Equinix stories - Page 11

Ensuring Personal Information Protection (PIP) and privacy is a world and industry-wide concern among enterprises and service providers alike.

Machine learning is pivotal in AI, enhancing decision-making in robotics and enterprise applications alike. Major firms are integrating sophisticated AI tools.

These and other digital business models are predominately based on data exchanges, which are now a pre-requisite for doing digital business at scale.

Any Equinix customer will be able to request connections to any of the more than 1,000 participants on ECX Fabric today.

While digital creates new possibilities across all industries, it also poses a big challenge to traditional IT models.

Trying to predict how many IOT devices will go online over the next decade is like trying to predict the growth rate of rabbits in the wild.

Equinix highlights the rise of private blockchains, AI's mainstream breakthrough, and IoT's edge computing needs among its eight IT predictions for 2018.

Urbanization is named in the Index as a key driver of Interconnection demand globally, and it's a huge factor in Interconnection demand in APAC.

Equinix pioneers distributed data repositories at the edge, addressing the exponential data growth and performance issues of centralised data centres.

Interconnection is the enabler for new opportunities between businesses and greater innovation when leveraging new digital technologies.

The rise of IoT has resulted in unprecedented data demands, and the Internet's current infrastructure is struggling to keep up.

As more IT infrastructure gets built and in-region policies become more business-friendly, interconnection growth is expected to accelerate.

Partners are playing a fundamental role in transforming a business, enabling it to expand beyond colocation and interconnection.

Increasingly, workloads are migrating to various clouds and to the digital edge - where commerce, population centers and digital ecosystems meet.

Equinix reports a seismic shift in enterprise data architecture, moving from centralised data centres to the edge, spiking Interconnection Bandwidth demand.

Digital trade, powered by high-speed fiber optics, is transforming global commerce with unparalleled velocity and connectivity.

Enterprises are increasingly selecting individual cloud service providers for specific workloads, driving the need for inter-multicloud interconnection.

Currently, Equinix operates more than 180 data centers across five continents that service over 9,500 companies.

The cable will enhance connectivity between Australia and Singapore, especially considering Singapore is Australia's 5th largest trading partner.

The Asia Pacific region is expected to grow more than fourfold between 2016 and 2020, making it the second fastest growing region after Latin America.