Equinix Expands Private Network Access to Microsoft Azure in Six New Markets

Equinix, the world’s digital infrastructure company, announced that it has expanded private network access to Microsoft Azure via Azure ExpressRoute on Platform Equinix® to service customers in six new global markets.

These six markets include BERLIN, Bogotá, CANBERRA, DUBAI, Rio de Janeiro and SEOUL. The expanded service provides enterprises with direct, on-demand network access to a variety of Azure services, including Azure VMware Solution, which helps enterprises speed up their hybrid cloud transformations by moving or extending on-premises VMware environments to Azure.

Private cloud on-ramps to Azure ExpressRoute are now available in 32 Equinix metros with this expansion, further extending Equinix's position as one of the leading providers of Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute on-ramps in the world.

Enterprises today continue to digitally transform and shift to hybrid cloud architectures, therefore, private and secure connectivity to cloud service providers such as Microsoft Azure is vital for accelerating their journey to the cloud.

For businesses looking to migrate strategic legacy applications to the cloud, the expanded global availability of Azure VMware Solution via Platform Equinix can help simplify hybrid cloud deployments by seamlessly shifting on-premises, legacy workloads to the cloud with high-bandwidth and low-latency connectivity.

In addition, enterprises can further extend their global reach by remotely accessing Azure ExpressRoute cloud services via Equinix Fabric™. Through leveraging the interconnection capabilities of Equinix Fabric to privately connect to Azure services, companies can optimize the performance of their Azure VMware Solution environment on a global scale by minimizing network latency and bandwidth concerns from their hybrid cloud deployments.

In mid March, Fazzao has reported on Equinix annoucing changes to its Board of Directors​.