IDG Contributor Network: Rackspace jumps on Equinix interconnect bandwagon
Increasingly there is agreement that the future of enterprise IT, at least for most large organizations, is a hybrid model whereby enterprises leverage not only their existing, legacy infrastructures but also a cloud of all flavors - public and private. At the same time organizations will increasingly move up the stack and not only leverage raw infrastructure, but also embrace platform-level services.
In this hybrid world, there is an important role to play by vendors that help ease the connections between these varying types of infrastructure. Equinix, the global data center operator, has been leveraging its scale and resource-base to offer these sorts of services. Since Equinix already hosts a huge number of enterprise customers, has existing relationships with most of the public cloud vendors and also has the benefit of having massive private networks to use, it can offer compelling solutions.
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