A new spin on interconnects for colocation data centers

It has been almost a year since I first wrote about Stateless, Inc., a startup devoted to bringing software-defined interconnects (SD-IX) to colocation data centers. At that time, the company was just announcing its plans to reinvent the means to connect workloads across data centers, hyper scale clouds and on-premises footprints using SD-IX. The intent was to give colo service providers a simpler way to quickly deploy network services for their tenants. Those plans have come to fruition and the company has announced the general availability (GA) of its Luxon SD-IX platform.

There’s a growing trend of enterprises moving more of their workloads to colocation data centers and the cloud. Gartner predicts that in a few years, many enterprises won’t even operate their own data centers anymore. To support the new business coming their way, colo data centers must become more agile, scalable and flexible, and this is where the Stateless offering comes in.