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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-plus services , including secure and direct connections to over 200 global cloud on-ramps .

ServiceFabric is Digital Realty ’ s service orchestration platform that seamlessly interconnects workflow participants , applications , clouds and ecosystems on PlatformDIGITAL , its global data center platform .

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 ,” said Marcos Siqueira , Chief Operating Officer and Head of Sales at Ascenty .

The need for an open interconnection and orchestration platform is critical as an enabler for 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 .

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 .

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-plus metros in Asia Pacific , EMEA and North America . The expansion with Ascenty

“ 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 ,” Siqueira said . p

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