- Highly experienced technology executive Di Vitantonio
appointed as Chief Executive Officer of AtlasEdge
- Digital Realty has entered into a partnership with AtlasEdge
and agreed to make a minority equity investment
- Zayo Group collaboration provides carrier-neutral
connectivity with AtlasEdge technical facilities
AtlasEdge, a European edge data centre provider, has
appointed Giuliano Di Vitantonio as its CEO and has entered into
two new strategic relationships with Digital Realty and Zayo Group.
Formed via a joint venture between Liberty Global (NASDAQ: LBTYA,
LBTYB and LBTYK) and DigitalBridge (NYSE: DBRG) in the spring of
2021, AtlasEdge has an extensive footprint of more than 100 sites
across Europe and is the continent’s leading edge platform,
delivering seamless, localised and ultra-low latency digital
infrastructure to customers.
Giuliano Di Vitantonio named as CEO
Giuliano Di Vitantonio will join AtlasEdge in January 2022 from
Digital Realty, where he has served as Executive Vice President,
Strategy & Business Segments. Di Vitantonio was Chief Marketing
and Strategy Officer at Interxion before the company was acquired
by Digital Realty in 2020. He has more than 25 years’ experience in
the technology sector, across a broad range of roles including
R&D, strategy, consulting, business development, and marketing.
He also brings extensive knowledge of global customers and complex
solutions, having spent 17 years at Hewlett-Packard and four years
at Cisco Systems as Global Vice President of Marketing for Data
Center & Cloud.
Agreement with Digital Realty builds upon successful
partnerships across Europe
Today’s announcement with Digital Realty builds upon AtlasEdge’s
existing successful partnerships in four European countries: Virgin
Media O2 in the UK, Virgin Media in Ireland, Sunrise UPC in
Switzerland and UPC in Poland. AtlasEdge is leveraging each
carrier’s key technical real estate and connectivity services to
deliver vital edge-based infrastructure in highly connected
locations.
Digital Realty, the largest global provider of data centre,
colocation and interconnection solutions, has selected AtlasEdge as
its European edge provider and has made a strategic minority equity
investment. Digital Realty will be able to extend the scale of its
presence across the continent by offering AtlasEdge locations to
its customers.
Zayo collaboration supports the continued evolution of the
cloud with best-in-class edge architecture
Zayo Group, a leading global provider of fibre-based
communications solutions, will collaborate with AtlasEdge,
connecting its extensive carrier-neutral, fibre-based network with
AtlasEdge technical facilities in support of their ever-increasing
customer requirements. Zayo operates a Tier 1 network backbone,
with a 126,000 route-mile fibre network across North America and
Europe, and more than 13 million miles of fibre serving thousands
of office buildings and data centers with high bandwidth optical-
and packet-based services.
AtlasEdge’s open strategy allows the company to operate
independently and support carriers, networks, traditional
hyperscale data centre providers, cloud and content platforms as
they address edge requirements.
Josh Joshi, AtlasEdge Executive Chairman, commented: “Our
collaborative approach is accelerating with today’s announcements
and the arrival of Giuliano, who has played a critical role in some
of the most successful data centre growth strategies in the
industry. We are delighted that we have been able to secure a
leader of such credibility and calibre to lead AtlasEdge. We
believe that demand is quickly moving to the edge to support the
requirements for the digital economy, and AtlasEdge will be the
default name in European edge infrastructure.”
“Over the past 25 years I have been fortunate to experience the
evolution of the tech sector from the front line, and I believe the
emergence of edge computing represents another great advance for
our digital society,” added Di Vitantonio, incoming CEO, AtlasEdge.
“It is fantastic to be part of the coalition developing this
exciting opportunity. With the expert backing of Liberty Global and
DigitalBridge, as well as the latest strategic partnership with
Digital Realty and the collaboration with Zayo – who are truly
impressive leaders in their respective fields – I have no doubt
that AtlasEdge can deliver the next generation of edge data centres
in Europe and help create a new platform for our customers and our
partners.”
Digital Realty’s CTO Chris Sharp commented: “AtlasEdge has a
unique set of assets widely distributed across Europe, placing them
in position to capitalize on the growing demand for edge services
and to be a strong partner with us in the region as the market
develops. Giuliano has been a key contributor to our global
strategy, and we look forward to continuing to work closely with
him and the team as AtlasEdge delivers on its promising growth
trajectory.”
“We are excited to work with AtlasEdge in enabling the
Network(ed) Edge™ ecosystem in Europe. This collaboration
demonstrates Zayo’s commitment to building the Edge architecture
that is critical to support customers’ demand for high-capacity,
low-latency connectivity solutions,” said Jesper Aagaard,
President, Zayo Europe. “We are aligned with AtlasEdge in their
goal to deliver a next-gen edge platform in Europe and are
committed to investing in our European network infrastructure to
support this goal, which will help drive our customers’ digital
transformation initiatives globally.”
ABOUT AtlasEdge
AtlasEdge is a European edge data centre business with a mission
to create Europe’s leading edge platform, delivering seamless,
localised and ultra-low latency digital infrastructure to
customers. Formed through a joint investment by Liberty Global, one
of the world’s leading converged video, broadband and
communications companies and DigitalBridge, a leading global
investment firm dedicated to digital infrastructure, AtlasEdge
already has an expanding portfolio of more than 100 sites across
the continent, providing proximity to the core network that is
critical for the technology of tomorrow. For more information,
please visit www.atlasedge.com.
ABOUT Digital Realty
Digital Realty supports the world’s leading enterprises and
service providers by delivering the full spectrum of data center,
colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the
company’s global data center platform, provides customers a trusted
foundation and proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx™)
solution methodology for scaling digital business and efficiently
managing data gravity challenges. Digital Realty’s global data
center footprint gives customers access to the connected
communities that matter to them with 291 facilities in 47 metros
across 24 countries on six continents. To learn more about Digital
Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow them on LinkedIn
and Twitter.
ABOUT Zayo Group Holdings, Inc.
Zayo Group Holdings, Inc. provides mission-critical bandwidth to
the world's most impactful companies, fueling the innovations that
are transforming our society. Zayo's 126,000-mile network in North
America and Europe includes extensive metro connectivity to
thousands of buildings and data centers. Zayo's communications
infrastructure solutions include dark fiber, private data networks,
wavelengths, Ethernet, dedicated internet access and data center
connectivity solutions. Zayo owns and operates a Tier 1 IP backbone
and through its CloudLink service, Zayo provides low-latency
private connectivity that attaches enterprises to their public
cloud environments. Zayo serves wireless and wireline carriers,
media, tech, content, finance, healthcare and other large
enterprises. For more information, visit www.zayo.com.
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