REDWOOD CITY, Calif. and MELBOURNE, Australia, March 24, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced that its first International Business Exchange(TM) (IBX®) in Melbourne is fully operational. This newest data center, called ME1, supports the strong demand for a premium data center facility in the Melbourne metropolitan area.

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Highlights / Key Facts


    --  In a recent survey, Dimensional Research found that 85 percent of
        Australian enterprises are planning to deploy to multiple clouds within
        the next 12 months, 77 percent of which will use clouds operating in
        more than one country(1). The opening of ME1 addresses this high demand
        for cloud services in Australia and allows businesses to leverage
        Equinix's network, content and cloud business ecosystems to rapidly
        accelerate the benefits of their cloud strategies.
    --  The opening of ME1 will further extend Platform Equinix(TM) to meet
        strong demand for premium interconnection and data center services in
        Melbourne and the region. This expansion is in line with the steady
        growth of the company's leading global interconnection platform, in
        which Equinix has invested more than US$7.5 billion over the last 15
        years.
    --  With an initial investment of $60M(2), which includes the cost of the
        land, the ME1 data center opens with 375 cabinets, with future expansion
        phases accommodating an additional 1,125 cabinets and a total of over
        105,000 square feet of floor space. The facility is Equinix's fourth
        data center in Australia, adding to the three facilities already
        operating in Sydney. This dual Sydney/Melbourne market presence further
        ensures high-performance, network reliability, redundancy, and
        low-latency.
    --  The ME1 IBX data center enables Melbourne businesses to connect with
        Equinix's network-dense ecosystem of more than 1,000 networks globally,
        130 of which are available in Australia. It provides customers with
        access to a large marketplace of over 4,800 potential customers and
        partners across more than 100 data centers worldwide, generating revenue
        opportunities and reducing time-to-market.
    --  ME1 opens with more than 40 new customers deployed, reflecting the
        strong demand for Equinix's data center and interconnection services.
        Customers include Bulletproof, CacheFly, Entrust ICT, Exigent, First
        Path, GCOMM, Micron21 Telecommunications, Telstra, Vocus, and Western
        Australian Internet Association (WAIA).
    --  Cloud and IT service providers account for a quarter of Equinix's
        business and are the fastest growing segment for the company. By housing
        IT infrastructure in ME1, businesses are able to expand their cloud and
        data capabilities rapidly as data consumption and content volume
        continue to increase.
    --  ME1 meets the LEED(®) (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)
        Green Building Rating System((TM)), a framework developed by the U.S.
        Green Building Council for identifying and implementing practical and
        measurable green building design, construction, operations and
        maintenance solutions. ME1 includes evaporative coolers to support low
        power usage effectiveness (PUE).
    --  ME1 is one of five new IBX data centers being opened by Equinix in early
        2015. Other locations include Singapore, London, Toronto and New York.
        Through these expansions, Equinix is playing a major role in advancing
        the digital economy's interconnected era, in which businesses are
        demanding increasing levels of interconnection to accelerate business
        performance.

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    --  The Hon. Paul Fletcher MP, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of
        Communications:"I congratulate Equinix on expanding their operations to
        Melbourne, and for their continuing investment in Australia. In the
        modern digital economy data centers are vital pieces of infrastructure,
        and this expansion is very much to be welcomed.  ME1 is an impressive
        facility which will offer new opportunities for companies to
        interconnect and in turn help to enrich Australia's digital economy."

    --  James Braunegg, managing director, Micron21 Telecommunications:"We
        extended our dark fiber network into ME1 as it offers Micron21 the
        ability to provide cost effective interconnections with just about any
        network provider, cloud service or company we choose to, should we need
        to.  Equinix's vast interconnection capability made ME1 the obvious
        choice. It's great to see this capability now available in Melbourne. We
        are very much looking forward to growing our services within ME1 and
        supporting the Equinix ecosystem."

    --  Jeremy Deutsch, managing director, Equinix Australia:"By opening ME1,
        our first International Business Exchange in Melbourne, this city's
        businesses can now choose more than just state-of-the-art
        carrier-neutral colocation space and carrier-dense interconnections. ME1
        provides our customers with access to Platform Equinix, where major
        networks, enterprises and business partners interconnect to each other
        at global scale."

Additional Resources - Previous Case Studies and Files + New Media Kit


    --  Press release: ME1 Sees Strong Momentum at First Melbourne Data Center
    --  Press release: Cloud365 Selects Equinix Data Center in Melbourne to
        Manage Expanding Cloud Demand in Australia
    --  Press release: National Voice Data Prepares for Cloud Growth by
        Expanding
    --  Press release: Telstra Continues Data Center Support with Equinix in
        Sydney and Melbourne
    --  ME1 Media Kit

About Equinix
 Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) connects the world's leading businesses to their customers, employees and partners inside the most interconnected data centers. In 33 markets across five continents, Equinix is where companies come together to realize new opportunities and accelerate their business, IT and cloud strategies. www.equinix.com

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, the challenges of acquiring, operating and constructing IBX centers and developing, deploying and delivering Equinix services; unanticipated costs or difficulties relating to the integration of companies we have acquired or will acquire into Equinix; a failure to receive significant revenue 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; and other risks described from time to time in Equinix's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In particular, see Equinix's recent quarterly and annual report s 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.

Equinix and IBX are registered trademarks of Equinix, Inc.
International Business Exchange is a trademark of Equinix, Inc.

(1) Cloud Adoption Study: Australia(
2) AU$66M as at 13 Jan 2014

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