Hybrid Cloud Services

Our Hybrid Cloud services help enterprises shift to cloud-centric infrastructure for faster applications, with digital transformation and renewal of IT strategy and architecture becoming decentralized and closer to users. This meets the demands of a more agile, flexible, efficient, and better IT for evolving business models.

Our powerful hybrid multicloud services offer solutions to the complex and costly transition to cloud, with balanced speed, agility, cost-efficiency, and seasonal considerations across on-premises and public cloud infrastructures.

We allow you to connect with all your right partners to succeed in neutral hubs where competing networks can physically exchange traffic, quickly scale and maximize internet performance. Some of these benefits include:

  • Global ecosystem – The largest, most dynamic global ecosystem of 10,000 companies

  • Service providers – 1,800+ networks and 2,950+ cloud and IT service providers

  • Interconnection services – Award-winning portfolio of physical and virtual interconnection services including the worldwide reach of Equinix Fabric

Our services enable different configurations to combine your basic infrastructure with additional leased capabilities when needed.

Hybrid cloud infrastructures are preferred where workloads or applications are deployed across public and private environments. To quickly expand and deploy new capabilities in response to business needs, enterprises in a hybrid cloud environment are embracing the security and consistency of private cloud with the features and functionalities of public cloud.

A multicloud approach is applied to mitigate risks, allowing for better data protection and business continuity across multiple clouds. Deploying multicloud strategies allows for businesses to consume “best-in-class” services from two or more cloud service providers (CSPs). These strategies can lead to greater cost savings, as additional resources are only paid for when needed, even when demand increases.

Our services address challenges in the cloud journey through:

  • Transparency of transition and interoperability between dedicated environments and the cloud

  • Governance and cost control over the IT environment with multiple providers

  • Information security and transparent relationships with vendors

We offer solutions to the following challenges:

  • Storage/Compute: Multicloud businesses need storage and compute that extend across private and public clouds. Access to these resources via software-defined, and bare metal instances that use interconnections across multiple partner solutions.

  • Networks/security: Even with new software technologies to simplify the complexity of IT, network and security transformation, companies must be more efficient at integrating multiple partners on a common network foundation.

  • Software: For multicloud applications, and modernization environments to work effectively across hybrid infrastructures and connect agile software development environments to users, a cohesive interconnection platform is required.

  • Seasonal shifts: Fluctuating demands directly impact business’s IT infrastructure needs. Hybrid multiclouds can address changing requirements quickly, through on-demand resources or by expanding dedicated resources in use.

Equinix provides management, security, self-service access, and connectivity through these two solutions:

  1. Equinix Hybrid Cloud – This allows users to distribute and use their workloads as needed. Simplify your cloud adoption and optimize cloud investments by balancing workloads between dedicated and private cloud resources provided by Equinix; on-demand resources; and public cloud resources from CSPs like Azure, AWS and Google Cloud. This is managed through an easy-to-use portal, bringing enterprises closer to users and helping them become more digitally interconnected.

  2. Equinix Cloud Management – This is a management solution that ensures your environments deliver the expected levels of performance and availability, while optimizing public cloud resources and investments. This comprehensive, consultative management service enables high performance, governance, cost optimization and basic security, and allows organizations to feel more confident in the deployment and management of the public cloud portion of their hybrid multicloud strategy.

Equinix Hybrid Cloud Benefits

Equinix Hybrid Cloud is offered as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Once your company defines the resources it needs, Equinix is responsible for delivering and maintaining the infrastructure needed to operate the Hybrid Cloud.

Equinix Hybrid Cloud helps companies build and optimize a hybrid multicloud environment. To accelerate your cloud adoption and optimize your investment with a secure hybrid strategy through one unified interface, you can enjoy:

  • Superior speed – Accelerated time to market, for more agile and optimized resources

  • Maximized cloud investments – Forms an optimum point between dedicated and on-demand resources

  • Workloads allocated smarter – Distribute tasks according to your data profile for better performance and stronger security

  • Super savings – Pay for additional resources only when you need them with increasing demands

  • No more portal jumping – View and control all of your public cloud resources in one window

Features

Not all data is meant to run in public cloud environments. Equinix Hybrid Cloud offers access to a complete hybrid cloud experience with dedicated and on-demand resources having the following features:

  • Seamless merging –Combine your dedicated and private resources with Equinix’s on-demand resources, or with public cloud resources from major CSPs.

  • Customizable and optimized multicloud environments – Create new environments and instances and reallocate resources as needed. Purchase the base, and rent the spike; paying only for what your business needs, following shifts in demand.

