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Did you know that every time you use your smart phone, you’re connecting to a data center? Learn about the critical, behind-the-scenes role data centers play in our daily lives.

 

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Cloud Networking

Connect Directly to All Major Cloud Service Providers

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OVERVIEW

Reduce Data and Network Costs While Increasing Performance and Reliability with Cloud Connectivity

CoreSite direct cloud connections cut data egress fees by as much as 60%* while ensuring secure access to public clouds, your digital ecosystem and customers.

With low-latency cloud networking, you can align best-of-breed cloud services to business imperatives – exceptional customer experience, reliability, performance that developers need and access to innovative digital services.

*Cost savings are based on CoreSite cost comparisons using publicly available and private information and/or CoreSite customer reported costs savings and may not be indicative of the cost savings that may be experienced by every customer that switches to the applicable CoreSite service.

 

Trusted by Leading Cloud Providers

CoreSite is one of only two data center providers able to deliver true native cloud connections.
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AWS DIRECT CONNECT

Direct connection to services for a broad range of industry and technology use cases.

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AZURE EXPRESSROUTE

Secure, private connection to your Microsoft Azure, Office 365 and Dynamics 365.

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ORACLE FASTCONNECT

Scalable connection to a flexible data platform to enable building big data applications.

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GOOGLE CLOUD INTERCONNECT

Low-latency, point-to-point connections for reliable, high performance connectivity into Google Cloud Platform.

Be a Cloud-Smart Enterprise

Direct connections are key to a reducing data fees while building an agile multicloud strategy. 

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ACCELERATE TIME TO CLOUD
Compound the value of your direct connection. Leverage the Open Cloud Exchange® to automate and speed hybrid cloud networking. Meet customers, business partners and service providers where business and innovation happen. CoreSite direct connect solutions drastically cut time to market, enable spinning up virtual resources in seconds and create low-latency interconnection to IT services providers.
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SCALE AND BECOME A FUTURE-READY ENTERPRISE
Eliminate growth constraints and instantly turn on and off services to manage spend on workloads and data. Easily adapt infrastructure to meet changing business objectives. Direct cloud connectivity enables the scalability key to artificial intelligence and establishes the reliability essential to cloud-native applications. Move data faster, with high integrity, where you need it today and tomorrow.
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EXPAND MARKET REACH
Sell services and solutions in markets your cloud providers serve, across availability zones and to the edge. Direct connections empower low-latency application performance, competitive customer experiences and increased revenue. Direct connections also drive seamless interoperability with partners and help you grow business within a region and across select markets.
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SIMPLIFY COMPLIANCE
Lower business risk by minimizing exposure of data and networks to attack. Direct connections are the “gold standard” of security, limiting the points of access while facilitating real-time monitoring by security providers. Security and compliance go hand-in-hand. Direct connect limits the points of network access and enables you to layer physical security with third-party cybersecurity services.

TAKE CONTROL TO OPTIMIZE CLOUD VALUE

CoreSite native cloud onramps power hybrid IT strategies to monetize and grow your business.
OPEN CLOUD EXCHANGE

How the Open Cloud Exchange Works

The CoreSite Open Cloud Exchange (OCX) is a software-defined platform that works by providing a single port into our Layer 2 Ethernet switching platform, enabling private virtual connections (VLANs) to multiple service providers. Provisioning is done in real time through a private online portal. The OCX also enables you to order and connect Layer 3 ethernet virtual circuits (EVCs). Read More
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VIRTUAL ROUTING

Cloud-to-Cloud Interconnection with the OCX

The OCX includes a virtual routing solution (Arrcus Connected Edge Multi Cloud Networking software) that enables cloud-to-cloud connectivity. With OCX and Arrcus Connected Edge, you can interconnect enterprise, network and public clouds to provide access to previously siloed capacity pools.
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CUSTOMER STORY

80% Reduction in Data Transport Costs

“We are committed to making cloud storage and replication easy for our customers. CoreSite serves as a partner in this mission, helping us move forward and achieve the powerful results we want. There is a trust and camaraderie to the relationship.”

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Frequently Asked Questions

WHAT IS A DIRECT CONNECTION? A direct connection is a dedicated, physical fiber optic link between a colocation customer’s infrastructure equipment to a cloud provider within a colocation facility. You’ll often see direct connect referred to as a “native connection,” an “on-net” connection or a cloud “onramp.”

 
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A DIRECT CONNECT AND A CLOUD CONNECT?

A direct connect is a private, dedicated network connection. A cloud connect utilizes the public internet.
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PUBLIC CLOUD AND PRIVATE CLOUD?

Public clouds are managed by a third-party provider such as Google, Microsoft or IBM. Private clouds are established and managed by an enterprise and dedicated to that enterprise.
WHAT IS DATA EGRESS?

In the context of direct connection to public clouds, data egress is the transfer of data from the cloud to a specified destination such as an enterprise data center or service. Cloud providers typically do not charge for data to be brought into their cloud but do charge for data to be retrieved.
WHY IS DIRECT CONNECTIVITY IMPORTANT IN CLOUD NETWORKS?

With direct cloud interconnections, you no longer need to rely on network providers for connections to each cloud provider. You also have access to a more diverse supplier ecosystem that can centralize resources to support rapid access to the public cloud.
ARE THERE PERFORMANCE ADVANTAGES REALIZED BY DIRECT CONNECTION?

Direct connection offers significantly lower latency. Application performance is optimized and better facilitates consistent application experience for users. Direct connect also allows for frictionless migration of virtual machines between dev/test environments.