Utilizes Best-in-Class Technology to Offer a Cost-Effective and
Secure Facility
NEW YORK, June 24, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nasdaq
(Nasdaq:NDAQ) and Global Access Services, the exchange group's
market solutions provider for the financial services community, and
Equinix, the global interconnection and data center company, today
announced that Nasdaq is moving its Disaster Recovery (DR) site for
the US equities and options markets in a phased approach from
Ashburn, Virginia to Chicago, Illinois beginning in August 2015.
The new DR will be located in the Nasdaq Point of Presence (Nasdaq
POP) within the Equinix Chicago data center (CH4) located in 350 E.
Cermak on the 8th floor. The
recently launched Nasdaq POP in Chicago, along with the Nasdaq POP
in Equinix's Secaucus, New Jersey campus, allows customers to
connect directly to any of the Nasdaq market systems from remote
financial data centers.
"Migrating our disaster recovery facility to
Chicago will be convenient, cost effective and more efficient for
our market participants," said Tom Wittman, Head of Global Equities
and Executive Vice President of Global Trading and Market Services
at Nasdaq. "Chicago is home to many primary and disaster recovery
engines. We will continue making the DR facility available to
additional Nasdaq markets throughout 2015 and beyond."
Equinix provides a neutral meeting place for the
world's leading financial market participants, including trading
venues, buy- and sell-side firms, market data providers, technology
providers and financial networks. More than 850 financial services
customers locate servers and infrastructure within Equinix data
centers to support mission-critical financial services applications
with highly reliable, low-latency connectivity. The expansion by
Nasdaq further enhances Equinix's global electronic trading
ecosystem, providing the interconnection options that companies
need to meet business demands.
"As one of the largest carrier hotels in the
country, 350 Cermak is the focal point for Chicago's financial
markets and is ideally located to provide connectivity to more than
half a dozen exchanges plus hundreds of broker dealers, crossing
and other network providers, market data distributors, liquidity
providers, and application providers all located in the same
building or nearby in downtown Chicago," said Stewart Orrell,
Senior Director, Global Market Development. "Equinix and Nasdaq
have a long-standing relationship and we are excited Nasdaq
continues to leverage our global data center platform to meet their
changing business needs."
The eSpeed platform was Nasdaq's first market to
launch its DR facilities in Chicago in the fourth quarter of 2014.
The Nasdaq Futures, Inc. (NFX) will go live with Chicago as its
primary DR site when the platform launches later this year.
Nasdaq's DR facility in Chicago provides regional
diversity for business continuity planning, with further distance
from the exchange group's primary U.S. data center and less chance
of impact from natural disasters that affect the East Coast region.
The location will be convenient for clients who already maintain
trading systems in Chicago. Clients utilizing the DR facility will
achieve cost-efficiency with a simple cross-connect from their
existing connectivity or presence in Chicago.
Nasdaq's Global Access Services group provides
trading opportunities and market solutions for the financial
services community to facilitate our clients' growth. As a
connector, Nasdaq brings global trading opportunities closer to
clients. Nasdaq protects clients through Global Access Services'
comprehensive risk, compliance and reporting platforms. Global
Access Services is also an enabler, with outsourcing and warehouse
solutions which allow clients to easily handle operations and
concentrate on growing their business.
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 across
five continents, Equinix is where companies come together to
realize new opportunities and accelerate their business, IT and
cloud strategies.
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.
About Nasdaq:
Nasdaq (Nasdaq:NDAQ) is a leading provider of
trading, clearing, exchange technology, listing, information and
public company services across six continents. Through its diverse
portfolio of solutions, Nasdaq enables customers to plan, optimize
and execute their business vision with confidence, using proven
technologies that provide transparency and insight for navigating
today's global capital markets. As the creator of the world's first
electronic stock market, its technology powers more than 70
marketplaces in 50 countries, and 1 in 10 of the world's securities
transactions. Nasdaq is home to more than 3,500 listed companies
with a market value of approximately $9.5 trillion and more than
10,000 corporate clients. To learn more, visit: nasdaq.com/ambition
or business.nasdaq.com.
Cautionary Note Regarding
Forward-Looking Statements
The matters described herein
contain forward-looking statements that are made under the Safe
Harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act
of 1995. These statements include, but are not limited to,
statements about the Nasdaq POP and disaster recovery facility in
Chicago, the Nasdaq Data Center, the eSpeed platform and Nasdaq's
other products and offerings. We caution that these statements are
not guarantees of future performance. Actual results may differ
materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking
statements. Forward-looking statements involve a number of risks,
uncertainties or other factors beyond Nasdaq's control. These
factors include, but are not limited to, factors detailed in
Nasdaq's annual report on Form 10-K, and periodic reports filed
with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. We undertake no
obligation to release any revisions to any forward-looking
statements.
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CONTACT: Equinix Media Contact:
Liam Rose
+1 650 598 6590 (office)
lrose@equinix.com
Nasdaq Media Contact:
Alexa Sugrue
+1 (212) 231-5552 (office)
+1 (646) 577-3157 (mobile)
Alexa.Sugrue@nasdaq.com
This
announcement is distributed by NASDAQ OMX Corporate Solutions on
behalf of NASDAQ OMX Corporate Solutions clients.
The issuer of this announcement warrants that they are solely
responsible for the content, accuracy and originality of the
information contained therein.
Source: The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. via Globenewswire
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