Equinix Updates & Announcements

In this video, we'll cover how to access a Fortigate Firewall via the Webgui. We'll start in the Device Details section of your provisioned firewall and walk through how to enable http permissions on the device. We'll open PuTTY to check the permissions on the port and cover what happens when we add the http and how to re-add ssh, ping, and fgfm permissions. We'll use the Console Tool in the Device Details page and utilize the temporary password provided by Equinix which will allow us to redo the permission statement for the port. We'll confirm that we've reestablished SSH access via PuTTY and then attempt to access the Webgui now that http has been enabled.

Equinix's Charles Meyers appeared on CNBC Worldwide Exchange this morning to discuss how DigitalTransformation, cloud, and AI are continuing to drive data center demand. Watch the full interview here:

In this video, we'll show you how to use the Custom Data feature of Equinix Metal to customize an ESXi instances configuration at deployment time. After some background on how helpful this GitHub repo is with formatting the JSON content, we dive into how to apply it to a new metal deployment. In our example, we deploy an On-Demand System in the Dallas Metro using a VMware VCF ESXi 7.0 operating system. Here is a link to the GitHub r

Konatsu Noguchi, IBX Customer Operations Engineer, speaks about her work at Equinix.

Jon Lin, Equinix EVP and General Manager of Data Center Services & Matt Hull, NVIDIA VP Global AI Solutions answers some questions about our recent announced collaboration. Equinix Private AI with NVIDIA DGX is a fully managed private cloud service that enables enterprises to easily acquire and manage their own NVIDIA DGX AI supercomputing infrastructure for building and running custom generative AI models.

In this video, we'll show you how to Create a Fabric Cloud Router, create a connection to AWS, create a connection to Microsoft Azure, and then run a ping test between those two virtual machines running in the cloud environments. This step-by-step demo shows how quickly you can create a Fabric Cloud Router, and then with the help of Quick Connect for AWS and Azure, connect the router with Virtual Machines at Equinix. And finally, how to test the new connections. Create connections using Fabric Cloud Router in the Fabric portal:

VRF is now fully supported in v0.21.0 of metal-cli! Use commands to create and interact with Metal Gateways, BGP Dynamic Neighbors, and interconnections.  Some examples of possibilities now available in Metal-CLI:  Specify new BGP

Listen to Marty Falaro, EVP & COO Wasabi technologies, as he describes how Equinix helps provide value to a large range of their customers for research, disaster recovery, data backup, post production media services and more. As one of the fastest growing cloud object storage companies in the world, Wasabi uses Equinix Fabric to connect all thirteen data centers around the world as well as Equinix Metal for compute services. Wasabi leverages these digital services to open new doors with their customers and allows for the rapid global expansion of their business, while delivering on their focus to make cloud storage a simple utility, just like electricity. 

Network operations in the public cloud is easy because it is highly abstracted. How to bring a similar level of network abstraction to your own dedicated cloud environment at Equinix? This session will demonstrate and share how to simplify, automate, and interconnect any network environment. 

Equinix, Inc. has launched a new fully managed private cloud service in collaboration with NVIDIA, aimed at providing enterprises with easy access to NVIDIA DGX AI supercomputing infrastructure. This service, available globally, is designed to enhance the development and management of custom generative AI models, offering robust infrastructure, high-speed network access, and enterprise-grade support. For a more detailed insight into this groundbreaking service, review the full press-release Learn more about Equinix's fully managed service for NVIDIA DGX AI Supercomputing

Do you have Equinix-configured Cisco CSR1000V Network Edge devices? Make sure you migrate them using the info below:

Equinix has opened an urban farm on the roof of its PA10 data center in Paris, including greenhouses warmed by waste heat from its servers. Learn more about our sustainability efforts.

Identity Management is moving to email based accounts. Start linking your accounts today.

In this episode of our Digital Leaders Series, Carl DeGroot, VP U.S. Federal at Cisco, discusses how, in partnership with Equinix, they are supporting the government’s digital transformation evolution, including securing information across data centers, to enable visibility, automation data accessibility, and fostering sustainability.

We are excited to announce that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has opened two new AWS Direct Connect locations within the Equinix CL1 and CL3 data centers in Calgary, Canada. With AWS Direct Connect locations leveraging Platform Equinix, customers can now securely connect to the AWS Cloud at lower latencies with increased throughput for improved application performance. Learn more about AWS Direct Connect via Platform Equinix

Charles Meyers, President and CEO of Equinix, discusses the outlook for data centers, enterprise systems, and artificial intelligence.

