What Is Data Centre Interconnect (DCI)?

In today’s digital era, businesses rely on Data Centers to host and deliver their computing resources and information across the multitude of IT environments found within many organizations. The modern cloud computing model, combined with the pervasiveness of Virtualization, has led businesses from using a single Centralized Data Center to a model in which multiple Data Centers are geographically dispersed and, in some cases, connected to the Cloud and/or are part of a Hybrid Environment.

The challenge in this Connectivity is ensuring that an organization has an infrastructure that connects its data centers efficiently, allowing users, workloads, and applications to work together seamlessly.

Data Centre Interconnect (DCI) addresses this connectivity challenge by providing a layer of connectivity between Data Center Facilities. With DCI, multiple data centers can operate and communicate as if they were part of a single virtual resource pool.

Furthermore, DCI enables an organization with the ...