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27/02/2018

Interconnection is the anonymous Smart City hero supporting the increased flow of human traffic and ensuring that government and transport providers can deliver efficient and agile services that can respond to real-time changes or delays.

With many in Hong Kong discussing the importance of Smart City initiatives, how many of them know interconnection is the anonymous hero supporting the increased flow of human traffic and ensuring that government and transport providers can deliver efficient and agile services that can respond to rea...

26/02/2018

The simultaneous growth of edge computing and the Internet of Things and how due to the design of the latter, edge computing is needed to maximize its potential. Equinix is named as a key player among large scale data center providers, the work of whom will be vital in future technologies such as smartcars.

Edge computing and IoT are intertwined, and both are on a rapid growth curve.

23/02/2018

"Man, were we lucky." Or did we just work hard? As we celebrate our 20th anniversary, here's a first-hand look at Equinix's early days enabling interconnection.

This year, Equinix is celebrating 20 years, and I’ve been here for almost all of them. I was here before Equinix had a single data center and I sweated out our early close calls. I’ve watched Equinix reach two decades, and we still have the same spirit I felt when I first walked in the door: We ...

20/02/2018

What are a few conditions in place today that have enabled the development of technologies like AI, VR/AR and IoT? Briefly here's what Jim Poole of Equinix has to say on this.

AI, VR/AR and IoT all have something else in common besides their recently accelerated development– they all have the same set of dependencies: Each requires relatively sophisticated devices, excellent network connectivity and robust cloud infrastructures. And none of it works as well as it should...

15/02/2018

Today Equinix announced its 60th consecutive quarter of revenue growth to cap off 2017. Read all the details of today's earnings announcement here.

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12/02/2018

An insider’s look at the data center industry. Ravi Ravishankar, VP of Marketing, Equinix APAC, talks with Classified Post of South China Morning Post SCMP, about Equinix putting development at the core of our entire human resources strategy, market trends, career advice and more.

12/02/2018

According to the Interconnection Index the Banking& Insurance industry is on track to outpace traditionally interconnection-heavy industries like telecommunications and cloud and IT services in interconnection bandwidth by 2020.

The insurance industry is well-known for its conservative nature, but that’s a characteristic that’s now having to evolve as the industry faces the digital age. For these reasons, trending tech topics such as artificial intelligence (AI), IoT and blockchain are rapidly becoming hot topics in the...

06/02/2018

Register for our webinar on Thursday Feb 8th to get yourself prepared for digital transformation. Glen Duncan of IDC Asia-Pacific, Alex Wehle of Microsoft, Asia Pacific, Lim May-Ann of the Asia Cloud Computing Association, and Tejaswini Tilak of Equinix Asia-Pacific will come together to share best practices on how to embrace the intelligent edge

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05/02/2018

Network, cloud, SaaS & content service providers need a consistent & reliable interconnection platform that allows them to dynamically collaborate & directly & securely exchange data between each other & their enterprise customers.

This year’s Pacific Telecommunications Council’s (PTC) 40th anniversary theme, “Connecting Worlds,” spoke to the global nature of communications that is launching a new decade of connections in our industry. And I’m not just talking about the physical and virtual connections that carry the...

31/01/2018

Distributed ledger technology (DLT) is currently dominating fintech conversation, with notable examples including blockchain as a result of its origins of supporting the cryptocurrency ecosystem. The article reports that, despite its promise to “replace tedious paper work in the heavy-documentation banking sector”, technology providers and analysts said DLT will remain in the experimental stage in 2018. Alex Tam, managing director Equinix Hong Kong, notes that the technology behind DLT remains “immature” and highlights a lack of certainty in its operations: “while there are quite a number of proven test cases, what remains to be proven is a solution that is commercially viable”.

Most DLT proof-of-concept initiatives in HK will remain in the experimental stage in 2018

29/01/2018

This IDC report recognizes that enterprise infrastructure workloads will need to be located off premises in clouds and colocated data centers to meet demands of digital transformation trends. See how Equinix helps enterprises meet these demands through solutions and strategies.

Equinix expands its International Business Exchange (IBX) capacity in response to increased market demand for datacenter floor space.

23/01/2018

Equinix leads eight out of 20 top global metros in terms of colocation revenue according to new Synergy Research Group report. Discover more:

Just 20 metro areas account for 59% of worldwide retail and wholesale colocation revenues, according to Synergy Research Group.