The Environmental Protection Agency has honored Equinix with the 2019 Green Power Leadership Award in validation of the company's usage of clean and renewable energy.
Read More »Equinix’s David Peed on Four Steps to Advance Federal Data Center Optimization
David Peed, vice president and general manager at Equinix, wrote in a blog post published Wednesday that there are four steps federal agencies can implement to accelerate their data center modernization efforts and the first step is building network hubs and optimizing network infrastructures.
Read More »Michael Maiorana, Verizon Public Sector SVP, Added to 2019 Wash100 for Sales Expertise and Leading Verizon to Several Major Contracts
Executive Mosaic is honored to introduce Michael Maiorana, Verizon Public Sector senior vice president, as an inductee into the 2019 Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of the most influential voices in the government contracting arena — for his leadership and sales expertise that led to several big moves and contracts for the company. This marks the first Wash100 award for Maiorana.
Read More »Executive Spotlight: Interview With David Peed, VP & GM of Equinix Government Solutions
ExecutiveBiz spoke with David Peed, vice president and general manager of Equinix Government Solutions, about the completed acquisition of Terremark Federal Group, Equinix’s unique interconnection and data center services role and what lies ahead for the company. “With our array of partners operating at our data centers, we’re becoming known …
Read More »Equinix Completes Integration of Verizon’s Terremark Federal Group Into Government Arm
Equinix has wrapped up the integration of Verizon’s Terremark Federal Group subsidiary into its government solutions business. Equinix said Tuesday it expects TFG to broaden its contract vehicles and help build up its capability to bring data center platforms and interconnection services to federal agencies and civilian research and education …
Read More »Equinix President and CEO Steve Smith Joins NetApp Board of Directors
Data management and cloud storage solutions provider NetApp has appointed Steve Smith, Equinix CEO and president, to its board of directors — which is comprised of 10 other members. Smith started in Equinix in 2007 after work as senior vice president of HP services, where he managed the consulting and integration …
Read More »Microsoft Expands ExpressRoute Service to Azure Gov’t Cloud Users
Microsoft has made its Azure ExpressRoute cloud integration service available to users of the software company’s Azure Government cloud platform. Yousef Khalidi, Azure networking engineer at Microsoft, wrote in a Microsoft blog post published Tuesday that Microsoft’s Azure ExpressRoute service is designed to establish private connectivity between on-premises data centers and Azure …
Read More »Report: IT Sector’s Public Cloud Revenues Hit $22B in Q2 2015
Synergy Research Group reports that information technology companies generated a combined revenue of $22 billion from public cloud platforms and services during 2015’s second quarter. The market research firm said Thursday hardware, software and data center infrastructure accounted for $10 billion of the IT industry’s quarterly public cloud revenue. IT …
Read More »TechAnax-Datapipe Team Lands VA Data Center Migration Support Contract; Byron Athan Comments
A team comprising Datapipe and TechAnax have secured a potential five-year contract to provide information technology support services for the Department of Veterans Affairs. The IT firms will work with a group of contractors to plan and carry out data center migration and offer hosting services to VA, Datapipe said Tuesday. Under the …
Read More »IBM Adds New Global Cloud Centers Under $1B Expansion Plan; Jim Comfort Comments
IBM has opened new cloud centers in 12 new sites across Asia, Europe and the Americas as part of the company’s $1.2 billion expansion plan to meet hybrid cloud computing demand from enterprise clients. The company said Wednesday the new facilities in Tokyo, Frankfurt, Mexico City and other areas bring IBM’s total cloud centers to …
Read More »Cisco Intercloud Network Adds 30 Partners, 250 Global Data Centers; Rob Lloyd Comments
Cisco has added at least 30 Intercloud Fabric partners and 250 data centers as the company pushes forward with its plans to build a global network of interconnected clouds to support the Internet of Everything. The company said Monday its partners — cloud providers, builders, aggregators and resellers as well as independent software vendors — deploy hybrid cloud infrastructure to support enterprise …
Read More »Research Group Finds Equinix, Savvis at Top of Colocation Market Survey; John Dinsdale Comments
Synergy Research Group has released a new report on market performance of colocation providers in the U.S., Fierce Telecom reported Friday. Sean Buckley writes Equinix and CenturyLink‘s Savvis subsidiary are among the dominant players U.S. colocation market through continued surges in colocation and managed service earnings. Equinix generated $517 million …
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