REDWOOD CITY, Calif.,
June 22, 2017 /PRNewswire/
-- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global
interconnection and data center company, today announced that it
has achieved Microsoft Gold Cloud Platform status via its Equinix
Professional Services (EPS) organization. This designation
reinforces Equinix's ongoing commitment to delivering Microsoft
hybrid cloud to its customers inside a global footprint of
International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data
centers. Since Equinix began offering direct access to
Microsoft Azure in 2014, it has seen significant growth in the
amount of enterprise customers developing hybrid and multi-cloud
deployments across five continents including North America, South
America, Asia, Europe and Australia. Equinix currently offers
direct connections to Microsoft Azure via the Equinix Cloud
Exchange™ in 20 metros around the world.
Equinix's Gold Competency status was awarded in recognition of
its expertise in the areas hybrid cloud enablement through EPS.
Hybrid cloud continues to be a top priority for enterprise
CIOs. In fact, based on results from IDC's 2017 CloudView
Survey, nearly 70 percent of cloud users expect that within two
years the majority of their IT capabilities will be delivered
through some form of cloud service — public, private, or hybrid.
Yet the path to the hybrid cloud can be technically challenging.
Through EPS and Equinix's ability to provide direct access to
Microsoft Azure via the Equinix Cloud Exchange, Equinix helps its
enterprise customers advance their cloud strategies and capitalize
on these cloud benefits by seamlessly incorporating cloud services
into their existing architectures.
Highlights / Key Facts
- Microsoft Gold certification, provided to a select group of
partners who demonstrate that they meet strict criteria, is the
highest level of certification for companies that are part of the
Microsoft partnership program. Companies, such as Equinix, that
attain this status must provide successful client references and
demonstrate that they have developed innovative products and
solutions based on Microsoft technologies. Equinix has been
aligned with Microsoft for many years to provide high-level
interconnection and global access to Microsoft Azure. Equinix
will also be expanding its role as a critical partner in Microsoft
hybrid cloud solutions by integrating Microsoft Azure Stack into
its interconnection offerings.
- With Equinix, applications and workloads operating in a hybrid
cloud are optimized for business value. By directly and
securely connecting to Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Azure Stack
inside Equinix, customers can take advantage of:
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- Superior application performance and user experience
- Enhanced compliance by connecting privately to Microsoft Azure
and keeping data within region, without going over the public
internet
- Increased cloud security, by bypassing the public internet
- EPS offers practical guidance and proven solutions to help
enterprise customers optimize and future-proof their data center
architecture and cloud journey. EPS provides hands-on
experience in assessing, enabling, migrating, optimizing, planning,
designing, testing and deploying IT infrastructure, networks and
cloud architectures.
- Equinix will be showcasing its interconnection capabilities at
the upcoming Microsoft Inspire conference, taking place
July 9- 13, in Washington, D.C.
Quotes
- Bob Breynaert, global
managing director, Microsoft strategic alliance,
Equinix:
"Hybrid cloud is revolutionizing the way
enterprises do business, and Equinix is committed to empowering our
customers to deploy high-performance, scalable and secure hybrid
cloud solutions on a global scale. A critical component of this is
interconnectivity to Microsoft Azure and Office 365 platforms
inside our vast platform of data centers. We are honored to have
reached Gold partner status with Microsoft, and look forward to
providing additional ways for our global customers to achieve
improved performance of their cloud-based applications."
- Ryan Mallory, vice
president, global solutions enablement, Equinix:
"We are incredibly proud to have achieved Gold Cloud
Platform status. The recipe for our accomplishment ultimately stems
from the right mix of a number of symbiotic ingredients: Equinix's
hybrid cloud enabling interconnection platform with unprecedented
global reach, Microsoft's reputable cloud service offerings, the
exceptional quality of work delivered by our Professional Services
organization, and last but not least, our extremely innovative
customers. Teaming with a pioneering organization like Microsoft is
instrumental in being able to deliver end-to-end solutions that
quickly deliver business results and satisfy the evolving needs of
our customers."
- Robert Mahowald, group vice
president, applications and cloud business models,
IDC
"In our recent research, we are seeing
a strong trend within enterprise IT to move applications and
workloads off premises onto cloud platforms such as Microsoft
Azure, to achieve cost and application performance benefits.
Equinix is helping enterprise customers easily make this transition
by enabling direct, low-latency, secure connections to cloud
services within its global footprint of data centers."
Additional Resources
- Maximizing Cloud Impact - A New Paradigm for Connecting Clouds
within the Enterprise [white paper]
- Microsoft Azure Stack and Equinix Deliver the True Value of
Hybrid Cloud to Digital Business [blog post]
- Learn more about Equinix and Microsoft [web page]
About Equinix
Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) connects
the world's leading businesses to their customers, employees and
partners inside the most interconnected data centers. In 44
markets worldwide, Equinix is where companies come together to
realize new opportunities and accelerate their business, IT and
cloud strategies. http://www.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 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.
*Source: IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Cloud 2017 Predictions;
Doc # US41863916, Nov. 2016
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