Equinix Managed Services (EMS) in the United Kingdom (UK) offer services for digital transformation that include the replacement, modernization, and expansion of the IT environment. Considering the challenges in data management and security, our services support the deployment of suitable private, public, and hybrid cloud solutions for applications.
These services help to solve data challenges through secure, flexible, and scalable solutions. We use best practices with a variety of technical certifications to ensure world-class performance, flexibility, and reliability. This provides up-to-date insights in IT infrastructure and data to optimize performance, availability, security, and cost efficiency.
Equinix Managed Services is available in most of our data centers in the UK, with three geographically separated management node locations in London, Slough, and Manchester.
Based on the issues and challenges in performance, availability, security, compliance and flexibility for business continuity, innovation speed and cost reduction, EMS in the UK consists of:
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Infrastructure Platform Service (IPS) – Our IPS is the landing place for virtualized workloads and applications. IPS can facilitate hybrid and multicloud environments with low latency access to major Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) and partners through is Equinix Fabric. The IPS platforms are directly adjacent to our management nodes located in Slough (LD7), London Docklands (LD8), and North London (LD9).
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Network & Security Platform (N&S) – Custom-built networking solutions or an additional security layer option including Managed Firewalls and Managed DDoS Protection (Anti-DDoS).
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Data Platform (DTA) – A local data platform available as dedicated or as an add-on for IPS including Flash and Object storage types.
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Application Platform (EQAP) - This offers application development and runtime on IPS. EQAP is a container orchestration platform for customer DevOps and runtime, being the landing place for high availability cloud native applications.
Equinix Managed Services in the UK is available at multiple service levels (depending on the product), ranging from self-service to fully managed, using the latest technologies and expertise of experienced professionals.
