Equinix

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Equinix, Inc.

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legal form Incorporated
ISIN US29444U7000
founding June 22, 1998
Seat Redwood City , California , United StatesUnited StatesUnited States 
management Peter Van Camp (President & CEO )
Number of employees 5,042
sales 2,726,000,000 US dollars
Branch Data centers
Website www.equinix.com
As of December 31, 2015

Equinix, Inc. is a US public company that provides carrier-independent data center and interconnection services. The company is active in forty countries and offers its customers parking spaces in its data centers ( colocation ) as well as direct connections to network operators and other companies within the data center, so-called interconnections. Equinix customers include large and medium-sized businesses, particularly cloud service providers, financial companies, Internet content providers and network operators. There are also numerous large Internet nodes in the Equinix data centers , such as DE-CIX , ECIX and AMS-IX .

history

Equinix booth at Internet World 2017

The company was founded in 1998 by Jay Adelson and Al Avery, who until then worked for the Digital Equipment Corporation and were involved in building the PAIX Internet node in Palo Alto . Their concept was to set up neutral data centers that were not dependent on one of the large network operators and their line capacities. Both small and large network operators and providers should be able to peer here on an equal footing . The company name Equinix arose from the idea of ​​the equal neutral internet exchange .

On July 27, 1999, Equinix's first data center went live in a former warehouse in Ashburn, near Washington, DC. Since the Internet node MAE East, set up in 1992 and operated by MCI WorldCom , was located here, numerous network operators were already represented in the region with high-performance Internet lines to all parts of the USA and Europe. By 2002 most customers had moved from MAE East to Equinix International Business Exchange (IBX). Today, the Ashburner Farm is the largest Internet node in the USA, consisting of five data centers with a data throughput of up to 80 Gbit / s (as of July 2009).

Equinix has been listed on August 11, 2000.

Equinix has been present on the European market since mid-2007, when the takeover of IXEurope, based in London, added 14 data centers in Germany, France, Great Britain, the Netherlands and Switzerland. With the acquisitions of ancotel in 2012 and Telecity in 2016, Equinix then expanded its position in the European market and expanded into other markets such as Finland, Ireland and Poland. In addition, the market in Dubai was opened up from 2012 and business in Asia and South America was strengthened , primarily through acquisitions of smaller data center operators such as ALOG and Bit-Isle. In December 2016, the company also purchased 29 data center buildings in North and South America previously operated by Verizon for $ 3.6 billion .

Data centers

One of five data centers in Frankfurt am Main

Europe and Middle East

North and South America

Asia / Pacific

Customers

Equinix's more than 8,000 customers include Adobe , AWS , IBM , Electronic Arts , Fujitsu , General Electric , Google , HP , Microsoft , Sony , Wikimedia , Yahoo and the European search engine Qwant . Over 1,400 network operators are represented in the Equinix data centers, including AT&T , BT , Deutsche Telekom , France Telecom , KDDI , NTT , SingTel , Sprint and Verizon .

Web links

Commons : Equinix  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Management
  2. ↑ a b Annual Report 2015
  3. ↑ a b boerse.ARD.de: Equinix, giant of the data centers | Share of the day | Shares | Börse Aktuell | boerse.ARD.de. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 16, 2016 ; accessed on September 16, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / boerse.ard.de
  4. ^ Quentin Hardy: Cloud Complexity, Simplified. Retrieved September 16, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Rich Miller: The Internet's Busiest Intersection. In: Data Center Knowledge. June 9, 2009, accessed April 19, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Thorsten Winter: Equinix takes over Ancotel: The German Internet capital benefits . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . May 18, 2012, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed September 16, 2016]).
  7. ↑ Simon Zekaria: US Data Giant Equinix Buys Telecity . In: Wall Street Journal . May 29, 2015, ISSN  0099-9660 ( wsj.com [accessed September 16, 2016]).
  8. ↑ Equinix Expands to Dubai, lake Growth for Emirates | Data Center Knowledge. November 20, 2012, Retrieved September 16, 2016 (American English).
  9. ↑ Equinix completes acquisition of ALOG in Brazil, as well as expansion in São Paulo. In: 451research.com. Retrieved September 16, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Aimee Chanthadavong: Equinix grows Japanese footprint with Bit-isle AU $ 397m acquisition | ZDNet. In: ZDNet. Retrieved September 16, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Verizon to sell data centers to Equinix for $ 3.6 billion . In: Reuters . December 6, 2016 ( reuters.com [accessed December 13, 2016]).
  12. ↑ Data centers in Europe and the Middle East. Retrieved September 16, 2016 .
  13. ^ Equinix Hamburg HH1. Retrieved January 17, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Data centers in North and South America. Retrieved September 16, 2016 .
  15. ↑ Data Centers in the Asia Pacific Region. Retrieved September 16, 2016 .
  16. ↑ Imprint - About Qwant . In: About Qwant . ( qwant.com [accessed July 5, 2018]).
  17. ↑ Corporate Fact Sheet , September 16, 2016