REDWOOD CITY, Calif.,
Oct. 23, 2017 /PRNewswire/
-- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection
and data center company and a Gold-level member of the Oracle
PartnerNetwork (OPN), today
announced a significant expansion of its dedicated, private access
to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to 16 additional Equinix
International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers in
North America and Europe. As a part of the expansion, customers
can now easily and privately connect to OCI using Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure FastConnect within the Equinix FR5 IBX data center
in Frankfurt via dedicated cross
connects and the Equinix Cloud Exchange™ (ECX). Additionally, the
Oracle and Equinix partner and platform integration now provides
connectivity to OCI FastConnect via ECX to customers in eight new
metros in North America and seven
new metros in Europe.
The expansion brings the total number of Equinix IBX data
centers where Oracle FastConnect is deployed to six and total
number of locations where connectivity to FastConnect is available
to 18 metros, globally.
Highlights/Key Facts
- New North American metros where access to OCI FastConnect is
now available via ECX include Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Los
Angeles, New York,
Seattle, Silicon Valley and
Toronto. This adds to the existing
North American OCI FastConnect
deployment at Equinix in Washington,
D.C.
- In addition to Frankfurt, new
European metros where OCI FastConnect is now available via ECX
include Amsterdam, Dublin, London, Manchester, Paris, Stockholm and Zurich.
- This expansion will enable enterprise customers across
North America and Europe to migrate and run compute,
applications and data workloads to Oracle Cloud in a
high-throughput, scalable manner that delivers consistent and
predictable performance. This marks a significant investment in the
Equinix and Oracle relationship, building upon Oracle's highly
successful and growing OCI FastConnect Classic service previously
launched in 2015 and deployed in Equinix IBX data centers in
Amsterdam, Chicago, London, Sydney and Washington, D.C.
- Whether a customer requires direct connection to Oracle as part
of a broader interconnection strategy, or if they need to migrate
data-heavy applications to the cloud, connection to OCI inside
Equinix is a highly scalable solution for many enterprise users. It
can further a customer's efforts to address increasing data privacy
and other regulatory requirements and general data sovereignty
concerns.
- Interconnection is paramount for companies across North America and Europe. In fact, according to the Global
Interconnection Index, a market study published recently by
Equinix, the U.S. is the largest and most advanced region for
Interconnection Bandwidth growth, with 82 percent of enterprises'
bandwidth expected to be dedicated to interconnection to networks
and cloud by 2020. The Index also found that Interconnection
Bandwidth in Europe is expected to
grow 44% per annum to reach 1,450+ Tbps by 2020. Europe's growth in Interconnection will be
driven by a number of factors, including data sovereignty and the
need for European businesses to exchange information with other
businesses and services, like Oracle, in-region.
- Oracle Cloud delivers nearly 1,000 SaaS applications and 50
enterprise-class PaaS and IaaS services to customers in more than
195 countries around the world, and supports 55 billion
transactions each day.
Quotes
- Robert Blackburn, Global
Managing Director, Oracle Strategic Alliance, Equinix
"We
are excited to continue our collaboration with Oracle and extend
this service to multiple U.S. and European metros. The ability to
connect directly to Oracle is an essential strategy for enterprises
as they deploy workloads to the cloud. By providing direct access,
our mutual customers can create a high-speed, dedicated and
low-latency connection that allows them to fully realize the
benefits of Oracle deployment, while complying with local data
sovereignty regulations. We look forward to ongoing collaborations
with Oracle, bringing this solution to additional Equinix metro
areas across the globe."
- Kash Iftikhar, Vice President
IaaS, Public Cloud Services, Oracle
"Customers require
seamless connectivity from their data centers and networks to
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for their most demanding workloads and
applications. With Oracle Cloud Infrastructure using FastConnect in
Equinix IBX data centers, customers can provision the private
connections they need today and easily scale with their growing
business demands. We look forward to helping more customers connect
to Oracle cloud using FastConnect and ECX in a growing number of
markets."
Additional Resources
- Learn more about the Global Interconnection Index
- Learn more about Equinix Cloud Exchange
- Learn more about Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
About Equinix
Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) connects the world's leading
businesses to their customers, employees and partners inside the
most interconnected data centers. In 48 markets worldwide, Equinix
is where companies come together to realize new opportunities and
accelerate their business, IT and cloud strategies.
http://www.equinix.com/.
About Oracle PartnerNetwork
Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) is Oracle's partner program that
provides partners with a differentiated advantage to develop, sell
and implement Oracle solutions. OPN offers resources to train and
support specialized knowledge of Oracle's products and solutions,
and has evolved to recognize Oracle's growing product portfolio,
partner base and business opportunity. Key to the latest
enhancements to OPN is the ability for partners to be recognized
and rewarded for their investment in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Partners engaging with Oracle will be able to differentiate their
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure expertise and success with customers
through the OPN Cloud program─an innovative program that
complements existing OPN program levels with tiers of recognition
and progressive benefits for partners working with Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure. To find out more visit:
http://www.oracle.com/partners.
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, the challenges of acquiring, operating and
constructing IBX data centers and developing, deploying and
delivering Equinix services; unanticipated costs or difficulties
relating to the integration of companies we have acquired or will
acquire into Equinix; a failure to receive significant revenue 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; 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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