REDWOOD CITY, Calif. and
MELBOURNE, Australia, March 24, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Equinix,
Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global
interconnection and data center company, today
announced that its first International Business
Exchange™ (IBX®) in Melbourne
is fully operational. This newest data center, called ME1, supports
the strong demand for a premium data center facility in the
Melbourne metropolitan area.
Highlights / Key Facts
- In a recent survey, Dimensional Research found that 85 percent
of Australian enterprises are planning to deploy to multiple clouds
within the next 12 months, 77 percent of which will use clouds
operating in more than one country1. The opening of ME1
addresses this high demand for cloud services in Australia and allows businesses to leverage
Equinix's network, content and cloud business ecosystems to rapidly
accelerate the benefits of their cloud strategies.
- The opening of ME1 will further extend Platform Equinix™
to meet strong demand for premium interconnection and data center
services in Melbourne and the
region. This expansion is in line with the steady growth of the
company's leading global interconnection platform, in which Equinix
has invested more than US$7.5 billion
over the last 15 years.
- With an initial investment of $60M2, which includes the cost of the
land, the ME1 data center opens with 375 cabinets, with future
expansion phases accommodating an additional 1,125 cabinets and a
total of over 105,000 square feet of floor space. The facility is
Equinix's fourth data center in Australia, adding to the three facilities
already operating in Sydney. This
dual Sydney/Melbourne market presence further ensures
high-performance, network reliability, redundancy, and
low-latency.
- The ME1 IBX data center enables Melbourne businesses to connect with Equinix's
network-dense ecosystem of more than 1,000 networks globally, 130
of which are available in Australia. It provides customers with access
to a large marketplace of over 4,800 potential customers and
partners across more than 100 data centers worldwide, generating
revenue opportunities and reducing time-to-market.
- ME1 opens with more than 40 new customers deployed, reflecting
the strong demand for Equinix's data center and interconnection
services. Customers include Bulletproof, CacheFly, Entrust ICT,
Exigent, First Path, GCOMM, Micron21 Telecommunications, Telstra,
Vocus, and Western Australian Internet Association (WAIA).
- Cloud and IT service providers account for a quarter of
Equinix's business and are the fastest growing segment for the
company. By housing IT infrastructure in ME1, businesses are able
to expand their cloud and data capabilities rapidly as data
consumption and content volume continue to increase.
- ME1 meets the LEED® (Leadership in Energy and
Environmental Design) Green Building Rating System™, a
framework developed by the U.S. Green Building Council for
identifying and implementing practical and measurable green
building design, construction, operations and maintenance
solutions. ME1 includes evaporative coolers to support low power
usage effectiveness (PUE).
- ME1 is one of five new IBX data centers being opened by Equinix
in early 2015. Other locations include Singapore, London, Toronto and New
York. Through these expansions, 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.
Quotes
- The Hon. Paul Fletcher MP, Parliamentary Secretary to the
Minister of Communications:
"I congratulate
Equinix on expanding their operations to Melbourne, and for their continuing investment
in Australia. In the modern
digital economy data centers are vital pieces of infrastructure,
and this expansion is very much to be welcomed. ME1 is an
impressive facility which will offer new opportunities for
companies to interconnect and in turn help to enrich Australia's digital economy."
- James Braunegg,
managing director, Micron21
Telecommunications:
"We extended our dark fiber
network into ME1 as it offers Micron21 the ability to provide cost
effective interconnections with just about any network provider,
cloud service or company we choose to, should we need to.
Equinix's vast interconnection capability made ME1 the obvious
choice. It's great to see this capability now available in
Melbourne. We are very much
looking forward to growing our services within ME1 and supporting
the Equinix ecosystem."
- Jeremy Deutsch,
managing director, Equinix Australia:
"By opening
ME1, our first International Business Exchange in Melbourne, this city's businesses can now
choose more than just state-of-the-art carrier-neutral colocation
space and carrier-dense interconnections. ME1 provides our
customers with access to Platform Equinix, where major networks,
enterprises and business partners interconnect to each other at
global scale."
Additional Resources – Previous Case Studies and Files + New
Media Kit
- Press release: ME1 Sees Strong Momentum at First Melbourne Data
Center
- Press release: Cloud365 Selects Equinix Data Center in
Melbourne to Manage Expanding Cloud Demand in Australia
- Press release: National Voice Data Prepares for Cloud Growth by
Expanding
- Press release: Telstra Continues Data Center Support with
Equinix in Sydney and Melbourne
- ME1 Media Kit
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 report s
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.
1 Cloud Adoption Study: Australia
2 AU$66M as at 13 Jan 2014
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