REDWOOD CITY, Calif.,
March 9, 2015 /PRNewswire/
-- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection
and data center company, today announced an expansion of its
presence in the New York market
with the opening of its latest state-of-the-art data center. Known
as NY6, the new data center is located at the Equinix campus in
Secaucus, New Jersey, and will
serve the world's biggest financial, media and enterprise
companies. The new facility offers premium colocation services and
is designed to meet enterprises' need for larger footprints and
data-intensive applications deployed closer to the edge.
Last week Equinix announced that it will open five new
International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers on four
continents in the coming weeks to create more capacity for global
companies to connect to their partners, customers and employees. By
providing this increased capacity, Equinix expands its role in
advancing the digital economy's interconnected era, in which
businesses are demanding increasing levels of interconnection to
accelerate business performance.
Highlights / Key Facts
- Equinix's new NY6 data center provides more than 16,000 square
feet of colocation space and 720 cabinets with the opportunity to
increase to 33,000 square feet and 1,440 cabinets in future phases.
The $66M investment by Equinix is one
of many new builds in its growing global platform of more than 100
data centers and provides customers additional latitude to scale,
control and customize their large-scale deployments.
- With its New York data centers, Equinix has invested
approximately $1B in the New York/New
Jersey metro area since 1999. With the addition of NY6 at
full build, Equinix's total footprint in this market will exceed
517,000 square feet of colocation space dispersed over eight
facilities making the area one of Equinix's most network-dense
locations, as well as one of the top international routes between
North America and Europe.
- In the October, 2014 Forrester Research, Inc. report,
"Strategically Locate Your Next Data Center," the firm analyzes the
challenges that enterprises face when looking to reduce application
latency, improve end-user experiences and service, and provide
direct connectivity to cloud services. As a result, enterprises are
increasingly turning to data center colocation environments for
instant interconnection with partners, employees and customers,
which are becoming essential to their ability to compete and
succeed in the digital economy. Equinix's New York data centers have a high
interconnection rate, with more than 18,000 interconnections
between businesses in this metro alone.
- Equinix's New York data
centers are the business hub for more than 750 media and financial
services companies and large enterprises, with more than 145 cloud
and network service providers in the largest metropolitan area in
the country. These facilities also have a dense concentration of
ad-tech companies directly connecting on the Equinix Ad-IX™
advertising exchange.
- Equinix is home to the largest collection of exchanges and
trading platforms, top market vendors, and a myriad of service
providers, and hundreds of buy-side and sell-side firms. Equinix's
New York data centers serve many
of the world's largest companies, including a high concentration of
financial services companies with trading platforms by CBOE and
BATS located in the area, as well as access nodes by NASDAQ OMX and
NYSE.
- Enterprises looking to gain access to major cloud providers
including Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform can do so via
Equinix Cloud Exchange™. Available to customers in the New York metro area, Cloud Exchange provides
enterprises secure, direct, flexible connections to a wide range of
cloud service providers in 20 markets worldwide.
Quotes
- Chris Isaacson, EVP, global
CIO, BATS:
"The Equinix Secaucus campus is a very
strategic asset for our company, as it is home to a broad ecosystem
of financial services firms, managed service providers, and global
networks. Furthermore, our decision to move all of our U.S. markets
to the Equinix Secaucus campus was based on the cost efficiencies
that come from being able to connect to so many markets and member
firms on this growing, interconnected campus."
- Karl Strohmeyer, president, Equinix
Americas:
"To stay competitive in the interconnected era,
companies need to forge business advantage by collaborating with
others via secure, reliable and instant connections. The rich
interconnection capability available at our New York campus provides an opportunity for
the world's leading businesses to connect with each other to
maximize opportunities and accelerate business
performance."
Additional Resources
- Equinix Accelerates Interconnected Era with Global Launch of
Five New Data Centers [Press release]
- History of Interconnection – part 2 [blog]
- Equinix Sees Continued Interest in Secaucus Data Centers
[blog]
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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