Professional Networking Leader to Utilize High-Performance,
Network-Rich Equinix Hub as Key Part of Business Continuity Planning
FOSTER CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq:EQIX), the leading global provider of
network-neutral data centers and Internet exchange services, today
announced that LinkedIn, the world’s largest
professional network, has expanded operations at Equinix with a new
business continuity deployment at one of Equinix’s
Chicago area Internet Business Exchange (IBX®)
centers. The new deployment expands on current LinkedIn operations
within two of Equinix’s IBX centers in the
Silicon Valley.
Equinix’s Chicago center offers LinkedIn a
high-performance physical infrastructure to deploy business continuity
operations for their corporate IT infrastructure and Web operations. The
redundant power operations of the center include a high-performance
system that provides backup power in the event of utility power
disruption. Cooling and environmental control features enable deployment
of the most demanding IT systems, including high power density
equipment, such as blade servers.
In addition to the redundant physical infrastructure, Equinix’s
Chicago center features an aggregation of network service providers in a
centralized location, enabling LinkedIn to interconnect with these
strategic partners, including the carriers, ISPs, DSL providers and
cable operators that offer direct access to LinkedIn’s
end-users. This interconnectivity with multiple networks and other
strategic service providers within the same physical location offers the
ability to implement fully redundant operations by providing a strong
breadth of choices for backup networks in the event of a service
interruption to a primary provider.
LinkedIn has established the world’s largest
and most powerful professional network that allows users to bring their
professional networks online and give them access to people, jobs and
opportunities. Currently, more than 25 million professionals are on
LinkedIn, including senior-level executives from all five hundred of the
Fortune 500 companies and almost every FTSE 100 company, as well as a
wide range of household names in technology, financial services, media,
consumer packaged goods, entertainment, and numerous other industries.
“LinkedIn, along with MySpace, Digg and other
companies that rely upon the Internet as a principal element of their
business model, have found that Equinix’s
neutral centers are the best locations where they can reach all of the
world’s major networks within a single
location,” said Margie Backaus, chief
business officer for Equinix. “In addition,
Equinix provides them with a top-tier data center infrastructure that
offers a strong platform for business continuity operations.”
About Equinix
Equinix is the leading global provider of network-neutral data center
and interconnection services, offering premium colocation, traffic
exchange and outsourced IT infrastructure solutions. Global enterprises,
content companies, systems integrators and network service providers
look to Equinix Internet Business Exchange (IBX®)
centers for world-class reliability and network diversity. Equinix IBX
centers serve as critical, core hubs for IP networks and Internet
operations worldwide. With 40 IBX centers located in 18 strategic
markets across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific, Equinix enables
customers to reliably operate their mission-critical infrastructure on a
global basis.
This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve
risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from
expectations discussed in such forward-looking statements. Factors that
might cause such differences include, but are not limited to, the
challenges of acquiring, operating and constructing IBX centers and
developing, deploying and delivering Equinix services; unanticipated
costs or difficulties relating to the integration of companies we have
or will acquire into Equinix; a failure to receive significant revenue
from customers in recently built out or acquired data
centers; failure to complete any financing arrangements contemplated
from time to time; competition from existing and new competitors; the
ability to generate sufficient cash flow or otherwise obtain funds to
repay new or outstanding indebtedness; the loss or decline in business
from our key customers; the results of any litigation relating to past
stock option grants and practices; and other risks described from time
to time in Equinix's filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission. In particular, see Equinix's recent quarterly and annual
reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, copies of
which are available upon request from Equinix. Equinix does not assume
any obligation to update the forward-looking information contained in
this press release.
Equinix and IBX are registered trademarks of Equinix, Inc. Internet
Business Exchange is a trademark of Equinix, Inc.
Contacts
K/F Communications, Inc.
David Fonkalsrud, 415-255-6506
dave@kfcomm.com