What’s the quickest and slowest deployment in your career?
Minutes? Hours? Days? Months? Years? Let’s hear it! Don’t settle for months, you’ve got Equinix within minutes. Be the first to test drive Equinix Deploy and use our self-service capabilities across Equinix Metal, Equinix Network Edge and Equinix Fabric.Have you tried the Quick Connect to GCP feature for Equinix Fabric?
Quick Connect to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a new Equinix Fabric feature that enhances the creation of L2 connections to GCP. Instead of logging into the GCP portal to create a Google service key, all of the required provisioning steps can be performed from within the Equinix Fabric portal. Prerequisites and detailed instructions can be found in the following on-line resources. Quick Connect for Fabric 2022.3 - YouTube Quick Connect to Google Cloud Platform (equinix.com) This new feature is available today for Fabric customers adding new connections to GCP. Let us know what you think about it!
Great video to share with anyone new to interconnection and data centers
Hi All - New to the community and looking forward to connecting and learning! If you or any new hires on your team (or your mom!) are new to interconnection, ecosystems and data centers, this short “Where is the Physical Internet?” video from investment company Cowen is an excellent intro from the consumer perspective. It's a 9-minute walk-through of Equinix’s NY5 facility that includes insight into the physical infrastructure responsible for securing, cooling/powering, and connecting a modern data center. During the tour, you’ll also learn about the ecosystems at the NY5 data center that attract companies to interconnect there. The video is meant for anyone interested in learning more about where and how data is stored and exchanged. Hope you like it as much as I do!
Mark your calendar! Data Protection Webinar coming up
Got 20 minutes? Join us next week in a short Tech Talk to cover how you can protect data in a hybrid environment with Dell Technologies and Equinix. I’ll be joined by Peter Mahoney, Sales Engineering at Dell Technologies and Anonymous, Principal Solutions Architect at Equinix. Secure your registration today! ⬇️ Reply below with your questions and comments on data protection ⬇️ In this short Tech Talk, we'll cover how you can build a sovereign, interconnected data protection infrastructure by combining Dell Technologies and Platform Equinix Eliminate data protection infrastructure redundancy with one backup target Restore performance when and where you need it Test and migrate your workloads to the right cloud—public or private Establish full sovereignty over enterprise data Create regional data pivot points to quickly project your data to any service provider or partner Webinar Timing: AMER: Thursday, August 25, 2022 │ 10:00 PDT, 14:00 BRT EMEA: Thursday, August 25, 2022 │ 10:00 BST, 11:00 CEST APAC: Thursday, August 25, 2022 │ 10:00 SGT/HKT, 12:00 AESTOptimal by Design: Architecting for Hybrid from Day One in AI and Application Development
For every new AI or application project you embark on, your initial architectural choices will determine the probability of long-term success of that effort, especially as it scales or needs to adapt to changing regulatory or business environments. This article discusses why architecting for hybrid up front puts you in the optimal position for anything that comes your way. https://blog.equinix.com/blog/2025/05/21/why-you-need-a-hybrid-first-strategy/ Do you agree? Is 'hybrid-first' truly the silver bullet for future-proofing, or are there scenarios where a pure cloud or colo/on-prem approach still makes sense? Share your perspective!Interested in building a sustainable network? Join our Tech Talk this week!
Discover how sustainability and technology intersects with our 20-minute Tech Talk on October 26 th . In my upcoming Tech Talk, I’ll be joined by Sarwar Khan, Sustainability Lead at BT; Sarwar has 12 years’ experience in developing decarbonization strategies, products and propositions spanning across the telecoms, IT, and energy industries, working for both large corporates and start-ups. Get ready to learn more about: 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 carbon emissions at scale. Got a question you want covered? Ask below! Don’t forget to register here.For your leadership team
In case you're looking for an e-book to share with your leadership team re: how Equinix sees the digital infrastructure world, check out the new Leaders' Guide to Digital Infrastructure. It's based on extensive customer research about how organizations implement various solutions to progress their digital transformation. This info is also available as a real-time Digital Strategy Briefing with our executives on request via your Equinix team.What is your offsite disaster recovery strategy?
In this blog, we discussed how Equinix customers simplified and strengthened strategies for bringing workloads back online quickly and avoiding downtime. What are the strategies, solutions, and best practices your organization has in place to achieve optimal recovery time and recovery point objectives?
