redwood city, california, June 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), a global digital infrastructure company®today announced significant enhancements to Equinix Fabric.®, featuring the introduction of 25 and 50 gigabits per second (Gbps) virtual connectivity to cloud service providers. These advances enable enterprises to seamlessly and instantly provision virtual connectivity to leading cloud platforms to easily run larger workloads such as data-intensive AI training models and building scalable enterprise networks. be able to manage. Google Cloud will be the first partner to take advantage of this new capability.
Equinix Fabric is a software-defined network platform that provides access to thousands of service providers, network, communications, security and other cloud providers, all from a single location or multiple locations around the world.
Equinix Fabric is a software-defined network platform that provides access to thousands of service providers, network, communications, security and other cloud providers, all from a single location or multiple locations around the world. Beginning in Q3 2023, Equinix Fabric customers will be able to provision virtual connections to the cloud with up to 50 Gbps of bandwidth. Equinix is working with Google Cloud as the first cloud partner to support this new capability, with future integrations with other major cloud platforms planned.
As businesses continue to move into a hybrid multicloud world, it’s important to be able to quickly and easily move data from one cloud to another as needed. By providing fast connections that can be created in minutes, you can accelerate the development of complex, data-intensive applications, such as training artificial intelligence (AI) models.
“Today, customers need access to their data more than ever, and whether it’s to train new AI models or enable hybrid multi-cloud connectivity between critical workloads, they can access it quickly. We have to,” he said. Arun Dev, Global Leader in Digital Interconnection Services at Equinix “Customers need to connect digital infrastructure and services on-demand, at software speed, over secure, software-defined interconnections. We are thrilled to be the first partner to help unlock it.”
With this new capability, customers will be able to:
- Improve management of enterprise applications running on hybrid database platforms that support large data sets such as high-definition images and videos.
- Accelerate data transfer to, from, and between cloud environments to more quickly respond to changing business demands for cloud resources and services.
- Build a more scalable backbone network to connect customer deployments and consolidate cloud workloads for a more ubiquitous customer experience
- Deploy a more flexible content delivery network that connects cloud-based services such as streaming services, gaming platforms, and social media networks to subscribers.
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“We are excited to work with Equinix to expand our offerings for our customers through our Partner Interconnect solution for private cloud access,” he said. Muninder Sambi, VP/GM of Product Management, Cloud Networking, Google Cloud. “As we see more and more distributed applications in hybrid cloud environments, the need for high-performance, low-latency, secure connectivity between public and private clouds continues to grow. Equinix Fabric enables provisioning, enabling customers to easily, efficiently and securely build, manage and monitor their global network and application workloads.”
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