Six Companies in Our Digital Ecosystem That Can Streamline Your Hybrid IT Journey

Collaboration speeds digital transformation, expansion into new markets, creates operational efficiency and elevates customer experiences. In this post, we feature several companies in our digital ecosystem that provide the expertise and technology you need on your hybrid IT journey.

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In a natural ecosystem, organisms and their environment interact. In a digital ecosystem, participating companies interconnect and collaborate. Collaborations often focus on digital transformation, efficiency gains, customer experience and/or growth via new products or services or markets. The collaborating companies may exchange data in some way – for example, moving data between clouds. Or, an organization needs networks capable of distributing content nationally or internationally. Or enterprises need integration services, managed services or as-a-service solutions such as IaaS or PaaS. The right partnerships improve the hybrid IT journey.

The Japanese practice of keiretsu (a term referring to a business network made up of different companies) may be digital ecosystem 1.0. Decades later, the concept has evolved with network carriers, digital platforms, software and AI/ML services.

Our digital ecosystem, the CoreSite Marketplace, includes hundreds of companies organized into 10 partner types. These include AI companies, cybersecurity companies, cloud service providers, systems integrators and managed service providers. It’s easy to add partners to your tech stack through the CoreSite Open Cloud Exchange ^® (OCX) software-defined networking platform.

Meet a few of the companies that are part of our ecosystem.

Lumen

Lumen offerings span adaptive networking, edge cloud and IT agility, connected security and collaboration. The Lumen Platform delivers big data as a service, IoT, cloud application management, private/public cloud and more. Lumen solutions include IaaS, SD-WAN, content delivery networks, managed services and cybersecurity software and services. Managed services provide expertise and governance across IT environments. Opportunities to work with Lumen may involve:

• Connecting data centers in the U.S. and in North America, Latin America and Europe to improve communications and collaboration, with dedicated internet access and voice conferencing services.
• Assisting with building and scaling a subscription service using secure data transfer methods within an encrypted data architecture that has no public interface. Core applications can be run in a Lumen-hosted and managed environment.
• Expanding connectivity and cybersecurity to enable reliable communications between bank customers and employees to mitigate DDoS attacks.
  
  

Lumen’s peered internet network features approximately 450,000 route miles
of fiber and approximately 170,000 on-net fiber locations.

Transitional Data Services (TDS)

TDS offers professional services for data centers. Offerings include cloud adoption, data center migration and modernization, database modernization, disaster recovery and application portfolio management. The TransitionManager collaborative SaaS platform provides visibility into hybrid environments and lowers risk by orchestrating multiple, concurrent workstreams during migrations. Explore capabilities such as:

• Ingesting data from disparate systems such as configuration management data bases (CMDBs), IT service management (ITSM) and files, then creating a visual map of applications, servers, storage and devices throughout the hybrid IT landscape.
• Providing a consistent view of data to enable migration team members to see the importance of each step in the process, plan tasks and track project progress.
• Orchestrating move events by establishing bundling criteria for migration waves, highlighting dependency issues and balancing move groups based on latency, batch processes and file transfer dependencies.
  
  

TDS has migrated more than 1.5 million workloads and more than 400,000 applications.

Zenlayer

Through its hyperconnected cloud, bare metal and virtual machine offerings, Zenlayer helps deploy applications close to users with ultra-low latency. The Bare Metal Cloud solution provides access to servers in more than 40 countries in Asia, Africa, Europe, North America and South America. Capabilities include:

• Delivering a custom, edge-based network to support the rapid growth of an e-learning platform used by universities and online education. The approach includes bare metal servers at the edges, managed hosting, leased lines and IP transit with burstable bandwidth.
• Implementing advanced networking services to support an advertising platform and mobile marketing solutions. The content delivery network (CDN) caches content at the edge, close to users, and the Zenlayer Global Accelerator provides dynamic content delivery to support gaming experiences.
• Enabling live-streaming capabilities for enterprises across multiple global regions and emerging markets by connecting core and edge PoPs in a dedicated, low-latency network that uses preferred local carriers.

As a global edge cloud services provider, Zenlayer offers worldwide,
on-demand connectivity via 230+ points of presence (PoPs).

STN

Look to STN for managed services, IT consulting/advisory services and cybersecurity software and services. Access data management experts and software-defined network appliances in interconnected, compliant data centers. STN creates custom on-premises and private cloud environments and automates data backups and disaster recovery. ROBO as a service (RaaS) spins up office environments instantly when disaster strikes. Explore capabilities such as:

• Risk assessment services that identify vulnerabilities and threats. For example, healthcare organizations can determine if and to what extent PHI and ePHI data is exposed and learn how to mitigate risks. If needed, STN can implement Center for Internet Security (CIS) critical security controls.
• Managed services, which encompass managed firewall, managed SIEM, managed security infrastructure and managed security services.
• Automation and platform services centered on network automation, cloud orchestration, DevOps CI/CD and system automation via Ansible, Chef and other solutions.
  
  

STN has access to 700 data centers, enabling transfer of data to CoreSite
facilities throughout the U.S. to ensure data resilience and business continuity.

JK Technology Services

The Technology Services group within JK Moving Services specializes in moving or decommissioning your physical IT infrastructure. JK Technology Services is an enterprise data center relocation and IT change management platform. The JK Technology team customizes strategies using a “bottoms-up” approach. Best practices guide conceptual planning, development of standards and the 30-60-90 design/review method. Offerings include:

• Furnish and install/integration services, which encompass cabling, wiring, network setups, hardware installation and data center configurations.
• Operations solutions, which cover the frontend and backend of data center changes. Expert move, add, change and delete managed services provide incident and ticket management, remote and local break/fix and setup of your tech management portal.
• Data center support, which spans mechanical and electrical – OEM logistics, inventory control and secure storage. Crane and rigging experts make sure heavy and sensitive equipment arrives safe and sound.

JK Technology has taken down, migrated and turned up more than $250 million in appliances.

Arnett Services Group

The Arnett Services data center relocation project lifecycle spans move strategy, discovery, analysis and planning, and execution. Your co-developed data center migration strategy considers cloud (public, private or hybrid), colocation, on-premises and data center as a service. Hardware is moved in custom shock-transport cases. When critical systems have data on the hardware, they’re protected with physical security and procedures designed to prevent data loss or compromise. Explore Arnett services such as:

• Decommissioning a data center site in compliance with state and federal laws related to recycling data center equipment and with an eye to mitigating risk, reducing waste and recovering asset value.
• Setting up inventory related to infrastructure and applications to account for all components before and after a move. Before and after diagrams guide deinstallation and reinstallation.
• Mapping and analyzing application dependencies prior to developing a migration plan.

An Arnett Services project roadmap can incorporate IT processes such as disaster recovery and colocation.

Your Hybrid IT Future Is in Many Good Hands

Whatever expertise and capabilities you need to modernize and grow, you’ll find what you need on the Marketplace or by talking to your CoreSite representative. The Marketplace page shows a partial list of companies in our digital ecosystem, so a conversation about your challenges and objectives can point you in the right direction.

Know More

Want to learn more about the Open Cloud Exchange, the platform that provides access to companies in our digital ecosystem? View the OCX vision and blueprint story, and read tips for deploying hybrid cloud and multicloud.