Ascenty Strengthens Global Connectivity Network with Launch of Digital Realty’s ServiceFabric™
Customers can interconnect and secure their critical infrastructure and data sets
Ascenty: A Digital Realty and Brookfield Infrastructure JV, the largest provider of data center and connectivity services in Latin America, announced today the launch of ServiceFabric™ at its data center in São Paulo, Brazil. ServiceFabric™ is Digital Realty’s service orchestration platform that seamlessly interconnects workflow participants, applications, clouds and ecosystems on PlatformDIGITAL®, its global data center platform.
The need for an open interconnection and orchestration platform is critical as an enabler for artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance compute (HPC), especially as enterprises increasingly deploy private AI applications, which rely on the low latency, private exchange of data between many members of an ecosystem. Digital Realty’s PlatformDIGITAL® was chosen to be the home of many groundbreaking AI and HPC workloads and ServiceFabric™ was designed with the needs of cutting-edge applications in mind.
Digital Realty’s ServiceFabric™ is currently available in 50+ metros in Asia Pacific, EMEA, and North America. The expansion with Ascenty in greater São Paulo, through Ascenty’s superior connectivity network, offers customers direct access points to leading cloud platforms from any private location. Through automation, this combined solution streamlines customer access, ensuring both resilience and significant cost savings.
In addition, ServiceFabric™ offers access to Service Directory, a central marketplace that allows customers and partners to highlight their offerings to a global audience on PlatformDIGITAL®. More than 100 members have joined the directory and listed 175+ services, including secure and direct connections to over 200 global cloud on-ramps. This access to an extensive ecosystem for seamless interconnection and collaboration will enable Ascenty to meet the needs of large enterprises in the financial market, industry, retail, and technology sectors in South America.
“According to Gartner, in 2024, 78% of Brazilian CIOs will invest in the integration of technologies and architectures. ServiceFabric™, designed to help customers, partners and developers easily transition to hybrid IT and data architectures, delivers exactly that – a single platform that enables access to the leading cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle OCI, and IBM Cloud,” explains Marcos Siqueira, Chief Operating Officer and Head of Sales at Ascenty.
Strategy and Expansion
The launch of ServiceFabric™ in São Paulo is a key pillar of Ascenty’s connectivity and expansion strategy in South America. As part of its business expansions in Brazil and Latin America. Ascenty has plans to extend the availability of ServiceFabric™ to its data centers in Fortaleza, Brazil, and Santiago, Chile.
“We still expect Brazil to be Ascenty’s largest market by 2024, but we are also focusing on other Latin American countries. We are coming off a year of strong growth, which has allowed us to evaluate new investments, such as the one we made for ServiceFabric™, which will introduce a new interconnection alternative on a global scale on our continent,” Marcos said.