Interxion, one of Europe’s largest data center providers, announced an encryption key management service Wednesday designed to work in cloud and hybrid environments, becoming the latest leading colocation provider to launch such a service.
Equinix, the largest colocation provider in the world, announced a similar service earlier this year, based on the Fortanix platform, which uses Intel SGX secure enclaves for an additional layer of protection.
As colocation data centers where many players in the ecosystem interconnect increasingly become places where enterprises go to connect their networks to cloud providers, they also become a logical place to manage encryption keys for multiple clouds centrally.
Like Equinix’s service, Interxion’s Key Guardian is hardware-based, which allows companies to use a single system for their cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments.
