Flexential FlexAnywhere™ Platform
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What is Flexential FlexAnywhere™ Platform
Flexential FlexAnywhere Platform is a hybrid IT platform that combines colocation, cloud connectivity, and managed infrastructure services across Flexential data centers. It targets IT and infrastructure teams that need to deploy and connect workloads across on-premises environments, colocation facilities, and public cloud providers. The platform emphasizes network connectivity options (including private connectivity and interconnection) alongside managed services for compute, storage, backup, and disaster recovery.
Hybrid and colocation integration
The platform bundles colocation footprint, network services, and managed infrastructure under a single vendor relationship. This can simplify deployment for organizations that want workloads close to specific metros or facilities while still enabling cloud connectivity. It is well-suited to use cases where physical infrastructure, compliance constraints, or latency requirements drive placement decisions.
Private connectivity and interconnection
FlexAnywhere includes connectivity services intended to link customer environments to cloud providers and other sites using private network options rather than relying only on the public internet. This supports more predictable routing and can reduce exposure compared with internet-based VPN-only designs. It aligns with common data center networking needs such as multi-site connectivity and cloud on-ramps.
Managed infrastructure service options
The platform is positioned to include managed services for infrastructure operations such as provisioning, monitoring, backup, and disaster recovery. For teams with limited network and systems operations capacity, this can reduce the need to build and staff equivalent capabilities internally. It also supports standardized operations across multiple sites when using the same provider for facilities and services.
Less software-defined control
Compared with software-defined networking platforms, FlexAnywhere is more service- and provider-delivered than a customer-operated control plane. Organizations seeking deep policy automation, microsegmentation, or tight integration into infrastructure-as-code workflows may find fewer native capabilities. Some advanced network functions may require additional products or custom engineering.
Geography and provider dependency
Network and colocation capabilities depend on Flexential facility locations and its available interconnection partners. If required regions, cloud on-ramps, or carrier options are not present in a target market, customers may need supplemental providers. This can introduce multi-vendor complexity for globally distributed architectures.
Pricing and transparency variability
Service-based platforms often use custom quotes that vary by site, bandwidth, cross-connects, and managed service scope. This can make it harder to compare costs directly against do-it-yourself networking stacks or purely consumption-based connectivity services. Contract terms and change requests may also affect agility for rapidly changing network requirements.
Plan & Pricing
Pricing model: Pay-as-you-go / consumption-based (platform-level) Free tier/trial: No permanent free tier or public time-limited trial is published; Flexential offers no-cost, no-obligation assessments/workshops (not a product trial). Example costs: No public example costs or list prices published on the official Flexential product pages for the FlexAnywhere Platform or its building-block services (colocation, interconnection, cloud, DCI, Fabric). Official pages describe consumption-based or fixed bandwidth models but do not list dollar amounts. Discount options & notes:
- Flexential Fabric (interconnection) is described as “consumption-based” with month-to-month and commitment-based options (no dollar rates published). (See notes).
- Data Center Interconnect (DCI) references “fixed bandwidth pricing (non-burstable)” but gives no public price points.
- Promotional / discount examples shown on regional landing pages include a “Network Hub Promo” (advertised as “For 50% off list pricing” for a specific cabinet bundle) and language about pack pricing/discounts for cross-connects, but the vendor does not publish the underlying list prices publicly.
- Many services route prospective customers to “Get a quote” or “Schedule a consultation,” indicating custom/quote-based pricing for most FlexAnywhere offerings.
Primary official observations:
- FlexAnywhere Platform positioning: pay-as-you-go commercial flexibility; tailored, quote-based solutions. (No public price table for the platform itself.)
(Official-site pages searched: FlexAnywhere platform overview, Flexential Fabric, Data Center Interconnect, regional landing pages with Network Hub promo, cloud/colocation pages, Get a Quote.)
Seller details
Flexential Corp.
Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
2017
Private
https://www.flexential.com/
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