REDWOOD CITY, Calif.,
Oct. 17, 2016 /PRNewswire/
-- Equinix, Inc.(Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and
data center company, today announced that it is offering direct and
private access to VMware vCloud® Air™ on Platform Equinix™ in major
markets across North America and
Europe. Access is available either
via Equinix Cloud Exchange™, the company's cloud interconnection
platform, or via Direct Connect, depending on location. These
dedicated, private connections reduce network costs and provide
higher and more consistent network performance than Internet-based
connections for enterprise customers looking to build out their
VMware-based hybrid clouds.
By combining the flexibility of public cloud with the control
and security of private cloud, hybrid cloud deployments are on the
rise within enterprise IT, with an estimated annual growth rate of
45 percent*. Direct access to vCloud Air inside Equinix
provides seamless hybrid cloud enablement for VMware customers by
enabling them to easily combine on-premises vSphere investments
with the agility of public cloud without the inherent control,
latency and security concerns and limitations of the public
Internet. The solution is now available via Equinix Cloud Exchange
in London, Silicon Valley and
Washington, D.C. International
Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers, and also via
Direct Connect in Frankfurt,
London, New York, Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C.
Highlights / Key Facts
- Direct access to VMware vCloud Air inside Equinix is ideal for
customers looking to seamlessly extend their on-premises VMware
vSphere® infrastructure and move workloads to and from vCloud Air
in a more secure, reliable and compliant manner. This offering also
enables customers to consolidate multiple network siloes into an
Equinix IBX data center and directly connect to vCloud Air,
enabling a unified and truly hybrid architecture. And, direct
access to vCloud Air offers a robust disaster recovery solution for
customers. Customers with aggressive recovery time objective
(RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) requirements can place
critical applications close to vCloud Air for direct instant
recovery, or establish a secondary disaster recovery site for
vSphere workloads, thus avoiding application downtime.
- Equinix offers the industry's broadest choice in cloud service
providers, such as VMware vCloud Air, and offers direct connections
to many of these platforms via Equinix Cloud Exchange or Equinix
Cross Connects. Equinix Cloud Exchange is an advanced
interconnection solution that provides virtualized, private direct
connections that bypass the Internet to provide better security and
performance with a range of bandwidth options. It is
currently available in 21 markets, globally.
Quotes
- Mark Adams, Chief Development
Officer, Equinix
"VMware has a strong history and
established foothold within the enterprise market, and therefore it
is important that we provide direct access to their solution via
our Equinix Cloud Exchange as enterprise demand for
high-performance, enterprise-grade cloud services continues to
grow. Cloud Exchange was developed with the intent of
providing improved performance of cloud-based applications and
workloads through high-throughput, low-latency connections and we
are thrilled to be able to provide this to VMware
customers."
- Allwyn Sequeira, senior vice
president and general manager, vCloud Air, VMware
"Working with Equinix accelerates the reach of our cloud
services, and provides unified and true hybrid cloud enablement
solutions for our customers. Through this collaboration, customers
can now gain new data center locations for VMware vCloud Air and
complementary connection, network, colocation, hosting and managed
services to facilitate their hybrid cloud build-out."
- Scott Hanson, technical
director, Ardenta (Equinix and vCloud Air customer)
"A
true hybrid cloud solution must be built with performance and
availability in mind. This is vital for customer experience
expectations to be met. The Equinix Cloud Exchange provides
high-performance, low-latency connectivity to vCloud Air, which
allows Ardenta to deploy any part of the infrastructure either
on-premise or in vCloud Air with no impact on the performance or
reliability of the platform. This would simply not be
possible by using traditional VPN connectivity. In addition,
the flexibility to offer the customer a low-cost, speedily
provisioned virtual-circuit approach is far more appealing to
customers than the physical cross connect model that many
datacenters provide."
About Ardenta, a Claranet Group Company
Established in 2001, UK-based e-gaming specialists Ardenta were
acquired by Claranet in 2016. Claranet is one of Europe's leading Managed Services Providers.
Our IT services help our customers do amazing things. We simplify
the management of IT services so our customers can concentrate on
what they do best. By working with us our customers gain access to
a wide range of integrated hosting, networks and communications
managed services, as well as our support and expertise 24x7.
About Equinix
Equinix, Inc. connects the world's leading businesses to their
customers, employees and partners inside the most interconnected
data centers. In 40 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.
VMware, vCloud, vCloud Air, and vSphere are registered
trademarks or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and other jurisdictions. The
use of the word "partner" or "partnership" does not imply a legal
partnership relationship between VMware and any other company.
*Source: Synergy Research Group
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