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2014 Equinix Inc. www.equinix.com
Rising Above The Cloud
Future Proofing Your Key Tech Assets
Eric M. Hui | Director Service Provider Markets
Asia Pacific
Sep, 2014

2014 Equinix Inc. www.equinix.com 2
IT Mega Trends

Enterprise Cloud Surveys
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
2013 2018
Public
Hybrid
Private
No Plans 4%
Single Public 13%
Single Private 9%
Multi-Cloud 74%
Cloud Environments
Multiple Private 11%
Multiple Public 15%
Hybrid Cloud 48%
Respondents: 855
enterprises with >
1000 employees
Source: NorthBridge Venture Partners and Bain Analysis Source: Rightscale State of the Cloud Report, 2014

Global Public Cloud Market Size is
Growing 14% Annually
2012 2016
Management & Security
IaaS
PaaS
~$110B
~$212B
More Choices in a Growing Cloud Provider Market
Cloud is an essential ingredient for participating in the
next 20 years of growth and innovationin the IT
industry, as well as every industry that depends on IT
Gartner (Feb 2013)
Gartner MQ IaaS May 2014

2014 Equinix Inc. www.equinix.com
Architecting Data Center a Strategic Asset
1. De-risk Technology Investments Needs a data center platform that:
Provides stability & reliability, allowing customer IT staff to focus on core
functions
Provides choice Clouds, Networks (incl. mobile) & ISVs to build business
solutions
Implementation of hybrid architecture that facilitates secure access to Clouds
over private networks
Facilitates exit strategies & keeping data accessible
Address corporate compliance & industry regulatory requirements
2. Establish Infrastructure Reliability Leveraging vendors highly redundant infrastructure design that allows concurrent
maintainability and operational track records
3. Scalability to address growth Leveraging scale provided by vendors for cloud & data center services
Future proofing Technology Roadmap

Roadmap for Hybrid & Multi with Cloud Exchange
Data Centres (Colocation &
Internal)
Servers Firewall,
IDS/IPS
Network
Solutions
Data Storage
Applications services
Analytics & Reporting
Security services, ISV solutions
Private infrastructure enables exit strategy and develop core architecture under customers control
Private & secure access to cloud vs. over Internet
Interconnection (private & secure access to public clouds vs. over the Internet) strategy drives application
performance
AWS / Microsoft Azure
ExpressRoute
Server w/OS
instances
CDNs, Internet
access
Database
instances
Public
P
A
A
S
Hyb
rid
So
luti
on
PRIVATE environment
Having control over
Customers corporate data,
hosted in a secure &
reliable facility
Total SLA (service chain) = Colocation services + network services + Private Multi-Cloud services +
SaaS business solutions Service Chain
PUBLIC environment
Choice & ability to
leverage right vendors for
developing business
solutions on virtual
infrastructure
I
A
A
S
S
A
A
S
ECX EIE
Public
INTERNET
Telco Networks
Aggregator or
Enterprise

Vision of Equinix Cloud Exchange A network is as elastic as the cloud services it enables
Provide differentiated value to the CSP / NSP / ENT Enterprise: Seamless access to the multi-cloud, multi-network
Cloud Provider: Access to the enterprise globally and right NSP for delivery
Network Provider: Access to ecosystem of margin-rich services from the CSP
API will create a new
service creation
environment
Seamless intelligent
interconnection Mapping of multiple
resources within
a single VLAN

Equinix Cloud Exchange
An Ethernet switching service that enables private virtual connections for direct cloud access with automated provisioning
Benefits
One to many virtual connections to
multiple cloud providers
Direct, secure, private connection
Automated, near real-time
provisioning
Consistent throughput and low
latency
Cost-effective
Flexible connectivity options
Features
Layer 2 Ethernet service
200M, 500M, 1G virtual
connections on 1GB or 10GB
physical ports
99.999% High availability platform
19 Global markets supported
Integrated APIs and Portal

Enabling Enterprise Cloud Workload Connectivity Latency & Throughput-sensitive, Control & Security-Oriented Enterprise Applications
Control & Security-oriented
Disaster Recovery
Compliant Data
Unified Communications
Storage, backup, and recovery
BI/big data Dev/test lab Hybrid apps Media Productivity apps
Workloads Addressed
Latency & Throughput-sensitive
Virtual Desktop
Service Chaining
Big Data, Business Intelligence &
Data Store
Transient and Short-term
Development/Test
Hybrid apps

APIs and Portal Making direct access to the cloud easy, real-time and scalable
APIs Cloud Exchange Portal
Leverages Ethernet Exchange platform and expertise
Equinix manages API mapping sparing customers from
reacting to multiple API updates
Normalized interface
Uses APIgee enterprise-grade API Management
End Customer Process
1. Select location and cloud provider
2. Select virtual circuit speed
3. Enter cloud service key or service identifier
4. Virtual circuit provisioned in 5 minutes
NSP-
facing
API
Cloud Service
Provider NSP CSP-
facing
API
API Roadmap

Equinix Cloud Exchange Availability Deployment plan includes 19 top-tier metros globally
Asia Pacific launched July 1st
Hong Kong
Singapore
Sydney
Tokyo
Asia Pacific To Launch Q1 2015
Osaka

Cloud Exchange Use Case:
Disaster Recovery
Secure and cost-effective data protection

Disaster Recovery Challenges Common problems with connecting an enterprise data center to public clouds
1. Unreliable
performance,
especially when
using public
Internet
2. Security and
compliance
concerns
3. IT skill gaps in
integrating clouds
4. Inflexible
infrastructure and
limited connectivity
options on the
enterprise side
Customer Premises
NetApp
Private
Storage Replication to
Secondary Site
Branch
Location Public Cloud
Infrastructure as a Service Compute, Storage, and Other
Services

Cloud DR on Platform Equinix Enabling Performance, Security and Scalability
Disaster Recovery Use Case
Replicate application data from
customer facility to array at Equinix
Use Azure / AWS via Cloud
Exchange for cloud-based
compute while keeping data on
array
(Optional) Replicate setup between
multiple AWS availability zones
over private link
A
B
C
Equinix IBX Data Center Equinix IBX Data Center
Cloud availability zone: Tokyo/Hong Kong Cloud availability zone: Singapore
B
NetApp Private
Storage
NetApp Private
Storage
Private Link C
Customer Premises
NetApp Private
Storage
A

Cloud Exchange Use Case:
VDI Scaling
Secure and scalable VDI deployment

VDI Scaling
Remote Users
Windows AD / VDI
Virtual Circuit Virtual Circuit
AWS Azure
VDI Farm
Customer Premises
Dynamic Cloud Bursting
VDI Farm
VDI Scaling Use Case
Leverage Application Delivery
Control Solution to control
bursting
Use AWS or Azure via Cloud
Exchange for secure VDI access
Keep Windows AD or LDAP
authentication in Equinix DC
A
A
B
C
A
B
C

Summary
More Usage Cases with IaaS
More Apps going to SaaS
Future Proofing Technology with Hybrid and Multi Clouds
Equinix Cloud Exchange - On Ramp to the Interconnected Cloud !

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