Equinix, Inc., the global interconnection and
data center company, today announced that VMware
vCloud Air
is available on Platform Equinix in Europe. The service is available via direct connect within Equinix's London and Frankfurt metros, and remotely across Europe
via carriers. These dedicated, private connections reduce network costs
and provide higher, more consistent network performance than
Internet-based connections for enterprise customers looking to build
VMware-based hybrid clouds, alongside other cloud services including
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.
VMware vCloud Air allows
customers to extend their existing on-premises IT infrastructure
seamlessly into vSphere-hosted private cloud and public clouds.
Customers have the ability to build the network/architecture spanning
all three environments, giving them full control to meet their data
security and sovereignty requirements. The solution is now available via
direct connect inside Equinix's LD5 International Business Exchange
(IBX) data center in London and FR2 data center in Frankfurt, with the potential to scale across Equinix's global data center footprint.
Highlights / Key Facts
- VMware vCloud Air integrates seamlessly with a company's current IT
infrastructure (whether on-premises or hosted in an Equinix IBX),
delivering the ease and flexibility to extend applications into the
cloud as additional capacity is needed. It is compatible with existing
enterprise applications, making it straightforward to build new,
cloud-native applications and achieve business agility and efficiency in
a more secure, reliable and compliant manner.
- The availability of the vCloud Air service enables customers to
address European Union compliance and data protection regulation as
locally hosted data is inherent in the service, alongside the global
reach offered through Equinix.
- Equinix offers the industry's broadest choice in cloud service
providers, such as VMware vCloud Air, AWS, Google Cloud Platform and
Microsoft Azure, offering direct connections to these cloud services via
Equinix Cloud Exchange, cross connects or Ethernet services.
- Equinix is home to a mature and dynamic ecosystem of partners and
customers, hosting over 1,250 cloud and IT services companies globally,
with 450 of those residing in IBXs across Europe. According to a recent Cloud Adoption Survey commissioned
by Equinix 91 percent of UK and 88 percent of German respondents are
planning the deployment of new cloud-based offerings this year.
Mark Adams, chief development officer, Equinix: "We
are delighted to be working with VMware to facilitate adoption of
vCloud Air, over both the Internet and via direct connect for hybrid-
and multi-cloud architectures. Today there is strong demand for high
performance enterprise-grade cloud services, and VMware is a welcome
addition to our growing ecosystem of best-in-class cloud service
providers."
Gavin Jackson, vice president and general manager, vCloud business unit, VMware: "Working
with Equinix accelerates our access to customers and our customers'
access to cloud applications that can run seamlessly both on- and
off-premises. Customers gain new data center locations for VMware vCloud
Air and complementary connection, network, colocation, hosting and
managed services to facilitate their hybrid cloud build-out."