EQUINIX BEGAN LIFE with the idea of creating a place where you could rebuild the interconnection hub of the internet .
In the early days traffic ‘ hairpinned ’ back and forth across the US because there were no colocation services to centralise delivery . To build an ecosystem to put the hubs right next to those interconnection points is how Equinix – along with a diverse range of different players in content , services and media – began the journey towards developing the cloud we know today .
“ We ’ ve never lost sight of our roots in building interconnected data centres where interconnection is the secret sauce at the centre of everything we do ,” says Equinix CPO Brian Lillie . “ Now after 20 years , it ’ s about how we grow to cover the markets that our customers want and we ’ re managing to do that across all points of the compass without losing sight of our interconnection fabric while innovating with new services .”
Equinix has long been an innovator , building data centres no one else was building in terms of how they were laid out with power and cabling infrastructure . Since
inception the company has not only made strides with the interconnection platform around IX ( the internet exchange ), the public peering fabric it runs on behalf of the community , but also cloud exchange where it innovates to make that cloud connectivity seamless on behalf of enterprises and cloud providers . This has enabled a new wave of growth driven by enterprises wanting a better way to connect to the cloud . That same innovation was co-realised with Amazon .
On top of that , by leveraging
28 June 2018