REDWOOD
CITY, Calif., June 19,
2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq:
EQIX), the world's digital infrastructure company®,
today announced significant enhancements to Equinix
Fabric®, featuring the introduction of 25 and 50
gigabits per second (Gbps) virtual connections to cloud service
providers. These advancements empower businesses to effortlessly
manage larger workloads, like data-intensive AI training models or
building scalable enterprise networks, by seamlessly and instantly
provisioning virtual connections to leading cloud platforms. Google
Cloud will be the inaugural partner to leverage this new
capability.
Equinix Fabric is a software-defined network platform that
provides access to thousands of service providers, network,
communication, security and other cloud providers—all from a single
location or multiple locations globally. Beginning in Q3 2023,
Equinix Fabric customers will be able to provision virtual
connections to the cloud with bandwidths up to 50 Gbps. Equinix has
worked with Google Cloud as the first cloud partner to support this
new capability, with integrations with other major cloud platforms
expected in the future.
As businesses continue to shift to a hybrid multicloud world, it
is critical that they can quickly and easily move data from one
cloud to another as needed. By providing faster connections that
can be created in minutes, the development of complex and
data-intense applications, such as training artificial intelligence
(AI) models, can be accelerated.
"Now more than ever customers need access to their data, and
they need it fast, whether it's for training a new AI model or
enabling hybrid multicloud connectivity between critical
workloads," said Arun Dev, Global Leader for Digital
Interconnection Services at Equinix. "Customers need to connect
digital infrastructure and services on demand at software speed via
secure, software-defined interconnection. I'm excited that Google
Cloud is the first partner to help our joint customers unlock their
growing hybrid multicloud workloads."
This new capability will allow customers to:
- Better manage enterprise applications running on hybrid
database platforms that support large data sets such as
high-resolution images or video
- Accelerate transfers of data into, out of, and between cloud
environments to respond more quickly to changing business demands
for cloud resources and services
- Build more scalable backbone networks to connect customer
deployments together and integrate cloud workloads for a more
ubiquitous customer experience
- Deploy more flexible content delivery networks that connect
cloud-based services such as streaming services, gaming platforms
and social media networks to subscribers
Partner Quote
"We are excited to collaborate with Equinix and expand our
offerings for customers via our Partner Interconnect solution for
private cloud access," said Muninder Sambi, VP/GM, Product
Management, Cloud Networking, Google Cloud. "As we continue to
see a rise of distributed applications in hybrid cloud
environments, the need for highly performant, low-latency, secure
connectivity between public and private cloud continues to grow.
Enabling the provisioning of private connections to Google Cloud
from Equinix locations using Equinix Fabric enables customers to
securely build, manage and monitor global networks and application
workloads simply and efficiently."
Additional Resources
- Equinix Fabric
- Google Blog
About Equinix
Equinix (Nasdaq: EQIX) is the world's
digital infrastructure company®. Digital leaders harness
Equinix's trusted platform to bring together and interconnect
foundational infrastructure at software speed. Equinix enables
organizations to access all the right places, partners and
possibilities to scale with agility, speed the launch of digital
services, deliver world-class experiences and multiply their value,
while supporting their sustainability goals.
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,
risks to our business and operating results related to the COVID-19
pandemic; the current inflationary environment; foreign currency
exchange rate fluctuations; increased costs to procure power and
the general volatility in the global energy market; the challenges
of acquiring, operating and constructing
IBX® and
xScale® 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; 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 and upcoming
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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