This shift is driving the industry to the forefront of innovation.
Developments in digital technology have led to Financial Services organizations creating solutions that utilise insight and data to improve customer experience and competitive advantage across their offerings. Those thriving in today's age are the ones who create the most competitive digital ecosystem, one that spans the major financial hubs across the globe.
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Find out from Andy Power, Digital Realty's Chief Financial Officer, how Financial Services companies are getting the most from their data - and changing their data centre needs as a result.
To keep up with the pace of change, Financial Services must adjust their business models to create the most competitive interconnected communities. Digital Realty works with Financial Services organizations to deliver the flexible environment they need to optimise the access and exchange of their data. We help them build their competitive interconnected communities in prime locations to enable ultra-low latency access to an ecosystem of market participants, including trading venues, market data providers, buy side and sell side firms, as well as cloud, managed service and network service providers.
Our trusted foundation enables our customers to rapidly respond to market conditions and new technology trends such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) which is becoming a driving force of intelligence for many competitive organizations.
As a result, our next-generation data centres form an integral part of Financial Services strategy and ensure that the right controls, processes and procedures are in place to meet the full range of market and regulatory demands.
Highly secure portal assets, physical infrastructure management and data policies and procedures ensure secure, private connectivity to high-performance networks across an interconnected ecosystem.
We understand that data security demands are more than antivirus programs and firewalls to guard against cyber criminals. That's why data centre security - both physical and information - is an essential part of our strategy for ensuring operational efficiency and peace of mind for our customers. With highly dependable security measures in place, we give peace of mind so that customers can focus on running their business.
We are a viable business, here for the long term. Our REIT status means that we are a long-term investment; financially, we have a strong balance sheet, and are the only data centre provider to have an investment grade credit rating.
Fully transparent technical operations planning and reporting, with an industry leading record of reliability and uptime of 12 years of five nines availability (99.999%).
Comprehensive compliance programs with strict requirements to meet industry standards and transparent processes to support audit and regulatory requirements. Digital Realty has incorporated compliance programs into the design and management of our security systems and data centres. This means that we meet the rigid standards incorporated into the most relevant data centre certifications programs, including SOC2, PCI-DSS, ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 50001 & ISO 27001.
Ability to move fast and meet deadline, working with the customer every step of the way to maximise their cloud and interconnection strategy.
Leverage the integrated global platforms necessary to access your data, buy, exchange and sell services, whilst leveraging the tools to interact with potential business partners and market products.
Digital Realty delivers the future of global financial market exchanges worldwide whilst providing a secure, yet easily accessible IT environment to build and grow financial trading infrastructure.
The physical location of a data centre can have a major impact on data speeds and latency. We have data centres in all the major financial hubs (for example, London, New York and Singapore) and continue to add to our portfolio.
To comply with data sovereignty and data protection laws, we are able to support customer requirements to host certain data domestically/ in certain countries. Our global reach ensures that customers have a choice of where to host their data.
Utilise our data centre environment to optimise IT strategy, whilst at the same time gaining access to a multitude of services, such as edge, big data, AI and blockchain.
Digital Realty will provide a highly-secure, flexible environment to optimise the access and exchange of data, meet compliance and regulatory demands, wherever and whenever it is needed.
We strengthen and maintain business and operational continuity with offsite backup in multiple locations. Customers can depend on a trusted partner with industry-leading availability to deliver redundant data centre sites and recovery capabilities faster and more efficiently than any other provider.
We ensure the resiliency of markets with data centres strategically located and purpose built for disaster recovery and access.
We deliver redundant data centre sites and recovery capabilities faster and more efficiently than any other provider. With an industry-leading 12 years of 99.999% (five nines) availability, we ensure our customers have an always available and constantly accessible, secure computing environment.
