As the big cloud providers continue to expand their global reach through Equinix data centers – Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, and Cisco are now in its data centers across 17 markets around the world on average – the colocation provider and its partners are knocking on the doors of enterprise IT execs it hasn’t gone after in the past.
There is more than a dozen industry verticals outside of Equinix’s traditional five core ones the company hopes will find its data centers more attractive now, as they look for ways to leverage cloud services.