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engineer , or even understanding the level of complexity behind it .
“ The work that we collaborated on with Megaport on SX is really at the highest level ,” he continues . “ It ’ s very technically challenging to achieve because it revolves around the hybrid multi-cloud approach that a lot of enterprises are taking , wherein they need to establish a location to stand up their private infrastructure and then access multiple public clouds . From our perspective , it was really about aligning our enterprise customers in the market and giving them as open a platform as possible . We really like to invest in our partners , not to compete with them , and have those best-of-breed relationships that let us deliver the best capabilities to our customers .”
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SX Fabric is just one aspect of the vast PlatformDIGITAL capability roadmap . For example , the platform offers coverage from more than 265 Digital Realty data centres in 20 countries and 44 metropolitan areas . Connections are offered through physical and virtual cross-connects and includes more than 2,000 ecosystem participants — the company plans to extend this to more than 10,000 in the future .
More recently , the business has completed projects in Frankfurt , Dublin , and Tokyo , locations that Sharp describes as “ hotbeds for enterprise customers trying to access revenue opportunities ”. Take the new Clonshaugh data centre in Dublin , which forms part of an existing portfolio in the Irish capital . Ireland ’ s data centre economy is growing rapidly having already contributed 7.13bn euros
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