Designates global "Agent of the Year" awards to honor partners who have significantly impacted Equinix business

DUBAI, UAE — April 16, 2017 

Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced the recipients of its second annual agent partner awards – the 2017 Master Agent of the Year and 2017 Agent of the Year awards.  These recognitions spotlight Equinix’s top performing agent and master agent partners, globally, for outstanding delivery and execution of Equinix solution and services, and highlight excellence in customer acquisition and retention, sales performance and sales effectiveness.  

AVANT, a channel sales enablement company was honored with the ‘Master Agent of the Year’ award. AVANT adds unique value with its focus and expertise in channel sales assistance, sales training, sales guidance, and sales tools to fuel IT services business growth.

Cloudwirx, a premier global supplier and systems integrator for critical IT infrastructure was honored with ‘Agent of the Year’ award as it matches enterprises with the right technologies, services, and suppliers, with the goal of decreasing costs while increasing the value of IT systems.

These are the second annual agent partner awards issued by Equinix, and are specifically designed to show appreciation for the ongoing commitment and success that the company’s agent-level partners demonstrate.  Equinix agent partners provide companies with the expertise needed throughout the data center implementation process.

“We are thrilled to recognize and honor these valuable Equinix partners today with this award.  The Equinix Partner Program was developed with the goal of building a rich ecosystem of top providers to help our customers to design and deploy the right cloud solution—whether it is a public, private or hybrid cloud. These two partners exemplify that, with their deep understanding of how to leverage and integrate the advantages of the Platform Equinix™ global footprint,” said Dick O’Hara, senior director of worldwide partner sales at Equinix.

Ian Kieninger, CEO, AVANT said: “Equinix, with its world class data center facilities and interconnection services, combined with AVANT’s channel sales enablement program, is a perfect match, helping channel partners maximize capturing the sales opportunities of today’s sophisticated IT organizations and buyers.”

Jeremy Dodds, CEO, Cloudwirx said: “Our approach makes it easy for our clients to realize the benefits of cloud, and Equinix is a critical partner in achieving our clients’ business objectives. We are proud of this achievement and are looking forward to a long-term partnership with Equinix.”

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About Equinix
Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) connects the world’s leading businesses to their customers, employees and partners inside the most interconnected data centers. 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.

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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