New fabric aims to simplify the management of interconnection services so enterprise customers can more easily monitor and manage utilization and add or change network services as needed. Credit: Shutterstock Managed services provider Flexential has released Flexential Fabric, a platform that enables customers to dynamically provision interconnection services through a web interface. Flexential Fabric supports both IP transit and private transport through a single port, which the company says is a first and which gives customers a simpler way to scale and manage interconnection services. Flexential Fabric is integrated with the company’s flagship FlexAnywhere platform, a network gateway that’s linked with an array of Flexential’s connectivity services, which include IP bandwidth, data center interconnect (DCI), cloud fabric, and cloud- and data-protection services. Flexential has 41 data centers around the U.S., all connected from a mesh perspective rather than a hub and spoke method, and FlexAnywhere is what ties them together. “We don’t aggregate in metro areas back to a single point. We just tie that into other metros, so we have every data center and a complete mesh across the actual network,” explains Ryan Mallory, COO of Flexential. FlexAnywhere allows customers to connect into any other data center across the company’s entire network. This gives customers the ability to look at their overall infrastructure deployment and view their data center as an infrastructure-as-a-service platform, Mallory said. Flexential Fabric includes a self-service portal within the Flexential Xperience Platform (FXP). This web-based portal offers customers control over their network infrastructure, enabling them to create secure, private virtual connections tailored to their business requirements. By supporting both IP transit and private transport, and automating virtual connections across the entire platform, Flexential gives users the ability to monitor and manage utilization, as well as the flexibility to add, change, or remove network services as needed. Rather than buying such services piecemeal from different providers, FlexAnywhere customers will have a single point of access. “Now with that single cross connect, you have the ability to spin up and take down services across our product set in near real time, so you’re shortening your time for usability, you’re also shortening your ability to provision [services], and you’re able to manage it all through a single portal interface,” said Mallory. Flexential Fabric is available now. Related content news Data center provider razes 55 homes to make room for Illinois campus Stream Data Centers bought 55 homes in a 34-acre subdivision and plans to break ground on a 2 million square-foot data center campus in late 2024. By Andy Patrizio Mar 21, 2024 4 mins High-Performance Computing Data Center news Nvidia debuts massive Blackwell-powered systems The DGX SuperPOD features eight or more DGX GB200 systems and can scale to tens of thousands of Nvidia Superchips. By Andy Patrizio Mar 18, 2024 3 mins CPUs and Processors High-Performance Computing Data Center news Nvidia launches Blackwell GPU architecture The next-gen Blackwell architecture will offer a 4x performance boost over the current Hopper lineup, Nvidia claims. By Andy Patrizio Mar 18, 2024 4 mins CPUs and Processors High-Performance Computing Data Center news HPE, Pure Storage unveil enterprise storage products New servers and storage services are targeted at high performance workloads, which means AI. By Andy Patrizio Mar 14, 2024 4 mins Generative AI Enterprise Storage Data Center PODCASTS VIDEOS RESOURCES EVENTS NEWSLETTERS Newsletter Promo Module Test Description for newsletter promo module. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe