Digital transformation is moving businesses to adopt public clouds for their applications and IT services. With this decision, IT organizations are realizing higher demands for fast and secure interconnectivity to public clouds for mission-critical applications and business continuity services. With a progression of many companies into the third wave of cloud adoption, they are facing an increased need for dependable and private interconnection with their cloud service partners.

Wave 1: In the first wave of cloud adoption, traditional businesses were consuming compute and storage services for application development and testing, which did not require a lot of performance or security connecting to the cloud. Many of these workloads were deemed less critical, in addition to being more fast-moving/less static - a new project today could be gone tomorrow. Many businesses did not want to invest too heavily in the architecture of some of these short-lived projects, where private interconnection was less of a concern or ignored in the desire to not lose any velocity. As a result, many of the connections for these projects were typically done over the public internet and the 'best effort' performance and security was tolerated.

Wave 2: The second wave of cloud adoption saw businesses leveraging SaaS and latency-sensitive applications to the cloud (e.g., database backup and recovery, transaction processing) that required direct and secure, interconnection at low latency. These applications were less tolerant of the performance and security uncertainty of the public internet and, as a result, the demand for private interconnection increased from businesses across industries. In addition, the 'best availability' for applications and data was possible and companies began to leverage geo-redundant facilities.

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