REDWOOD CITY, Calif.,
April 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/
-- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global
interconnection and data center company, today announced one
of its largest expansions of Equinix Cloud Exchange Fabric™ (ECX
Fabric™) in seven new EMEA markets to help global businesses
simplify hybrid and multicloud infrastructures. With this expansion
of Equinix's industry-leading interconnection service to
Barcelona, Brussels, Geneva, Istanbul, Lisbon and Sofia, and extending into Hamburg in Q2 2020, enterprises and service
providers can seamlessly interconnect to a rich ecosystem of
clouds, networks, partners and customers that matter most to their
digital businesses.
As global IT decision-makers respond to an increasingly dynamic
world including competitive pressures, growing customer demands,
globalization, and challenges posed by COVID-19, many are
accelerating their digital transformation efforts and continuing to
prioritize the adoption of hybrid and multicloud solutions. In
response to this market shift, Equinix is extending its ECX Fabric
service in EMEA to help digital businesses simplify hybrid
multicloud deployments and expand their global interconnection
opportunities on Platform Equinix®.
Designed to support enterprise digital transformation
initiatives, ECX Fabric is a global interconnection service
available in 45 strategic markets that allows businesses to
exchange their data on demand, and between metros through private
connections. This capability enables enterprises, network services
and cloud providers alike to consistently scale their digital
businesses just as rapidly as the digital economy requires it.
ECX Fabric provides scalability, agility and connectivity over a
self-service portal or APIs. Through a single port, customers in
any ECX Fabric-enabled market can create and manage on-demand
connections in a globally consistent way. By extending ECX Fabric
from Lisbon in the West to
Istanbul in the East, Equinix is
making it easier for digital businesses to increase their global
reach by gaining broad access to the ecosystems they need for
scaling their businesses globally.
Highlights/Key Facts
- As digital transformation fuels the need for virtualized,
on-demand, multicloud infrastructures, global businesses are using
virtual connections to expand into new regions. ECX Fabric supports
this evolution to multicloud adoption by directly, securely and
dynamically connecting distributed infrastructure and digital
ecosystems globally, on Platform Equinix.
- Platform Equinix is a dynamic data center and
interconnection platform essential for any enterprise deploying
hybrid multicloud at the edge. With a global footprint of more than
200 International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data
centers, Platform Equinix contains the highest share of the world's
public cloud on-ramps and the most physically and virtually
interconnected ecosystems in the world.
- ECX Fabric enables streamlined access to the world's largest
cloud providers, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure,
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Google Cloud on Platform
Equinix via global, software-defined interconnection.
With more than 2,000 customers connecting their digital
infrastructure to more than 600 other participants on the platform,
ECX Fabric enables the world's leading digital businesses to
connect to the cloud.
- With the addition of the seven new EMEA markets, ECX Fabric
will be available to customers across 45 strategic markets in the
Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific
regions including Amsterdam,
Atlanta, Barcelona, Boston, Brussels, Canberra, Chicago, Culpeper, Dallas, Denver, Dublin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hamburg, Helsinki, Hong
Kong, Houston, Istanbul, Lisbon, London, Los
Angeles, Madrid,
Manchester, Melbourne, Miami, Milan,
Munich, New York, Osaka, Paris,
Perth, Seattle, São Paulo, Silicon Valley,
Seoul, Singapore, Sofia, Stockholm, Sydney, Toronto, Tokyo, Warsaw, Washington
D.C. and Zurich.
- Benefits to enterprises: On-demand,
software-defined interconnection on ECX Fabric gives enterprises
the agility to capitalize on changing market conditions and new
opportunities. Through one port, on one platform, enterprises can
quickly connect to the largest ecosystems of clouds, networks and
partners available on ECX Fabric, including clouds not currently
available for direct connection within a local market. By
connecting local services and distributed infrastructure via ECX
Fabric, enterprises can also solve their application performance
and digital customer experience challenges. Additionally, ECX
Fabric, along with a growing portfolio of Edge Services, offers
enterprises the ability to quickly deploy and interconnect virtual
network functions globally.
