Today, at its financial analyst event, Equinix (NASDAQ:EQIX), a
provider of global data center services, highlighted new customer
implementations that illustrate the company’s central role in the
digital economy, including global deployments from AboveNet, ACTIV
Financial, OnLive and VeriSign.
A recent Gartner, Inc. report1 on “hyperdigitized” industries
states, “Gartner estimates that the hyperdigitizing sector
represented nearly 20% of the entire U.S. GDP in 2009. It is
outgrowing the rest of the economy and will reach 23% of the
economy by 2020.” Per the report, “Hyperdigitization is the
accelerated digitization of a large and growing sector of the world
economy, the sector that is largely information-based. This sector
is made up of industries delivering nonphysical digital services,
increasingly mostly online.” According to Gartner, hyperdigitized
industries include: “the communications, entertainment and media
industries, but also many parts of IT-enabled business services
that deliver information, content, applications or process
services, among many others.” These businesses depend on
specialized services, specifically “infrastructure services, access
to scalable, reliable, standard infrastructure environments” in
order to succeed in their core business and realize their growth
potential.
Equinix offers digital businesses a global platform of highly
reliable data centers that are network dense and house key
ecosystems in financial services, cloud and IT services, networks,
digital content, mobility and others. By leveraging Equinix’s
global platform, businesses can connect with partners, customers,
suppliers and others in their digital ecosystem to ensure fast,
reliable delivery of optimized content and applications.
“For over a decade Equinix has been anticipating – and building
a business – to meet the needs of the digital economy,” said Steve
Smith, CEO of Equinix. “One of the reasons Equinix is on target to
generate more than $1 billion in annual revenues in 2010 is because
of our ability to get ahead of the trends in technology and deliver
services to support our global customers. The hyperdigitization of
the economy aligns with our strategies to enable businesses to
thrive under these shifting market conditions.”
In the financial services sector, Equinix enables the exchange
of time-sensitive financial data by providing low latency
connectivity to buy and sell side firms, trading venues and other
market participants. Today, Equinix announced that ACTIV Financial
has extended its presence throughout Asia-Pacific, Europe and North
America with Equinix.
“Our work with Equinix represents our continued commitment to
providing fast, cost-effective access to low latency global market
data solutions,” said Frank Piasecki, president of ACTIV Financial.
“Equinix’s rich network and global platform provide the close
proximity our clients demand, enabling us to optimize our
customers’ experience as they leverage ACTIV’s low latency global
data sources.”
In the digital content sector, Equinix provides a platform that
aggregates the critical mass of content providers, network
connections and mobile and broadband networks required to deliver
high-bandwidth, rich-media applications such as video, telepresence
and interactive games. Today, Equinix announced that OnLive, the
pioneer of on-demand, instant-play video games, has leveraged
Equinix’s global platform to provide a great gaming experience.
Complete details are available here.
Charlie Jablonski, VP of Operations at OnLive, said: “OnLive
makes the impossible possible by providing consumers instant access
to top video games over a broadband connection. Equinix is at the
epicenter of our strategy. Having access to a large ecosystem of
carriers and potential content partners has greatly expedited our
rollout schedule and made scaling the service seamless and
efficient. The power of Equinix’s global platform is evident every
time a gamer uses OnLive to play instantly.”
In cloud computing, the Equinix global platform enables
cloud service providers to deliver applications and services
faster.
“We chose Equinix, a long time data center service provider, as
a partner for jointly marketing new cloud-based solutions,” said
Ben Petro, senior vice president, VeriSign Network Intelligence and
Availability. “The ability to easily launch into new markets on the
Equinix platform and tap into its carrier-rich ecosystem for new
business opportunities will help us scale our SaaS offerings aimed
at helping companies of all sizes maintain high network
availability.”
In the network services sector, Equinix enables
network service providers to quickly and cost effectively expand
into new markets and extend their service portfolios on a global
scale. Today the company announced its customer AboveNet operates
in Equinix IBX data centers throughout Asia-Pacific, Europe and
North America.
“As Equinix continues to build data centers in the top metro
markets, we’re leveraging their investment to extend our next-
generation, high bandwidth services to more enterprise and carrier
customers in strategic locations around the world,” said Rajiv
Datta, senior vice president and chief technology officer at
AboveNet. “Equinix gives us access to global, regional, and local
networks, which enables us to enter new markets and expand our
service offerings to its vast customer base of 3,700 potential
customers and partners.”
According to the Gartner report, “this {hyperdigitization}
sector will have a profound effect on the IT services business in a
number of ways. It is a part of the economy, a large part that,
being based on digital content and services, has few theoretical
limits to its growth except the human imagination. It is now
unleashed by the global technology and communications
infrastructure…The growth potential is astounding.”
1 Gartner Research, “Hyperdigitization Creates Major Opportunity
for IT Services Providers,” by Rolf Jester, August 19, 2010
About Equinix
Equinix, Inc. (NASDAQ:EQIX) connects businesses with partners
and customers around the world through a global platform of high
performance data centers, containing dynamic ecosystems
and the broadest choice of networks. More
than 3,100 enterprises, cloud, digital content and
financial companies connect to more than 600 network
service providers and rely on Platform Equinix to grow their
business, improve application performance and protect their vital
digital assets. Equinix operates in 35 strategic markets across
North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific and continually invests in
expanding its platform to power customer growth.
Learn more at http://www.equinix.com
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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
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