nasdaq 100 component industry internet founded 1998 headquarters redwood city california united states key people jay adelson founder al avery founder stephen m. smith president and ceo keith taylor chief financial officer charles meyers chief operating officer karl strohmeyer president americas eric schwartz president equinix europe samuel lee president equinix asia pacific products data centers revenue us 2.73 billion 2015 number of employees 5 042 december 2015 website equinix.com equinix inc. is an american public corporation that provides carrier neutral data centers and internet exchanges to enable interconnection . the company offers colocation and 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 . 1 equinix operates 145 data centers which it calls international business exchanges ibxs across 40 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 . 2 the company has its headquarters in redwood city california united states . 3 equinix reported 2015 revenues of 2.73 billion and is the leading global colocation data center by market share . 4 5 contents 1 history 1.1 alog data centers of brazil 2 data centers 2.1 international business exchanges 2.2 data center expansion in brazil 2.3 data center ibx locations 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history edit 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 . 6 equinix extended its operations in 2012 when it announced partnerships to enter the dubai uae and jakarta indonesia markets . 7 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 was billed by the company as a significant expansion of its interconnection capacity . 8 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 . 9 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 . 10 equinix announced at the end of may 2015 that it would acquire the british company telecitygroup . 11 in november 2015 the european commission cleared the equinix offer to acquire telecity . 12 in january 2016 equinix announced that it had completed the acquisition of telecitygroup plc in a transaction valued at approximately 3.8 billion 2.6 billion . the addition of telecitygroup s 40 data centers more than doubled equinix s capacity in europe fortifying its position as the largest retail colocation provider in the region . the acquisition expanded the company s interconnection platform in key european markets . it also added critical network and cloud density in order to better serve enterprise customers who viewed interconnection as a core it design principle and were increasingly moving to highly interconnected global data centers to accelerate business performance and innovation . the european commission cleared the deal after equinix agreed to sell eight of its data centers around europe to digital realty trust for us 874million . 13 alog data centers of brazil edit in 2014 equinix completed the acquisition of the brazilian company alog data center of brazil s.a. for 225 million . equinix had acquired a 53 % stake in alog in 2011 . by completing the acquisition of alog brazil s leading provider of carrier neutral data centers equinix increased its presence in latin america . 14 in march 2015 alog changed its name to equinix completing the merger of the brands . 15 data centers edit international business exchanges edit chairman peter van camp describes equinix international business exchanges ibxs as international airports where passengers from many different airlines make connections to get to their final destinations . 16 equinix ceo steve m. smith said the interconnection available within his company s broad data center footprint enables organizations to distribute it closer to employees customers and markets without having to build and manage the needed connectivity themselves . we spend a lot of capital to build these facilities and companies take advantage of it . 17 equinix ibxs peer ip traffic to over 90 % of the world s internet routes . their internet exchanges ixs route internet traffic between over 1 000 telecommunications networks worldwide . 18 19 cloud adoption has been consistently hindered by worries about data security . 20 equinix has worked to address those concerns by creating the equinix cloud exchange which allows organizations to directly connect to cloud providers inside its data centers rather than through connections established on the public internet . equinix describes the cloud exchange as a way to make the cloud elastic citing the exchange s ability to interconnect businesses to multiple cloud providers on demand and simultaneously which the company claims enables new efficiency and reduces complexity . 1 21 data center expansion in brazil edit in 2013 equinix still under the name of alog data centers of brazil launched its second data center in rio de janeiro and the fourth in the country . the initial investment was r 40 million brl and the new data center was the only one in the city to have tier iii certification . the data center had a projected area of 15 000 square meters for container data centers and antenna installer . 22 in 2014 the data center in tambor sp was the first in brazil to install a new cooling technology that takes advantage of free cooling used nine precision air conditioning units and was estimated to reduce the infrastructure energy costs by 30 % to 60 % . 23 in 2015 equinix doubled the capacity of its second data center in rio de janeiro with a 40 million investment in the second phase of construction . 24 data center ibx locations edit americas country data centers united states 49 ibxs brazil 4 ibxs canada 2 ibxs asia pacific country data centers australia 4 ibxs china 8 ibxs indonesia 1 ibxs japan 12 ibxs singapore 3 ibxs europe and middle east country data centers bulgaria 1 ibxs finland 6 ibxs france 7 ibxs germany 9 ibxs ireland 4 ibxs italy 3 ibxs netherlands 9 ibxs poland 2 ibxs sweden 3 ibxs switzerland 6 ibxs turkey 1 ibxs united arab emirates 1 ibxs united kingdom 11 ibxs see also edit cloud computing colocation centre data center internet exchange peering list of internet exchange points references edit a b cloud complexity simplified . the new york times . retrieved september 21 2015 . with performance hub equinix targets the enterprise . datacenter knowledge . 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www.prnewswire.com news releases european commission grants clearance for equinix offer to acquire telecity 300178445.html jamie davies 2016 07 06 . equinix sells off 8 data centres for 874m . retrieved 2016 07 26 . equinix completes alog takeover . data center dynamics . retrieved september 21 2015 . equinix seeing strong growth in brazil despite recession . 451research . com . 2016 04 21 . retrieved 2016 07 18 . entrevista com peter van camp . the wall street transcript . february 13 2006 equinix ceo sees further consolidation in the telecommunications space . the street . retrieved september 21 2015 . equinix internet exchange data sheet . equinix . retrieved september 21 2015 . expand your reach with platform equinix . . equinix . retrieved september 21 2015 . business trust in data security in the cloud at an all time low . global services . retrieved september 21 2015 . equinix to offer private links to google s public cloud . data center knowledge . retrieved september 21 2015 . 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