Netwalker, the Powerful New Strain of Ransomware Used Against Equinix
The colocation provider says it’s managed to mitigate successfully. Other victims weren’t so lucky. In a statement published on its website, Equinix said that the ransomware attack on its...
View ArticleEquinix Expects the Pandemic to Cost It $20M to $30M in 2020
The costs added as a result of the crisis have been lower than originally anticipated. In May, when Equinix reported its first-quarter earnings, just a few weeks after California became the first...
View ArticleWhy Equinix Doesn't Think Its Bare Metal Service Competes With Its...
Packet co-founder Zach Smith says the new offering doesn't compete for the "value proposition of a public cloud." Equinix in October went live with Equinix Metal, a fully automated and interconnected...
View ArticleEquinix Metal Updates Target DevOps, Hybrid Cloud Use Cases
The colocation giant adds new Kubernetes and data management integrations to its bare-metal IaaS, launches it in more regions. Equinix this week is celebrating the first anniversary of its Packet...
View ArticlePure Storage on Equinix Metal Plays by the Customer's Rules
Pure Storage and Equinix deliver a joint storage service that, unlike with a public cloud provider, the customer manages. While more businesses than ever are outsourcing data storage to cloud...
View ArticleEquinix Expanding Capabilities of Its Open Source Bare Metal Automation...
More enterprises are said to be taking interest in the platform now that it's been open sourced as a Cloud Native Computing Foundation project. Here's a company name you didn't use to hear in...
View ArticleHow Colocation Providers are Positioning for Hybrid Cloud: Equinix
The world’s largest colocation provider sees hybrid cloud as more than merely integrating with the hyperscalers’ hybrid offerings. As more and more businesses pivot to hybrid cloud architectures, data...
View ArticleDell’s Subscription Apex Storage Comes to Equinix Data Centers
The colocation giant gives Dell’s nascent subscription business a global data center platform. When it rolled out its subscription service for on-prem storage earlier this month, Dell Technologies...
View ArticleEquinix’ $3.9B Investment Mega-boost: Who’s Impacted and How?
It’s an astonishing sum being invested in a massive buildout of the world’s key hyperscale facilities. And it’s being made, in large part, by the wealth fund of an entire country. Last week’s news of...
View ArticleEquinix Reiterates Its Climate-Neutral Targets: Non-Fossil Diesel Fuel is One...
One of the options the colo leader has chosen to take to meet Paris climate goals involves its choice of fuel for providing backup power to its facilities — an option its competitors may have not yet...
View ArticleEquinix’s Jim Poole On New Interconnection Ecosystems, xScale, and More
The Data Center Podcast: What new markets Equinix is moving into and why. Equinix has been leveraging its position at the top of the data center service provider market to expand into new areas, such...
View ArticleEquinix Sees 5G as a Chance to ‘Seed’ a New Interconnection Ecosystem
Blurring of the boundaries between 5G and cloud infrastructure may be an opportunity for the colocation giant. Mobile carriers keep most of the equipment that powers their networks in their own...
View ArticleOn-prem-as-a-service comes into its own during pandemic
With this approach, the hardware is owned by the service provider, so upfront capital expenses are replaced by operating expenses. Scaling up and down is easy. And the on-prem-as-a-service provider...
View ArticleFirst Submarine Cable Between Europe and South America Goes Live
EllaLink connects Fortaleza in Brazil to Sines in Portugal – and features Equinix data centers on both sides EllaLink, the first high-capacity submarine cable to provide direct connections between...
View ArticleEquinix Buys West Africa’s MainOne at $320 Million Valuation
The cash transaction is the first move into Africa for California-based Equinix. Equinix Inc. is acquiring West African digital infrastructure firm MainOne Cable Co Ltd. at a valuation of $320...
View ArticleNasdaq's Shift to Cloud Commits to New Jersey, Avoiding Big Trader Hassle
The company is set to keep the exchange operating out of the same Equinix data center in Carteret, New Jersey - but use new cloud infrastructure from AWS. (Bloomberg) -- In modern trading, where...
View ArticleEquinix Opens $90m Data Center Near Munich
The facility will tap into groundwater for cooling. Colocation giant Equinix has opened its fourth data center near Munich.The carrier-neutral facility in Ashen, located in the Dornach industrial...
View ArticleEquinix Is Spending $705m To Expand Into Chile and Peru
Equinix is buying at least three data centers from Entel, the regional telecommunications provider. Colocation giant Equinix is considerably expanding its presence in South America through the...
View ArticleEquinix Reports 77th Consecutive Quarter of Revenue Growth
Achieving the longest revenue growth streak of any S&P500 company. Colocation giant Equinix– the world’s largest multi-tenant data center operator by revenue – has once again reported a profitable...
View ArticlePodcast: Can’t Kill the Metal
What is the role of bare metal servers in a world dominated by public cloud? Find the episode and subscribe to Uptime with DCK on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.In the latest episode of Uptime with Data...
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