Stack Group today announced that it and Equinix, Inc., the global interconnection and data center company, have entered into a Reseller Agreement that allows Stack Group to offer IT infrastructure hosting services in Equinix’s 145 data centers owned by Equinix and located in 20 countries all over the world. This is a completely new type of service for Russia and the CIS.
The new wider interconnection capabilities provide Russian companies with an opportunity to expand their business geographically and place their IT infrastructure in close proximity to their globally distributed sites resulting in accelerated business processes and growing business efficiency. At the same time, customers will be able to receive the first-line technical support in Russia administered by Stack Group's Russian speaking professionals.
Eric Saillard, EMEA Director of Channel Sales and Alliances of Equinix, said - “At Equinix, we are seeing an increasing number of enterprises looking to broaden their global reach by leveraging the full scale of Platform Equinix. As a result, enterprises located in strategically important geographies can utilize Equinix data centers to re-architect their IT infrastructure to interconnect people, clouds and data. This agreement between Stack Group and Equinix will allow enterprises to benefit from reduced network costs, increased access to cloud providers and a more consistent network experience.”
"Last year, Stack Group implemented an interconnection project between Stack Group M1 data center in Moscow and two Equinix data centers in Frankfurt and Amsterdam. It allows international customers to place their information systems in Russia meeting the Russian legislation personal data processing requirements. And today we are expanding our partnership with Equinix to bring new services for companies interested in growing its own IT infrastructure overseas. In particular, information systems located abroad a strategically important for globally distributed companies", - says Alexey Danilyants, CEO of Stack Group.
Equinix is a multi-network provider with over a thousand telecommunications network operators worldwide. In 2015, Equinix data centers provided average uptime of >99.9999%. Customers, who place their equipment in any Equinix data center, are provided with an access to a network of vendors, network operators, service companies, cloud service providers etc.
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