Animal Logic to Further Leverage Power,
Cooling and Scalability Advantages of Operating at Premium Equinix Hub
SYDNEY, Australia, Dec. 5 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq:
EQIX), the leading provider of network-neutral data centers and Internet
exchange services, today announced that Animal Logic Pty Ltd, a leading
digital production company, has expanded operations at Equinix's Sydney
Internet Business Exchange(TM) (IBX(R)) center as a part of a three-year
agreement. The move will enable Animal Logic to expand its deployment in
Equinix's high-performance Internet hub, which Animal Logic currently uses
as a primary production facility for file serving, 3-D rendering and post-
production work.
Animal Logic produces award-winning design, animation and visual effects
for the film, television and advertising industries. The company's film
credits include Hero, House of Flying Daggers, The Matrix, Matrix:Reloaded,
Moulin Rouge!, World Trade Center and Happy Feet -- the first 3-D animated
film to be produced in Australia. Supporting the company's production and
post-production services is an IT infrastructure that incorporates the
latest technology, including IBM Blade Centers, and requires a data center
infrastructure that provides high-performance environmental controls,
including an abundant supply of power and cooling.
"Before we started to gear up for the Happy Feet movie project, we had
the choice to build our own data center or to look for a third party
center," said Xavier Desdoigts, Director of Technical Operations for Animal
Logic. "As the challenges around Animal Logic's accelerated growth became
clearer, it made more sense for us to search for a business partner that
would be able to accommodate our heavy requirements centered around blade
solutions and give us the flexibility and cost effectiveness that our
industry demands. Equinix was able to deliver on all fronts and we are very
pleased with the solution and services we received. Since then, we have
relied upon Equinix's state-of-the-art data center environment as the
principal location for most of the equipment that powers our production
infrastructure."
Equinix's Sydney center provides Animal Logic with a secure and
redundant physical infrastructure with a strong track record of uptime, as
well as a flexible environment that enables the company to scale up or scale
down operations based on their flow of project work. To specifically meet
Animal Logic's needs for a high-performance blade server deployment, Equinix
designed and implemented a customized solution that meets their unique power
and cooling requirements. In addition, Equinix's Sydney center also
includes a high-performance backup system that ensures uninterrupted power
even in the event of utility power disruption.
"For Happy Feet and their slate of projects, Animal Logic operated one
of the biggest supercomputing sites in the world with over 4,000 CPUs, and
the largest supercomputing site in Australia by far," said Doug Oates,
Managing Director of Equinix Australia. "Since their business requirements
are constantly changing based on film and animation projects that are
seasonal and often require accelerated ramp up times, Equinix provides a
strong option over the complexities and ongoing maintenance costs of
managing an infrastructure such as this internally."
Equinix's Sydney IBX has become a principal hub for the region's
Internet businesses and recently announced a multimillion-dollar expansion
that will increase capacity by 50 percent. With more than 150 customers,
the center facilitates a critical role in the interconnection and peering
infrastructure of many enterprises, content companies, networks and systems
integrators.
About Equinix
Equinix is the leading global provider of network-neutral data centers
and Internet exchange services for enterprises, content companies, systems
integrators and network services providers. Through the company's Internet
Business Exchange(TM) (IBX(R)) centers in 11 markets in the U.S. and Asia,
customers can directly interconnect with every major global network and ISP
for their critical peering, transit and traffic exchange requirements.
These interconnection points facilitate the highest performance and growth
of the Internet by serving as neutral and open marketplaces for Internet
infrastructure services, allowing customers to expand their businesses while
reducing costs.
This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve
risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from
expectations discussed in such forward-looking statements. Factors that
might cause such differences include, but are not limited to, the challenges
of acquiring, operating and constructing IBX centers and developing,
deploying and delivering Equinix services; a failure to receive significant
revenue from customers in recently-acquired data centers; failure to
complete any financing arrangements contemplated from time to time; failure
to receive the proceeds from our loan commitments as expected; failure to
increase the debt financing on our Washington, D.C. area campus as expected;
competition from existing and new competitors; the ability to generate
sufficient cash flow or otherwise obtain funds to repay new or outstanding
indebtedness; the loss or decline in business from our key customers; the
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Exchange Commission. In particular, see Equinix's recent quarterly and
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obligation to update the forward-looking information contained in this press
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Equinix Asia Pacific Contact: Equinix U.S. Contact:
Charles W.H. Chow David Fonkalsrud
Equinix Asia Pacific Pte Ltd K/F Communications
Tel: +65-6622-0133 Tel: +1-415-255-6506
Email: charles.chow@ap.equinix.com Email: dave@kfcomm.com
