Equinix Expands Bare Metal as a Service to Melbourne
- By CDOTrends editors
- March 28, 2023
Equinix has launched a bare metal hub in Melbourne to complement an existing node in Sydney.
The initiative supports the increasing demand for a fully automated as-a-service infrastructure. The Equinix 2022 Global Tech Trends Survey shows that 72% of Australian businesses plan to expand into new markets over the next 12 months.
Further, almost half of the respondents (49%) said Melbourne is the most common market in Australia to have a presence in or plan to expand to within the next 12 months.
Guy Danskine, managing director of Equinix Australia, said a key advantage of Equinix Metal is that businesses can support expansion while reducing exposure to unnecessary CAPEX and labor costs.
He said Bare Metal enabled them to tap into Equinix’s digital infrastructure globally and leverage DevOps tools to deploy, maintain and scale their applications to create digital advantages through the world's largest interconnected technology ecosystem.
“With on-demand and flexible interconnectivity now available in both Sydney and Melbourne, businesses can instantly access dedicated compute capacity at software speed, automating interconnection and the foundational network infrastructure they need to support the transformation of their digital infrastructure,” Danskine said.
With the addition of Melbourne and Osaka in the Asia-Pacific, Equinix Metal is now available in 25 global metros areas.
These geographically dispersed, highly interconnected nodes enable businesses to access dedicated infrastructure at software speed, automating low latency interconnection and foundational network infrastructure that supports their businesses in a digitized world.
Equinix Metal enables enterprises to deploy automated, on-demand, interconnected bare metal infrastructure on Platform Equinix. Integrated with native access to Equinix Fabric, users can tap into low latency access to private and public cloud environments and thousands of IT and network providers to implement their customized hybrid multicloud architecture.
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