REDWOOD CITY, Calif. and
ATLANTA, April 14, 2015 /PRNewswire/-- Equinix,
Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center
company, and Cirracore, a member of the VMware vCloud® Air™ Network
and a leading supplier of VMware®-based enterprise cloud
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solutions, today announced that
Cirracore has joined the Equinix Cloud Exchange™ to provide direct,
scalable and reliable access to its enterprise cloud platform in
Equinix's Atlanta and Dallas
International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers. By
joining the Cloud Exchange, Cirracore now enables enterprise
customers in each of these markets to seamlessly and securely move
workloads in and out of their VMware-based cloud.
Many enterprise customers today operate cloud infrastructure
based on VMware technology. As these companies look to deploy
a hybrid cloud model, the ability to access Cirracore's platform
via the Cloud Exchange simplifies the process of moving workloads
between VMware-based clouds, by eliminating the need for conversion
or translation. Cirracore's customers have already expressed
their support for this direct access and the benefit it will
provide them. According to Mark
Skinner, Director of IT for Colibrium, a provider of
software for the health insurance industry, "Providing
direct, private access to Cirracore gives us the ability to offer
secure, scalable, and highly available environments for our largest
clients; allowing our software to service 200% more applications
than last year's open enrollment."
Highlights / Key Facts
- Direct and secure access to Cirracore's cloud platform will be
immediately available via Equinix Cloud Exchange in Dallas and Atlanta data centers. Cirracore is the first
cloud provider to offer connection to its services on Cloud
Exchange in the Atlanta market.
Atlanta has emerged as a
frontrunner in business and technology innovation, being one of the
country's leading markets for health IT companies, telecom and
Internet security and emerging as a mobile payment epicenter.
- Cirracore provides enterprise cloud resources, cloud backup and
continuous replication to geographically diverse locations.
- Equinix Cloud Exchange is currently available in 20 markets
globally – Amsterdam, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Frankfurt, Hong
Kong, London, Los Angeles, Melbourne, New
York, Osaka, Paris, Sao
Paulo, Seattle, Silicon
Valley, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, Toronto and Washington, D.C. – with expansion planned to
Zurich in early 2015.
Quotes
- Chris Sharp, vice president,
cloud innovation, Equinix
"We recognize that our
enterprise customers' needs vary based on their particular cloud
deployment. By providing access to Cirracore's cloud platform from
our Cloud Exchange, we can ensure that enterprise customers running
VMware in our locations can quickly and easily provision additional
cloud resources in mere minutes, without any impact to their
performance."
- Fred Tanzella, CEO,
Cirracore
"Joining the Equinix Cloud Exchange will
allow Cirracore to deploy resources for its current and new
customers for their private virtual data centers with a virtual
cross-connect in a fraction of the time it would normally take
without the Cloud Exchange. The Equinix Cloud Exchange opens up a
huge market for us and makes it easy for Equinix customers to add
VMware cloud resources"
- Brad Hauser, AVP of insurance
solutions at Mphasis
"As a part of the Equinix Cloud
Exchange, Cirracore better positions Mphasis to offer insurers a
secure and reliable cloud-based billing solution that enables them
to improve customer service, reduce costs, and create competitive
differentiation."
- Mark Skinner, Director of IT
for Colibrium
"Access to Cirracore via the Equinix Cloud
Exchange in both the Atlanta and
Dallas market enables Cirracore to
quickly and securely provision connections to our health insurance
customers, opening up new growth opportunities for us."
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 worldwide, Equinix is where companies come together to
realize new opportunities and accelerate their business, IT and
cloud strategies. http://www.equinix.com/.
About Cirracore
Cirracore, a member of the VMware
vCloud Air Network, is a global provider of managed VMware-based
enterprise multi-tenant, private and hybrid cloud solutions for
mission critical applications that allow enterprises to scale
operations while reducing costs and IT infrastructure support.
Cirracore has rapidly become one of the most respected
high-performance enterprise Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
providers in the industry serving a global enterprise customer
base. Cirracore has partnered with premier companies that are
leaders in their respective industries to provide best in class
service to our customers. Visit Cirracore to learn about enterprise
cloud hosting at http://www.cirracore.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.
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