REDWOOD CITY, Calif.,
Feb. 28, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --
Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data
center company, today announced that it is offering IBX SmartView™
a data center monitoring software platform that gives transparency
to a global deployment across Equinix International Business
Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers, enabling enterprises to proactively
plan and optimize operations. The software platform reduces risk by
giving a high degree of visibility into real-time operating and
environmental conditions, which ensures high availability of
services and faster application response times.
Digital transformation is pushing enterprises to move to a
globally distributed architecture so they can better interconnect
people, locations, clouds and data at the edge of corporate
networks. IBX SmartView provides the capability to precisely
monitor and forecast utility usage across a customer's global IBX
footprint. Power, mechanical and environmental conditions are
measured in real-time, so customers can make immediate changes to
their equipment or configuration. This eliminates
infrastructure-monitoring gaps and enables customers to manage
distributed operations with clarity and ease.
Key Facts:
- Equinix IBX customers can immediately view the status of the
utility power, generators, cooling systems, temperature, humidity,
and power draw of each cage and IBX roll-up. Information is
distributed via real-time event and alarm notifications for online
and offline use.
- Disaster recovery options also alert customers in case of
natural disasters, out-of-band events and status changes. This
allows Equinix and customer on-call technicians to monitor the
situation closely and/or move applications away from the affected
IBX data center until operations return to normal – significantly
reducing (or eliminating) any potential negative impact on
operations.
- IBX SmartView is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering,
available through the Equinix Customer Portal (ECP). Measurements
include utility feeds, switch gears, generators, UPSs, static
switches, chillers, cooling plans and air handling units. In
addition, IBX SmartView provides cage- and cabinet-specific trends
as well as real-time information.
Availability
IBX SmartView is currently available in select IBXs located in
Chicago, Dallas, Silicon Valley, Washington D.C., and Singapore. It will continue to be rolled out
in a phased approach globally, with plans to deploy in Atlanta, New York, Seattle, Toronto, Amsterdam, London, Paris, Zurich, Hong
Kong, Melbourne,
Shanghai, Sydney and Tokyo later this year.
Quotes
- Rhonda Ascierto, research
director, 451 Research
"By offering operational
transparency to a globally distributed footprint, IBX SmartView
offers more control of colocated assets. This helps give peace of
mind to companies that are used to running on-premise datacenters.
It ensures that global operations can be managed more effectively
and deliver better end-to-end performance of services."
- Ravi Ravishankar, vice
president, products and offer management, Equinix
"As enterprises deploy services
that better address users at the edge of the physical and virtual
world, it is critical to have the visibility and flexibility of a
globally distributed infrastructure. IBX SmartView is essential to
interconnect operations with the services that are transforming
business today. It provides unparalleled transparency and enables
customers to seamlessly manage their physical infrastructure
footprint and proactively plan for changes in their business."
Additional Resources:
- IBX SmartView: Increasing data center efficiency, reducing
risk and improving planning [blog]
- IBX SmartView [video]
About Equinix
Equinix, Inc. connects the world's leading businesses to their
customers, employees and partners inside the most interconnected
data centers. In 41 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.
Equinix and IBX are registered trademarks of Equinix,
Inc.
International Business Exchange is a trademark of Equinix,
Inc.
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