Equinix to close its 'Metal' IaaS offering in 2026 Joins the likes of HPE, Cisco, and VMware in failing to challenge dominant hyperscalers Off-Prem18 Nov 2024 | 3
Equinix to pad Thai coffers with $500 million investment Another Asian country declares ambition to be a tech hub Off-Prem31 Oct 2024 | 6
GenAI hype meets harsh reality as enterprises wrestle with business case Nvidia, Equinix clearly making a killing over costs, confusion, and cold feet AI + ML09 Sep 2024 | 17
Equinix pilots use of fuel cell in 'shipping container' outside datacenter Future of low carbon sustainable tech? Not so fast, this is still a trial and only for backup power On-Prem16 Aug 2024 | 17
Equinix bids for more of your multi-cloud network with homebrew hosted router VMs are slow. And who can arrange remote hands wherever your traffic needs to flow? Off-Prem19 Jan 2024 | 2
Equinix to expand liquid cooling to 100 datacenters to quench your AI thirst Bit barn touts big savings for ditching the fans Systems13 Dec 2023 | 2
Nukes, schmukes – fuel cells could power future datacenters At least in the tropics, say Equinix and the National University of Singapore Off-Prem04 Oct 2023 | 45
As liquid cooling takes off in the datacenter, fortune favors the brave Comment There's more than one way to beat the heat – and save serious money Systems29 Dec 2022 | 35
Equinix to cut costs by cranking up the heat in its datacenters Dude, not cool Systems07 Dec 2022 | 30
Equinix would offer more liquid cooling but struggles without standards Immersion has different problems: datacenters aren't strong enough to hold lots of liquids Systems30 Nov 2022 | 6
Equinix tests out fuel cells as alternative for datacenter power Teams up with National University of Singapore on proof-of-concept designs On-Prem22 Sep 2022 | 2
Lessons to be learned from Google and Oracle's datacenter heatstroke Comment It's getting hot in here so take down all your nodes On-Prem22 Aug 2022 | 28
Will cloud giants really drive colos off a financial cliff? Analysis The dude who predicted the Enron collapse bets they will Systems04 Jul 2022 | 10
Colocation consolidation: Analysts look at what's driving the feeding frenzy Analysis Sometimes a half-sized shipping container at the base of a cell tower is all you need PaaS + IaaS15 May 2022 | 2
Colocation giants shrug off inflation as demand surges At least some of you realize not every server has to go into AWS, Azure or GCP Systems03 May 2022 |
NTT finds partner to help accelerate datacenter builds in Europe, North America Asset management outfit Macquarie will buy existing bit barns. But first, check out the shiny new 15.2MW bit barn in Indonesia Off-Prem04 Apr 2022 |
Equinix prepping to unleash 128-core Ampere Arm silicon in its 'Metal' not-quite-cloud For now, you get Dell and Pure Storage-as-a-service and more metallic locations Systems03 Mar 2021 |
Equinix joins Arm enthusiasts by pumping out bare metal in not-quite-IaaS offering Ampere CPUs available for automated deployments as data centre giant takes on public clouds On-Prem28 Oct 2020 |
Equinix warns it's infected with ransomware, promises it can carry on regardless Insists your kit there is safe because the isolation you'd expect from a rack-renter has worked On-Prem10 Sep 2020 | 7
Marketing: Wow, that LD8 data centre outage was crazy bad. Still, can't get worse, can it? Finance: HOLD MY BEER Outraged outage-struck Equinix customer billed for dead rack check On-Prem20 Aug 2020 | 32
Outage: Faulty UPS at data centre housing London Internet Exchange causes grief for ISPs and telcos alike Updated Some of the providers have staggered back to feet On-Prem18 Aug 2020 | 53
Equinix enters India by purchasing pair of Mumbai bit barns Traffic among tenants in financial capital looks to be as tasty as renting racks On-Prem11 Aug 2020 |
Equinix says Zoom bought plenty more stuff in Q1. Which is just what Oracle said, too Despite you know what, little evidence of a rush to new racks SaaS08 May 2020 |
Equinix closes data centres to customers, contractors in France, Germany, Italy, Spain amid coronavirus pandemic Goes appointment-only elsewhere, pledges to have enough staff on-site to keep running On-Prem23 Mar 2020 | 5
Packet up, I'll take it: Data-center ops giant Equinix gobbles bare-metal server biz Meanwhile: IBM Power processors to appear in a Google Cloud near you, if you ask nicely On-Prem15 Jan 2020 |
Nvidia and friends: GPU giant's AI data centre network is going global Big iron systems servin' all over the world with new deals On-Prem12 Jul 2019 | 1
