VMware and Equinix Global Cloud Services Partnership Expands

VMware and Equinix are expanding their global partnership to deliver new digital infrastructure and multicloud services. VMware Cloud on Equinix Metal, announced at VMware Explore Europe 2022, is a new distributed cloud service set to have a more performant, secure, and cost-effective cloud option supporting enterprise applications.

VMware and Equinix are expanding their global partnership to deliver new digital infrastructure and multicloud services. VMware Cloud on Equinix Metal, announced at VMware Explore Europe 2022, is a new distributed cloud service set to have a more performant, secure, and cost-effective cloud option supporting enterprise applications.

VMware Cloud on Equinix Metal combines VMware-managed and supported Cloud infrastructure-as-a-service with Equinix’s interconnected, bare-metal-as-a-service offering. The service will extend customers’ cloud environments into distributed metro locations to meet business-critical performance demands at the edge while enabling them to preserve the integrity of enterprise workloads.

The new service addresses the demands of applications where latency, performance, security, and data locality are key drivers. Applications that fit into the category include smart cities, video analytics, game development, real-time financial market trading, retail POS, and other use cases using IoT and ML/Inference.

Narayan Bharadwaj, Vice President, Cloud Solutions at VMware, said:

“Businesses across industries are seeking to become Cloud smart by matching enterprise application needs to the best cloud environments. This approach will enable them to benefit from high performance and consistent infrastructure with low TCO. VMware and Equinix are uniquely positioned to co-innovate on a distributed cloud service that extends VMware Cloud to new locations to provide application choice and flexibility and accelerate cloud transformation for all enterprises. Research shows customers can reduce TCO by as much as 67 percent with VMware Cloud.”

VMware Cloud on Equinix Metal will provide private, low-latency access to private and public cloud environments via Equinix Fabric interconnection. The service includes VMware Cloud for consistent multi-cloud infrastructure and operations, along with Equinix Metal, an automated bare metal and interconnection offering delivered as a service across the Equinix global International Business Exchange (IBX) footprint.

Zachary Smith, Global Head of Edge Infrastructure Services at Equinix, said:

“As companies accelerate their digital transformation by adopting hybrid multi-cloud architectures, they require consistent application experiences that span private and public clouds and reach from the core to the edge. We are pleased to partner with VMware to provide an on-demand, dedicated cloud infrastructure solution that can be deployed globally. Customers benefit from secure connections to their critical private or on-prem environments and also to the thousands of clouds, networks, and other ecosystem participants that come together at Equinix.”

Cloud-Smart Innovation

For almost a decade, Equinix and VMware have been delivering solutions that meet business demands for fast, secure, and consistent multi-cloud infrastructure. Mutual customers are accelerating their enterprise cloud transformation by running VMware workloads in Equinix International Business Exchange (IBX) data centers globally.

Equinix owns and operates a network of more than 240 IBX data centers in 70 major metro areas worldwide and serves as a transit hub, enabling secure network connections across private and public clouds. VMware Cloud is the industry’s first and only multi-cloud infrastructure (IaaS) service that runs as a native service in more than 100 regions spanning major public clouds and over 4,000 partner clouds, in private data centers, and at the edge.

VMware has a brief demo on YouTube to learn more.

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