REDWOOD CITY, Calif. and ELK
GROVE VILLAGE, III., Sept. 20, 2016
/PRNewswire/ -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global
interconnection and data center company, and Forsythe Hosting
Solutions, a division of Forsythe Technology, today announced that
Forsythe Hosting Solutions has been named an Equinix Gold Reseller
Partner, enabling the company to resell Equinix colocation and
interconnection services, including Equinix Cloud Exchange™, to its
broad base of enterprise clients. The partnership also means that
Equinix clients will now have access to Forsythe's hosting and
managed services, managed security services, cloud migration,
assessment and strategy services.
Highlights/Key Milestones
- Equinix and Forsythe clients will have new options that combine
Equinix's global footprint of 145+ data centers worldwide, and its
cloud interconnection capabilities available via Platform Equinix,
with Forsythe's hosting and managed services, backup and recovery
as a service (BaaS), and its wide breadth of advisory and
implementation services including data center and workload
migration, data center strategy, hardware and software procurement
and financing.
- In addition to now reselling Equinix colocation and
interconnection services, Forsythe Hosting Solutions will also
provide its managed services and colocation customers with access
to Equinix Cloud Exchange via the Chicago International Business
Exchange (IBX®) data center. By accessing the Cloud Exchange,
Forsythe customers gain direct, private access to all the leading
cloud service providers, including AWS, Google Cloud Platform, IBM
SoftLayer, Microsoft Azure, and others. This enables them to
deploy hybrid and multi-cloud solutions in secure and high
performance manner.
- Both Equinix and Forsythe Hosting Solutions clients will have
the opportunity to expand their business geographically while
connecting securely and directly with the growing ecosystem of
cloud providers inside Equinix data centers.
Quotes
- Christopher Rajiah, vice
president worldwide channel sales and alliances, Equinix:
"At Equinix, we are seeing an increasing number of enterprises
looking to broaden their global reach while deploying hybrid cloud
architectures in a secure and high-performance manner. By
partnering with Forsythe, we are able to combine the global scale
and interconnection capabilities of Platform Equinix with
Forsythe's specialized cloud and IT services. We are thrilled to
welcome Forsythe to the Channel Partner Program and look forward to
working together to bring innovative cloud solutions to the
enterprise market."
- Michael Conley, executive
vice president, Forsythe Hosting Solutions:
"At Forsythe,
our clients are dynamically moving workloads among different
geographically disperse environments and across different cloud
platforms. They need the breadth of services to move these
workloads and plan, build, migrate, secure, run and connect to
hybrid cloud environments. Thanks to Equinix's global footprint and
public cloud connectivity, we can now stand up and manage client
environments anywhere around the world, which is especially
important for clients setting up hybrid cloud
environments."
Additional Resources
- More about Equinix Channel Partner
Program [website]
- The Equinix Partner Program: A Three-Way Street to
Growth [blog post]
- More about Forsythe Hosting
Solutions [website]
About Forsythe Hosting Solutions
Forsythe Hosting
Solutions helps organizations meet their needs for managed hosting,
managed services, managed security services and hybrid cloud
solutions. Through Forsythe Data Centers, our "Retail+®" facility,
we also provide private, secure, scalable, turnkey data center
suites. We also provide a wide breadth of advisory and
implementation services including data center and workload
migration services, data center strategy, hardware and software
procurement and financing. Forsythe Hosting Solutions is a division
of Forsythe Technology, Inc., a leading enterprise IT company,
providing advisory services, security, hosting and technology
solutions for Fortune 1000 organizations. Forsythe helps clients
become more agile, secure, digital businesses as they optimize,
modernize and innovate their enterprise IT. Founded in 1971,
Forsythe is privately held and 100-percent employee-owned, with
nearly 1,000 employees in more than 40 locations, and more than
$1 billion in annual revenues.
Retail+® is a registered trademark of Forsythe Data Centers, Inc.
in the U.S. www.forsythe.com
About Equinix
Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) connects
the world's leading businesses to their clients, 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 clients 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 clients;
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.
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