IBM Direct Link | Digital Realty

IBM Cloud® Direct Link and Digital Realty

Seamlessly connect data center and cloud-based workloads with IBM Cloud® Direct Link and ensure secure, consistent data transfers at massive scale for real-time analysis.

IBM Cloud Direct Link supports data migration, continuity, recovery, and secure backup.

Global Flexibility

Access IBM Cloud around the globe with our orchestration and interconnection platform ServiceFabric® and benefit from secure, private multicloud connectivity, bandwidth on demand and flexible billing based on your needs and plans to scale.

Performance

Experience predictable, reliable, low-latency, high-throughput connectivity required for hybrid architectures.

Cloud-adjacent colocation

Protect your sensitive, business-critical data by controlling every hop of its network path within a trusted, cloud-adjacent environment.

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We are the global meeting place for IBM Cloud customers and partners

Access IBM Cloud in 150+ locations across the Americas, APAC and EMEA with our global orchestration platform ServiceFabric™. Seamlessly interconnect and manage workflows, applications, multiple clouds, and ecosystems, all from a single interface. PlatformDIGITAL® offers an easy way for businesses to deploy private infrastructure adjacent to IBM Cloud.

70%

Percentage of apps and data that exists outside of the public cloud.

Dedicated: IBM Cloud has deployed IBM Cloud® Direct Link within 5 data centers across PlatformDIGITAL®.

Hosted Customers located in any of our 150+ global data centers where ServiceFabric™ is available can connect to any IBM Cloud region seamlessly and on-demand.

Remote: Customers anywhere can connect to IBM Cloud via a community of 1300+ local and global network service providers presiding in our data centers.

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Powering distributed cloud with IBM

We're redefining cloud landscapes with IBM, ensuring your data operates efficiently, securely, and scalably worldwide. Our long-standing partnership enables trusted infrastructure for distributed cloud environments—keeping you ready for what’s next.