REDWOOD CITY, Calif.,
May 4, 2015 /PRNewswire/
-- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection
and data center company, today announced that it will be among the
first to offer private, managed connections to Microsoft Office 365
via Azure ExpressRoute through the Equinix Cloud
Exchange™. Available in Q3 of this year, direct access to
Office 365 from inside Equinix will be available in 15 markets
worldwide.
As many business applications migrate to a cloud-delivery model,
enterprise customers are looking for cloud connectivity solutions
that offer more consistent and reliable performance than the public
Internet. Bandwidth and latency-sensitive productivity
applications such as Office 365 specifically benefit from a direct
access solution. By providing private, secure access to Office 365,
Equinix ensures that enterprise customers will achieve predictable
network performance, the ability to better manage network
availability and the reliability that comes with dedicated
connectivity. In addition, when connecting to Office 365 via Azure
ExpressRoute at Equinix, businesses gain additional assurance of
privacy with the ability to bypass the public Internet.
Highlights / Key Facts
- Equinix first launched its partnership with Microsoft in
April 2014, and today offers direct
connection to Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute in 15 markets globally
via the Equinix Cloud Exchange. Direct access to Office 365 will be
available in all 15 markets, including Amsterdam, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Hong
Kong, London, Los Angeles, New
York, Osaka, Seattle, Silicon Valley, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, and Washington, D.C.
- According to a recent Forrester report, "Beware the Pitfalls
Within Networking for Hybrid Cloud," end-user experience should be
a company's top priority when considering cloud connectivity
options for business productivity applications. With this
announcement, Equinix and Microsoft are enabling the enterprise to
use its existing MPLS or wide area network (WAN) infrastructure to
get high speed, secure access to Office 365, thus ensuring a better
end-user experience. In addition, if companies access Azure
ExpressRoute through Equinix Cloud Exchange they can dynamically
manage and allocate their bandwidth requirement, ensuring that
specific applications get the priority they need to deliver the
performance required – across a single port.
- Azure ExpressRoute provides high-performance, private
connections between enterprise IT environments and Microsoft Azure,
a cloud service used by 57 percent of the Fortune 500. Azure
ExpressRoute offers greater privacy than typical cloud connections
and enables customers to build hybrid cloud environments with
enterprise-grade control and reliability.
Quotes
- Chris Sharp, vice president,
cloud innovation, Equinix
"By offering direct access to
Office 365 on Cloud Exchange, we are helping our enterprise
customers get the most out of their cloud investments. Private
access to Office 365 results in lower latency and higher performing
connections, thus providing business grade performance and the
end-user experiences that enterprises are demanding with their
adoption of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications."
- Mike Schutz, GM of Cloud Platform,
Microsoft
"Office 365 customers have been asking for
direct connectivity to Office 365 since Azure ExpressRoute launched
last year, and we're pleased that Equinix will be among the first
to offer it through Cloud Exchange. With network performance as
predictable as a customer's own on-premises environment,
ExpressRoute for Office 365 is like having the full Office 365
productivity solution in your own datacenter. It is a great option
for organizations that require premium, managed connectivity to
their productivity services."
Additional
Resources
- Equinix and Microsoft to Provide Private Access to Office 365
[Equinix blog post]
- Beware the Pitfalls Within Networking for Hybrid Cloud - March
2, 2015 [Forrester Research, Inc. report]
- Announcing the First Network Partners to Offer ExpressRoute for
Office 365 [Microsoft blog post]
- Cloud Exchange and Microsoft Azure [website]
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.
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