  • Agile and secure private connectivity with other CSPs – Integration of dedicated cloud resources with on-demand resources from Equinix, or major CSPs like AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform; Equinix Hybrid Cloud enables agile, fast and secure connections via Equinix Fabric, our global software-based interconnection solution.

  • Single, integrated, user-friendly, self-service portal – Management portal is fully integrated, operates on self-service, and your dedicated and on-demand resources are all in one place. The solution is based on VMware technology, a leader in hybrid multicloud management solutions.

Our SLAs include:

  • Dedicated and on-demand resources – 99.9% availability

  • Equinix Fabric – >99.999% (dual-ports), 99.9% (single-port) availability

The supported operating systems are:

  • Microsoft Windows Server

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise

  • Ubuntu Server Linux

  • CentOS Linux

  • Debian Linux

  • Oracle Linux

Customer contracts a minimum of resources (vCPU; vRAM; vHD; Block Storage Tier I, Tier II or Tier III) dedicated or shared that will be contracted as a baseline and can consume additional resources on demand.

Availability – São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro

Cloud Management Benefits

With expert teams, proactive management methods and relevant insights to enhance your guidance, as well as automation tools that employ best practices, you can leverage all the benefits of cloud today and in the future through a smarter solution that manages your cloud environment. Benefits of Cloud Management include:

  • Greater governance – Users receive access to a cloud expert, and automation tools that provide best practices for governance and cost control/management for monitoring and technical support.

  • Powerful performance – Continuous monitoring and proactive management practices, including insight about behavior, trends, operational KPIs and financial consumption, as well as qualitative analysis and personalized recommendations are offered.

  • Stronger security – We provide basic security management (including access control) and business continuity best practices that follow the guidance of providers, and align with your goals.

  • Better cost control – Gain insights on your usage and learn ways to get more from, and pay less for your public cloud components.

  • Cloud provider partnership – Equinix Brazil is a gold-level Microsoft Azure Partner, an AWS Select Consulting Partner, and a Google Cloud Premier Partner. This means that every step of your deployment is backed by certified professionals.

Features

This proactive public cloud management service enables the high performance, governance, cost control and security that your business needs to leverage all the possibilities of hybrid cloud architecture and public cloud adoption.

Simplify, scale, and optimize your cloud journey with:

  • Incident management –Bilingual support and communication with cloud provider, until environment is re-established (instances and services)

  • Basic operational and change management – Scheduled alarms, change planning and tracking, log records and basic operational tasks

  • Superior safety and continuity – Hands-on backup, snapshot and replication controls. port scan, patch updates and firewall management

  • Account, identity and permission management – Simplified user administration, following best practices and provider recommendations

  • Governance and intelligence – Budget management, cost control, and insight generation for resource optimization

As a global leader in digital infrastructure, our software-defined solutions mitigate the need for physical infrastructure, enabling you to scale quickly and cost-effectively into new markets. We provide:

  • Digital agility necessary for your business to stay competitive through infrastructure that allows you to connect to our dynamic, ever-growing global ecosystem of world-class networks, clouds and IT service providers.

  • Teams of global solution architects, network architecture specialists and world-class partners, as a trusted adviser in digital transformation, that help you overcome existing challenges and prepare for emerging ones.

  • Centralized access to global locations so you can move data between clouds via interconnection hubs with high performance and low costs, optimizing remote workforce management.

  • Flexible and scalable hybrid multicloud infrastructures with our cloud-dense, carrier-neutral data centers that enable secure, direct access to your data along with real-time analysis and performance improvements.

As a digital leader, we ensure your access:

  1. At all the right places to place infrastructure where you need it.

  2. Through all the right partners to connect to everything you need.

  3. With all the right possibilities to seize the opportunity with agility, speed and confidence.

We allow you to place your infrastructure wherever you need it, through our:

  • Global platform – 220+ data centers across 63 metros in 26 countries on and the most cloud on-ramps globally

  • Resilient platform – >99.999% uptime and 5-layer physical security

  • Sustainability leader – First data center company to commit to supply 100% clean and renewable energy

Our hybrid and multicloud strategy is offered in 4 steps:

  1. Define your dedicated resources – Choose the amount of dedicated resources (vCPU, vRAM and Storage) your company needs with the help of our experts.

  2. Scale with on-demand resources – Scale your environments at any time with on-demand resources from Equinix or the market’s top CSPs when the company needs additional resources.

  3. Manage your instances via portal – Manage environments and instances through a single portal for an authentic and user-friendly multicloud and hybrid experience.

  4. Upgrade in minutes – Use on-demand resources to cover consumption spikes, or broaden your dedicated resource base at the speed your business needs.