Equinix Selected to Provide Data Center Services for Rackspace Cloud: Private Edition
November 07 2011 - 4:26PM
Business Wire
Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq:EQIX), a provider of global data center
services, today announced it has been selected as a data center
partner for customers building and deploying private and hybrid
clouds using Rackspace Cloud: Private Edition.
Announced today, Rackspace Cloud: Private Edition provides
corporate IT departments with production cloud solutions based on
OpenStack™ technology and delivered through published reference
architectures, certified deployment partners, and cloud management
services from Rackspace. Customers now have the option to deploy
Rackspace Cloud: Private Edition in International Business
Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers located around the world. Platform
Equinix™ provides customers the global reach, scalability,
security, high availability, and network connectivity options
necessary for cloud application performance.
“We have continued to collaborate with Rackspace to make it even
easier for customers to deploy OpenStack-powered clouds and ensure
the high performance today’s cloud applications require. Rackspace
Cloud: Private Edition represents a tremendous advancement in
OpenStack capability and Equinix is pleased to be a data center
partner to further increase cloud deployment velocity, enhance
flexibility, and advance infrastructure integration capabilities,”
said Vince DiMemmo, general manager, global cloud and IT services
for Equinix.
Rackspace Cloud: Private Edition is a new approach for corporate
IT departments looking to build private and hybrid clouds. By
leveraging the OpenStack open source software, published reference
architectures for clouds spanning compute, storage, networking, and
the data center, and certified deployment partners to build the
clouds, customers are provided with a range of architectural,
technology, and operations flexibility to speed cloud deployment
and reduce integration challenges. Combined with Rackspace
Fanatical Support™ to help run the clouds and Equinix data center
management and operations, this solution provides customers a
simple yet comprehensive cloud adoption capability.
Added DiMemmo, “As customers look to realize the benefits of
cloud solutions, Platform Equinix provides access to robust data
centers in strategic global markets, the optimized network and
interconnection solutions necessary to ensure a high quality
end-user experience, and a rich solution environment to integrate
public, private, and hybrid clouds with corporate IT assets
spanning the data center, branch offices, and customer premise
facilities.”
To learn more about Equinix and Rackspace Cloud: Private
Edition, go to
http://info.equinix.com/Equinix-Rackspace-Cloud-Private-Edition.html.
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. Platform Equinix connects more than
4,000 enterprises, cloud, digital content and financial companies
including more than 680 network service providers to help them grow
their businesses, improve application performance and protect their
vital digital assets. Equinix operates in 38 strategic markets
across the Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific and continually invests
in expanding its platform to power customer growth.
http://www.equinix.com.
Forward Looking Statements
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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
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