REDWOOD CITY, Calif. and
AMSTERDAM, July 12, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Equinix, Inc.
(Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company,
today announced the immediate availability of Amazon Web Services
(AWS) Direct Connect cloud service in Equinix's Amsterdam
International Business Exchange (IBX®) data centers. With AWS
Direct Connect, companies can connect their customer-owned and
managed infrastructure directly to AWS, establishing a private
connection to the cloud that can reduce costs, increase
performance, and deliver a more consistent network experience. The
Equinix Amsterdam location brings the total number of Equinix
metros offering the Direct Connect service to eleven, globally.
Cloud computing continues to grow at a steady pace across
Europe. IDC predicts that the EMEA
public cloud market will expand 26 percent over the next four
years, and the private cloud market will grow at a rate of 18
percent. By expanding AWS Direct Connect to additional locations
within continental Europe Equinix and Amazon are enabling
enterprise CIOs to advance their hybrid cloud strategies by
seamlessly and safely incorporating public cloud services into
their existing architectures.
Highlights / Key Facts
- The Equinix Amsterdam data center campus includes seven Equinix
IBX data centers, which are connected via Metro Connect. While AWS
Direct Connect service will reside in the AM3 facility, customers
can connect to AWS Direct Connect service from any one of these IBX
data centers through Metro Connect. Equinix's Amsterdam data centers are business hubs for
more than 250 companies, and offer interconnections to network
services from more than 50 service providers.
- Customers at Equinix Amsterdam colocation facilities can also
take advantage of peering opportunities with the Amsterdam Internet
Exchange (AMS-IX) and the Neutral Internet Exchange (NL-ix), where
combined approximately 1000 ISPs, telecommunications carriers,
content providers and hosting services from all over the world
interconnect.
- With the addition of AM3, Equinix now offers the AWS Direct
Connect service in Amsterdam,
Dallas, Frankfurt, London, Osaka, Seattle, Silicon Valley, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo
and Washington, D.C./Northern Virginia. Equinix customers in these
metros will be able to lower network costs into and out of AWS and
take advantage of reduced AWS Direct Connect data transfer
rates.
Quote
- Eric Schwartz, president,
EMEA, Equinix:
"Our goal at Equinix is to help
enterprises realize the full benefits of the cloud, while helping
to eliminate concerns of application latency or cost. By providing
access to AWS via the Direct Connect service, we are empowering
customers to achieve improved performance of cloud-based
applications. Additionally, AWS Direct Connect customers
receive reduced data transfer costs for data from AWS by two
to ten times, depending on data volume."
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 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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