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Equinix, Inc. is an American public corporation that provides carrier-neutral data centers and internet exchanges to enable interconnection. The company offers colocation, interconnection solutions and related services to enterprises, content companies, systems integrators and 1,100+ network service providers worldwide. Equinix data centers are also home to more than 500 cloud service providers, and the company operates the Equinix Cloud Exchange, a service enabled by a proprietary software that allows customers to connect to multiple clouds simultaneously.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cloud Complexity, Simplified )〕 Equinix operates 100+ data centers (which it calls "International Business Exchanges" – IBXs) across 33 major metropolitan areas in 15 countries on five continents.〔 The company touts its broad geographic reach as a key differentiator, saying it allows its customers to place equipment in close proximity to employees, customers, partners and population centers. The company's Performance Hub offering enables customers to place corporate IT resources near large user populations in data centers connected to many networks and clouds.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= With Performance Hub, Equinix Targets the Enterprise )〕 The company has its headquarters in Redwood City, California, United States.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Data centers eye the cloud as Hurricane Sandy bears down )〕 Equinix reported 2014 revenues of $2.44 billion and is the leading global colocation data center by market share.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Equinix Reports Fourth Quarter And Year-End 2014 Results )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Report: Colo Business Thrives as Enterprises Move to Cloud )〕 == History == Equinix was founded in 1998 by Al Avery and Jay Adelson, two facilities managers at Digital Equipment Corporation. The founders believed that existing data centers would not be sufficient to support the rapid growth of the internet and saw the opportunity to deploy data centers on a much larger scale to support this growth. In an interview, Adelson recalled that the early Internet was "run by cowboys. … It just wasn't hardened, it wasn't commercialized. And for those of us that cared, we knew that a company like Equinix would need to exist. Somebody would have to be the steward of all this infrastructure."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Equinix co-founder Jay Adelson explains how Equinix got its name )〕 Equinix extended its operations in 2012, when it announced partnerships to enter the Dubai, UAE and JAKARTA, Indonesia markets.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Equinix partners with Indonesian firm for Jakarta data center )〕 Early in 2015, Equinix opened five new data centers on four continents, which increased the company's global data center footprint to more than 10 million square feet and were billed by the company as a significant expansion of its interconnection capacity.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Accelerate Your Business Through Interconnection )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Equinix Expanding Global Data Center Footprint )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Equinix Accelerates Interconnected Era with Global Launch of Five New Data Centers )〕 Also in 2015, Equinix converted to a real estate investment trust (REIT) in a move to gain tax advantages and enhance shareholder value by offering a regular dividend.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Equinix Inc. Celebrates First Quarter As REIT With Massive Earnings Beat )〕 In addition, Equinix acquired the professional services company Nimbo in 2015 as part of a broader effort to develop its professional services business to assist customers in planning and executing their data center migrations and advancing their network and hybrid cloud strategies.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Equinix acquires Nimbo to bolster professional services )〕 Equinix announced at the end of May 2015 that it would acquire British company TelecityGroup in a deal worth £2.35 billion.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Equinix to buy TelecityGroup for $3.6 billion, Interxion deal ended )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Equinix makes recommended offer for TelecityGroup )〕 November 13th 2015, European Commission grants clearance for Equinix offer to acquire Telecity.〔http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/european-commission-grants-clearance-for-equinix-offer-to-acquire-telecity-300178445.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Equinix」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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