Digital Innovation Lab (DIGIN) accelerates and enhances solution delivery especially for organizations aiming to take advantage of the cloud and cloud adjacent technologies. DIGIN provides efficiencies, cost savings, and reduced time-to-market, facilitating a key focus on research, development, and proof of concept initiatives with quick build/teardown of core components. DIGIN provides ready access to applications, tools, and capabilities to enable productive contributions of individual users and teams. Within a single AWS cloud bill, DIGIN leverages the power of AWS (commercial and GovCloud) services coupled with Equinix cloud adjacent technology. The interconnected MDACA EQ Edge Environment available at Equinix Data centers supports legacy and modern Operating Systems such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Windows and Mainframe. DIGIN provides secure, integrated capabilities to run containers and virtual machines with file and object storage at the Equinix edge securely accessible over dark fiber.
MDACA CLOUD Digital Innovation Lab (DIGIN)
MDACA Digital Innovation Lab (DIGIN) provides a big data and innovations lab platform designed to leverage the power of the AWS cloud computing environment coupled with the power of the Equinix cloud adjacent technologies in support of the interconnected enterprise providing an integrated cloud and on-premises solution.
The integrated DIGIN infrastructure provides dark fiber connectivity to more than 3,000 cloud and IT service providers helping you scale with agility, launch digital services faster, and deliver a better end-user experience. This is achieved via fast and secure dedicated “on-ramps” using Equinix Fabric™ software-defined interconnections without going over the public internet in support of enterprises’ big data initiatives. The MDACA DIGIN allows you to interconnect your enterprise and partners while scaling vertically between your on-premises and cloud infrastructures, conveniently through Marketplace and listed within your AWS bill.
Leveraging the MDACA Big Data Platform as part of the DIGIN
The MDACA (Multiplatform, Data Acquisition, Collection, and Analytics) is provided as part of the MDACA EQ platform and it combines best-in-class capabilities into a secure, unified, Big Data suite of applications with centralized near real-time acquisition, storage, and single view access to enterprise-wide repositories across data fabric architectures. Regardless of your data’s location and format, you can run your analytical and reporting workloads on our cloud-ready MDACA platform without worrying about scalability and performance.
Deployed as part of the MDACA DIGIN, the MDACA Big Data Platform* provides a logical data layer and tools that integrate enterprise data across disparate systems. It manages the unified data for centralized access, allowing you to scale your on-prem workloads to the cloud at the speed of the cloud regardless of where your data is deployed and your current on-prem footprint.
*Note: Deployed based on customer configuration and needs
KEY FEATURES
Scale
Maximizing infrastructure agility leverages the on-prem resources as needed and scale capacity on demand in the cloud
Flexibility
Controlled AWS (Commercial and GovCloud) and on-prem Equinix spaces with more latitude to support research/development and proof of concept initiatives, aiding in speediness of delivery
Keeping Data Private and Secure
Within the DIGIN, data is shared and accessed over private, secure interconnection without going over the public internet
Cost Management
Execute long running jobs and continuous jobs on fixed cost hardware while having the ability to failover to the cloud
Cyber Security
The MDACA DIGIN Equinix component is not exposed to the public internet; access is managed and secured through the AWS cloud interface
Synthetic Data
Projects can leverage synthetic data and environments with capabilities and tools needed to start projects early
Key areas that the DIGIN can be leveraged:
Enable Project Development and Delivery
Kickstart execution and start discovery/development of projects early to meet critical timelines
Onboarding
New staff can start adding value from day one to support training, productivity, and contributions
Technology Assessment and Proof of Concept Development
Leverage the DIGIN to accelerate innovation and collaboration with third-party vendors to include evaluation of Open Source products as well as developing prototypes and proofs of concept
Cyber Security Assessment
DIGIN can also be leveraged to perform initial cyber security assessments before introducing new products into the enterprise ecosystem
Big Data Interconnected Digital Lab
Through your AWS-based environment, utilize private secure connectivity (dark fiber) to data/solutions deployed across other cloud providers such as Azure, Google, IBM, Oracle, SalesForce, and others. Additionally, connect with data centers deployed worldwide, leveraging the Equinix infrastructure as well as last mile connectivity options from Equinix and the MDACA Big Data Platform
Infrastructure Resilience
Take advantage of third party solutions and technologies designed to be deployed on-prem or in the cloud as part of your enterprise solution
DIGIN Quick Start Program and Managed Services
We understand the needs for different organizations will differ based on business needs, budgets, interconnected partners and ramp up timelines and requirements. The DIGIN Quick Start Program coupled with our managed service approach has been designed in collaboration with AWS and Equinix to provide the agile approach to support the quick secure establishment of the baseline infrastructure and support the onboarding and training of your teams.
Additionally it is designed to provide your team’s direct access to our product and integration teams as part of the MDACA DIGIN customer experience.
DIGIN Leveraging MDACA Big Data Virtualization (BDV)
MDACA Big Data Virtualization (BDV) is designed to provide a single view of enterprise data while concealing the technical complexities of database types, data locations, and data transformations as well as providing additional tools for data and file management. It allows you to maximize the value of enterprise data by providing the tools to facilitate access to data across the enterprise, regardless where the data resides.
The BDV part of the MDACA EQ Platform deployed in the DIGIN environment is designed to provide a single view of enterprise data while concealing the technical complexities of database types, data locations, and data transformations while providing additional tools for data and file management. Key benefits include:
- Support of data queries across multiple environments while simultaneously mitigating data replication, thereby bolstering master data management.
- Robust Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) to achieve high performance queries.
- Enhanced support for Role Based Access Control (RBAC).
- Easily accessible through standard Structured Query Language (SQL) and/or Web Services interfaces for virtual data utilization and sharing.
- Enhanced ROI by reduced data replication, storage, and hardware costs.
- Secure access to data files across the enterprise through leveraging standard file explorer-like tools to access file based data regardless if data is stored in xls,csv files or cloud object storage.
Training and Support
Our training and support program can be tailored to meet your needs. Additionally our AWS and Equinix partnerships provide us access to a wide pool of resources that can tailor training specifically to your needs. We offer a number of options in support of your training needs.
Certifications