- Benefits to service providers: By leveraging
ECX Fabric as a global extension of their infrastructure, cloud and
network service providers can quickly expand their global reach
into new markets and respond to the connectivity needs of
their customers with dramatically reduced time to market. The
virtualized nature of these connections is also ideal for testing
local market demand before deploying physical
infrastructure. The rich ecosystem of cloud service providers
available on Platform Equinix also allows network providers to
offer customers on-demand, private connectivity to multiple cloud
providers via ECX Fabric, ultimately helping their customers
extract more value from the cloud.
- Private interconnection is essential as digital transformation
fuels higher demand for localized digital services at the edge.
According to the recently released Volume 3 of the Global
Interconnection Index (GXI), a market study published by Equinix,
installed interconnection bandwidth capacity is expected to reach
13,300+ Tbps with a 51% compound annual growth rate worldwide by
2022.
Quotes
- Armin Rishi, Director of
Technical Partnerships, Aryaka
"Platform Equinix's global
interconnection capabilities help Aryaka, the cloud-first WAN
company, with our peering and cloud connectivity needs. This
enables us to provide an industry-leading Managed SD-WAN service to
our customers. Seeing the expansion across several European markets
opens up more possibilities for the future growth of our
platform."
- Courtney Munroe, Global Vice
President, Telecommunications Research, IDC
"The
migration to digital platforms, as well as the requirement for
seamless and efficient interconnection to network providers and
cloud platforms, are strong drivers for the colocation and
interconnection market for enterprises, content and service
providers. Equinix's ECX Fabric interconnection service offers
additional enhanced and efficient options for service providers and
enterprises alike and will continue to drive growth of the digital
ecosystem. This expansion is timely given the increased demand for
interconnection as a result of shifting network patterns and the
spike in network usage from some segments, due to the impact of
COVID-19 quarantine policies."
- Bill Long, Senior Vice
President, Core Product Management, Equinix
"As global IT
decision-makers respond to the challenges posed by COVID-19,
many are accelerating their digital transformation efforts and
transitioning more functions to the cloud. To help global
businesses simplify their hybrid and multicloud deployments,
Equinix is launching the largest expansion to date of our ECX
Fabric service in Europe. By
extending ECX Fabric from Lisbon
in the West to Istanbul in the
East, and offering a globally consistent interconnection service
across each of our 45 ECX Fabric-enabled markets, we can help
enterprises seamlessly connect to the clouds, networks, partners
and rich ecosystems that matter most to their businesses."
- Eugene Bergen Henegouwen, President, EMEA,
Equinix
"Most of the organizations we work with around
the world are already on a digital transformation journey, and are
using the cloud to improve their global reach and seamlessly
connect with the customers, partners and suppliers that matter to
them. Indeed, in our latest global survey of IT decision-makers,
nearly three-quarters (71%) said they plan to move more of their IT
functions to the cloud. COVID-19 has accelerated this trend for
some businesses that have had to rapidly virtualize their services
to respond to the extremely fast-changing nature of business during
this crisis. We believe our expansion of ECX Fabric will help them
to not only successfully navigate the difficult months ahead, but
come out the other side fit for the future and ready to seize the
opportunities the cloud offers."
Additional Resources
- Equinix Is Expanding the Reach of Cloud in
EMEA [blog]
- Learn more about ECX Fabric [website]
- Learn more about Platform Equinix [website]
- Learn more about Edge Services [website]
- Multicloud and Edge Top IT Leaders' Priority Lists [press
release]
- Equinix 2019-20 Tech Trends Survey [report]
- Global Interconnection Index Volume 3 [report]
- IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Colocation and Interconnection
Services 2019 – 2020 [report]
- Equinix's Response to COVID-19 [website]
About Equinix
Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) connects
the world's leading businesses to their customers, employees and
partners inside the most-interconnected data centers. On this
global platform for digital business, companies come together
across more than 50 markets on five continents to reach everywhere,
interconnect everyone and integrate everything they need to create
their digital futures. www.equinix.com
Forward-Looking Statements
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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 data
centers and developing, deploying and delivering Equinix products
and solutions; unanticipated costs or difficulties relating to the
integration of companies we have acquired or will acquire into
Equinix; a failure to receive significant revenues from customers
in recently built out or acquired data centers; a 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; risks related to our taxation as a REIT;
and other risks described from time to time in Equinix filings with
the Securities and Exchange Commission. In particular, see recent
Equinix 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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