C&W teams with Equinix to offer cloud services worldwide

Stuart Corner
Friday, 13 January 2012 16:07

C&W Worldwide has partnered with data centre operator Equinix to expand its cloud computing service - presently available only in the UK - to customers around the world.

The company says it is collaborating with Equinix "to become a one-stop shop for global enterprises that require best-of-breed data centre services'¦such as co-location, managed hosting and cloud computing services'¦Enterprise customers can expect a complete approach to service management with a single point of accountability for the company's network and hosted computing infrastructure."

Nick Lambert, managing director, wholesale, mid-markets and global markets, at C&W Worldwide, said: "Equinix is the ideal company for us to collaborate with because its footprint of data centres closely aligns with our global network. Both companies share a complementary vision to deliver reliable, on-demand services that will enable some of the largest organisations to transit into a world-class cloud computing and communications environment."

Equinix President, Asia Pacific, Samuel Lee, added: "C&W Worldwide has access to our global platform of 99 data centres, while customers have a broad choice of best-in-class network providers to meet their telecommunications needs."

Gartner predicts that, by 2015, 50 percent of Global 1000 enterprises will rely on external cloud-computing services for their top 10 revenue-generating processes.