Equinix Provides Unprecedented Visibility into Distributed Infrastructure for Enterprises Moving to the Edge

Equinix Provides Unprecedented Visibility into
Distributed Infrastructure for Enterprises Moving to the Edge

IBX SmartView™ enables real-time monitoring to
proactively plan, forecast and manage services

that adjust to global interconnection demands

SINGAPORE — April 11, 2017 — Equinix,
Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data
center company, today announced that it is offering IBX SmartView™ a data center monitoring
software platform that gives transparency to a global deployment across Equinix
International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers, enabling enterprises to
proactively plan and optimize operations. The software platform reduces risk by
giving a high degree of visibility into real-time operating and environmental
conditions, which ensures high availability of services and faster application
response times. 

Digital transformation is pushing enterprises
to move to a globally distributed architecture so they can better interconnect
people, locations, clouds and data at the edge of corporate networks. IBX
SmartView provides the capability to precisely monitor and forecast utility usage
across a customer’s global IBX footprint. Power, mechanical and environmental
conditions are measured in real-time, so customers can make immediate changes
to their equipment or configuration. This eliminates infrastructure-monitoring
gaps and enables customers to manage distributed operations with clarity and
ease. 

Key Facts:

·  Equinix IBX customers can immediately view the
status of the utility power, generators, cooling systems, temperature,
humidity, and power draw of each cage and IBX roll-up. Information is
distributed via real-time event and alarm notifications for online and offline
use.

·  Disaster recovery options also alert customers
in case of natural disasters, out-of-band events and status changes. This
allows Equinix and customer on-call technicians to monitor the situation
closely and/or move applications away from the affected IBX data center until
operations return to normal – significantly reducing (or eliminating) any
potential negative impact on operations.

·  IBX SmartView is a Software-as-a-Service
(SaaS) offering, available through the Equinix Customer Portal (ECP).
Measurements include utility feeds, switch gears, generators, UPSs, static
switches, chillers, cooling plans and air handling units. In addition, IBX
SmartView provides cage- and cabinet-specific trends as well as real-time
information.

Availability

IBX SmartView is now available in
Singapore’s SG2 and SG3 – and its scheduled to be available at SG1. Other
global IBX’s that currently offer the solution include Chicago, Dallas, Silicon
Valley and Washington D.C. It will continue to be rolled out in a phased
approach globally, with plans to deploy in Atlanta, New York, Seattle, Toronto,
Amsterdam, London, Paris, Zurich, Hong Kong, Melbourne, Shanghai, Sydney and
Tokyo later this year.

Quotes

·  Rhonda Ascierto, research director, 451
Research

“By offering operational transparency to a globally distributed
footprint, IBX SmartView offers more control of colocated assets. This helps
give peace of mind to companies that are used to running on-premise
datacenters. It ensures that global operations can be managed more effectively
and deliver better end-to-end performance of services.”

·  Clement Goh, managing director, Equinix South
Asia

“As customers move closer to the digital edge of the physical
and virtual worlds, we realized a need to offer customers real-time, on-demand
insights of a globally adaptable infrastructure. Through IBX SmartView,
organisations not only enjoy a platform that offers agility and direct
visibility into the operational status of their deployment, but one that
enables proactive decision making for business changes.”

Additional Resources:

·  IBX SmartView: Increasing data
center efficiency, reducing risk and improving planning [blog]

·  IBX SmartView