"GPX Cloud Solutions are focused on enabling enterprises in India to accelerate their cloud adoption"

Data center growth in India: In India, the demand for hyper-scale data centers has shot up in the last two years as more businesses are moving their IT infrastructure to the Cloud, primarily driven by increasing demand for app-based services and OTT platforms. Enterprises are transforming IT delivery and bringing applications and data processing closer to the users—in a colocation facility at the edge data center. 

Deploying direct, private connections at the digital edge propels both application performance and user experience. Enterprises are leveraging hybrid multi-cloud IT platforms offered by data centers like GPX. 

Security & Data center: The ongoing pandemic situation has made businesses pay greater attention to reliable and enduring network connectivity. Enterprise customers are increasingly moving away from their in-house data centres to either a third-party data centre or the Cloud. In third-party data centers, they can gain access to multiple Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) via an Open Cloud Exchange and have access to various other multiple network connectivity providers, including—Internet Exchanges (IXes), CDNs, SDNs, ISPs, content providers. All represent key building blocks of a connectivity-rich Interconnection Ecosystem, the nerve center of digital transformation.

GPX is the only data center in India with 170+ ISPs, 12 Carriers, 8 CSPs, and all major OTTs, thus enabling all these interconnections within the same data center campus. GPXs' Uptime Tier IV designed colocation data center and cloud solutions facilitates Hybrid IT. It enables customers to host part of their infrastructure at GPX Colo, part in the Cloud using GPX Direct Cloud Connect and Open Cloud Exchange, and (if needed) part at Customers' On-prem. 'GPX Mumbai data center campus has 5 Internet Exchanges: NIXI, AMS-IX, Bharat IX, DE-CIX, and Extreme IX.  

Readiness to meet the demand: GPX Cloud Solutions are focused on enabling enterprises in India to accelerate their cloud adoption. GPX is the first data center operator to launch an Open Cloud Exchange solution. It is a multi-homing solution that is a fully GPX managed solution, offering connectivity to multiple Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) hosted inside GPX Mumbai data center campus.

A big differentiator for the GPX Open Cloud Exchange is that it is not dependent on any other data center or network carrier. Enterprises can seamlessly connect to multiple cloud providers via a single port, accelerating their cloud adoption and enabling them to optimise hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud network strategies. Currently, there are 8 CSPs present in 'GPXs' Mumbai data center campus, out of which AWS, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud now offer direct private Cloud connect.

'Equinix's acquisition of GPX will enable a giant leap forward in growing India's ecosystem and give a solid foundation for rapid growth and expansion. GPX plans to expand across the region and globally via Platform Equinix, which has been highly successful with enterprises worldwide, especially the complementary segment with our existing customer base of carriers, content, and cloud service providers.

MANOJ PAUL, Managing Director, GPX India