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THE PERFECT COMBINATION
Data-processing center operators such as Equinix sup- port the City of Hamburg in establishing such digital in- frastructure. Equinix has recently opened the HH1 data processing center, a new German site in the Hanseatic City, facilitating connectivity for companies worldwide via the global Equinix platform.
Data processing centers not only offer additional IT capacity, but also ensure private, direct, physical connections to sector-specific digital ecosystems – and in addition within the data processing center, by-passing the public Internet. Using this inter-con- nection, they make a neutral platform available, ena- bling companies to share immense quantities of da- ta – within short latency with their partners, and shielded from external access. Using this, a city or company’s complex digital projects can be imple- mented faster and more securely. Via such a digital platform, data interchange is possible, not only be-
tween a city’s utilities or transport operators and ex- ternal companies such as mobility suppliers, but also among ships, trucks, railway networks and water- ways.
In this sense, data processing centers make an impor- tant contribution to digitalizing a city. ■
DIGITAL DECADE ■
Info Equinix
Founded in 1998, Equinix protects, connects and promotes today’s digital economy by inter-connecting global market leaders in 55 markets, 26 countries located on five continents with their customers, staff and partners. As global connectivity leaders, the data processing centers are strategically positioned as homogeneous global connectivity platforms. They bring market leaders and innovators together to open up the way into the digital future.
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