Equinix, Inc., the global interconnection and data center company, announced the opening of its fourth International Business Exchange data center in Melbourne, Australia. Known as ME2, the new facility supports the growing demand for digital transformation globally, as well as Melbourne’s smart city development and the interconnection needs of local customers, including The Salvation Army.
Digital innovation is transforming the ability of today’s businesses to extend market reach, respond flexibly to new customer requirements and deploy the controls needed for security and compliance. The complexity behind the evolving digital economy requires businesses to extend network infrastructure to the edge to be in close proximity to their customers and partners for secure data exchange and seamless digital experiences. This added data center and interconnection capacity in Melbourne will help with those initiatives while also advancing Melbourne’s smart city innovation. Melbourne was recently recognized as the world’s sixth most advanced smart city, according to a recent report from Oracle and ESI ThoughtLab.
