[November 14, 2012] |
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AWS Direct Connect Service Now Available in Equinix Sydney Data Center
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. & SYDNEY --(Business Wire)--
Equinix,
Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX),
the global interconnection and data center company, today announced the
availability of the AWS
Direct Connect service to the Equinix (News - Alert) SY3 International Business
Exchange (IBX®)
data center in Sydney. With AWS Direct Connect, customers across
Australia can connect their customer-owned and managed infrastructure
directly to Amazon Web Services (News - Alert) (AWS), establishing a private network
connection that can reduce network costs, increase throughput, and
deliver more consistent network performance than Internet-based
connections.
Highlights / Key Facts
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Until now, Australian companies looking to connect to AWS from
Australia had to do so through the public Internet, which can have
unpredictable connectivity and varying performance. By leveraging AWS
Direct Connect via Equinix's SY3 data center, customers can have a
dedicated network connection to the cloud for more consistent network
performance.
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Cloud adoption in Australia is rapidly accelerating. According to
Forrester (News - Alert), 36
percent of Australian organizations are currntly using
cloud-based services-a notable increase from 22 percent in 2010 and 14
percent in 2009. With the successful rollout of the National Broadband
Network (NBN), cloud demand is expected to rise even more. By 2020,
the public cloud market in Australia is projected to be worth $3.2
billion.
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AWS Direct Connect is available in nine locations worldwide, including
a total of three Asia-Pacific
markets: Tokyo, Singapore and Sydney. New and existing Equinix
customers in these regions will be able to lower network costs into
and out of AWS by reducing bandwidth commitments to ISPs and taking
advantage of reduced AWS Direct Connect data transfer rates.
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In August 2011, AWS established one of its first AWS Direct Connect
locations in an Equinix IBX data center, and since then, Equinix
facilities in the greater metropolitan areas of Washington DC/Northern
Virginia and Silicon Valley now offer AWS Direct Connect.
Quotes
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Tony Simonsen, managing director, Equinix Australia:
"At
Equinix, we realize that each customer's cloud journey is different.
We've expanded our service with AWS Direct Connect for Australia to
give our customers a more consistent network experience, all
conveniently housed under one roof."
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Eric Hui, director of Cloud, IT, Content and Digital Media, Equinix
APAC:
"Having access to multiple networks within the data
center is a critical component of a successful cloud strategy; it
helps enhance application performance and ensure redundancy. By
providing our customers access to carrier-neutral data center
facilities, we hope to allow them to fully tap into the value of AWS
via the AWS Direct Connect service."
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Ian Gardiner, CEO, Viocorp:
"By
utilizing the AWS Direct Connect service via Equinix Singapore to
connect to the AWS Cloud, we have been able to secure the cost
benefits of cloud computing with the performance and scalability in a
hybrid environment. This has a direct benefit to our customers with
increased quality and reduced time to transcode large multimedia files
of 200 gig to formats suitable for delivery over the web to many
different devices. We are planning to replicate the Singapore setup in
Sydney, now that the service is available."
About Equinix
Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), connects more than 4,000 companies
directly to their customers and partners inside the world's most
networked data centers. Today, businesses leverage the Equinix
interconnection platform in 30 strategic markets across the Americas,
EMEA and Asia-Pacific. www.equinix.com.
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 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's
filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In particular, see
Equinix's recent 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.
Equinix and IBX are registered trademarks of Equinix, Inc.
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