Equinix and IBM are collaborating to help customers and partners integrate multiple cloud solutions in hybrid environments, solve digital transformation challenges, automate time-consuming work, and simplify collaboration.
Together, we are working to make it easier for our joint customers to access IBM Cloud services from their digital infrastructures on Platform Equinix worldwide via direct and secure interconnection of hybrid IT infrastructures. IBM Cloud Satellite can be deployed to 260 Equinix edge data centers across 62 metros with Equinix Fabric, helping enterprises connect to IBM Cloud from their physical or digital infrastructures. Equinix Fabric is software-defined interconnection designed for companies to connect to IBM Cloud — including in metros with no native IBM Cloud Direct Link presence.
Further, it is also designed to enable IBM users to connect other cloud or SaaS providers in an integrated hybrid multicloud architecture. Equinix and IBM are working to help enterprises accelerate their hybrid cloud journeys. Equinix Metal is now certified to run IBM and Red Hat applications, with an initial focus on Red Hat OpenShift, delivered via IBM Cloud Satellite. Equinix Metal, the automated, interconnected bare metal-as-a-service (BMaaS), is available in Equinix International Business Exchanges (IBX) around the world.
IBM Cloud Satellite brings IBM Cloud services securely to any environment where data resides – whether at the edge, on premises, or on other public clouds. It is designed to enable clients to access cloud services with consistency and security across any environment, meeting them wherever the data resides. A driving force behind our collaboration on hybrid multicloud infrastructure is the shift we are seeing from cloud-only deployments to hybrid and multicloud strategies.
