REDWOOD CITY, Calif.,
April 5, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --
Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data
center company, today announced Equinix Data Hub™, designed to help
enterprise customers address today's ever-growing data management
needs. An integral component of an Interconnection Oriented
Architecture (IOA™), Data Hub is a bundled solution
consisting of pre-configured colocation and power, combined with
cloud-integrated data storage solutions, to enable enterprises to
develop large data repositories and dispense, consume and process
the data at the edge – close to its source and users.
Building on the company's experience working with hundreds of
customer deployments that leverage Equinix for data needs in
proximity to leading public clouds, Equinix is now launching this
solution as a pre-packaged offering.
Enterprises today are faced with the overwhelming challenge of
managing the onslaught of data brought on by industry shifts such
as IoT and Big Data. According to IDC research, 77% of
organizations reported that in the past 12 -24 months they have
expanded the number of data types and sources being used and
analyzed to make strategic, operational, and tactical decisions*.
As data volumes continue to increase at the edge, it is
impractical to rely on existing enterprise networks to move that
data to a central processing facility with the required speed and
in a cost-effective manner. Therefore, it is critical for
enterprises to re-think their existing IT infrastructure, and
develop an IOA, at the edge. Data Hub, when combined with
Equinix Performance Hub™ and Cloud
Exchange™, provides a valuable suite of components
required to implement an IOA strategy.
Highlights / Key Facts
- Data Hub works in conjunction with Equinix's Performance Hub
solution. While Performance Hub solves for the deployment of
network gear and interconnection inside Equinix data centers, Data
Hub enables the deployment of IT gear integrated with Performance
Hub. Data Hub consists of a large footprint of systems which
perform data ingestion and analytics while being securely connected
over redundant, high-speed connections to Performance Hub.
Performance Hub, in turn, connects the global enterprise network to
public and private cloud services. This combination allows Data Hub
customers to securely manage huge volumes of data, and receive or
deliver real-time insight from it, wherever it resides.
- Data Hub is the ideal data management solution for several key
use cases, including the following:
- Cloud-integrated tiered storage: Data Hub provides the
data center locations needed to store performance and capacity
tiers of data and metadata close to their sources (enterprise
offices, Internet, public clouds), in addition to providing private
high-bandwidth links to public clouds. This avoids slow, and
potentially costly, data movement by locating data repositories
close to the data sources.
- Big data analytics infrastructure: Data Hub and Performance Hub
enable private data processing clusters like Hadoop (in Data Hub)
for analytics workloads that leverage the scalable, elastic compute
power of the public cloud for business intelligence
applications. As an example, a Fortune 100 multi-national
retailer recently turned to Equinix and Data Hub to enable Big Data
analytics, private cloud access and cloud-attached storage
initiatives to gain competitive advantage over online
retailers.
- Data protection and replication: Data Hub implementations
within an Equinix metro enable multi-site deployment for data
redundancy, allowing data to be synchronously replicated by an
enterprise between multiple Equinix IBX data centers within the
same metro area.
- Data Hub is cloud-agnostic and works in alignment with
Equinix's Cloud Exchange. This enables an enterprise "data
lake" to be simultaneously accessible from multiple public and
private cloud services all over secure, low latency and
cost-effective connections. This is critical for companies
looking for governance, security and control of their data.
- For all potential use cases and deployment scenarios, Equinix
Professional Services (EPS) and Equinix's vast channel partner
resources are available to work with enterprise customers to design
the Performance Hub and Data Hub solution that best meets their
needs. Equinix has been working closely with its partner community
to develop collaborative solutions involving Data Hub.
Partners, such as NetApp, Dell, EMC and Pure Storage are
integrating Data Hub into their data storage solutions, and
reseller partners such as FusionStorm are also working with Equinix
to offer Data Hub to its enterprise customers. Whether it's a
cloud-integrated, tiered data storage solution, big data analytics,
or data replication and data protection, Data Hub provides the
infrastructure scale and performance needed today, with growth for
tomorrow.
Quotes
- Lance Weaver, Vice President,
Product Offers and Platform Strategy, Equinix
"Data, and its exponential growth, continues to be an ongoing
concern for enterprise IT. And there is no expectation it
will slow down in the near future. To keep up with this
relentless data rise, it is critical for the enterprise to rethink
its IT architecture and focus on an interconnection-first
strategy. Data Hub is the newest solution from Equinix and we
are confident that it will provide our enterprise customers with
the data management solutions they need today, while providing for
growth tomorrow."
- Dan Vesset, Group Vice President, Analytics and
Information Management, IDC
"With the explosive growth of mobile, social, cloud and big
data, an enterprise data center strategy needs to evolve from
merely housing servers to becoming the foundation for new
data-driven business models. Equinix, with its global
platform of data centers and interconnection-first approach, offers
the type of platform needed to create a flexible datacenter
environment for innovation – specifically in the realm of data
management at the network edge."
- Dan Serpico, CEO,
FusionStorm
"FusionStorm is focused on designing, automating, and
implementing proven IT platforms to our global customers with
optimizing performance in mind. Platform Equinix allows for Data
Hub key attributes: delivering applications with consistent scale
for compute and networking, connecting applications in real time to
many data sources, and creating a great experience for end users
who need to access these applications from anywhere. This is why we
encourage our customers to work with Equinix; to take advantage of
Data Hub and all that it delivers."
- Matt Kixmoeller, Vice
President, Product, Pure Storage
"Combined with the automation of connectivity and enterprise
all-flash storage from Pure Storage, Equinix Data Hub allows
customers to address seasonal or bursty workloads that have high
performance storage, control and compliance needs with on-demand
cloud infrastructure. In addition, Equinix Data Hub makes a
measurable difference in users' ability to derive actionable
insight from data, in real time, by housing data closer to those
users."
Additional Resources
- Learn more about Equinix Data Hub [solution
brief]
- Equinix Data Hub use case overview [website]
- Turning Big Data into Big
Insight [infographic]
- Rethinking the Datacenter with Interconnection to Meet the
Data-Driven Business Challenges of the 3rd Platform
Era [IDC white paper]
- Equinix Data Hub Arrives to Help the Enterprise Handle the Data
Deluge [blog post]
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 40 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.
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* Source: IDC Big Data and Analytics Maturity
Benchmark Survey, 2015
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