REDWOOD CITY, Calif.,
Oct. 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/
-- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the world's digital
infrastructure company, today announced the availability of Equinix
Metal™, a fully automated and interconnected bare metal service.
Equinix Metal provides digital businesses with an automated,
"as-a-service" deployment method to build their foundational
infrastructure and take advantage of the global reach,
interconnected ecosystems and trusted partners available on
Platform Equinix®. Equinix Metal is available today in
Equinix International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data
centers across four global metros (Amsterdam, New York, Silicon Valley and
Washington, D.C.), and is expected
to be available in 14 global metros by early 2021.
With this new service, companies have the option to deploy the
physical infrastructure of their choice at software speed across
Equinix's trusted platform. Together with other digital
infrastructure building blocks in the Equinix portfolio, customers
now have a broad range of physical and virtual deployment
alternatives to place infrastructure wherever they need it and
connect to everything they need to succeed.
Featuring native integration with Equinix Cloud Exchange
Fabric®, which has been renamed Equinix Fabric™, Equinix
Metal helps enterprises seamlessly deploy hybrid multicloud
architectures and quickly access thousands of networks, enterprises
and clouds on Platform Equinix. By delivering high-performance
dedicated servers in minutes via popular developer tools
in both on-demand and reserved models, Equinix Metal helps
businesses extract greater value from Platform Equinix's rich
ecosystems more quickly, more easily and in more places than ever
before.
Building upon the recent acquisition of Packet—as
well as technologies developed at Equinix—the addition of Equinix
Metal expands Equinix's ability
to help more companies gain digital
advantage. By combining Packet's expertise in API-first,
hardware automation and provisioning with Equinix's global reach,
interconnection prowess and proximity to valuable ecosystems,
Equinix Metal offers a powerful infrastructure building block on
which digital leaders can deploy and scale their preferred
infrastructure with agility and confidence.
Highlights/Key Facts:
- With Equinix Metal, digital leaders can gain competitive
advantage by building foundational infrastructure to directly and
securely connect people, locations, clouds and data that matter
most to their business. Key features of Equinix Metal include:
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- Automated: Equinix Metal is a fully programmable,
easy-to-use and scalable solution. Businesses can
click-and-configure, provision via API and common libraries, or
leverage popular tools to quickly and reliably deploy and manage
hybrid multicloud architectures.
- Interconnected: Equinix Metal includes
industry-first native integration to Equinix Fabric, a global,
software-defined interconnection service available in 46 strategic
markets. In under 15 minutes, users can deploy dedicated bare metal
infrastructure across global locations and connect to Equinix
Fabric for low-latency access to thousands of networks, enterprises
and clouds.
- Production Ready: With the acquisition of Packet in
March 2020 and the integration of
organic technology, Equinix Metal launches with a proven track
record of performance, security and reliability trusted by hundreds
of SaaS companies, enterprises, global service providers and
open source projects.
- Ecosystem Friendly: By focusing on automating
foundational hardware and supporting integrations to DevOps, hybrid
cloud and open-source software solutions like Kubernetes, Equinix
Metal extends the company's strategy of enabling customer choice
through supporting neutral ecosystems.
- Equinix Metal can address a broad set of use cases that value
global reach and participation within digital ecosystems,
including:
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- Hybrid Cloud—Deploy secure infrastructure that is
proximate to ecosystems and enables reduced CAPEX and incremental
scaling at software speed.
- DevOps Automation—Rapidly provision physical
infrastructure with robust, well-documented APIs and immediate
access to supported ecosystem integrations.
- Global Edge Delivery—Reduce latency, expand global reach
and accelerate time to market to drive better end-user
experiences.
- Security & Compliance—Benefit from single tenancy
and private connectivity, with access to hardware level security
protocols.
Quotes:
- Raj Dutt, Founder and CEO, Grafana
Labs
"Grafana provides its mission-critical
observability platform to the largest companies in the world. By
deploying Grafana Cloud on Equinix Metal and adding direct, private
connectivity through Equinix Fabric, our customers can more easily
and securely interact with their metrics, logs and dashboards
across on-prem, public or private cloud, or at the
edge."
- Chris Wright, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology
Officer, Red Hat
"Red Hat
has championed an industry vision for open hybrid cloud
architectures, with a consistent foundation from bare metal to
virtualized infrastructures and the cloud, enabling customers to
truly build any app anywhere. Collaborating with partners like
Equinix to help enable our customers' hybrid cloud success is a key
part of that vision, which is why we are pleased to be working with
them to deliver Red Hat OpenShift on the Equinix Metal
service."
- Mark Bowker, Senior Analyst,
ESG
"With COVID-19 we've seen enterprises accelerate
their digital transformation plans from years to months.
Today's digital leaders are increasingly gaining a
competitive advantage by leveraging infrastructure choices that
meet their exact needs and can be deployed globally and
interconnected. By augmenting its portfolio of
foundational services with high-performance, fully
automated compute, the addition of Equinix
Metal can help digital businesses extract greater
value from Platform Equinix's rich ecosystems and global
interconnection fabric and rapidly deploy the physical
infrastructure of their choice."
- Sara Baack, Chief Product
Officer, Equinix
"Equinix Metal is another important step
forward in our product portfolio, enabling enterprises to bring
together and interconnect hybrid multicloud infrastructures at
global scale on Platform Equinix. With Equinix Metal integrated
with Equinix Fabric, infrastructure customers can move at software
speed, and tap into the global reach, interconnection value, and
unparalleled community of ecosystem partners that digital leaders
have come to expect from Equinix."
Additional Resources
- Powering Digital Leaders [e-book]
- Equinix Metal: Bare Metal and More! [blog]
- Equinix Metal [website]
- Equinix Completes Acquisition of Bare Metal Leader Packet
[press release]
- Equinix to Acquire Bare Metal Leader Packet [press
release]
About Equinix
Equinix (Nasdaq: EQIX)
is the world's digital infrastructure company, enabling digital
leaders to harness a trusted platform to bring together and
interconnect the foundational infrastructure that powers their
success. Equinix enables today's businesses to access all the right
places, partners and possibilities they need to accelerate
advantage. With Equinix, they can scale with agility, speed the
launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences and
multiply their value.
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, including Equinix Metal; 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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