REDWOOD CITY, Calif.,
March 4, 2015 /PRNewswire/
-- Equinix (NASDAQ: EQIX), the global interconnection
and data center company, today announced that it will open five new
International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers on four
continents to create more capacity for global companies to connect
to their partners, customers and employees. By providing this
capacity, Equinix is playing a major role in advancing the digital
economy's interconnected era, in which businesses are demanding
increasing levels of interconnection to accelerate business
performance.
Re-architecting IT towards a dynamic and distributed
infrastructure
- In today's world, instant interconnection with partners,
employees and customers is essential to compete and succeed. But as
the level of interconnection required to thrive in the digital
economy grows, enterprises are struggling to keep up, given tighter
budgets, limited resources and security worries.
- Equinix has observed a critical business requirement driving
demand for interconnection capacity – the need to interconnect
people, locations, clouds and data. Interconnection is essential to
deliver a rich, ubiquitous user experience with the agility and
actionable insight to enable new business models and enhanced
productivity.
- To address these business needs companies will need to forge
business advantage by collaborating in communities with other
enterprises via secure, reliable and instant connections. In
anticipation, global enterprises such as American Infrastructure,
Box, CDM Smith, GP Strategies and HarperCollins are building out
their IT infrastructures for maximum connectivity and global scale.
- With more than 147,000 interconnections already established
among its customers, Equinix offers the world's leading global
interconnection platform – Platform Equinix™.
Introducing five new data centers
- In the coming weeks Equinix will bring five new data centers
online across its global interconnection platform of more than 100
data centers, a total investment of $227M and representing an additional 4,200 new
cabinets. In addition, these sites will add over one million square
feet of new data center space at full build to the 10+ million
square feet present in the existing global footprint, increasing
the scale of Platform Equinix by more than 10 percent. The five
markets where Equinix is opening new IBX data centers are
epicenters for global data and communication flow.
- New York – The NY6 data
center in Secaucus will serve the world's largest financial, media
and enterprise companies with premium colocation services and will
meet enterprises' need for larger footprints to deploy
data-intensive applications closer to the edge.
- Singapore –
Asia-Pacific markets are in a
period of rapid expansion, and Singapore is at the center of this high-growth
region. SG3 will be Equinix's largest data center in Asia-Pacific and Equinix Singapore is the most
densely networked metro in the region.
- Melbourne –
Melbourne is a hub for software
companies and a center of Australian economic activity. The ME1
data center will mark Equinix's entrance into this market and
provide customers with the opportunity to interconnect to leading
companies and accelerate performance of their digital supply
chains.
- London – The LD6 data
center, located in London Slough, marks a major milestone for
Equinix as well as the United
Kingdom's (UK) digital sector. The flagship UK data center
was built to meet escalating demand for interconnection capacity
across the region's fastest-growing campus and is a virtual
financial center with 25 percent of European equities trades
originating inside Equinix.
- Toronto – TR2 will be a
state-of-the-art Equinix data center located downtown, just one
mile (1.6 km) from TR1— home to one of Canada's most robust trading ecosystems, with
participants that include alternative trading systems, market data
providers, risk management service providers, traders and banks.
The two IBXs are tethered by Equinix's Metro Connect and
carrier-provided fiber, creating a highly interconnected business
ecosystem.
- According to research by industry analyst firm TeleGeography,
London (2), New York (5) and Singapore (11) are in the top 12 global metros
for peak international Internet traffic. Additionally, the
London to New York route is the second largest
international Internet traffic route globally with more than 1.82
Tbps of peak traffic. By boosting interconnection capacity in major
financial centers (London,
New York), international gateways
(Toronto) and growing markets
(Singapore, Melbourne), Equinix is sparking business
opportunities around the world that are driving the digital
economy.
Quotes
- Dan Levin, COO, Box:
"Box is proud to partner with Equinix to support infrastructure
growth and scalability. Equinix provides the benefit of
interconnection with other enterprises through their platform, and
increased WAN performance that enables productivity
in an age where cloud and mobile dominate the workplace."
- Greg Bryan, senior analyst,
TeleGeography, Inc.:
"In today's digital economy, the
demand placed on interconnectivity has reached a new high. In a
world where cloud dominates IT strategies and enterprise business
models are interdependent, interconnection is a make-or-break
proposition."
- Steve Smith, president and
CEO, Equinix:
"Equinix is the global
interconnection platform for the world's leading businesses. Our
rich history of interconnection, built over the last 16 years,
makes us the ideal place for business to connect, and we believe
that these five new data centers will provide even more ways for
global businesses to innovate."
Additional Resources
- History of Interconnection – part 1 [blog]
- Strategically Locate Your Next Data Center [analyst
report]
- Equinix IBX Data Center Virtual Tour
About Equinix
Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) connects
the world's leading businesses to their customers, employees and
partners inside the most interconnected data centers. In 33 markets
across five continents, Equinix is where companies come together to
realize new opportunities and accelerate their business, IT and
cloud strategies. www.equinix.com. Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements that
involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ
materially from expectations discussed in such forward-looking
statements. Factors that might cause such differences include, but
are not limited to, the challenges of acquiring, operating and
constructing IBX centers and developing, deploying and delivering
Equinix services; unanticipated costs or difficulties relating to
the integration of companies we have acquired or will acquire into
Equinix; a failure to receive significant revenue from customers in
recently built out or acquired data centers; failure to complete
any financing arrangements contemplated from time to time;
competition from existing and new competitors; the ability to
generate sufficient cash flow or otherwise obtain funds to repay
new or outstanding indebtedness; the loss or decline in business
from our key customers; and other risks described from time to time
in Equinix's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
In particular, see Equinix's recent quarterly and annual reports
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, copies of which
are available upon request from Equinix. Equinix does not assume
any obligation to update the forward-looking information contained
in this press release.
Equinix and IBX are registered trademarks of Equinix, Inc.
International Business Exchange is a trademark of Equinix, Inc.
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