C&W; collaborates with Equinix

Cable&Wireless (C&W) Worldwide is collaborating with Equinix, in order to become a one-stop shop for global enterprises that seek data center services.

The collaboration will strengthen C&W Worldwide's existing cloud capabilities, and will be a springboard from which the company will deliver a comprehensive suite of data center services, such as co-location, managed hosting and cloud computing services to global customers.

According to a prediction by Gartner, by 2015, 50 percent of global 1000 enterprises will rely on external cloud-computing services for their top 10 revenue-generating processes.

C&W Worldwide's hybrid cloud offering brings together managed hosting, multi-tenant and private cloud deployments, to help companies reduce complexity, minimise infrastructure costs and increase business agility.

''Our ambition is to create an ecosystem of best-of-breed solutions from different service providers that can deliver a flexible and risk free cloud computing roadmap for customers,'' said Nick Lambert, MD, wholesale, mid-markets and global markets, C&W Worldwide.

''As part of our growing network ecosystem of more than 680 network service providers, C&W Worldwide has access to our global platform of 99 data centres, while customers have a broad choice of best-in-class network providers to meet their telecommunications needs,'' said Samuel Lee, Equinix president, Asia Pacific.