Equinix to Extend Interconnection and Data Center Services to Hamburg
Highlights / Key Facts
- With a population of more than five million, the
Hamburg metro area is the second-largest city inGermany and has a large concentration of multinational enterprises, including large automotive and consumer packaged goods companies. Additionally, the city is home to a growing technology community, including many e-commerce companies which require low latency, increased bandwidth and connectivity to industry-leading networking and cloud services providers. - To meet this demand,
Equinix will refurbish the existing two-story industrial building, which is approximately 130,000 square feet (12,000 square meters), and transform the space into an interconnection and carrier-neutral colocation environment. The redevelopment will deliver 375 cabinets in phase one with the ability to expand to 1,875 cabinets at full build. - As a part of their IT transformation, enterprises increasingly require low-latency network connectivity, access to cloud service providers in top global markets and interconnection with customers and partners across their digital supply chain to run their corporate IT. The new HH1 IBX data center will enable
Equinix customers to evolve from traditional businesses to "digital businesses" whereby they globally interconnect with people, locations, cloud services and data. Additionally, customers will have the opportunity to operate on an expanded global platform to process, store and distribute larger volumes of latency-sensitive data and applications at the digital edge, closer to end users and local markets. - The new HH1 IBX data center will be strategically located in proximity to the
North Sea , which will provide easy access for subsea cable landing stations, asHamburg is a top interconnection point for cables connecting toFrankfurt .Equinix has won more than 20 subsea cable landing deals in recent years. - Today,
Equinix's Germany data centers are business hubs for over 900 companies across nine facilities located inFrankfurt ,Munich andDusseldorf .Equinix inGermany is home to many thriving, diverse business ecosystems, including: financial services, which converge onEquinix to streamline trading and to share time-sensitive information with partners; the world's largest internet exchange, DE-CIX Frankfurt, and the Equinix IX internet exchange platform, as well as theECIX, NL -IX, KleyRex and DataIX internet exchanges; and leading international companies in the banking, commerce and automotive industries, as well as other global enterprises that use these facilities to gain a presence inEurope's largest national economy. Equinix previously committed to investing over$150 million (€131 million) in organic expansion of its German data centers for fiscal years 2018-2019.- Today
Equinix operates more than 200 IBX data centers in 52 markets, providing customers even more ways to connect with other businesses around the world on Platform Equinix.
Quotes
Eric Schwartz , president, EMEA,Equinix :
"The German economy continues to be a source of strength inEurope , and demand for interconnection continues to rise to meet the IT transformation needs of businesses. By expanding to a fourth market inGermany ,Equinix will provide multinational customers with greater choice of where they build their digital edge."
Additional Resources
Equinix to Expand intoGermany to Accelerate Global Digital Business [blog]- Equinix Invests
$85 Million toBuild Fourth Data Center inSingapore [press release] - Equinix Announces Build of
New Flagship Data Center inLondon [press release] - The Successful Cloud-Enabled Enterprise [infopaper]
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Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from expectations discussed in such forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause such differences include, but are not limited to, the challenges of acquiring, operating and constructing IBX data centers and developing, deploying and delivering
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Equinix Media Contacts, Michelle Lindeman (Americas), +1 (650) 598-6361, mlindeman@equinix.com or Liam Rose (EMEA), +44 (0) 207 618 9602, liam.rose@eu.equinix.com Equinix Investor Relations Contacts, Katrina Rymill, +1 (650) 598-6583, krymill@equinix.com or Chip Newcom, +1 (650) 598-6262, cnewcom@equinix.com