Equinix to Build More Owned Data Centers with “Nodes” for Cloud Giants
Global interconnection giant Equinix is not changing its business model. However, the line is blurring between what constitutes wholesale data center and retail colocation deployments. This is especially the case when it comes to the largest consumers of data center space, the hyper-scale cloud service and Software-as-a-Service (or SaaS) providers, social media giants, and other planet-scale tech platforms.
Winning the battle for data center customers now requires having secure, fast, and cost-effective alternatives to access multiple public cloud services and managed services vendors. Equinix is looking to get a competitive advantage by working closely with hyper-scale customers to attract highly profitable traditional enterprise customers for colocation cabinets and private cloud deployments.
Speaking at the Citi Internet, Media, and Telecom conference in Las Vegas earlier this week, Smith reviewed a busy 2017 and shared the company's near-term strategy, which includes "catching the next wave of cloud deployments" – something he’s been talking about frequently as of late. This was similar to the theme from last year's conference presentation, where cloud giants like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform were mentioned as potential anchor partners to help with international expansion by Equinix into new countries like South Korea, India, and South Africa.
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