Enhanced Connectivity with Google Cloud Interconnect at Digital Realty’s Brussels Data Center
Businesses seeking to optimize their hybrid IT architectures can now benefit from enhanced connectivity options with the availability of Google Cloud Interconnect at Digital Realty’s Brussels data center in Belgium. This strategic expansion allows customers to access Google Cloud services via a redundant cross-connect and through Digital Realty’s interconnection and orchestration solution, ServiceFabric™.
By ordering cross-connects between their private infrastructure and Google Cloud’s global network, enterprise customers located at the Brussels data center can enjoy low-latency, high-performance, secure, and cost-efficient connectivity to Google Cloud. This enables them to unlock the full potential of Google Cloud and accelerate their growth in today’s digital landscape.
ServiceFabric™, which underpins many of the capabilities of Digital Realty’s global data center platform PlatformDIGITAL®, serves as the ideal meeting place for enterprises with unparalleled access to a vast network of customers, network service providers, and cloud and IT providers. With the addition of the Brussels data center, PlatformDIGITAL® now hosts 15 Google Cloud locations, offering customers direct interconnection options as well as virtual access to any Google Cloud region from almost 100 locations globally.
Google Cloud Interconnect ensures the shortest path to customers’ Google Cloud resources, with network traffic remaining on the Google Cloud global network while in transit, thus improving performance through more predictable and reliable routing. Customers have the flexibility to choose between a hosted connection provided by Digital Realty or a dedicated connection into Google Cloud, allowing them to establish direct connections and optimize hybrid IT solutions and data-intensive AI workloads.
Dirk van de Geer, Managing Director of Digital Realty in Belgium, expressed his excitement about the availability of Google Cloud Interconnect in Brussels, highlighting the opportunities it brings for businesses to scale and thrive in the digital landscape. With enhanced connectivity options, customers can harness the full potential of Google Cloud and propel their digital transformation journeys forward.
