EQUINIX was founded in 1998 .
The company will then total over 6,450 employees .
EQUINIX reported 2016 revenues of $ 3.61bn .
EQUINIX has operations in 48 cities across 24 countries .
The addition of ITCONIC will see EQUINIX gain more than 250 employees in its European team
IBERIA AND BEYOND – ACQUIRING ITCONIC
than the internet , and may ultimately exceed it in capacity which is pretty formidable .” In fact , the Index predicts that Interconnection Bandwidth will outpace the public internet by 2020 .
This interconnection is an essential part of the digital economy . Another innovation is the Interconnection- Oriented Architecture ( IOA ), a knowledge base to help companies map out how to move to more flexible architectures when working with carriers and security companies . Schwartz says : “ That ’ s another example of the investments we ’ re making in helping corporates understand how they ’ re navigating this entire digital transformation space that everybody ’ s in the thick of .”
With an increasing number of sites , Schwartz states that Equinix is by far the leading global player : “ Companies will come to us and expect us to know and talk about the data centre industry , how their industry will be impacted by technology and how we can help ,” he says .
“ That ’ s a very clear position we ’ ve built for ourselves that I don ’ t see anybody else in the industry competing any time soon .”
EQUINIX was founded in 1998 .
The company will then total over 6,450 employees .
EQUINIX reported 2016 revenues of $ 3.61bn .
EQUINIX has operations in 48 cities across 24 countries .
The addition of ITCONIC will see EQUINIX gain more than 250 employees in its European team
IBERIA AND BEYOND – ACQUIRING ITCONIC
Indeed , Equinix is rapidly increasing its reach to all corners of the globe . Adding to its existing data centres in the Americas , Australia , Asia , Europe and the Middle East , in 2017 alone it opened five new facilities in Sao Paulo , Frankfurt , Amsterdam , Washington DC , and Silicon Valley . Its latest move is purchasing Itconic along with subsidiary CloudMas , a leading data centre , connectivity and cloud infrastructure provider operating in Spain and Portugal with sites in Madrid , Barcelona , Seville and Lisbon .
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