CXD On-demand Colocation

What is CXD On-demand Colocation?

CXD On-demand Colocation: The Best of Lap and the Cloud

The cloud-first isn't necessarily just public cloud. CXD, Cyxtera's Extensible Data Center platform, combines the control, cost savings, and security of dedicated colocation infrastructure with the provisioning speed, financial advantages, and agility of the cloud.

Enterprises, XaaS providers, and SIs have made CXD's on-demand, scalable interconnection and infrastructure their platform of choice for extending colocation environments, deploying private clouds, and operating platforms as a service. And our CXD Federal Edition is designated as FedRAMP Ready at the high-impact level, giving federal agencies a secure global platform for IT modernization and Cloud Smart initiatives.

Interconnect, point and click

Click and create virtual cross-connections on our premises, on a subway, to cloud ramps and hundreds of network service providers.

Dedicated infrastructure in minutes

Deploy dedicated, agile infrastructure, cabinets, and storage in the cloud in minutes, with the security, control, and cost-effectiveness of collocation.

Connect to a global partner ecosystem

Quickly and easily extend your On-Demand environment with solutions from our ecosystem of CXD-powered service providers and networks.

CXD: The Platform

CXD On-demand Colocation is a powerful platform that provides the industry's only programmable, software-defined intra-data center network. This massively scalable fabric allows you to seamlessly extend existing VLANs to connect within our facilities, in a metropolitan area, to cloud ramps, and to an ecosystem of vendors. It's also how CXD can provision and connect dedicated infrastructure on demand – from enclosures to bare metal servers and HCI nodes, all pre-configured, easy to deploy and scale through CXD Command Center or our easy-to-use API.

Manage your entire environment through CXD Command Center or API

CXD On-demand Colocation was developed by Cyxtera from the ground up, using an API-first approach. This allows for easy integration with your existing tools and processes.   CXD Command Center is a web console that presents a user-friendly interface to CXD's highly scalable network fabric, automated provisioning engine, and preconfigured on-demand infrastructure catalog. It allows you to see all your colocation environments from an integrated glass panel.

One port to access all CXD services

All CXD-Powered services are delivered through a single physical CXD port.   Through this redundant fiber optic network link, you can establish multiple secure Layer 2 connections quickly and easily. As the single point through which you create logical VLANs and link to CXD services, the CXD On-demand Colocation port radically simplifies data center interconnection. All CXD On-demand Colocation services are also supported by our 99.999% network availability SLA, to ensure that the network will be up and services available at all times.

CXD On-demand Colocation at Work

Private or hybrid cloud platform

Companies meet cloud requirements and pass the audit of their security team, deploying private clouds on CXD's bare metal or HCI compute nodes. The CXD on-demand interconnect serves as your hybrid IT hub.

Availability Zones for a XaaS Provider

XaaS providers use CXD On-demand Colocation to bring the power of cloud Availability Zones to the world of dedicated private infrastructure. They increase resiliency as they increase capacity across multiple data centers with CXD Powered.

Availability Zones for a XaaS Provider

Service providers and enterprises use CXD's broad geographic availability to cost-effectively expand into new markets with minimal investment and grow as their business grows.

System Requirements:

CPU: 1.8 GHz dual core processor

RAM: 2 GB

HDD/SSD: 50 GB of free space on main drive

Operating system: Microsoft Windows 8 32-bit, Microsoft Windows 7 32-bit and Microsoft Windows Vista 32-bit

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