"As enterprises continue to mobilise and expand into new geographies, they face a pressing need for secure global capabilities for mission critical applications," said Bryce Jewell, managing director of UK for GCX. "By building SDN based acceleration, security and on demand usage based value-added features into the network, we are increasing application performance, reducing bandwidth costs and improving security while providing VIRTUS and its customers high performance SLA-backed cloud connectivity across developed and emerging markets in the US, Europe, Middle East and Asia. We look forward to building a long term business relation with VIRTUS."
Through this partnership, VIRTUS' Cloud Connect Platform will interoperate with GCX's Cloud X Fusion ecosystem, which provides seamless, latency-guaranteed connectivity to leading cloud platforms. VIRTUS' Cloud Connect Platform offers highly reliable public cloud access from within a data centre that is built specifically to host high power-density equipment required for virtualised cloud solutions.
Darren Watkins, managing director, VIRTUS Data Centres said: "Cloud adoption is increasing at an unprecedented rate and it is mission critical to have a scalable and resilient infrastructure. LONDON2 is already an award-winning, world class facility with a broad range of connectivity options, but we are always striving to improve on its offering and GCX will provide a high performance global reach option, strengthening our ecosystem and ability to support the business expansion of our customers across multiple industries."
GCX operates one of the largest global subsea cable and terrestrial networks and offers the high-performance Cloud X platform with multi-cloud orchestration to enterprises around the world. Cloud X Fusion is part of GCX's Cloud X portfolio, a proprietary platform designed to seamlessly
combine the speed and power of fiber optics with the agility, flexibility and cost-efficiencies of "pay-as-you-go" cloud computing; available globally and controlled by a simple-to-use user portal.
