Equinix Opens 50th Premier IBX Data Center
March 30 2010 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Equinix, Inc. (NASDAQ:EQIX), a provider of global data center
services, today announced a major company milestone: the opening of
its 50th premier International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data
center. This announcement demonstrates Equinix’s ability to help
its customers fully leverage all of the benefits of an
interconnected world. Equinix’s $2.0 billion investment to expand
operations between 2007 and 2010 is driven by market demand where
Equinix’s premium IBX data centers are today distributed in 19 of
the world’s leading markets on four continents. Through its 51 IBX
and partner data centers, Equinix customers choose from hundreds of
network providers to connect their business to the Internet,
significantly lowering their total network costs, and also
interconnect to key partners, creating a unique business ecosystem
that optimizes the distribution of their business content and
applications.
“The opening of our 50th premier IBX data center is a massive
achievement for the company and is a testament to our team, our
services and the value we provide to our customers on a daily
basis,” said Steve Smith, president and CEO, Equinix. “This
milestone validates our fundamental strategy to protect and connect
the world’s most valued information assets and ensures that Equinix
will continue to supply leading data center services for businesses
now and into the future.”
About Equinix LD5 IBX Data Center
London is one of the largest and fastest growing data center
markets in the world. To respond to this demand, the new Equinix
facility will provide 290,625 square feet of gross space (27,800
square meters), making it the company’s second largest IBX data
center in Europe (after the FR2 IBX data center located in
Frankfurt, Germany) and more than doubling the company’s footprint
in the strategic London market when fully built-out. Named LD5 and
located on the outskirts of London, this state-of-the-art data
center has been built to meet growing demand for premium colocation
and network exchange services, particularly from financial services
firms and cloud service providers operating in the UK capital.
LD5 has been built on the same campus as Equinix’s existing LD4
IBX data center. The two facilities are connected by more than
1,000 diverse dark fiber links, enabling customers from across the
campus to easily grow their operations and directly exchange
business information. Opened in the fourth quarter of 2007, the LD4
IBX data center is currently operating at more than 90% occupancy.
The LD4/5 campus currently provides customers with a wide range of
connectivity options, with access to more than 30 carrier networks
as well as the London Internet Exchange (LINX). It is also home to
Equinix’s Financial Services offering, an active community of
execution venues and other financial market participants that
locate in close proximity to each other in order to directly
exchange data, speed up execution times and increase trading
volumes.
“LD5 represents not only our 50th IBX data center, it’s our
largest facility in the UK and our 2nd largest IBX data center in
Europe,” said Russell Poole, UK General Manager, Equinix. “For
Equinix, continued growth and demand have been fueled by two
particularly strong market trends: the need for financial market
participants to locate in close proximity to each other in order to
improve the efficiency of their trading operations, and the
increasing uptake of cloud-based services by enterprises in the UK
and in major markets around the world.”
The LD5 IBX data center has been designed to provide customers
with highly resilient yet energy efficient data center
services. For example, each cabinet provides two
N+1 Uninterruptable Power Supplies (UPS) as standard,
providing additional redundancy and ensuring industry-leading
uptime for all LD5 customers. The data center also includes a
number of design features to maximize efficiency and reduce the
overall power consumption of the facility. These include fresh air
cooling for all of LD5’s UPS and plant equipment, as well as
variable speed secondary chilled water pumps and high efficiency
fans within the CRAC (computer room air conditioning)
units. This equipment has also been designed to respond to
favorable climate conditions – in colder weather, outside air is
used to chill the water that cools the data center, reducing the
cost and energy usage traditionally associated with the
process.
T-Systems, Deutsche Telekom’s outsourcing division, is
the anchor tenant in LD5. T-Systems has worked with Equinix
for a number of years now, with installations in several of
Equinix’s IBX data centers throughout Europe. As Tom Murphy, Head
of IAS at T-Systems, says, “The reason we keep coming back to
Equinix time and time again is that with them, we can expect a
consistently high level of service. Their international reach
fits well with our corporate strategy, enabling us to expand as and
when our business demands it.”
Murphy continues, “Our move into LD5 has completely exceeded our
expectations. The data center has been designed not only to
deliver optimum resilience but also maximize on efficiency savings.
It is a true state of the art facility, and we’re delighted to be a
part of it.”
The Equinix LD5 IBX data center is being built out in phases, to
be timed to meet market demand. This initial phase delivers 75,347
square feet of gross data center space (7,000 square meters) and
capacity for 1,400 cabinet equivalents. On completion, the data
center will have capacity for a total of 5,600 cabinet
equivalents.
About Equinix
Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) provides global data center
services that ensure the vitality of the information-driven world.
Global enterprises, content and financial companies, and network
service providers rely upon Equinix’s insight and expertise to
protect and connect their most valued information assets. Equinix
operates 51 International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) and partner
data centers across 19 markets in North America, Europe and
Asia-Pacific.
Important information about Equinix is routinely posted on the
investor relations page of its website located at
www.equinix.com/investors. We encourage you to check Equinix’s
website regularly for the most up-to-date information.
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.
Equinix and IBX are registered trademarks of Equinix, Inc.
International Business Exchange is a trademark of Equinix, Inc.
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