Equinix and VMware to Expand Global Cloud Services Offerings
08 November 2022 - 7:30PM
Business Wire
Companies Announce VMware Cloud on Equinix
Metal® to Better Meet the Latency, Performance, Security, and Data
Locality Requirements of Enterprise Workloads
VMware Explore 2022 Europe—Today at VMware Explore 2022
Europe, Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the world's digital
infrastructure company, and VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) announced an
expanded global relationship to deliver new digital infrastructure
and multi-cloud services.
Together, the companies unveiled VMware Cloud on Equinix Metal®,
a new distributed cloud service that will deliver a more
performant, secure, and cost-effective cloud option to support
enterprise applications. The service will combine VMware-managed
and supported cloud infrastructure as a service with Equinix’s
interconnected, global Bare Metal as a Service offering. The
service will extend customers’ cloud environments into distributed
metro locations to satisfy business-critical performance demands at
the edge while enabling them to preserve the integrity of
enterprise workloads.
“Customers to date have lacked a suitable cloud option that
combines on-premises security and control with high performance,
data locality, and low overall TCO,” said Dave McCarthy, Research
Vice President, Cloud and Edge Infrastructure Services at IDC. “For
mission-critical applications that rely on low-latency and
high-performance network bandwidth, the default has been to retain
workloads on-premises or perform real-time needs, such as data
processing, at branch office or metro locations. With their
combined strengths, Equinix and VMware are well positioned to
deliver a distributed cloud service that will address the demands
of enterprise applications where latency, performance, security,
and data locality are key drivers.”
VMware Cloud on Equinix Metal will be ideal for distributed
cloud use cases including smart cities, video analytics, game
development, real-time financial market trading, retail POS, and a
variety of use cases using IoT and ML/Inference. The service will
include VMware Cloud for consistent multi-cloud infrastructure and
operations and Equinix Metal, an automated bare metal and
interconnection offering delivered as a service across Equinix’s
global International Business Exchange (IBX) footprint. VMware
Cloud on Equinix Metal will provide private, low-latency access to
both private and public cloud environments—as well as thousands of
IT and network providers—via Equinix Fabric® interconnection. This
built-in private connectivity will deliver multi-cloud flexibility
and choice with instantaneous connectivity to all public cloud
services. Customers will be able to purchase the VMware Cloud
software as a service from VMware and the Bare Metal as a Service
capacity from Equinix.
“As companies accelerate their digital transformation by
adopting hybrid multi-cloud architectures, they require consistent
application experiences that span private and public clouds, and
reach from the core to the edge,” said Zachary Smith, Global Head
of Edge Infrastructure Services at Equinix. “We are pleased to
partner with VMware to provide an on-demand, dedicated cloud
infrastructure solution that can be deployed globally. Customers
benefit from secure connections to their critical private or
on-prem environments and also to the thousands of clouds, networks
and other ecosystem participants that come together at
Equinix.”
“Businesses across industries are seeking to become cloud smart
by matching enterprise application needs to the best cloud
environments. This approach will enable them to benefit from high
performance and consistent infrastructure with low TCO,” said
Narayan Bharadwaj, Vice President, Cloud Solutions at VMware.
“VMware and Equinix are uniquely positioned to co-innovate on a
distributed cloud service that extends VMware Cloud to new
locations to provide application choice and flexibility and
accelerate cloud transformation for all enterprises.”
Equinix and VMware: Cloud-Smart Innovation for Thousands of
Customers Globally
Over nearly a decade, Equinix and VMware have delivered
solutions that meet business demands for fast, more secure, and
consistent multi-cloud infrastructure. Thousands of mutual
customers are accelerating their enterprise cloud transformation by
running VMware workloads in Equinix data centers around the world.
Equinix owns and operates a network of more than 240 data centers
in 71 major metro areas around the world and serves as a transit
hub, enabling secure network connections across private and public
clouds. This has made Equinix an ideal digital infrastructure
foundation for the multi-cloud enterprise. VMware Cloud is the
industry’s first and only multi-cloud Infrastructure as a service
(IaaS) that runs as a native service in 100+ regions spanning major
public clouds as well as 4,000+ partner clouds, in private data
centers and at the edge.
To learn more about this new service, read this blog from
Equinix and VMware.
About Equinix
Equinix (Nasdaq: EQIX) is the world's digital infrastructure
company. Digital leaders harness Equinix's trusted platform to
bring together and interconnect foundational infrastructure at
software speed. Equinix enables organizations to access all the
right places, partners, and possibilities to scale with agility,
speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class
experiences, and multiply their value, while supporting their
sustainability goals.
About VMware
VMware is a leading provider of multi-cloud services for all
apps, enabling digital innovation with enterprise control. As a
trusted foundation to accelerate innovation, VMware software gives
businesses the flexibility and choice they need to build the
future. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, VMware is committed
to building a better future through the company’s 2030 Agenda. For
more information, please visit www.vmware.com/company.
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