The enterprise network is evolving fast, and it has to. New digital demands, enterprises are increasing their dependency on IT that is outside the traditional data center — whether it is on the public cloud, a hosted private cloud, a SaaS provider’s infrastructure or edge computing. Meanwhile, incoming trends such as 5G and IoT will put more pressure on traditional infrastructure.

This Pathfinder paper, written by 451 Research and commissioned by Equinix, investigates how distance has become the silent digital business killer. It will also highlight the reasons many enterprises are turning to a new architecture based on interconnection and leveraging colocation in multi-tenant data centers.