GDS Services, a carrier-neutral DC service provider, is hopping on the “One Belt and One Road” strategy, which has been devised and promoted by the Chinese government. Focused on the countries along the old Silk Road, into Europe and around the globe, it seeks to encourage trade, commerce and a whole range of other forms of international exchange through both infrastructure and interconnectivity.
GDS aims to help companies targeting foreign businesses enter the Chinese market, via new international partnerships that will allow GDS to exchange markets, resources and strengths. It plans to focus on professional service platforms providing high-availability IT support for the international expansion strategies of both Chinese and foreign customers.
To go along with this, GDS has introduced a brand-new concept, CloudMix. CloudMix is a hybrid infrastructure service concept combining legacy platform, cloud and high-availability services. It also optimizes the customer experience through a one-stop infrastructure service.
Traditional data centers and cloud services struggle to meet the challenges posed by growing IT complexity — legacy platforms are still widespread. CloudMix instead integrates data centers, laaS, private cloud and other related services to allow customers to move data and applications between legacy platform, private and public cloud, while providing security, availability, agility and automation.
