Equinix partners with VMware to expand global cloud service offerings

US-based company Equinix has partnered with VMware and announced its plans to expand their global relationship to deliver new digital infrastructure and multi-cloud services. The companies jointly unveiled a new distributed cloud service —- VMware Cloud on Equinix Metal. It promises to deliver a performant, secure, and cost-effective cloud option to support enterprise applications. Customers can purchase the VMware Cloud software as a service from VMware and the Bare Metal as a Service capacity from Equinix.
The service will combine VMware-managed and supported cloud infrastructure as a service with Equinix’s interconnected, global Bare Metal as a Service offering. It is said to extend customers’ cloud environments into distributed metro locations to satisfy business-critical performance demands.

VMware Cloud on Equinix Metal is expected to be ideal for distributed cloud use cases including smart cities, video analytics, game development, real-time financial market trading, retail POS, and a variety of other cases using IoT and ML/Inference.
The service will include VMware Cloud for multi-cloud infrastructure and operations and Equinix Metal as an automated Bare Metal. This interconnection offering is delivered as a service across Equinix’s global International Business Exchange (IBX) footprint.
VMware Cloud on Equinix Metal is also said to provide private, low-latency access to both private and public cloud environments—as well as thousands of IT and network providers—via Equinix Fabric interconnection. This built-in private connectivity promises to deliver multi-cloud flexibility and choice with instantaneous connectivity to all public cloud services.