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Aug 3, 2022
TORONTO, ON., August 3, 2022 -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the world's digital infrastructure company™, today announced a series of product expansions to empower Canadian businesses from coast to coast. The enhanced offerings include the expansion of Network Edge to Vancouver, the launch of Equinix Managed Services in Canada - the first time it has been offered in North America; as well as the enhanced portfolio of offerings in Western Canada and Montreal. With the expansion of latest offerings, Equinix continues its investment in region to bring the full value of Platform Equinix and its portfolio of solutions to businesses across Canada.
Equinix will be expanding its Network Edge service to Vancouver, British Columbia, marking the latest expansion of the service which is also available in Toronto and Montreal. As a result, Equinix will empower businesses from coast to coast to build virtual infrastructure at scale while deploying network services at a predictable cost with no additional hardware.
Equinix is launching its Equinix Managed Services offering to all Canadian customers, which is the first time the service will be offered in North America. Managed Services offers customers an optimized way of consuming market leading technology and services while accelerating time-to-market through pre-provisioned, and scalable infrastructure.
By having Equinix manage technology lifecycle, capacity, configurations, and procurement, businesses can reduce IT cost and complexity, while being able to scale up or down as needed, without unpredictable costs or worrying about supply chain hardware shortages.
Equinix will also be expanding its portfolio of services at its Kamloops and Vancouver Data Centers. Businesses will now be able to access Equinix Fabric, Equinix Internet Access, and Equinix Precision Time. Additionally, customers in Montreal will be able to now access Equinix Internet Exchange – which is the second metro in Canada to offer the service after Toronto.
According to Equinix’s latest Global Tech Trends Survey, the majority of Canadian IT decision-makers (52%) report more aggressive IT strategies and 55% said they are further along in their digital transformation journeys as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, more than a third (39%) of global respondents said they plan to facilitate global expansion plans by deploying virtually via the cloud. As a result, businesses are increasingly moving to a virtualized, multicloud approach to reduce costs and mitigate risks including hardware supply issues.
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“In the two years since expanding across Canada, we have continued to invest in bringing the best of Equinix to Canadian businesses; as well as amplifying the best of Canada to the world. During that time, businesses have accelerated their digital transformation strategies, while facing new challenges including increased cyber threats and supply chain disruptions. Today’s announcement reaffirms our commitment by building and interconnecting Canada’s digital infrastructure, empowering national and global businesses with the solutions and services to meet challenges head-on and succeed today and tomorrow.”
“Canada has a robust economy with strong global trade connections with all G7 members. Digital infrastructure investments also play a key role in empowering the Canadian economy. As the leading digital infrastructure provider in Canada, it’s important that we continue to invest in the market to bring the best value to our customers’ by weaving an interconnection tapestry that connects businesses from coast-to-coast and across the world through Platform Equinix .”
“At ESTI, we think that Equinix is showing just how serious they are about the Canadian marketplace. They have followed up the billion dollar acquisition of Bell data centers with a full deployment of their cloud enabled services: Edge, Fabric, Metal and Internet Access. Equinix has really grown their toolbox so that ESTI can drive value for our clients.”
“Equinix’s continuous investments in network, facilities, and overall portfolio of offerings shows their commitment to bringing Canadian businesses the right solutions to build world class private cloud capability. HPE Canada is even more excited to bring industry leading solutions like HPE GreenLake, the cloud that comes to you, to the partnership with Equinix. Having flexible, as a service, compute and storage solutions from HPE combined with great facilities and coast to coast network infrastructure from Equinix is exactly what our customers and partners are looking for to create the perfect hybrid cloud platform.”
“Modernizing our financial services infrastructure on Platform Equinix helps me feel confident we’re ready for whatever the future holds. When we look at our roadmap, whether it’s microservices or cloud-native solutions, we know we can get where we want to go and bring our key partners with us.”
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About Equinix
Equinix (Nasdaq: EQIX) is the world's digital infrastructure company, enabling digital leaders to harness a trusted platform to bring together and interconnect the foundational infrastructure that powers their success. Equinix enables today's businesses to access all the right places, partners and possibilities they need to accelerate advantage. With Equinix, they can scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences and multiply their value.
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, risks to our business and operating results related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic; the current inflationary environment; increased costs to procure power and the general volatility in the global energy market; the challenges of acquiring, operating and constructing IBX and xScale data centers and developing, deploying and delivering Equinix products and solutions; unanticipated costs or difficulties relating to the integration of companies we have acquired or will acquire into Equinix; a failure to receive significant revenues 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; risks related to our taxation as a REIT and other risks described from time to time in Equinix filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In particular, see recent and upcoming 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.