Equinix Launches Business Continuity Trading Services in North America
February 16 2011 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq:EQIX), a provider of global data center
services, today announced the availability of its Business
Continuity Trading Room (BCTR) services in Equinix’s NY7
International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data center. Financial
companies in the New York IBX now have access to resilient
colocation and business continuity services for mission critical
trading infrastructure.
Equinix’s BCTR facilities in New York will protect financial
customers’ mission critical operations in the event of a major
incident or disaster. Equinix BCTR services are secure facilities
that meet or exceed industry standards and allow financial firms to
meet regulatory requirements for business continuity, and ensure
trading will continue in the same secure, reliable and network rich
environment as Equinix colocation services. Specifically, traders
will have access to trading desks equipped with multiple monitors,
workstations and specialized trading phones with voice recording
and numerous market data feeds. Customized private suites ensure
customers also have the flexibility to address any infrastructure
or risk profile.
In the U.S. market, Surge Trading, the New York-based electronic
market maker, tapped Equinix to provide disaster recovery and
business continuity capabilities.
“We are pleased to be working with Equinix, a recognized global
leader in data center and colocation services,” said Joseph M.
Marinaro, chief business development and strategy officer at Surge
Trading. “Our clients expect us to deliver best execution services
and we strive to exceed expectations by ensuring that our service
providers meet the highest standards. Additionally, working with
Equinix will allow us to develop and scale new offerings for our
clients as the market demands. Furthermore, our clients can expect
a seamless migration with no impact to their day-to-day dealings
with the firm.”
Equinix also has business continuity capabilities in Germany and
in Hong Kong. Equinix customers leveraged BCTR services to ensure
trading rooms were kept active in Hong Kong during the SARS
epidemic and the Bird Flu scare in 2003.
Allan Graham, director of business continuity products for
Equinix, said: “Financial businesses need immediate access to
facilities when disaster strikes. Equinix offers a range of
solutions and features that reduce risk while providing additional
value, including use of backup facilities for remote work, QA
testing, training and other activities.”
“We’ve already seen success with BCTR in Hong Kong and Germany,
and now North American customers will have access to these same
services,” Graham added.
About Equinix in the Global Financial Markets
Equinix provides a neutral meeting place for the world’s leading
financial market participants including trading venues, buy
and sell side firms, market data providers, technology providers
and financial networks. These customers locate servers and
infrastructure within Equinix data centers to support mission
critical financial services applications with highly reliable,
low-latency connectivity. Learn more at:
http://www.equinix.com/industries/financial-exchange/
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 625 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.
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.
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