STOCKHOLM, Sweden and DUBAI, UAE — April 20, 2017 

Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data centre company, today announced that City Network, a leading provider of IT infrastructure services built on OpenStack, has deployed in Equinix’s Dubai International Business Exchange (IBX®) to accelerate the expansion of the company’s high-performance public cloud service, City Cloud, to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. By deploying on Platform Equinix™, City Network can quickly expand its global reach and provide high-performance connectivity and ultra-low latency.

City Network’s public IaaS platform City Cloud has grown significantly across Europe, the U.S and Asia, and to meet customer demand, the company is now looking to expand the service further. The company has identified the MENA region as a key geography for future growth, and is partnering with Equinix Dubai and their DX1 data centre — the most densely connected data centre in the region — to launch its high performance public OpenStack City Cloud.

To expand within existing markets and prepare for future market growth, City Network will leverage Equinix’ s global footprint of 150 IBX data centres, presence in 41 global markets and the proven operational reliability of Platform Equinix (with a global uptime of 99.9999%) to provide direct virtual connections to its services.

Equinix’s global interconnection platform enables maximum connectivity to partners across City Network’s digital supply chain. The company’s customers will also benefit from a low-latency solution via direct connection which will help it to achieve industry-leading scalability and expansion, and ultra-fast distribution to multiple content delivery networks (CDNs).

Jeroen Schlosser, Managing Director, Equinix MENA said: “The Equinix Dubai data centre is the first world-class, network-neutral aggregation point in the MENA Region. Facilitating the Dubai deployment of industry leaders such as City Network constitutes a great opportunity, showing the value of Equinix in enabling access to fast-growing markets, interconnection and business acceleration with high-speed connectivity to anywhere in the world.”

Johan Christenson, CEO and founder, City Network said: “In an increasingly regulated world where digitization puts enormous pressure on data capacity, there is a substantial demand to operate and store data in a location of choice. Therefore, proximity to our customers has always been a key part of our growth strategy. By partnering with Equinix we take yet another important step in our growth strategy and enabling the speed, resilience and reduced latency our customers have come to expect from City Cloud.”

Built on OpenStack, City Cloud is a flexible and scalable IaaS that provide intuitive cloud management, secure servers, storage and global private networks. Leveraging all the benefits of open source, including open APIs and no vendor lock-in, City Cloud provides organisations with a cost effective and easy to use, high performance infrastructure across the globe.

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About City Network
City Network is a leading European provider of IT infrastructure services. The company provides public, private and hybrid cloud solutions based on OpenStack from more than 20 data centres around the world. Through its industry specific IaaS City Cloud, it can ensure that customers comply with demands originating from specific laws and regulations concerning auditing, reputability, data handling and data security such as Basel and Solvency. City Network is certified per ISO 9001, 14001, 27001, 27015 and 27018 – internationally recognized standards for quality, sustainability and information security. www.citycloud.com  and www.citynetworkhosting.com .

About Equinix
Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) connects the world’s leading businesses to their customers, employees and partners inside the most interconnected data centres. In 41 markets across five continents, Equinix is where companies come together to realize new opportunities and accelerate their business, IT and cloud strategies. www.equinix.com.

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Forward Looking Statements
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; unanticipated costs or difficulties relating to the integration of companies we have acquired or will acquire into Equinix; a failure to receive significant revenue from customers in recently built out or acquired data centers; failure to complete any financing arrangements contemplated from time to time; 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; and other risks described from time to time in Equinix’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In particular, see Equinix’s recent quarterly and annual reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, copies of which are available upon request from Equinix. Equinix does not assume any obligation to update the forward-looking information contained in this press release.

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