REDWOOD CITY, Calif.,
Aug. 10, 2017 /PRNewswire/
-- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global
interconnection and data center company, today announced the that
it has established connectivity into Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Direct Connect service in the New
York region, enabling all Equinix customers in the
New York metro the ability to
access AWS Direct Connect at all available speeds via Equinix Cloud
Exchange™ or Equinix-provided metro connectivity options. The
addition of New York
brings the total number of Equinix metros offering AWS Direct
Connect service to seventeen, globally.
The ability to directly connect to cloud service providers, such
as AWS, is becoming increasingly important for enterprise CIOs as
digital transformation fuels the need for virtualized, on-demand
provider-based services. In fact, in a recent IDC report*, it
was forecast that over the 2016-2021 period, overall public
cloud spending will experience a 21% compound annual growth rate
(CAGR) – nearly seven times the rate of overall IT spending
growth. By expanding AWS Direct Connect to additional
locations in North America,
Equinix is leveraging AWS Direct Connect services to enable
enterprise CIOs to advance cloud strategies by seamlessly and
safely incorporating public cloud services into their existing
architectures.
Highlights / Key Facts
- The Equinix New York campus consists of eight data centers that
serve as business hubs for approximately 825 companies across
multiple industries, with a high concentration of financial
services and media firms. In addition to directly connecting to
AWS, Equinix New York customers can choose from a broad range of
network services from 125 providers. Equinix New York data
centers are also home to the Equinix Financial eXchange, a large
community of financial market participants that exchange data in
close proximity to each other to optimize their electronic trading
operations. Access to the cloud is particularly important for the
financial industry in today's digital economy. IDC predicts
that, in 2017, banking will be among the top three U.S. industries
leading the pack in global spending on public cloud services as
they look for greater scalability, higher performance, and faster
access to new technologies*.
- With the addition of New York,
Equinix now offers AWS Direct Connect service in Amsterdam, Chicago, Dallas, Frankfurt, Los
Angeles, London,
Munich, New York, Osaka, Sao
Paulo, Seattle, Silicon
Valley, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, Warsaw
and Washington, D.C./Northern Virginia.
- Equinix will be showcasing its cloud interconnection services
at the upcoming AWS Summit, taking place in New York City on August
14th at the Jacob Javits Center. For more
information on Equinix and AWS, please visit us at Booth #118 or
click here.
Quote
- Kaushik Joshi, Global
Managing Director, Strategic Alliances
"Companies with latency-sensitive applications and workloads –
and specifically financial services firms – require predicable
performance to ensure a consistent, high-quality user experience.
AWS Direct Connect combined with the Equinix interconnection
platform is an ideal combination that enables these customers to
deploy hybrid cloud architectures and achieve this level of
performance and security. We are excited to be adding this
influential market to our existing roster of sites offering AWS
Direct Connect."
Additional
Resources
- Proximity matters when it comes to speed! How direct
interconnection to AWS is accelerating financial transactions [blog
post]
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, Worldwide Semiannual Public Cloud Services
Spending Guide; July 2017
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