infrastructure that isolates sensitive workloads. Secure and connected cloud environment for sovereign-protected workloads hosted in Equinix data centers.
- Flexibility and scalability: With Telstra’s Managed Hybrid Cloud you can now easily purchase, manage and navigate your cloud environment deployed across the globe. Deploy and scale complex environments in minutes with infrastructure as code to respond to rapid market changes.
Co-location and managed network and cloud interconnection
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Through flexible consumption of services and automated provisioning, Telstra’s managed network and cloud interconnection solution empowers organisations to embrace digital business, providing the agility to adapt to rapidly evolving business requirements and changing market dynamics.
Telstra’s proven extensive network coverage, implementation, and consulting services empower business with a network solution that best matches their divergent workloads to multiple clouds. The joint solution uses Equinix digital services to deploy advanced networking services at convergence points of private networks, the internet, and public clouds to achieve an optimal combination of performance, economy, and flexibility for any multicloud architecture. It also uses the different co-location services and locations to host servers, applications, and data at the edge of the network, reducing latency and implementing robust security measures that adhere to industry standards to protect sensitive data and infrastructure.
Key benefits:
- Global reach: The Telstra international network and professional services paired with 260+ Equinix International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) datacenters provide true global coverage to simplify expansion into new markets.
- Integration and interconnection: The Telstra network is connected to the Equinix global interconnection platform, allowing companies to scale their digital business, keep pace with shifting markets, and find new growth opportunities.
Why Equinix and Telstra
Equinix and Telstra’s long-standing partnership empowers enterprises with greater agility when adopting new technologies, while accelerating the migration and deployment of complex cloud environments and the digitalization of the network.
- Managed infrastructure: Engage with a single partner to access top-notch technology consultants, solution experts, networks, and services, maximizing cloud opportunities. Seamlessly integrated with Equinix Fabric, this partnership connects distributed infrastructure globally via software-defined interconnection. Telstra’s end-to-end managed cloud services optimize workloads from the cloud to the edge, including updates, patching, and 24×7 proactive monitoring of network, security, and other infrastructure components.
- Secured connectivity: Build a future-fit digital infrastructure foundation with a secure environment adjacent to the cloud, using the global footprint of Equinix International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers and the Telstra global network. Enhance your security posture with Telstra’s advanced managed network and security capabilities, including threat monitoring and management services, ensuring a secure cloud environment.
In addition to these capabilities, Telstra and Equinix offer unparalleled support in navigating the complexities of modern digital infrastructure. Their combined expertise ensures that businesses can adapt to ever-changing technological landscapes with ease. This partnership simplifies the integration of cutting-edge technologies into existing systems, providing a seamless transition and minimizing disruption to operations.
By harnessing the power of Telstra’s extensive network and Equinix’s global datacenter footprint, businesses are equipped to handle the demands of digital transformation. This collaboration not only boosts performance but also enhances security measures, giving enterprises the confidence to innovate without compromising on protection.
Ultimately, the Telstra-Equinix alliance is more than just a service provider; it’s a strategic partner in building resilient, future-proof digital ecosystems. Together, they pave the way for businesses to thrive in the digital age, offering solutions that are as flexible as they are robust. Whether it’s optimizing cloud workloads or ensuring secure connectivity, this partnership is dedicated to helping enterprises achieve their digital transformation goals with unparalleled support and expertise.
Empower your enterprise with AI-ready infrastructure
AI is revolutionizing business operations, making robust digital infrastructure critical for success. This IDC analyst brief delivers expert strategies to optimise your hybrid, multi-cloud, and edge architectures while overcoming challenges like data silos and regulatory complexities. Learn how to future-proof your enterprise with intelligent, autonomous operations and a data-centric infrastructure framework.
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