In this 20-minute Tech Talk, we will show you how to baseline and identify exactly where you can cut carbon emissions for your network devices like routers and switches, and then transform your overall network architecture for efficiency with data center consolidation and by leveraging virtualization. Experts Sarwar Khan, Sustainability Lead at BT, and James McIlvenny, Product Marketing Manager, Digital Interconnection at Equinix, will explain: How BT’s Digital Carbon Calculator provides a unique view into which network assets to optimize for sustainability  The benefits of combining carbon footprint data and IT services lifecycle management to gain network efficiencies  How BT’s global network combined with Equinix’s own tooling, and data center colocation and virtual interconnection services, in a hybrid multicloud environment enables energy efficiency and reduction of car

In this video, we'll introduce you to the new Equinix Fabric Port Details Page and highlight the changes we've made to improve the page. You'll see the new layout with a breakdown of the Virtual Details, Physical Details, Port Utilization, and Activity Log. Then we'll finish by showing you how to create a new connection from the Port Details page, along with how to open a Support Case. Check out the new Port Details page:

Equinix Inc. is partnering with other players, such as The Linux Foundation, to offer open-source developers relevant infrastructure, such as bare metal, for unparalleled performance, scalability and manageability over their environments, according to Josh Atwell (pictured, left), senior director of developer relations at Equinix. “Software is really boring if it doesn’t have something to run on,” Atwell said. “Being at Equinix has been pretty fantastic, because it’s our core — what we do is infrastructure. We’ve had a few partners that just come by to talk to our joint customers about how they’ve been using our platform, using our network, our bare metal servers to be able to solve problems, and it’s just nice remembering that the infrastructure’s still there and it’s important.” Atwell and Robert Reeves (right), vice president of strategic partnerships at The Linux Foundation, spoke with theCUBE industry an

Chris talks about all things Equinix Korea, from business growth to expansion plans, career opportunities, and the culture we promote. Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company, operating 240+ Data Centers across the globe and providing interconnections to all the key clouds and networks.

In this video, Joey and David have a conversation about Equinix Metal and how it differs from Network Edge. We discuss the different offerings from Equinix Metal and why Network Edge users would be interested in using them. Learn how you can take advantage of the services provided by Equinix Metal with sample use cases. Dive in to Equinix Metal today:

In this video, we'll introduce you to Equinix Fabric Quick Connect for AWS. Quick Connect allows users to create single or redundant connections to AWS within a single workflow via the Fabric Portal. In this step-by-step demo, we'll guide you through creating a new connection, configuring the AWS and Equinix sides, and adding contact info. Get started with Quick Connect today in the Fabric Portal: https://

IDC MarketScape has recognized Equinix as a leader in the Worldwide Datacenter Services 2023 Vendor Assessment. Read the press release here. The report recognized Equinix's strengths in the following areas: Global expansion and ecosystem growth: The company has a strong global footprint and recently expanded into emerging markets in the Asia-Pacific, Latin America and Africa. Equinix spans six continents with data center facilities in 70 metros across 32 countries, and access to a dense ecosystem that includes m

Did you know you can move hardware reservations between projects using the Equinix Ansible collection? Enjoy the benefits of both flexible resource management and dedicated hardware!   Users can also search and access interconnection resources which will pave the way for future management of Virtual Circuits. If you're eager to see these changes come sooner, or if you need Ansible interfaces for other Equinix services, please let us know in the comments.

The Equinix Pulumi and Crossplane providers have been updated to take advantage of the latest Fabric Cloud Router features from the Terraform provider.   This includes recent updates that allow any Fabric resources to instantly approve AWS connections when given AWS credentials.   Secondly a new connection type, FCR to IPWAN, is now available!   Any Fabric Cloud Routers connected to an IPWAN will automatically peer with other remote FCRs connected to the same IPWAN. Also, Fabric automatically provisions redundant network connectivity to the IPWAN service, meaning customers only provision a single connection but receive additional protection. This drastically reduces customer configuration requirements, allowing users to rapidly produce a regional or global network.   The routes automatically learnt from remote FCRs in the IPWAN network are displayed in each of their active routing tables so use