
Data Gravity's Effect on Healthcare
The healthcare industry is immersed in digital transformation with Telehealth becoming more prevalent and expectations around more personalized, convenient, transparent and secure experiences. This is driving an increase in data and challenges around data gravity barriers. Hear from our expert, Tony Bishop, SVP of Platform and Ecosystem Strategy, explain what data gravity is and why it should be considered in the healthcare industry's IT strategies.
New technologies present new demands on infrastructure for data management, security, and storage. With global adoption for healthcare cloud services predicted to reach about $10 billion by 20201 and the average healthcare organization already using 900+ different cloud-based services, healthcare organizations need ways to simplify things.
To get the most value out of data and meet regulatory overload, healthcare IT teams need to process in milliseconds to make faster decisions and take timely action.
As the most agile provider in the industry, we provide customers with the technology and expertise to solve some of their biggest IT challenges with secure, high-performance, interconnected data center solutions that enable hybrid-cloud strategies that quickly extend digital capabilities.

PlatformDIGITAL® empowers us to fully support our growing healthcare vertical. It gives us the control we need to scale our business and operations while remaining compliant as we securely deploy our most critical processes.
—Brett Haines, Vice President, Atlantic.Net, Inc.
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Broadening Your Reach
Provide service to your customers with enhanced precision using the lowest latency achievable through our high-density data centers, and deliver robust, flexible connectivity options in key consumer markets.
Ensure your customers enjoy high levels of reliability and performance from Digital Realty’s 205+ highly connected facilities with access to multiple content providers.
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Security and Data Protection
Protect patient and hospital information with a secure environment in our SOC 2, SOC 3, HIPAA, and PCI-compliant data centers across a substantial global footprint.
Considering how vital privacy protection is to patients, our facilities will represent a distinct advantage for your patients and your organization.
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Ensure Resilience and Reliability
Meet any evolving digital needs of your patients, providers, and caregivers through our reliable, high-performance data center environments.
Digital Realty offers a portfolio of secure, protected, and compliant data center infrastructure and interconnectivity solutions with 11 years of 99.999% (five nines) uptime service-level agreements that lead the industry.
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Improve User Experience
Digital Realty’s interconnection and colocation solutions enable healthcare organizations to extend their reach and deliver an optimal digital experience to their patients, providers, and caregivers. Anytime. Anywhere.
1 Markets and Markets, Healthcare Cloud Computing Report 2018
2 Healthcare Data Center Trends You Should Care About, Onramp 2018