Equinix
Where Opportunity Connects
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| Public | |
| Traded as |
NASDAQ: EQIX NASDAQ Financial-100 Component S&P 500 Component |
| Industry | Internet |
| Founded | 1998 |
| Headquarters | Redwood City, California, United States |
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Key people
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Jay Adelson (Founder) |
| Products | Data centers |
| Revenue | US$3.61 billion (2016) |
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Number of employees
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5,900 (December 2016) |
| Website | equinix |
Jay Adelson (Founder)
Al Avery (Founder)
Stephen M. Smith (CEO)
Keith Taylor (CFO)
Charles Meyers (COO)
Karl Strohmeyer (President, Americas)
Eric Schwartz (President, Equinix Europe)
Equinix, Inc. is an American multinational company headquartered in Redwood City, California, that specializes in enabling global interconnection between organizations and their employees, customers, partners, data and clouds. The company is the leading global colocation data center provider by market share, and it operates 150 data centers in 41 major metropolitan areas in 21 countries on five continents.
Equinix was founded in 1998 to provide a neutral place where the networks forming the early internet could exchange data traffic. It expanded to Asia-Pacific in 2002 and Europe in 2007. The company later began operating facilities in Latin America in 2011 and in the Middle East in 2012. Its purchase of TelecityGroup in early 2016 established the company as the largest colocation provider in Europe. In December 2016, Equinix announced it had agreed to purchase 29 Verizon data centers in a move to expand its presence across the U.S. and Latin America. The deal, expected to close in mid-2017, would bring Equinix’s data center count to 179 facilities in 44 markets.
The company offers colocation, interconnection solutions and related services to enterprises, content companies, systems integrators and 1,400+ network service providers worldwide. Equinix data centers host more than 2,500 cloud and IT service providers. Equinix offers several interconnection services, including Equinix Cross Connects, Equinix Performance Hub and Equinix Data Hub. The company operates the Equinix Cloud Exchange and an Internet Exchange. Its Professional Services group offers various consulting and technical support services.
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