REDWOOD CITY, Calif. and
MELBOURNE, Australia, Feb. 24, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Equinix,
Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data
center company, today announced the opening of its fourth
International Business ExchangeTM (IBX®) data
center in Melbourne, Australia.
Known as ME2, the new facility supports the growing demand for
digital transformation globally, as well as Melbourne's smart city development and the
interconnection needs of local customers, including The Salvation
Army.
Digital innovation is transforming the ability of today's
businesses to extend market reach, respond flexibly to new customer
requirements and deploy the controls needed for security and
compliance. The complexity behind the evolving digital economy
requires businesses to extend network infrastructure to the edge to
be in close proximity to their customers and partners for secure
data exchange and seamless digital experiences. This added data
center and interconnection capacity in Melbourne will help with those initiatives
while also advancing Melbourne's
smart city innovation. Melbourne
was recently recognized as the world's sixth most advanced smart
city, according to a recent report from Oracle and ESI
ThoughtLab.1
The ME2 IBX is located in Melbourne's Fishermans Bend region,
Australia's largest urban renewal
project, which is forecast to be home to approximately 80,000
residents and provide employment for up to 80,000 people by
2050.2 Companies operating at the ME2 IBX can
leverage the ecosystem of approximately 10,000 businesses currently
operating on Platform Equinix® globally. The facility is
expected to play a key role in supporting Melbourne's smart city development.
Highlights / Key Facts
- The ME2 IBX is a US$77.5 million
(approximately A$116 million)
facility that includes more than 29,300 square feet (2,730 square
meters) of colocation space. Once fully built out, the facility
will include more than 88,000 square feet (8,190 square meters) of
colocation space.
- The ME2 IBX offers a wide range of interconnection options,
including Equinix Cloud Exchange Fabric™ (ECX Fabric™), an
on-demand, SDN-enabled interconnection service that allows any
business to connect between its own distributed infrastructure and
any other company's distributed infrastructure, including the
world's largest network service and cloud providers on Platform
Equinix. ECX Fabric provides access to the largest collection of
on-ramps to cloud service providers in Australia including Alibaba, AWS, Google
Cloud, Microsoft Azure, SAP Cloud, Oracle, SoftLayer as well as
many local providers, plus access to major network service
providers including Telstra, Optus and Vocus.
- Located adjacent to the ME1 IBX with a secure pedestrian
footbridge between the buildings, the ME2 IBX will benefit
customers expanding from ME1 to ME2 with a single security ingress
point. The proximity of ME2 to ME1 allows for seamless expansion of
services for existing Equinix ME1 customers and partners. The ME2
IBX also benefits from Equinix Metro Connect connectivity to the
ME4 IBX in Derrimut, which is about 19 kilometers away, providing
customers with the ability to support geographical diversity and
redundancy as needed to support full business continuity within the
state of Victoria.
- As the only location in Victoria with direct access to Victoria
Internet Exchange and the Australia Singapore Cable (ASC),
Equinix's Melbourne campus offers
connectivity to a broad range of more than 50 network service
providers.
- The city of Melbourne is
increasingly experiencing digital transformation and is predicted
to have a digital economy worth approximately A$51billion (US$36
billion) in 2020.3 Equinix's Melbourne data center campus enables companies
to digitize their businesses by embracing cloud applications from
more than 80 Cloud and IT service providers.
- As part of its multicloud strategy, The Salvation Army moved
its key infrastructure to Equinix in Melbourne, while shifting critical business
applications across workplace productivity, human resources and
more to Software-as-a-Service.
- Capitalizing on the thriving economy, Equinix continues to
expand its national footprint to meet the rising demand for
interconnection. In 2019, Equinix launched its eighth Sydney data center, SY5, and completed
expansion of its second Perth
facility, PE2. With today's opening of ME2, Equinix has a national
footprint of 17 data centers across Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Canberra, Adelaide and Brisbane, with four in Melbourne.
- Since entering Melbourne in
2015, Equinix has built a mature ecosystem with more than 220
customers across multiple industries. The network effect of this
growth creates increased need for further data center capacity to
support businesses' increasing migration towards the digital
edge.
Quotes
- Craig Tucker, Chief
Information Officer, The Salvation Army
"The Salvation
Army is actively pursuing a multicloud strategy to ensure we
deliver better and stronger outcomes for the organization. As a
non-profit with a mission to serve vulnerable communities facing
hardship or injustice, it's critical we efficiently use funds to
meet the needs of those we serve. This has resulted in a
standardized, national IT platform, where we have shifted critical
business applications across workplace productivity, human
resources and more to Software-as-a-Service, as well as maintaining
our key infrastructure in Equinix IBX data centers. Equinix
provides us with security, performance and availability in our new
architecture and allows us to deliver on the big picture goals that
will strengthen our ability to achieve our mission."
- Nikhil Batra, Associate
Research Director, Telecommunications, IDC
Asia/Pacific
"Melbourne
has a long-term vision as a smart city to adopt useful innovations
that fold seamlessly into how we live, work and play. Equinix's
investment in the city, which started with ME1 a few years ago, is
now continuing with the opening of ME2, driven by the growing
interconnection requirements of a flourishing smart city.
Melbourne is leading the
enterprise transformation charge in Australia, where organizations are focusing on
customer experience transformation, and business process
optimization in order to build the digital enterprise of the
future."
- Jeremy Deutsch, President,
Equinix Asia-Pacific
"The value of smart cities has
become increasingly recognized and is now a key priority for
markets across the Asia-Pacific
region as they continue to grow their digital economies. Equinix is
dedicated to support this development by connecting people,
businesses and industry so they can better interconnect at the
digital edge. Our investment in the Australian market reflects our
commitment to our customers as they continue their digital
transformation journeys."
- Guy Danskine, Managing
Director, Equinix Australia
"Five years ago, we entered
the Melbourne market with our ME1
facility. In that short time, we now have four sites in two
distinct campus locations across the city, containing a flourishing
ecosystem that enables secure, high-speed, low-latency connections
for our customers and partners. This new IBX demonstrates our
continued commitment to the Victorian and Australian digital
economies, creating a place where our customers and partners can
interconnect across our national footprint of 17 highly connected
data centers."
Additional Resources
- Get a Sneak Peak Inside Equinix's Newest Data Center in
Melbourne [blog]
- Equinix Melbourne data centers [website]
- Equinix ME2 IBX Specifications [website]
- ECX Fabric Datasheet [website]
About Equinix
Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) connects
the world's leading businesses to their customers, employees and
partners inside the most-interconnected data centers. On this
global platform for digital business, companies come together
across more than 50 markets on five continents to reach everywhere,
interconnect everyone and integrate everything they need to create
their digital futures. 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 data
centers and developing, deploying and delivering Equinix products
and solutions; unanticipated costs or difficulties relating to the
integration of companies we have acquired or will acquire into
Equinix; a failure to receive significant revenues from customers
in recently built out or acquired data centers; a 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; risks related to our taxation as a REIT;
and other risks described from time to time in Equinix filings with
the Securities and Exchange Commission. In particular, see recent
Equinix 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.
1 Oracle and ESI ThoughtLab
2 About the Fishermans Bend
3 Invest Victoria
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