Equinix
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| Type: | Public, |
| Industry: | Internet, |
| Founded: | California, 1998 |
| Founder(s): | Jay Adelson & Al Avery |
| Headquarters: | One Lagoon Drive 4th Floor Redwood City, CA 94065 |
| Country: | USA |
| Employees: | 1921 as of Feb. 2011 |
| Revenue: | $1.2 billion as of 2010 [1] |
| Website: | http://www.equinix.com |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/Equinix |
| LinkedIn: | http://www.linkedin.com/company/equinix |
| Twitter: |  @http://twitter.com/equinix
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| Key People | |
| Stephen M. Smith CEO & President Keith D. Taylor, Chief Financial Officer | |
Equinix, Inc., is a company providing data center services for the protection and connection of information assets for various businesses such as content providers, financial companies, network service providers including cloud and IT services companies. It operates International Business Data (IBX) date centers within 35 markets across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.[2]
History
Jay Adelson and Al Avery founded Equinix, Inc. on June 22, 1998. Their idea was to provide physical interconnection between networks on the internet through a neutral party which they called Neutral Internet Exchange (NIX). The founders guiding principles were equality, neutrality and eliminating the middle man with a vision to unite major networks and interconnect content companies. The first IBX Data Center was opened in Ashburn Virginia on July 27, 1999.[3]