Cloud storage giant
Dropbox has leveraged the services of data center company Equinix, Inc. (Equinix) to expand its cloud platform. Dropbox, which has headquarters in San Francisco, California, United States, is a storage and collaboration platform that competes with the likes of Google’s G Suite and Microsoft’s Office 365. Established in 2007, it has a global customer base of around 500 million users with “more than 12 offices around the world”. The company launched ‘Dropbox Paper’ in 2015. Dropbox will utilize Equinix to “ensure fast private connection to its network”.
Equinix, which has global headquarters in Redwood City, California, United States, provides a range of cloud and enterprise options through a network of ‘carrier-neutral’ data centers which it operates globally. Dropbox will improve performance and reliability by offering its services on the ‘Equinix Cloud Exchange Fabric’ (ECX Fabric). Utilizing ECX Fabric will enable Dropbox to offer private connections to users through Equinix’s platform of around 190 data centers in 24 countries. The company will launch “six new points of presence (POPs) across North America and Europe”. These are expected to be in “Atlanta, Denver, Berlin and Toronto in the first half of 2018, followed by Stockholm and Oslo in the second half of the year”. Ultimately, Dropbox will have 29 facilities in 12 countries by the end of 2018.
“By rolling out network infrastructure across the globe over the last two years, we’ve improved performance and reliability for all of our users by allowing them to get more direct access to our data centers,” explained Dropbox’s Vice President of Infrastructure, Akhil Gupta. “The enhancements that we’re announcing today will extend these benefits to even more users around the world.”
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