Equinix: Consolidated analytics improve decision-making
About Equinix
Equinix provides a single global interconnection platform that allows customers to deploy infrastructure and services while directly and privately interconnecting to mission-critical clouds, services, and networks.
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As a world-class leader in enterprise cloud data management, Informatica is prepared to help businesses intelligently lead—in any sector, category or niche. Informatica provides the foresight to become more agile, realize new growth opportunities, or create new inventions. With 100% focus on everything data, it offers the versatility needed to succeed.
Equinix used several data warehouse and analytics solutions, which resulted in data duplication and siloed solutions. The company recognized the value of bringing together all IT data elements that impact analytics and insights and needed an expert partner to help.
Google Cloud results
- Consolidates all data-related systems into a centralized data platform for better access
- Creates a unified hybrid analytics environment by utilizing Equinix’s ECX Fabric products along with Informatica and Google Cloud products
- Establishes faster and better methods to roll out additional solutions and features to customers
- Prepares the business for a digital transformation built on insights from machine learning
- Provides a single source of truth for all data
Democratizes data to improve cloud interconnectivity solutions for clients
Twenty years of rapid growth left Equinix with 225 different data management tools and siloed data platforms for its legacy data warehouse. As a leader in advanced interconnection solutions, Equinix naturally wanted to establish a more data-driven culture with a single data analytics platform as the company pursued digital transformation.
Equinix worked with Google Cloud Partner Informatica to migrate its data analytics and warehousing systems onto Google Cloud. The company chose Google Cloud for its cost-effective data migration; centralized support for Hadoop, Spark, Dataproc, and other environments; and the ability to continue using Informatica as its data integration solution. Using Equinix ECX Fabric, Equinix’s own unique cloud interconnection product, the company was able to easily connect the private cloud with Google Cloud to build a hybrid architecture for its analytics data platform.
Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services, Informatica’s integration platform as a service (iPaaS) solution, drove value by supporting the deployment of the Google Cloud data analytics platform. Using the iPaaS solution from Informatica not only allowed Equinix to democratize data, but it also helped the company consolidate systems, allowing for seamless enhancements to its cloud interconnectivity solutions.
Equinix uses this new consolidated system as the single source of truth for all data analytics to improve decision-making when it comes to platform improvements and client services. It has accelerated time to market for interconnectivity solutions using a more efficient infrastructure for analytics and engineering while reducing costs. Looking to the future, Equinix looks to expand on its success by maintaining the integrity of the “single source of truth” with better data governance and data quality solutions.
“Informatica was invaluable in helping us migrate and consolidate our systems on Google Cloud. In combination with utilizing Equinix’s interconnection products to migrate ‘on-prem’ data to cloud, we are now in a better position to improve our own platform and the service we provide customers using more integrated data and an agile production environment powered by Google BigQuery.”
—Mohan Navaratna, Senior Manager Data Science, EquinixTell us your challenge. We're here to help.
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About Equinix
Equinix provides a single global interconnection platform that allows customers to deploy infrastructure and services while directly and privately interconnecting to mission-critical clouds, services, and networks.
About Informatica
As a world-class leader in enterprise cloud data management, Informatica is prepared to help businesses intelligently lead—in any sector, category or niche. Informatica provides the foresight to become more agile, realize new growth opportunities, or create new inventions. With 100% focus on everything data, it offers the versatility needed to succeed.