GXI

Key workloads are shifting to the cloud-enabled edge, meeting the digital demands of today’s users. Stay competitive and gain advantage by creating infrastructure that reacts quickly to business anomalies, providing faster and more agile set of services.

IDC TECHNOLOGY SPOTLIGHT, SPONSORED BY EQUINIX, TAKING DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE TO THE NEXT LEVEL TO ACCELERATE THE DIGITAL ECONOMY IN IRELAND

GXI 2024

Reimagine your value proposition in the digital economy

The current year's GXI report reveals the rapid growth of the digital economy, with a growing marketplace of consumers and producers, and digital ecosystem expansion across all industries.

• As more workloads shift to the cloud-enabled edge, GXI allows you to gain competitive advantage with infrastructure that reacts fast to business anomalies.
• Key workloads are shifting to the cloud-enabled edge, meeting the digital demands of today’s users. Stay competitive and gain advantage by creating infrastructure that reacts quickly to business anomalies, providing faster and more agile set of services.

This IDC Technology Spotlight provides an overview of the current economic and digital challenges that enterprises in Ireland face and investigates how leading organisations are embracing hybrid and multicloud strategies to build business resilience and accelerate digital transformation.

Further, this study explores the central role of the digital data centre in building a ‘future-proof’ digital enterprise and how this will evolve into a more distributed and fluid digital infrastructure layer that interconnects digital platforms and ecosystems to enable digital innovation.

RETAIL

Retail organisations will learn how they can leverage a marketplace of ecosystems (cloud, financial, advertising, social, mobile) to offer compelling new sales capabilities and experiences.

TRANSPORTATION

Get the playbook that outlines how transportation industry leaders can more proactively solve supply chain inefficiencies and deliver a better customer experience, while lowering costs. See how industry leaders can leverage interconnection and collocation (control points) to exchange traffic at the digital edge.

MANUFACTURING

Get the playbook that outlines how manufacturing industry leaders can be more proactive in solving supply chain inefficiencies, lowering costs and delivering greater consumer customisation and servitisation.

ZOOM

See how leading video communications provider, Zoom, expanded its Australia footprint to deliver top-quality conferencing services to its customers with Platform Equinix® and Equinix Cloud Exchange Fabric™.

BASE MEDIA CLOUD

BASE Media Cloud, which tailors cloud solutions for digital media companies, had to scale its services so consumers could get content when they wanted, wherever they wanted it. BASE needed reliability, security, high speed and low latency to satisfy its customers. With Platform Equinix®, BASE got speed, security and efficiency by seamlessly connecting to multiple cloud services together via their own cloud gateway network.

DVSA

Learn how the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA), a UK government organization, chooses an interconnection strategy with Equinix Cloud Exchange Fabric™ (ECX Fabric™) as it moves services to the cloud, cutting latency by two-thirds and slashing time from months to hours to add new connections.

SYSCO

BASE Sysco built a high-speed network backbone on Platform Equinix® to more cost-effectively interconnect its multiple U.S. data centers and leverage a dense network peering ecosystem. It also leveraged the Equinix Cloud Exchange Fabric™ as a hybrid/multicloud gateway for its server/application migration and data analytics in the cloud.

TRIVAGO

When trivago GmbH needed a data centre to launch its website, they chose Equinix for its security, affordability, reliability, scalability, global presence and professionalism. Now, years later, the company guarantees high-quality service to its customers and it enjoys low operating costs, rapid scaling without downtime and competitive advantages.

CANCER INSTITUTE SUCCESS STORY

Children's Cancer Institute is the only independent medical research institute in Australia wholly dedicated to childhood cancer. Partnering with Optus for their managed services capabilities in Australia, their presence in the Sydney IBX provides an interconnection platform that enables a secure, reliable, cloud adjacent architecture, and private connectivity to AWS, Azure and Google for high speed and complex genomic profiling. These solutions support their Zero Childhood Cancer Initiative.

IDC MARKETSPACE

IDC recognized Equinix as a leader in colocation and interconnection services in this inaugural IDC MarketScape report. Read this competitive assessment of nine interconnection and colocation service vendors to complement your understanding of key benefits of critical infrastructure provider Equinix.

GXI

The key findings in the third annual Global Interconnection Index (the GXI Vol. 3), published by Equinix, give you an insider’s view of trends driving the growth of leading digital economies and what’s accelerating that growth. You can benchmark your digital strategy as you learn how leading organizations are creating an advantage for their digital business using interconnection. It outlines the 5 IT transformational steps that digital leaders are taking to achieve a digital-ready infrastructure and helps you determine the next steps to achieve digital transformation.

SPARK SYSTEM CUSTOMER STORY

Spark Systems provides foreign FX trading platforms and serves the USD600 billion daily transactions in Singapore and Asia. By leveraging Platform Equinix to support their trading platform and connecting to other key locations, it has since significantly improved trading latency from 360 milliseconds to 1 millisecond.

ZOOM

Leading video communications provider, Zoom, expands its Australia footprint to deliver top-quality conferencing services to its customers with Platform Equinix® and ECX Fabric.

SENNHEISER CUSTOMER STORY

Sennheiser leverages Platform Equinix® to bring its business communications products into Asia. The global footprint enables Sennheiser to expand its business anywhere across the region, while future-proofing its roadmap for innovation and improving customer experience.