Equinix and VMware Partner to Accelerate Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Transformations

Equinix, Inc., a global interconnection and data center company, has announced an expanded partnership with VMware to support VMware Cloud on Dell EMC on its Platform Equinix offering. The two companies are teaming up to develop solutions to help enterprises accelerate hybrid cloud transformations based on VMware Cloud on Dell EMC within Equinix International Business Exchange (IBX) data centers. VMware will also support Equinix as a global colocation provider for VMware Cloud on Dell EMC.

Direct and private connectivity to strategic cloud service providers is essential as digital transformation fuels higher demand for localized digital services at the edge.

“The industry’s rapid adoption of hybrid cloud architectures for enterprise IT infrastructure is enabling higher levels of agility, security and availability than ever before,” said VMWare CEO Pat Gelsinger. “Equinix and VMware have been partners for several years, serving a majority of Global 2000 joint customers. Our newly expanded partnership will enable our mutual customers to gain the benefit of the Equinix enterprise capabilities and the world-class VMware Cloud on Dell EMC solution.”

“By working together to offer hybrid cloud services, Equinix and VMware look forward to delivering the digital foundation for enterprise transformations in a cloud-first world,” said Equinix CEO Charles Meyers. “Together with VMware, we are reinventing hybrid cloud infrastructures based on the breakthrough VMware Cloud on Dell EMC service to deliver against today’s security, performance and availability requirements.”

Equinix operates data centers in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, Seattle, Silicon Valley and Washington D.C.

Channel Impact^®
Enterprises must focus on ensuring the availability, performance, security and reliability of a massive set of applications while operating in a cost-effective and scalable manner. This expanded collaboration is expected to help customers simplify complex hybrid multicloud deployments, and accelerate their digital transformation in public cloud and edge deployments.