Equinix Says Its New Wholesale Data Center Business is Much Bigger Than...
Mid-point of guidance for Equinix’s new wholesale data center initiative has been 100MW per year, but one of the company’s top executives told Data Center Knowledge that the sales pipeline for HIT is...
View ArticleEquinix Partners With Oman's Largest Internet Provider for Its Second Middle...
Equinix and Oman's largest internet provider Omantel have created a joint venture to build a 18,600-square foot data center near Oman's capital Muscak • When completed, the colocation facility,...
View ArticleEquinix to Build More Owned Data Centers with “Nodes” for Cloud Giants
DCK Investor Edge: Equinix CEO Steve Smith this week fleshed out the company’s strategy for riding the next wave of data center expansion by the dozen largest hyper-scale platforms, which includes...
View ArticleEquinix CEO Resigns After Mishandling “Employee Matter”
Company says resignation not due to poor financial performanceSteve Smith, who has been CEO of Equinix for the last 11 years, resigned abruptly after mishandling an employee matter, the company...
View ArticleEquinix Buys Infomart Dallas Building for $800M
Takes over ownership of another key southern US interconnection hubEquinix has acquired the Infomart Dallas, the iconic carrier hotel that serves as the primary interconnection hub for networks in the...
View ArticleEquinix Power Outage One Reason Behind AWS Cloud Disruption
Facility went down after nor’easter knocked out utility power in the region*Updated 03/08 with comments from CoreSiteA power outage at an Equinix data center is at least partially to blame for...
View ArticleEquinix Pitches Single System for All Your Cloud Encryption Keys
Colo provider first to market among peers with encryption service based on Intel’s cutting-edge SGX tech.Enterprise customers and service providers running hybrid cloud environments -- some in Equinix...
View ArticleEx-Digital Realty CTO Jim Smith to Lead Equinix’s Hyperscale Play
Wholesale data center business veteran joins newly formed Hyperscale Infrastructure TeamEquinix has hired former Digital Realty CTO Jim Smith to lead its new effort to sign large data center leases...
View ArticleEquinix Shares – a Falling Knife or a Coiled Spring?
DCK Investor Edge: The company’s recent M&A binge has made for a rough year for its shareholders, but there’s now a lot of potential for future growth.It’s been a tough year for Equinix...
View ArticleEquinix Lays Out Its Strategy for Global Dominance
Equinix executives laid out their strategy for global dominance in a recent Analyst Day presentation• Two themes emerged from Analyst Day: a global interconnection fabric and a balance sheet that can...
View ArticleEquinix Says Its New Wholesale Data Center Business is Much Bigger Than...
Mid-point of guidance for Equinix’s new wholesale data center initiative has been 100MW per year, but one of the company’s top executives told Data Center Knowledge that the sales pipeline for HIT is...
View ArticleEquinix Partners With Oman's Largest Internet Provider for Its Third Middle...
Equinix and Oman's largest internet provider Omantel have created a joint venture to build a 18,600-square foot data center near Oman's capital Muscak • When completed, the colocation facility, in...
View ArticleEquinix Expands Miami Data Center That’s Key to Latin American Connectivity
Equinix has completed the first of two construction phases on the fifth floor of NAP of the Americas• The big Miami data center and interconnection hub is the biggest gateway the world’s data traffic...
View ArticleEquinix Names Charles Meyers CEO
Former COO and president of newly created strategy unit replaces interim chief exec Peter Van CampEquinix, the world’s largest data center provider by market share, has named Charles Meyers, who’s been...
View ArticleNew Equinix CEO Meyers to Stay the Course He Helped Chart
Don’t expect any radical departures from the company’s current course, as former COO takes the helm.In promoting Charles Meyers to CEO, Equinix’s board of directors wasn’t putting in place someone...
View ArticleAre Virtual Cross-Connects Equinix’s Friend or Foe?
Interconnection giant’s execs address Wall Street’s concern that virtual fabrics like Megaport may eat into its bread-and-butter cross-connect business.DCK Investor EdgeThe emergence of SDN-enabled...
View ArticleEquinix, Digital Realty Expanding in Busy Singapore Data Center Market
The market on the island may be saturated, but the two firms have an advantage in their global scale.Digital Realty Trust and Equinix, the world’s two largest data center providers, are both expanding...
View ArticleWorld's Two Biggest Data Center Providers Take Different Paths for...
DCK Investor Edge: Can a garden be so beautiful, you don’t care that it’s walled?Everyone thinks their baby is the cutest, which seems to apply to data center providers and their SDN-enabled network...
View ArticleData Center REITs Soar Back After a Bruising 2018
DCK Investor Edge: Last year was particularly challenging for all data center shareholders, but the patient have now been rewarded. Publicly traded data center REITs had earned a reputation of...
View ArticleNow That Equinix’s SDN Fabric Is Inter-Region, How Does It Compare to Megaport?
SDN fabrics make interconnection easier than ever, but which one is best for you depends on many things. If you’re an Equinix customer and want to use its software-defined network platform to connect...
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