There’s a gap between the big cloud service providers and data centers. If you’re a data center provider, perhaps you’ve noticed it. When a data center provider offers its customers direct connectivity to one of the big three cloud providers, the cloud provider defines what the customer experience should be and becomes the point of contact. They plan the routes for the customer journey through their applications, services, and workload deployment mechanisms. When did the private data center settle for the passenger seat? The cloud has the edge – at least in the enterprise’s mindset. Fiber optic connectivity provided by the data centers, as the big three cloud providers see it, is simply an on-ramp to their cloud offerings. Download this whitepaper to learn about about the Ridge proposition and to see how Ridge is building both a new kind of public cloud platform and assembling a network of data center providers to host this platform.
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