Equinix Partners With Aviatrix on High-Performance Encryption
- By CDOTrends editors
- January 17, 2023
Digital infrastructure provider Equinix is collaborating with cloud provider Aviatrix to provide high-performance encryption for enterprise environments.
The two companies are collaborating to deliver the Aviatrix Edge software across more than 25 of Equinix’s global business exchange data centers.
The combined solution, which leverages Equinix's Network Edge and Equinix Fabric, delivers the highest-performance encrypted connection to the cloud to deliver multicloud visibility.
The solution is likely attractive to regulated entities, such as large financial institutions, which need extra layers of security in their cloud environments.
The solution is based on Equinix’s Network Edge technology and uses software to spin up services from Aviatrix across the Equinix Fabric environment and into the cloud.
“Say I want to deploy the Aviatrix Edge. That will spin up the service in [Equinix’s] data center on their platform and then connect to Aviatrix in the cloud and provide that high-performance encryption,” said Aviatrix vice president of solutions marketing Rod Stuhlmuller. “It takes a few minutes. You spin it up, and the connectivity is there.”
He said many customers needed operational models which spanned on-prem and the cloud, and the collaboration enabled consistency in the operating model across both environments.
The solution allows Aviatrix Edge software, deployed on a Network Edge instance, to encrypt traffic over Equinix high-performance private cloud networking services at up to 10 Gbps connection speeds.
Leveraging Equinix Fabric, customers can access thousands of clouds and networks, including Amazon Web Services (AWS) Direct Connect, Azure ExpressRoute and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Cloud Interconnect.
"We see Enterprise customers moving to an interconnection-oriented architecture that allows them to take advantage of rich network and cloud ecosystems and move applications and workloads across private, public and hybrid cloud deployments," said Zachary Smith, global head of edge infrastructure services at Equinix.
"With Aviatrix Edge software now integrated as a native option on Network Edge, customers can quickly spin up robust, encrypted multicloud connectivity in minutes and gain visibility and security controls that are critical for hybrid cloud deployments."
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