REDWOOD CITY, Calif.,
Aug. 11, 2016 /PRNewswire/
-- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection
and data center company, today announced that Equinix
representatives will speak at the Gartner Catalyst Conference
taking place August 15 - 18, 2016 at the Manchester Grand
Hyatt in San Diego, California. At the event, Charles Meyers, chief operating officer,
Tony Bishop, vice president of
vertical marketing, and Bryson
Hopkins, director of solutions architects, will host the
following sessions:
Learn How General Electric, Aon and TIAA are Architecting
Their Digital Platform with IOA™- Tuesday, August 16th at 3:05 PM in Seaport Ballroom F
The digital economy is changing the nature of business, forcing
IT to transform. Charles Meyers will
host a distinguished panel of innovative IT leaders who are
re-architecting for the digital edge with an Interconnection
Oriented Architecture. As they accelerate their journey to digital,
learn how they are solving challenges and realizing benefits in
speed, scale, security, and reduced risk.
Panel Host: Charles Meyers,
chief operating officer, Equinix
Robert Hintze, senior director,
institutional retirement technology, TIAA
Daniel Headrick, executive director,
enterprise architecture, General Electric Company
Munu Gandhi, vice president, infrastructure services, Aon.
Architect Your Digital Platform with the IOA Playbook &
Knowledgebase- Monday, August
15th at 10:25 AM in
Seaport Ballroom F
Equinix will discuss the Interconnection Oriented Architecture
framework with a step-by-step playbook on how to redefine the edge
and architect a digital platform. Topics include topology,
security, data and application integration, with early access to an
open knowledge base of blueprints and design patterns.
Speaker: Tony Bishop, vice
president of vertical marketing, Equinix
Virtualized Interconnection Demo: Dynamically Connect to
Multiple Clouds via APIs or Portal- Tuesday, August 16th at 1:00 PM in the TechZone Theater/Harbor Ballroom,
Second Level
Equinix will demonstrate the simplicity, performance and cost
efficiency of cloud interconnection on Platform Equinix™.
Bryson Hopkins will show attendees
how to dynamically connect new cloud instances, transfer workloads
between clouds, and see multi-cloud workloads in action – in a live
environment with Amazon, Azure, Google and Oracle.
Speaker: Bryson Hopkins, director
of solutions architects, Equinix
Additionally, Equinix will demonstrate on the show floor a beta
version of the soon to be released IOA Knowledge Base. IOA
Knowledge Base is an online community with reference tools designed
to help enterprises as they seek industry best practices to
architect the digital edge. Available through a community platform,
IOA Knowledge Base provides an open reference framework that is
derived from studying 600 discrete deployments of businesses
implementing digital edge strategies.
To see a demo of IOA Knowledge Base visit the Equinix booth #201
on the show floor.
Additional Resources:
- Learn more about architecting your digital edge leveraging
Interconnection Oriented Architecture
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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