REDWOOD CITY, Calif.,
Sept. 21, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --
Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and
data center company, today announced an expanded collaboration with
VMware to help enterprises accelerate digital transformation. As
part of this expansion, VMware will offer its SD-WAN Edge as a
virtual network function (VNF) on Equinix's Network Edge. VMware is
also extending its presence in Equinix International Business
Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers across the Americas, Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Middle East to enable greater connectivity for
customers on a global scale.
As enterprises worldwide pursue digital transformation
initiatives, they increasingly embrace cloud-style models and
services to meet their objectives. With employees and customers
dispersed across geographic locations and different cloud
providers, there is unrelenting pressure on enterprise networks to
become more agile, flexible and easier to deploy and manage. To
meet these evolving demands, Equinix is collaborating with VMware
to offer an easy-to-consume solution to enterprises, service
providers and partners that empowers remote workforces, reduces
disruption, and increases business continuity efforts for companies
at the digital edge.
The VMware SD-WAN™ by VeloCloud® solution now available on
Equinix's Network Edge is an enterprise-grade virtual SD-WAN edge
service that helps enterprises manage their own direct peering
relationships with the cloud service providers of their choice via
Equinix Cloud Exchange Fabric® (ECX Fabric®) or Equinix
Marketplace. It allows enterprises to enhance application
performance for remote users within minutes, and without any
upfront capital expenses. By delivering fast, optimized and secure
site-to-applications at the edge via private interconnection,
enterprises can deploy the solution to gain the consistent and
predictable network performance required to meet their digital
business needs.
Highlights/Key Facts:
- Designed to accelerate digital transformation for global
businesses, Network Edge by Equinix offers enterprises a new way to
deploy virtual network services, within minutes, at the digital
edge without a physical data center deployment or hardware
requirements.
- Network Edge enables companies to reduce capital expenses and
scale IT and network services globally by virtually deploying a
digital-ready infrastructure. By utilizing network functions
virtualization (NFV), Network Edge offers customers the choice of
virtual network services from multiple vendors.
- The VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud solution delivers
high-performance, reliable branch access to cloud services, private
data centers, and SaaS-based enterprise applications. Offered
on Network Edge, global companies can bring their own VMware
SD-WAN license and deploy the solution in minutes, optimizing
network connectivity between site and applications while
eliminating the complexities of managing hardware and connecting to
multicloud environments.
- Expanding on VMware's secure-access service edge (SASE) vision,
Equinix and VMware will also enable provisioning and accessibility
of SASE components via Network Edge, ECX Fabric and other
connectivity options available through a single pane of glass on
the VMware Orchestrator portal.
- Equinix has been collaborating with VMware since 2013 to enable
hybrid cloud infrastructures, helping Global 2000 enterprises and
partners address the increasing volume and complexity of
application workloads and data.
- Equinix is a Gold-level sponsor at VMworld 2020, taking place
September 29 – October 1, 2020. During the virtual event,
Equinix will showcase its digital transformation solutions in the
Equinix Booth, located in the VMworld 2020 Virtual Hub.
Additionally, Equinix speakers will be participating in session
#VCNE3168S during the event titled, "Accelerate Your Journey to
the Hybrid Multicloud: VMware and Equinix Achieve Scale at the
Edge."
Quotes:
- Sanjay Uppal, Senior
Vice President & General Manager, VeloCloud
Business Unit, VMware
"We are thrilled to work with
Equinix to help enterprises accelerate their digital transformation
initiatives and offer new world-class capabilities within the
Equinix IBX facilities. With VMware SD-WAN Edge now available as a
virtual network service on Equinix's Network Edge, enterprises,
partners and service providers alike will be able to have unique,
globally available network solutions optimized for intrinsically
secure access to any public, private or SaaS cloud for remote and
branch users."
- Bill Long, Senior Vice
President, Product Management, Equinix
"An entire
architectural shift driven by data transformation is happening
across the IT landscape today. By expanding our collaboration with
VMware to deliver an innovative new solution that empowers remote
workforces, reduces disruption and enables business continuity, we
can help companies deploy a digital ready infrastructure at the
edge within minutes in order to accelerate their digital
transformation efforts anywhere in the world."
- Brad Casemore, Research Vice
President, Datacenter Networks, IDC
"Despite the
COVID-19 pandemic, the long-term growth prospects for the
SD-WAN market remain exceptionally robust. Driven by the
ubiquitous imperative of digital transformation, a growing number
of organizations worldwide are looking to scale initial
deployments, which often begin with a limited number of sites, to
encompass all branch offices supported by their WAN. As they do so,
they prize agility, resilience and operational simplicity. VMware's
SD-WAN by VeloCloud solution, now available on Equinix's Network
Edge, is designed to address those needs and help organizations
dynamically scale their IT infrastructure in lockstep with the
demands of digital business."
Additional Resources
- Equinix Unveils Virtual Network Services on Platform
Equinix [press release]
- Equinix and VMware Partner to Accelerate Enterprise Hybrid
Cloud Transformations [press release]
- Platform Ecosystems Fuel Enterprise Adoption for Hybrid
MultiCloud [blog]
- Equinix to Offer Private Connectivity to VMware Cloud on AWS
via AWS Direct Connect [press release]
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. www.equinix.com.
VMware, VMware SD-WAN, VeloCloud, VMware Orchestrator and
VMworld are registered trademarks or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in
the United States and other
jurisdictions. All other marks and names mentioned herein may be
trademarks of their respective companies.
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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