The colocation giant says the data centre expansion will boost demand in Perth and position it as the digital hub of the country's west coast.

The new facility will be the colocation giant's 16th in Australia and when fully complete will be its biggest in the country to date.

As part of its regional expansion, the company faced integration challenges due to the inheritance of disparate technology capabilities.

Equinix is adding 225 cabinets and more than 550 sqm of colocation space to its Perth data centre where the Australia Singapore Cable terminates.

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“As digital transformation intensifies, business possibilities have no limits and neither should an organisation's IT infrastructure.”

“Together with Equinix, we are making it easier for customers to extend their on-premises infrastructure to the Google Cloud Platform.”

Global interconnection and data center company Equinix has completed its acquisition of Metronode.

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"The “traditional” IT environment – centralized and siloed in a corporate data center – isn’t sustainable in a digital age."

“Although it’s potentially transformative, few vendors offer IBN and only about 50 large enterprises currently use IBN in production environments."

The international capacity deployed by companies such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Amazon rose 14-fold between 2012-2016.

Everyone wants to be digital; people want customer-facing apps that work seamlessly, and businesses want to operate digitally to remain relevant.

“Third-party data center providers are quickly expanding their service offerings and geographic footprint to meet customer demand.”

The lucrative prospects of data centers are increasingly attracting new players in Asia.

The cable will enhance connectivity between Australia and Singapore, especially considering Singapore is Australia’s 5th largest trading partner.

Equinix is partnering with SAP to deliver direct and private access to the SAP Cloud portfolio from multiple global locations, including Sydney.

While we might be seen as the ‘land down under’ to the rest of the world, in reality, Australia is right in the heart of activity.

The investment is the latest in a series of expansions for Equinix in APAC, with other recent expansions in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Singapore.

67% of the Australian organisations surveyed are embracing cloud, using public or private cloud for more than one or two applications or workloads.

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“This helps give peace of mind to companies that are used to running on-premise data centres."

"The Equinix campus enables us to continue to build the most compelling solutions for our customers.”