Intelligent Data

Fast data access and secure storage are crucial for businesses. Equinix's Intelligent Data solution offers innovative data management and on-demand storage capacity to help customers adapt efficiently to the growing data challenge.

The Intelligent Data is a centralized storage solution that manages customer data throughout its life cycle, offering guaranteed tierization levels at a single cost per terabyte (TB). It includes protection features like Replication and Snapshot, automatic storage distribution, and the option to add archive functionality for seldom accessed volumes.

The Intelligent Data offers a range of benefits and features, including:

  • Support for multiple protocols such as NFS, SMB, iSCSI, and Object

  • A fixed cost per TB purchased, ensuring predictable pricing

  • Easy management of volumes and environments through the Managed Services Portal

  • An Environment/Projects Dashboard organized by IBX for clear monitoring

  • The ability to organize volumes/environments by projects for better organization

  • Onboard snapshot and replication at no additional cost for data protection

  • Predictive growth analytics to help plan for future storage needs

  • User permissions for added security and control over volumes

  • The option for external access to Equinix services

  • Dynamic categorization of data performance through Tierization

  • A feature for archiving cold storage layers, keeping rarely accessed data safe

 

Main Advantages of Intelligent Data

The main advantages of Intelligent Data for Equinix Brazil shows the table below.

Centralized multi-protocol storage Intelligent performance and cost management Customer Portal

Intelligent Data offers valuable benefits to Equinix Brazil:

  • Simplified protocol selection: no need to choose the protocol during the purchase

  • Support for multiple protocols: iSCSI (Block), SMB/NFS (File System), and Object

  • Secure and efficient data storage in the cloud

Equinix Brazil gains advantages:

  • Purchase Intelligent Data and select the data allowance size

  • Critical data accessed more frequently will be prioritized for quicker user access at no additional cost

  • The charge is fixed per TB, regardless of performance

  • Increase storage volume as needed with payment based on usage (On-Demand)

Equinix Brazil offers:

  • Customer portal with self-service features

  • Solution to manage Intelligent Data independently without Equinix Brazil support

 

Protocols

The solution offers different protocols for volumes:

  • File (NFS and SMB): Acts as filesystem shares, shared folders among users/systems.

  • Block: Disks installed directly in the OS, similar to new hard drives/pen drives.

  • Object: File repositories accessed via URLs, no distinction between files, images, and videos, widely used on websites and e-commerce platforms.

Archive functionality supports both Block and File volumes.

Capacity

The Intelligent Data service is available with a minimum monthly commitment, agreed between Equinix and the customer. The agreed commitment depends on the total volume required for the customer's environment. Regardless of the settings made in the Managed Services Portal, the product provides a fixed monthly cost per TB of storage, ensuring the required performance for each data volume.