REDWOOD CITY, Calif.,
Aug. 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/
-- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection
and data center company, today announced it has become a Google
Cloud Premier Partner. The partnership enables enterprises to more
easily connect and migrate priority workloads to Google Cloud.
Global IT strategies are increasingly moving toward hybrid
multicloud solutions as businesses leverage the flexibility and
scalability these architectures offer. Equinix provides private
interconnection for companies operating across markets to improve
their global reach and seamlessly connect to key customers,
partners and suppliers. Customers utilizing Equinix's
interconnection services will also benefit from support around the
configuration of their telecom and service
architecture—facilitating accelerated digital transformation.
The combination of Equinix Cloud Exchange Fabric®
(ECX Fabric®) and Google Cloud Interconnect services
provides more agile and scalable hybrid multicloud services to
further support digital transformation and enterprise growth; while
the integration of Equinix SmartKey® and Google Cloud
External Key Manager (EKM) provides customers with secure key
storage, encryption and tokenization services to address
performance and risk. This also supports governance and compliance
requirements at the digital edge, close to clouds and carriers.
Findings from Equinix's 2019-20 Global Tech Trends Survey—which
explores the key technological trends defining organizations' IT
strategies across the world—showed a global trend toward the
adoption of hybrid multicloud strategies and an increase in the
number of IT functions dependent on the cloud.
As an additional support to businesses looking to simplify
hybrid multicloud infrastructures, Equinix recently rolled out one
of its largest expansions of ECX Fabric, providing increased access
to a rich ecosystem of clouds, networks, partners and customers,
most critical to digital business.
Highlights/Key Facts
- Equinix currently houses more than 35% of Google Cloud on-ramps
(in over 35 metros) through dedicated enterprise-leveraged or
partner GCI services.
- Direct and secure connectivity is key to deploying and managing
hybrid multicloud infrastructure to ensure peak performance and
data security. According to Equinix's 2019-20 Global Tech Trends
Survey, 51% of the IT decision-makers surveyed are deploying hybrid
multicloud models. An estimated 44% of their IT infrastructure is
currently on the cloud, and 71% of respondents globally plan to
move more functions—such as productivity tools, databases and
business-critical applications—onto the cloud.
- ECX Fabric enables streamlined access to the world's largest
cloud providers, allowing enterprises, network and cloud service
providers to directly, securely and dynamically connect distributed
infrastructure and digital ecosystems globally. By connecting local
services and distributed infrastructure via ECX Fabric, businesses
can resolve application performance and digital transformation
challenges.
- Equinix provides direct connections to Google Cloud via GCI and
ECX Fabric—increasing agility for enterprises in changing market
conditions, thereby maximizing new opportunities.
- With a global footprint of more than 210 International Business
Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers, Platform Equinix® houses a large
share of the world's public cloud on-ramps and drives some of the
most physically and virtually interconnected ecosystems in the
world.
- Enterprises can colocate equipment for hybrid multicloud
workloads on Platform Equinix with low latency to the nearest
Google Cloud regions.
Quotes
- Royce Thomas, Senior Vice
President, Global Account Management, Equinix:
"Equinix's Premier Partner certification underlines our
long-standing partnership with Google Cloud and the key role we are
now playing at the center of the cloud-first world. By providing
real-time, flexible and scalable connectivity to Google Cloud for
customers, partners and suppliers, we are providing critical
solutions for digital enterprises looking to harness the power of
the cloud. This is a key priority for us, which is why we recently
appointed industry veteran CB Velayuthan as our new Global Managing
Director of Strategic Alliances, leading our business with
Google."
- Eugene Bergen Henegouwen, President, EMEA, Equinix:
"Digital business across the EMEA region and around the world is
evolving at a rapid rate. Cloud computing isn't a differentiator
anymore, it's a business-critical asset. In our most recent Global
Tech Trends Survey, the majority of IT decision-makers surveyed in
EMEA claimed they would be migrating more functionality to the
cloud within the next year. Equinix's Google Cloud Premier Partner
status enables them to do this more seamlessly. Given the global
challenges we face in the wake of COVID-19, this is now more
important than ever."
Additional Resources
- Equinix and Google Network Automation for Hybrid Multicloud
[blog]
- Equinix Launches Large Expansion of Interconnection Services in
EMEA to Help Enterprises Simplify Hybrid Multicloud Connectivity
[press release]
- How Equinix and Google Cloud Make Application Migration Easy
[blog]
- Learn more about Equinix Cloud Exchange Fabric™ [website]
- Learn more about Equinix's partnership with Google Cloud
[website]
- Multicloud and Edge Top IT Leaders' Priority Lists [press
release]
- Try Google Cloud and Equinix [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 55 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.
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