August 30, 2019 Equinix Seoul SL1
Equinix opened a new data center in Seoul on August 30th 2019. The data center, SL1, is Equinix's first facility in Korea. South Korea has a high tech economy but has been neglected by the large international data center providers such as Digital Realty, Equinix, Cyxtera, and STT. Equinix's...
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June 17, 2019 Equinix
Congrats to Jon Lin who was promoted by Equinix to President of the Americas. Jon will oversee existing operations in North and South America. Equinix Press Release: REDWOOD CITY, Calif – Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced that it has...
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May 14, 2019 Equinix: NY5
Beeks announced on its website that it is growing its portfolio of datacentre locations by deploying in the Equinix NY5 New York datacentre. In addition to this, Beeks has extended its current rackspace in Equinix LD4 by taking a third cage in the London datacentre. With presence in 11 total...
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May 06, 2019 Equinix Hong Kong HK1
Amazon has deployed its Direct Connect service to Equinix's HK1 facility. HK1 is the second best connected building in Hong Kong, after iAdvantage's MEGA-i building. Resources: Amazon's Announcement Equinix Press Release (below) HONG KONG – May 6, 2019 – Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global...
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April 24, 2019 Equinix AM11
Equinix has acquired Switch Datacenter's AMS1 facility in Amsterdam for $34 million. Here are the quick facts: The facility, located at Lemelerbergweg 28, will be renamed to AM11 and will be Equinix's 9th data center in Amsterdam. The AM11 site is close to Equinix's existing southeast Amsterdam...
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April 15, 2019 Equinix
Equinix has appointed Eugene Bergen Henegouwen as the new President of EMEA. Eugene has been at Equinix since 2013. Since that that time, he has held the role of SVP of Sales in the EMEA region, overseeing the tripling of revenue in the region over the last 6 years. Before joining Equinix,...
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March 12, 2019 Equinix Melbourne ME2
ARNnet.com.au reports that Interconnection and data centre provider Equinix is investing $117 million (US$84 million) in a new International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre in Melbourne. The site, named ME2, is expected to open by September this year and will be the company’s fourth in the...
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February 07, 2019 Equinix El Segundo LA4
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. /PRNewswire/ -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced that Google has selected Equinix for its Los Angeles area cable landing station (CLS) supporting the Curie subsea cable system, the first subsea cable to Chile in...
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January 18, 2019 Equinix Seoul SL1
Equinix has announced it will be building a new International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre in Seoul. It will be the company's first facility in South Korea, with SL1 expected to provide more than 18,000 square feet of co-location space, offering an initial capacity of 550 cabinets in the...
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January 10, 2019 Equinix Hamburg HH1
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Jan. 10, 2019 / -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced that it has closed a transaction for the purchase of a commercial building at Vierenkamp 1, Hamburg, Germany, from Aspen REG 1. Management GmbH for $11...
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November 29, 2018 Equinix Helsinki HE7 Sinimäki
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. and HELSINKI, Nov. 29, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced it will build a new International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data center in Helsinki, Finland. The data center – called HE7 – will...
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October 02, 2018 London
China’s favorite e-commerce giant Alibaba is planning the launch of a cloud region in London, two years after entering the European market with a data center in Frankfurt. The move was not highly publicized; the company merely updated its website to advertise the future availability zones in the...
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August 25, 2018 NAP of the Americas - Equinix Miami MI1
Equinix has completed the first of two construction phases on the fifth floor of NAP of the Americas, Miami’s big data center and interconnection hub that serves as the biggest gateway the world’s data traffic travels through to reach markets in Latin America and the Caribbean. The phase, which...
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July 18, 2018 Stockholm
After a few months of planning and preparatory works the European consortium broke ground and started the construction works of building the prototype of one of the worlds most efficient data center. The project funded by EU’s innovation and research programme Horizon 2020 kicked-off in October...
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July 12, 2018 Equinix Ashburn DC2
Equinix has won two subsea deployments (MAREA and BRUSA) that will extend from their landing in Virginia Beach to Equinix DC2 in Ashburn. From the Press Release: The two subsea cables will terminate in the U.S. directly into the MAREA and BRUSA cable landing station located in Virginia Beach, VA,...
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July 11, 2018 Equinix Dublin DB1
NTT Communications has launched a new point of presence in Ireland, located at Equinix’s DB1 data centre in Dublin, marking its first PoP in the city. The global carrier said its new PoP will allow it to offer high-quality global IP transit services to a number of companies which have set up...
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July 09, 2018 Equinix Oman
Colocation giant Equinix has partnered with Oman Telecommunications Company (Omantel) to build its first data center in Oman. At full capacity, the facility near capital Muscat will offer 18,600 square feet of white space – enough for approximately 750 IT cabinets. The first phase of the project...
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July 09, 2018 Equinix
Equinix is in the sweet spot to capture a bigger share of the wholesale data center market, which are generally deployments larger than 1 megawatt. Equinix's Interconnection ecosystems are a strong magnet, even for larger compute deployments. The mid-point of guidance for Equinix’s new wholesale...
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May 01, 2017 Equinix
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., May 1, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced the completion of its acquisition of 29 data centers and their operations from Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ). The U.S. $3.6 billion...
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February 28, 2017 Equinix Zurich ZH2 ZH4
ICT-Center's Zurich data center is located in the same building as Equinix's ZH2 & ZH4 datacenters. Source: Press Release Febuary 28, 2017. REDWOOD CITY, Calif. and ZURICH, Feb. 28, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today...
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