REDWOOD CITY, Calif.,
April 23, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --
Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global
interconnection and data center company, today announced that
VMware® vCloud Air™ is available on
Platform Equinix™ in Europe. The
service is available via direct connect within Equinix's
London and Frankfurt metros, and remotely across
Europe via carriers. These
dedicated, private connections reduce network costs and provide
higher, more consistent network performance than Internet-based
connections for enterprise customers looking to build VMware-based
hybrid clouds, alongside other cloud services including Amazon Web
Services (AWS), Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.
VMware vCloud Air allows customers to extend their
existing on-premises IT infrastructure seamlessly into
vSphere-hosted private cloud and public clouds. Customers have the
ability to build the network/architecture spanning all three
environments, giving them full control to meet their data security
and sovereignty requirements. The solution is now available via
direct connect inside Equinix's LD5 International Business
Exchange™ (IBX) data center in London and FR2 data center in Frankfurt, with the potential to scale across
Equinix's global data center footprint.
Highlights / Key Facts
- VMware vCloud Air integrates seamlessly with a company's
current IT infrastructure (whether on-premises or hosted in an
Equinix IBX), delivering the ease and flexibility to extend
applications into the cloud as additional capacity is needed. It is
compatible with existing enterprise applications, making it
straightforward to build new, cloud-native applications and achieve
business agility and efficiency in a more secure, reliable and
compliant manner.
- The availability of the vCloud Air service enables customers to
address European Union compliance and data protection regulation as
locally hosted data is inherent in the service, alongside the
global reach offered through Equinix.
- Equinix offers the industry's broadest choice in cloud service
providers, such as VMware vCloud Air, AWS, Google Cloud Platform
and Microsoft Azure, offering direct connections to these cloud
services via Equinix Cloud Exchange™, cross connects or Ethernet
services.
- Equinix is home to a mature and dynamic ecosystem of partners
and customers, hosting over 1,250 cloud and IT services companies
globally, with 450 of those residing in IBXs across Europe. According to a recent Cloud Adoption
Survey commissioned by Equinix 91 percent of UK and 88 percent
of German respondents are planning the deployment of new
cloud-based offerings this year.
Quotes
- Mark Adams, chief development
officer, Equinix:
"We are delighted to be working with
VMware to facilitate adoption of vCloud Air, over both the Internet
and via direct connect for hybrid- and multi-cloud architectures.
Today there is strong demand for high performance enterprise-grade
cloud services, and VMware is a welcome addition to our growing
ecosystem of best-in-class cloud service providers."
- Gavin Jackson, vice president
and general manager, vCloud business unit,
VMware:
"Working with Equinix accelerates our access to
customers and our customers' access to cloud applications that can
run seamlessly both on- and off-premises. Customers gain new data
center locations for VMware vCloud Air and complementary
connection, network, colocation, hosting and managed services to
facilitate their hybrid cloud build-out."
Additional Resources
- Cloud Reflections – Looking Back Over Last Year's Cloud
Expansion [blog]
- Gartner ITXpo 2014 in Europe Confirms Data Center
Decision-Making is High on the CIO Agenda [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 worldwide, Equinix is where companies come together to
realize new opportunities and accelerate their business, IT and
cloud strategies. http://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.
VMware and vCloud Air are registered trademarks or trademarks of
VMware, Inc. in the United States
and other jurisdictions. The use of the word "partner" or
"partnership" does not imply a legal partnership relationship
between VMware and any other company.
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