Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC), a European-based quantum computing company, and Cyxtera, a global leader in data center colocation and interconnection services based in the United States, have announced today that Cyxtera’s Reading Data Center Campus LHR3 will soon be available to customers as a quantum computing-as-a-service (QaaS).
This will be the first time a quantum computer is integrated into a collocation data center. Customers in Cyxtera’s U.K. data centers will be able to access OQC’s quantum computer via the Cyxtera Digital Exchange, resulting in significantly reduced latency times for quantum algorithms and use cases.
“For quantum computing to be genuinely accessible and fully realize its potential as a technology, it must seamlessly integrate within businesses’ current computing and data management infrastructure. At this stage, it simply cannot work in isolation. Thanks to this pioneering partnership, we will give Cyxtera’s customers direct access to our latest quantum computer—within their data centers, at the click of a button—without making any changes to their operations”.
Dr. Ilana Wisby, Chief Executive Officer, OQC
As quantum technology advances, most quantum computers are now available “as a service” through the public or private cloud, such as OQC’s cloud. OQC will increase the accessibility of quantum computing by enabling access directly within a Cyxtera data center and lessen the locality and proximity problems often caused by the distance between classical applications and the quantum computer.
OQC chose Cyxtera because of the firm’s commitment to making new technologies easily accessible and its capacity to quickly connect OQC’s quantum-as-a-service platform to several clients and support specialized hosting needs, such as cryogenic systems.
This collaboration is a key step in transitioning quantum computing from a “lab” environment to a fully managed, industry-ready environment with the security, interconnectivity, network capacity, and infrastructure required as the technology progresses.
“Quantum computing will enable organizations across a wide range of industries to access unprecedented calculation speed and deeper analytical capabilities,” “We’re thrilled to partner with OQC, providing our customers access to the U.K.’s most advanced quantum computing platform.”
Randy Rowland, Chief Operating Officer, Cyxtera.
OQC will join the Cyxtera ecosystem of service providers, whose creative value-added solutions are offered to more than 2,300 Cyxtera clients via a marketplace.