Equinix
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]
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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 | |
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]
Company Growth & Expansion
In order to attract networks, Equinix management used "match making" with content companies. AT & T and UUNet were the first two major networks interconnected using IBX Data Center, seven major companies followed and established a Point of Presence (PoP) in the company's data centers between 1999-2000. By August 2000, Equinix Initial Public Offering (IPO) raised over $270 million.[4]
On December On Dec. 31, Equinix acquired i-STT, a subsidiary of Singapore Technologies Telemedia which provides internet infrastructure services and Pihana Pacific, a data hosting and Web connection centers operator in Honolulu. [5]