Equinix unveils fully automated and interconnected bare metal service
Equinix , a digital infrastructure
company , has announced the availability of Equinix Metal , a fully automated and interconnected bare metal service . Equinix Metal provides digital businesses with an automated , as-a-Service deployment method to build their foundational infrastructure and take advantage of the global reach , interconnected ecosystems and trusted partners available on Platform Equinix . Equinix Metal is available in Equinix International Business Exchange ( IBX ) data centres across four global metros ( Amsterdam , New York , Silicon Valley and Washington , D . C .) and is expected to be available in 14 global metros by early 2021 .
With this new service , companies have the option to deploy the physical infrastructure of their choice at software speed across Equinix ’ s trusted platform . Together with other digital infrastructure building blocks in the Equinix portfolio , customers now have a broad range of physical and virtual deployment alternatives to place infrastructure wherever they need it and connect to everything they need to succeed . to help more companies gain digital advantage . By combining Packet ’ s expertise in API-first , hardware automation and provisioning with Equinix ’ s global reach , interconnection prowess and proximity to valuable ecosystems , Equinix Metal offers a powerful infrastructure building block on which digital leaders can deploy and scale their preferred infrastructure with agility and confidence .
Raj Dutt , Founder and CEO , Grafana Labs , said : “ Grafana provides its missioncritical observability platform to the largest companies in the world . By deploying Grafana Cloud on Equinix Metal and adding direct , private connectivity through Equinix Fabric , our customers can more easily and securely interact with their metrics , logs and dashboards across on-prem , public or private cloud or at the edge .”
Chris Wright , Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer , Red Hat , said : “ Red Hat has championed an industry vision for open hybrid cloud architectures , with a consistent foundation from bare metal to virtualised infrastructures and the cloud , enabling customers to truly build any app anywhere . Collaborating with partners like Equinix to help enable our customers ’ hybrid cloud success is a key part of that vision , which is why we are pleased to be working with it to deliver Red Hat OpenShift on the Equinix Metal service .”
Mark Bowker , Senior Analyst , ESG , said : “ With COVID-19 , we ’ ve seen enterprises accelerate their Digital Transformation plans from years to months . Today ’ s digital leaders are increasingly gaining a competitive advantage by leveraging infrastructure choices that meet their exact needs and can be deployed globally and interconnected . By augmenting its portfolio of foundational services with high-performance , fully automated compute , the addition of Equinix Metal can help digital businesses extract greater value from Platform Equinix ’ s rich ecosystems and global interconnection fabric and rapidly deploy the physical infrastructure of their choice .” ◊
Featuring native integration with Equinix Cloud Exchange Fabric , which has been renamed Equinix Fabric , Equinix Metal helps enterprises seamlessly deploy hybrid multi-cloud architectures and quickly access thousands of networks , enterprises and clouds on Platform Equinix . By delivering high-performance dedicated servers in minutes via popular developer tools in both on-demand and reserved models , Equinix Metal helps businesses extract greater value from Platform Equinix ’ s rich ecosystems more quickly , more easily and in more places than ever before .
Building upon the recent acquisition of Packet – as well as technologies developed at Equinix – the addition of Equinix Metal expands Equinix ’ s ability intelligent INFRASTRUCTURE www . intelligentdatacentres . com Issue 22
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