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Recent Press Releases

• 23 Apr 2008Equinix Reports First Quarter 2008 Results
• 23 Apr 2008Equinix Appoints Chief Development Officer Eric Schwartz as President of Equinix Europe
• 23 Apr 2008Equinix and AMS-IX, the World’s Largest Single Metro Area Internet Exchange, Announce Interconnection and Peering Partnership
• 14 Apr 2008 NewMedia Express Expands Operations within Equinix Singapore IBX Data Center
• 7 Apr 2008 Equinix Appoints Darren Mann as Managing Director for Equinix Australia

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Articles & Mentions

InformationWeek – "Data Center Best Practices"
March 1, 2008
There are data centers, and then there are data centers. The first kind ranges from the overheated, wire-tangled, cramped closets that sometimes also host cleaning supplies to the more standard glass-house variety of years past. The second kind--and the topic of this article--cool with winter air, run on solar power, automatically provision servers without human involvement, and can't be infiltrated even if the attacker is driving a Mack truck full-throttle through the front gate.

These "badass" data centers--energy efficient, automated, hypersecure--are held up as models of innovation today, but their technologies and methodologies could become standard fare tomorrow.

SF Chronicle – Internet's unsung guardians labor in obscurity to keep Web moving
7 October, 2007
Inside the cavernous facility, past stern-looking security guards and multiple sets of doors protected by biometric hand readers, lie the guts of the Internet. In giant rooms linked by a series of corridors, banks of server computers owned by telecommunications companies like AT&T and content providers such as digital game seller Electronic Arts are housed in dozens of locked cages. They connect to other servers at the site and ultimately to the rest of the Web via bundles of cable that exit the building, linking to the fiber-optic trunk lines that speed digital bits and bytes around the world.

Bloomberg.com – “Smith of Equinix Sees Data Center, Server Demand Growth: Video”
1 October, 2007
Stephen Smith, chief executive officer of Equinix Inc., talks with Bloomberg's Brian Sullivan from Palo Alto, California, about the company's focus, European expansion plans, and the outlook for growth and industry challenges. Equinix operates data centers for Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo! Inc. (Source: Bloomberg)

Network World – “Efficiently cooling and powering big data centers” podcast
7 June, 2007
With everyone talking about global warming, “going green” is the trendy thing to do. For a large data center operator such as Equinix, green is a little harder to do when you're talking about the power requirements of a small city and a lot of heat that must be dissipated. Joining the program to discuss the company's efforts at being more energy efficient is Margie Backaus, chief business officer at Equinix and an employee since Day 1 of the company...

CIO Asia – “Where Traffic is Exchanged”
June, 2007
The Internet is a vast collection of interconnected networks where information is shared and transmitted. An Internet Service Provider (ISP), as a seller of access to the Internet. Content Providers also need a way to connect to the Internet in order to distribute its content. There are two methods of connecting to this network of networks: Transit and Peering...