Equinix invests €32 million to expand two data centers in Finland
Equinix has announced that it is investing €32 million to expand two of its data centers in Finland. The company is expanding two of its IBX (International Business Exchange) sites, located in Helsinki, and names HE5 and HE7.
The company plans to add approximately 800 cabinets. Equinix said th... Read more
Equinix to rent out bare metal Arm servers
Data center giant Equinix has announced that the company is leasing bare metal servers equipped with Arm processors. The company already offered x86-based bare metal servers for some time.
The new service is called Equinix Metal and uses Ampere eMAG-processors with 32 Arm v8 cores and a 3.3GHz c... Read more
Alibaba Cloud expands in Europe via Equinix data centres
Alibaba Cloud will further expand the reach of its public cloud environment through Equinix's data centers. With this partnership Alibaba gets better coverage in in Europe. Both parties recently signed a partnership agreement for this purpose.
As part of the partnership, the public cloud environ... Read more
Multi-cloud is still a top priority for the enterprise
Companies still see a move to multi-cloud environments as one of their most important business goals. This is evidenced by a recent survey of data center and co-location provider Equinix, among customers in the US, EMEA and APAC regions.
According to the research results, many of the companies s... Read more
Equinix acquires Packet for adventure in the network edge
Equinix, operator of data centers, has bought the start-up Packet for a move to the edge computing market. Packet offers hosted bare metal servers; Equinix wants to use the acquisition to improve its own bare metal offering.
Packet's bare metal servers allow customers to manage all layers above ... Read more
Equinix and AWS extend collaboration for improved cloud connectivity
Equinix and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are expanding their collaboration to provide enhanced cloud connectivity. The companies want to support hybrid workloads with new speeds, making it possible to connect to AWS services via AWS Direct Connect.
AWS Direct Connect is a service that allows companies ... Read more
Equinix puts $1 billion into construction of six xScale data centers in Europe
Data centre company Equinix invests 1 billion dollars in the construction of six new data centres in Europe. This should support some of the biggest players in the cloud industry, such as Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. The data centres are located in London, Paris, Amsterdam and Frankfur... Read more
Equinix and IBM Cloud strengthen data center collaboration
Equinix and IBM Cloud have expanded their collaboration. With the strengthened partnership, the two companies focus on providing private and scalable connectivity to global companies on the 'digital edge', via Equinix Cloud Exchange Fabric (EXC Fabric).
IBM and Equinix already had a longstanding par... Read more
Equinix lets companies virtually optimize networks with Network Edge Services
Equinix lets companies virtually optimise their networks within minutes with its new Network Edge Services service. The innovation is made possible by the use of network functions and virtualisation (NFV) of several suppliers who have connected their digital supply chain to the company.
The service... Read more
Alibaba Cloud expands number of partners in EMEA region
Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing and data intelligence division of the Alibaba Group, has announced that nine new partners have joined its EMEA Ecosystem Partner Program. Launched last year, the program aims to strengthen cooperation between the company's customers and partners in Europe, the Midd... Read more