iguazio to Power Equinix Data Hub
Enabling advantage for IoT and enterprise applications
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on December 8, 2016 at 2:57 pmiguazio is collaborating with Equinix, Inc. to power the Equinix Data Hub, enabling a critical advantage for the IoT and enterprise applications.
iguazio hybrid cloud solutions with Equinix
iguazio delivers secure, compliant and efficient access to business-critical data wherever users are located. Enterprises using iguazio’s secure Enterprise Data Cloud platforms now have the flexibility to run applications either on-premises; hosted at the Equinix Data Hub; or in a public cloud such as AWS.
Enterprise Data Cloud platforms offload critical data and analytics processing through a variety of APIs, eliminating redundant network communication to provide its hybrid cloud model. The platform also accelerates analytics processing for real-time insights, while maintaining security and governance requirements.
Power of iguazio on Equinix
iguazio’s Enterprise Data Cloud is a secure data platform-as-a-service deployed either on-premises or in hybrid cloud architectures. Solution at the Equinix Data Hub has been tried and tested by enterprise customers that struggled with inefficiencies and fine grained data governance requirements. It places data in the center, while enabling data ownership and control.
“We’ve seen enterprise customers make great strides due to this collaboration,” said Asaf Somekh, co-founder and CEO, iguazio. “Using iguazio’s Enterprise Data Cloud with elastic computing at AWS has allowed customers magnitudes faster application performance, a simpler data pipeline and ironclad security.“
iguazio’s new approach and architecture has simplified the enterprise and IoT data pipeline.
“Equinix customers have a very powerful solution for deploying real hybrid cloud architectures by leveraging the iguazio Enterprise Data Cloud andEquinix Data Hub,” explains Lance Weaver, VP for product and platform strategy, Equinix. “Enterprises now benefit from Amazon compute agility, along with a powerful enterprise data platform and unparalleled performance.”
Customer Benefits
- Complete data ownership and governance, unlike public cloud services
- Cloud agility across on-premises and hybrid platforms
- An unified platform supporting a variety of APIs: standard and AWS-compatible, streaming, object, file and database APIs
- Accelerated analytics reducing time to insights
- Enterprise grade functionality and SLA
iguazio’s next gen Amazon-like data services platform delivers 100x higher performance at 10x lower cost. It announced the Enterprise Data Cloud in September 2016 and is already operational in large scale IoT deployments and financial institutions.
iguazio’s platform will be available in 2Q17.