Equinix (News - Alert), Inc. recently announced that innovative Platform Equinix and the Equinix Marketplace solutions have been selected by Unitas Global to help drive the company’s business expansion plans in Singapore and Sydney, Australia. Unitas Global is a global provider of managed infrastructure services.

By deploying the Equinix solutions, Unitas benefits from secure and easy communication with cloud service providers and enterprise customers in Equinix’s data centers within the Asia-Pacific region.

In a release, Grant Kirkwood (News - Alert), chief executive officer at Unitas Global, said that, “We wanted to work with a service provider who could serve as our gateway to Asia-Pacific and help accelerate our business growth in the region. We chose to work with Equinix because of its strategic locations in the region, rich customer and partner global ecosystem as well as its track record of operational excellence and the reliability of its IBX data centers, all of which will help us assemble best-in-class services for our customers.”

Unitas Global provides customers with IT Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) within Equinix’s International Business Exchange (IBX) data centers in Singapore (SG2) and in Sydney (SY3). Future expansion plans of Unitas include providing IaaS solutions to Equinix’s data center locations within the Asia-Pacific.

Clement Goh, country manager for Equinix Singapore, said that, “Today’s business world is becoming increasingly borderless. Companies are pressured to expand their business operations, but see great rewards for global expansion, particularly in high-growth regions such as Asia-Pacific. Our global footprint gives Unitas Global’s business strategic presence in major communications, financial, commercial, and populous markets throughout Asia-Pacific. Through Platform Equinix and the Equinix Marketplace, we can help Unitas Global increase visibility and connect to members of its digital supply chain to improve application performance, reduce cost, and generate revenue.”

With the deployment of Platform Equinix, Unitas Global will be provided with easy access to the power-dense, high-availability and high-connectivity data centers which ensure connectivity for the regions stakeholders, network, and cloud computing service providers.

Tony Simonsen, country manager for Equinix Australia, said that, “For many government and financial services organizations, Australia’s strict data retention laws require cloud and co-location services to be hosted locally. By deploying in our SY3 IBX, Unitas Global can satisfy the most stringent data sovereignty requirements to effectively market its IaaS services to a broad range of direct customers and managed services providers.”

He added, “As Australia’s cloud industry is growing in size and sophistication, Platform Equinix attracts a rapidly growing client base among key verticals such as networks, cloud, and financial services providers that capitalize on the opportunities in our ecosystem.”