REDWOOD
CITY, Calif., Dec. 19,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq:
EQIX), the world's digital infrastructure company®,
announced today a private AI solution that lets businesses train AI
models in scalable, cost-efficient public and private clouds while
ensuring enhanced control, security and low-latency deployment
on-premises.
Equinix International Business Exchange™ (IBX ®) data
centers leverage the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA to offer a
portfolio of products, solutions and services in a neutral,
cloud-adjacent platform where customers can securely and
cost-effectively connect to public clouds, colocation facilities,
and their own private cloud and on-premises infrastructure.
The Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA combines Dell PowerEdge XE9680
servers with NVIDIA accelerated computing, the NVIDIA Spectrum-X
Ethernet platform, NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs, Dell PowerScale F710
storage and the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform. This
solution will be available at any of Equinix's 260+ AI-ready data
centers and is supported by industry-leading interconnection
offerings such as Equinix Fabric ®, helping customers
get real-time insights and accelerate AI innovation.
"At Equinix, we are committed to providing our customers with
cutting-edge AI infrastructure that meets the highest standards of
performance, security and sustainability," said Lisa Miller, Senior Vice President, Platform
Alliances at Equinix. "Our collaboration with Dell Technologies and
NVIDIA enables enterprises to harness the power of generative AI
while maintaining control over their data and supporting their
corporate sustainability goals. This solution is designed to
support the most demanding AI workloads and help ensure our
customers can innovate and drive outcomes."
"Working with Equinix allows us to deliver the Dell AI Factory
with NVIDIA and meet the evolving needs of enterprises and our
partner community," said Chad Dunn,
Vice President of Product Management, AI and Data Management at
Dell Technologies. "Our combined expertise in high performance
computing, advanced cooling and efficient infrastructure helps
ensure that customers can deploy and scale AI workloads securely
and more sustainably. This collaboration empowers organizations to
leverage the full potential of generative AI while maintaining
control over their data and addressing sustainability goals."
Implementing the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA has helped
customers realize impactful results, such as in the healthcare
industry where streamlining radiology reports has allowed for more
focus on patient care, in manufacturing where predictive
maintenance and quality control has enhanced operational
efficiency, and in retail with personalized customer experiences
and optimized inventory management.
"Understanding and applying generative AI in the enterprise
requires a deep technical knowledge base, and many organizations
struggle to keep up with the rapid pace of the ever-evolving
landscape," said Mike Leone,
Practice Director, Data Management, Analytics & AI at
Enterprise Strategy Group. "In a recent ESG study, 91% of
organizations agree that working with partners has helped them see
value from generative AI more quickly than expected. This
collaboration between Equinix and Dell Technologies lets
organizations efficiently deploy cutting edge AI technologies in
some of the most advanced, high performance data centers in the
world."
Equinix's secure and sustainable network of IBX data centers
provides a global portfolio of partners and service providers that
offers seamless access to a broad range of interconnectivity
options for enterprises to integrate and scale their IT
infrastructure quickly and efficiently. The ecosystem allows
companies to connect with multiple cloud providers, network
services and technology partners in a secure, scalable, low-latency
environment, enhancing performance, flexibility and collaboration
across regions and industries.
Dell's collaboration with Equinix adds value to the Dell AI
Factory with NVIDIA by leveraging Equinix's extensive network of
data centers and digital infrastructure:
- High Performance AI-Ready Data Centers: Equinix's
network of AI-ready data centers with 99.999% uptime, advanced
cooling and robust inter-connectivity.
- Global Reach and Local Compliance: 260+ data centers
across 70+ metros, ensuring data is close to where it is generated
and used, while maintaining predictable infrastructure costs.
- Platform Neutrality and Flexibility: Equinix's private
and highly scalable interconnection enables secure data transfer
across an ecosystem of 10,000 enterprises, including over 2,000
networks and 3,000 cloud and IT service providers.
- Sustainability: Equinix is committed to delivering
digital infrastructure more sustainably, achieving 96% renewable
energy coverage across its data centers globally (with 100%
renewable energy coverage in the Americas and EMEA).
- Data Privacy and Security: secure, private
infrastructure with full control and access to the lineage of AI
models on privately hosted GPUs and interconnection.
Availability
The Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA deployed at Equinix is available
globally today. To learn more, visit the Equinix webpage.
About Equinix
Equinix (Nasdaq: EQIX) is the
world's digital infrastructure company®. Digital leaders
harness Equinix's trusted platform to bring together and
interconnect foundational infrastructure at software speed. Equinix
enables organizations to access all the right places, partners and
possibilities to scale with agility, speed the launch of digital
services, deliver world-class experiences and multiply their value,
while supporting their sustainability goals.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release
contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and
uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from
expectations discussed in such forward-looking statements. Factors
that might cause such differences include, but are not limited to,
risks to our business and operating results related to the current
inflationary environment; foreign currency exchange rate
fluctuations; increased costs to procure power and the general
volatility in the global energy market; the challenges of
acquiring, operating and constructing IBX® and
xScale® data centers and developing, deploying and
delivering Equinix products and solutions; unanticipated costs or
difficulties relating to the integration of companies we have
acquired or will acquire into Equinix; a failure to receive
significant revenues from customers in recently built out or
acquired data centers; failure to complete any financing
arrangements contemplated from time to time; competition from
existing and new competitors; the ability to generate sufficient
cash flow or otherwise obtain funds to repay new or outstanding
indebtedness; the loss or decline in business from our key
customers; risks related to our taxation as a REIT and other risks
described from time to time in Equinix filings with the Securities
and Exchange Commission. In particular, see recent and upcoming
Equinix quarterly and annual reports filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, copies of which are available upon request
from Equinix. Equinix does not assume any obligation to update the
forward-looking information contained in this press
release.
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