Loudcloud Partners With Equinix to Deliver Turnkey Internet Infrastructure Services.Business Editors, Technology Writers REDWOOD CITY Redwood City, city (1990 pop. 66,072), seat of San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1868. Manufactures include commmunications, electrical, electronic, and medical equipment. , Calif. & SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 26, 2000 Equinix, Inc., creator and operator of neutral IBX IBX Independence Blue Cross (Health Insurance Company) IBX Internet Business Exchange IBX Integrated Business Exchange IBX Inner Banks (Foundation of Renewal for Eastern North Carolina) (TM) (Internet Business Exchange(TM)) centers, and Loudcloud, Inc., the leading provider of Internet infrastructure services, today announced an agreement to deliver highly scalable and reliable infrastructure solutions. Beginning with New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , and expanding into the Washington, D.C. and Silicon Valley area centers, the agreement enhances Loudcloud's ability to deliver state-of-the-art services to customers. "Loudcloud will leverage Equinix's neutral IBX(TM) centers as a component of our full-service Internet infrastructure solutions," said Ben Horowitz, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Loudcloud. "Together with Equinix, Loudcloud will enable customers to reach market faster, scale capacity more dynamically, and focus on growing their core business." "Loudcloud's leading services are a great compliment to our IBX(TM) marketplaces and highlight our commitment to provide best-of-breed services to our participants," said Peter Van Camp, CEO of Equinix. "Equinix IBX(TM) participants will benefit from the ability to access Loudcloud's infrastructure services for increased scalability, performance and reliability." Equinix IBX(TM) centers enable Internet companies to quickly, easily, and privately interconnect with a choice of business partners and customers, providing them with the flexibility, speed, and adaptability they need to accelerate business growth. Loudcloud's full service infrastructure services provide companies with all of the hardware, software, security and operations expertise needed to effectively run a business on the Internet. Loudcloud's infrastructure services leverage Equinix IBX(TM) centers for the deployment of a customer's mission-critical Web operations Web operations is a domain of expertise within IT systems management that involves the deployment, operation, maintenance, tuning, and repair of web-based applications. With the rise of web technologies since mid-1995, specialists have emerged that understand the complexities of . Equinix IBX(TM) centers are a critical component of Loudcloud's full service infrastructure services. About Loudcloud Loudcloud, Inc. was formed in September 1999 to build and run best-of-breed infrastructure services designed for high-growth Internet businesses, ASPs, and Fortune 500 companies. Founded by some of the Internet's most respected leaders, including Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen (person) Marc Andreessen - The man who founded Netscape Communications Corporation in April 1994 with Dr. James H. Clark. Andreessen has been a director since September 1994. and former Netscape/AOL executives Ben Horowitz, Tim Howes Tim Howes is the co-inventor of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), the Internet standard for accessing directory servers. The main purpose was to handle situations that the X.500 protocol suite could not address. X. and In Sik Rhee, Loudcloud provides Smart Cloud(TM) services which encompass the complete suite of software, hardware, network and operations infrastructure -- including procuring, architecting, and managing these core components -- as a turnkey service. These Smart Cloud services leverage Loudcloud's proprietary Opsware(TM) automation technology to deliver unprecedented levels of scalability and reliability for a broad base of customers. For more information on Loudcloud, please visit our web site at www.loudcloud.com. About Equinix Equinix designs, builds and operates neutral IBX(TM) centers (Internet Business Exchange(TM) centers) which provide e-commerce companies, content providers and ASPs with the power to choose from a wide variety of Internet partners. Equinix IBX(TM) centers are designed from the ground up to provide content providers, ASPs and e-commerce companies with service delivery, availability of bandwidth from multiple networks, scalable interconnection, neutrality and multi-level physical security. ISPs, carriers and site performance management companies have access to the services and customers they require to build and expand their businesses. Equinix customers include Cable & Wireless, Concentric, InterNAP, Loudcloud, NorthPoint Communications NorthPoint Communications (Former NASDAQ: NPNT) was a CLEC (Competitive Local Exchange Carrier), focused on data transmission rather than voice. Its business plan involved leasing copper telephone lines from local phone companies, then selling them at wholesale prices to , StorageNetworks, Teleglobe, and WorldCom. For more information, please visit the company's Web site at www.equinix.com. "Safe Harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. " Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995: This release may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc Equinix. These statements may differ materially from actual future events or results. Readers are referred to the documents filed by Equinix with the SEC, specifically the recent filing on Form S-1, which identifies important risk factors that could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, including among other things, risks relating to Equinix's future growth opportunities. |
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