5 Equinix

Founded in 1998

CEO: Charles J. Meyers http://www. equinix.com https://www.linkedin. com/ company/ equinix/

A key player for 25 years, Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company, enabling digital leaders to harness a trusted platform to bring together and interconnect the foundational infrastructure that powers its success.

Headquartered in Redwood City, California, the multinational company specialises in internet connection and data centres.

The company is a leader in global colocation data centre market share, with 248 data centres in 27 countries on five continents. Equinix enables today’s businesses to access all the right places, partners and possibilities they need to accelerate advantage. With Equinix, they can scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences and multiply their value. Equinix interconnects industry-leading organisations such as finance, manufacturing, retail, transportation, government, healthcare and education across a digital-first world.

Equinix was founded in Silicon Valley in 1998 as a vendor-neutral multi-tenant data centre provider where competing networks could securely connect and share data traffic.

Through Platform Equinix and its ecosystem of leading service providers, digital leaders fast-track competitive advantage across clouds, networking, storage, compute and software. CEO Charles Meyers says Equinix has “an unwavering commitment to become the trusted centre of a cloud-first world” and highlights how its team of more than 11,800 of the industry’s most talented workforce enables Equinix’s success. “The future beckons with opportunities, and Equinix will be where these opportunities connect.”