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New Equinix President and CEO Charles Meyers talks strategy going forward

September 12, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on New Equinix President and CEO Charles Meyers talks strategy going forward
Equinix names company veteran Meyers, most recently their President of Strategy, Services and Innovation, as President and CEO. He talks with ChannelBuzz about the opportunities he sees in the market, and how the company can best leverage them, including how their channel fits in.

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Equinix Canada leader Eppich bullish on prospects for 2018

January 15, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Equinix Canada leader Eppich bullish on prospects for 2018
Andrew Eppich, Managing Director at Equinix Canada, thinks that the trends in the economy intersect well with Equinix’s Canadian channel strategy and recent global initiatives.

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Equinix leverages AWS relationship in ambitious strategy to link data centres

December 4, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Equinix leverages AWS relationship in ambitious strategy to link data centres
Last week’s announcements of an expanded relationship between AWS and Equinix are fundamental to a new strategy announcement that will [eventually] enable organizations to make connections between Equinix IBX data centres.

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Equinix seeking to expand partner sales with interconnect story

May 1, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Equinix seeking to expand partner sales with interconnect story
Equinix’s business has moved far beyond providing data centre power and space, and as their channel grows, they want it to be able to blend Equinix interconnect capabilities with their own solutions offerings.

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Equinix, Arrow partner to offer preconfigured hybrid cloud packages

July 8, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Equinix, Arrow partner to offer preconfigured hybrid cloud packages
The turnkey solutions are expected to build up Equinix’s base of MSP and VAR partners, something that has been a focus for the company this year. Equinix is especially interested in partners with strong Microsoft practices.

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Equinix adds first partner training programs as company restructures to strengthen channel

March 21, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Equinix adds first partner training programs as company restructures to strengthen channel
Ex-Rackspace channel chief Chris Rajiah also indicated that following a broad recruitment effort last year, which included mainly agents and referral partners, Equinix is focusing on adding key resellers this year, especially top Microsoft partners.

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Pure Storage unveils FlashBlade all-flash platform for petabyte-scale unstructured data

March 14, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pure Storage unveils FlashBlade all-flash platform for petabyte-scale unstructured data
In addition to the FlashBlade, which becomes Pure’s new high end offering, the company also introduced the FlashArray//m10, a new entry level extension, to its FlashArray//m family, as well as several new FlashStack converged infrastructure solutions.

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Equinix adds new global partner program in move to channel-friendly model

March 17, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Equinix adds new global partner program in move to channel-friendly model
Equinix expects that the new program, designed to end channel conflict and properly reward partners, will attract new partners and significantly raise channel revenues.