Armed with a billion dollars, Equinix goes after the hyperscalers Data centre joint venture bankrolled by Singapore sets its sights on Europe On-Prem01 Jul 2019 | 1
Equinix is rolling in it.... money that is Colo giant racks up the dollar bills by renting space to big 'n bulky cloud slingers On-Prem02 May 2019 | 6
Come friendly bit barns and fall on Slough: Equinix opens £90m data centre in London rust belt Say it with us now: Despiiiiite Brexit On-Prem30 Apr 2019 | 40
A few short packets: Cisco still Switchzilla, a neat Wi-Fi hack and more Networks roundup Also: AT&T inks open source pact with Nokia, ZTE 5G pass, Equinix expands Networks14 Jan 2019 | 1
Equinix CEO bails after ‘poor judgment in employee matter’ A decade of growth and no strategy dispute suggests this wasn't about wearing ugly shorts on casual Friday On-Prem30 Jan 2018 | 17
Data centre mergers and acquisitions hit $20bn in 2017 feeding frenzy All-time high for industry On-Prem04 Jan 2018 | 3
Equinix slurps IO's London bit barn Gains capacity for 3,340 cabinets crammed with kit in fabulous Slough On-Prem07 Feb 2017 | 1
Verizon flogs off 29 data centers, pockets $3.6bn Equinix takes over bit-barns as telco shifts focus to wireless and fiber On-Prem06 Dec 2016 | 1
Big Content and Big Bit Barn are escaping the clutch of Big Photon Zuck and Equinix create open source packet-optical switch Networks03 Nov 2016 |
BT internet outage was our fault, says Equinix Faulty UPS takes out 10 per cent of BT customers Channel20 Jul 2016 | 58
AT&T and Big Telco pals join Facebook OCP club El Reg talks open with Equinix Networks27 Jan 2016 | 2
Telecity shuffles off London stockmarket UK data centre biz waves goodbye, newly-formed US entity says howdy Channel15 Jan 2016 | 7
EU orders Equinix to dump colos in Amsterdam, London and Frankfurt After Telecity tie-up On-Prem16 Nov 2015 | 7
Oracle cloud billows into six Equinix bit barns Big Red finds more ways to satisfy hybrid hopefuls SaaS28 Oct 2015 |
Equinix edged around Wedge, fell back into proprietary embrace Ye olde networking giants still deliver for this big bit-shipper Networks04 Sep 2015 |
Expansion-hungry Equinix posts bumper sales Results for acquisition target Telecity look limp in comparison On-Prem30 Jul 2015 |
SaaS without an internet connection: what strange magic is this? A WAN with a plan can make SaaS look like it's on-prem, suggests Equinix SaaS14 Jul 2015 | 1
Ganges Web Services to launch in 2016 AWS promises bit barn splashdown in India next year SaaS02 Jul 2015 |
US SaaS firm bows to Snowden concerns with UK-based datacentre Clarizen sets Euro customers' minds at rest SaaS25 Jun 2015 | 17
Equinix moves into Europe by slurping up Telecity Interxion left weeping as UK firm is swept off by hunky US suitor On-Prem29 May 2015 | 4
Microsoft enlists fat-piper Equinix to pump Office 365 It'll stay up diddly up up, promises Redmond SaaS05 May 2015 | 4
Equinix looking for friends to fuel enterprise push New Melbourne bit barn joins Channel24 Mar 2015 |
HDS launches compute-as-a-service in Equinix bit barns everywhere Your stack, at your place or theirs Channel27 Oct 2014 |
Telstra puffs Cisco cloud into Honkers and Singapore Adds extra Oz connectivity with Equinix SaaS24 Sep 2014 |
It was always Azure thing: NetApp floats boxen into Microsoft's cloud Let’s talk privately Channel16 Jul 2014 | 5
AWS adds second Sydney direct connect site and puts Melbourne on CloudFront Global Switch joins Equinix in the cloudy connection club SaaS10 Jul 2014 |
You've heard of the internet, right? Well this here might just be the INTERCLOUD Now you can have a server in every port Channel30 Apr 2014 | 6
Microsoft Azure adds global HUSH-HUSH connection routes with Equinix New 'ExpressRoute' connections in 16 Equinix bit barns across world OSes23 Apr 2014 | 2
Panel: Death of Cisco and Juniper switches are greatly exaggerated OFC 2014 'There's always going to be specialized hardware' say industry execs Networks12 Mar 2014 | 2
AWS cloud expansion BETRAYS new Equinix data centers CloudFront and Route 53 in India today, Equinix bit barns tomorrow? SaaS29 Jul 2013 |
Equinix's new Sydney bit barn built to survive TOXIC FLOOD It's just 90 metres from Australia's most polluted waterway, but design rises above the problem On-Prem15 Nov 2012 | 6
Equinix opens 3rd data centre in Sydney More clouds to gather in Melbourne, Japan, India and China SaaS12 Aug 2011 |