InterGlobix Magazine
Volume 2
Issue 1, 2020
Our fifth edition Cover Story is an exclusive on Data Gravity, an emerging megatrend with Digital Realty’s Tony Bishop and Dave McCrory. Also read insights from AWS, NVIDIA, Zenlayer, Yellowbrick and 451 Research. Our Feature Story is 2020 sequel to Women in Leadership.
INSIDE THE FIFTH EDITION
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451 RESEARCH INSIGHTS
In Conversation with Eric Hanselman, Principal Research Analyst, 451 Research
Eric Hanselman, Principal Research Analyst at 451 Research, which is a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence, explains why better access to data is critical for enterprises and how a better understanding of data gravity can help them extract value.
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YELLOWBRICK DATA
In Conversation with Mark Cusack, CTO, Yellowbrick Data
Yellowbrick and Digital Realty bring a modern data warehouse through hybrid-IT to centers of data exchange with Data Hub featuring Yellowbrick Data Warehouse. Leveraging PlatformDIGITAL®, Yellowbrick offers an integrated hosted data warehouse solution offered as a service to its customers, accelerating their cloud-adoption strategies.
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ZENLAYER
In Conversation with Lawrence Lee, VP, Partnerships and Alliances, Zenlayer
Zenlayer and Digital Realty are working together to deliver Digital Realty Network Hub featuring Zenlayer Edge Cloud Services. Zenlayer’s complete edge network approach helps enterprises harness the value of PlatformDIGITAL® in Digital Realty data centers.
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NVIDIA
In Conversation with Tony Paikeday, Senior Director, AI Systems, NVIDIA
Digital Realty recently announced a collaboration with NVIDIA and Core Scientific to deploy the industry’s first Data Hub featuring NVIDIA DGX A100 systems at the Interxion Digital Docklands Campus in London. With access to a new AI-ready infrastructure solution, businesses can rapidly deploy AI models in close proximity to their data sets globally, opening up a new artificial intelligence platform-as-aservice (AI PaaS) solution developed specifically for data science teams.
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AMAZON WEB SERVICES (AWS)
In Conversation with Joshua Burgin, General Manager, AWS Outposts
Digital Realty launched Data Hub featuring AWS Outposts to remove data gravity barriers for enterprises by enabling them to rapidly deploy AWS infrastructure at centers of data exchange globally on PlatformDIGITAL®. AWS Outposts is a fully managed service that offers the same AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs and tools to the data center, colocation space, or on premise facility for a consistent hybrid experience.
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DAVE MCCRORY
VP, Growth and Global Head of Insights and Analytics, Digital Realty
Dave McCrory ran a data strategy and consulting business before he joined Digital Realty. Over the last 25 years, McCrory led teams at GE Digital, Basho Technologies, Warner Music Group and others. He also co-founded Hyper9 (acquired by SolarWinds) and Surgient (acquired by Quest Software). McCrory holds more than nine technology patents in virtualization, cloud and systems management and created the concept of data gravity.
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TONY BISHOP
SVP, Platform, Growth and Marketing, Digital Realty
As the global head of platform, growth and marketing at Digital Realty, Tony Bishop focuses on building and growing the leading global data center platform to best address data gravity and digital transformations for the company’s enterprise, service provider and hyperscale customers. Prior to Digital Realty, Bishop worked in senior leadership positions at Equinix, 451 Research and Morgan Stanley. He is a 2nd Degree Fellow at Infrastructure Masons and the author of “Next Generation Data Centers in Financial Services: Driving Extreme Efficiency and Effective Cost Savings”.
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Sonal A. Patel
Vice President, Global Marketing, Verizon Partner Solution
Sonal A. Patel leads marketing for Verizon Partner Solutions and is responsible for developing the winning strategy and vision for the global wholesale business unit, and management of Verizon Wholesale’s product portfolio to drive revenue growth, gain market share and also inspire thought leadership through the development of key partnerships, targeting new customer segments and launching new products and
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Shalini Sharma
Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Vantage Data Centers
Shalini Sharma is the Senior Vice President, General Counsel, at Vantage Data Centers. She is an accomplished leader with more than 20 years of international corporate legal experience and 15 years of experience in global financial technology. Sharma’s passions include
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Patty Sewell
Chief Financial Officer, Sabey Corporation & Sabey Data Centers
With more than 35 years of experience in corporate finance, accounting and administrative management, Patty Sewell is the CFO of Sabey. In her current role, Sewell is a multi-functional member of Sabey’s Executive Leadership Team responsible for setting the Company’s financial strategy to support its long
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Ivonne Valdes
Vice president, Global Sales Cloud & Service Provider Segment, Schneider Electric
Ivonne Valdes is a Transformational Global sales leader with more than 30 years of expertise in Mission Critical Datacenter, Enterprise and Cloud. Her drive to keep learning helps her
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Shelagh Montgomery
Executive Vice President Strategic Client Management, QTS Data Centers
Shelagh Montgomery is a 25-year sales veteran of the Internet and data centers industries. She is a founder and executive sponsor of QTS’ Women Inspiring Leadership Group and was recently recognized for her efforts by Women In
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Alexandra Schless
Chief Executive Officer, NorthC Datacenters
Alexandra Schless has a long and distinguished track record in the datacenter industry. In the past two decades, she transformed a start-up business into a market leader and as a Vice President she led international sales teams. She is now CEO of NorthC Datacenters where she focuses on growing the business, while doing so in a
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Maile Kaiser
Senior Vice President, Sales, Coresite
As CoreSite’s Senior Vice President of Sales, Kaiser is responsible for overseeing revenue growth, managing daily operations for the company’s national sales organization and contributing to strategic planning. She has over 20 years of direct sales and management experience in the data center, network communications, software and managed services
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Nancy Novak
Chief Innovation Officer, Compass Datacenters
Nancy Novak is the Chief Innovation Officer of Compass Datacenters, which builds data centers for leading technology companies around the world. She has more than 25 years of construction experience and has overseen the delivery of over $3.5 billion in projects. Novak is also a passionate advocate for issues related to the advancement of women in
