BIGGER , MORE CONNECTED
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EQUINIX CONNECTS SOME of the world ’ s leading businesses to customers , partners and employees from within its data centres . Providing connectivity and cloud solutions , it is one of the top colocation data centre providers in the world . Equinix is also one of the largest , and with its recent acquisition on the Iberian Peninsula , it ’ s about to become even bigger .
BIGGER , MORE CONNECTED
The organisation invests heavily in innovation , going beyond technical operations like designing electrical infrastructure . Equinix ’ s Cloud Exchange is a technology platform that allows customers to connect to various cloud service providers in a private and secure way without using the internet .
To measure and forecast this traffic , called the Interconnection Bandwidth , Equinix developed the Global Interconnection Index . According to Eric Schwartz , the organisation ’ s President of EMEA : “ It captures the activity of people connecting directly to each other without going through the internet . That ’ s an area that hasn ’ t had much attention historically , yet the analysis we ’ ve done says it ’ s growing faster
“ WE HAVE TO FIND WAYS FOR PEOPLE TO FEEL CONNECTED EVEN THOUGH THEY ’ RE NOT NECESSARILY GOING TO MEET OR KNOW EACH OTHER ”
Eric Schwartz President of EMEA , Equinix
10 November 2017