Equinix to host GlobalCollect’s international online payment platform in Amsterdam International Business Exchange data center
AMSTERDAM — 21 October, 2010 — Equinix, Inc. (NASDAQ:EQIX, news, filings), a provider of global data center services, today announced that GlobalCollect, the world’s premier payment service provider of local e-payment solutions, will relocate its online payment platform to Equinix’s Amsterdam (AM1) International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data center. Adding another data center is to ensure GlobalCollect’s future platform scalability and robust performance to facilitate the expected increase in transaction volumes due to a booming e-commerce sector.
GlobalCollect is a leading provider of payment solutions for international Customer Not Present (CNP) channels such as Internet, mail, and telephone orders. It operates a scalable platform with a vast portfolio of local, international, and alternative payment methods, including all major credit and debit cards, direct debits, bank transfers, real-time bank transfers, and prepaid methods in more than 200 countries and for 170 currencies. GlobalCollect has more than 15 years of industry experience across various verticals, including travel, telecommunications, retail, software, and online gaming.
As uptime and response time are fundamental to GlobalCollect’s clients, the company decided to move from a managed services approach to a co-location approach and sought an additional data center provider located in the Netherlands. Equinix was selected for its global reach and the high quality of its data centers, which will ensure that GlobalCollect’s merchants benefit from the most stringent levels of security and reliability.
“Online payment management is a rapidly growing and dynamically evolving industry,” says Jan Manten, CEO at GlobalCollect. “With that in mind, we needed to partner with a state-of-the-art infrastructure provider to enable us to upgrade our platform capabilities further while continuing to offer the level of service that our clients expect of a leading payment service provider. After an extensive search, we selected Equinix as the best-suited provider to meet our future scalability and security needs, as well as offering a robust fail-over solution.”
“We are very pleased to enter into this strategic relationship with GlobalCollect,” says Michiel Eielts, General Manager at Equinix Netherlands. “GlobalCollect is a leader in an exciting, growing market and has already established a unique global payments platform. We look forward to supporting the company’s continued growth by providing high-quality data center services from our IBX data center in Amsterdam.”
About GlobalCollect
GlobalCollect is the world’s premier Payment Service Provider of local e-payment solutions for international Customer Not-Present (CNP) channels such as internet, mail and telephone orders, and specializes in a wide range of industries such as travel, ticketing, telecommunications, retail, publishing, portals, online gaming, and digital content. While most providers limit their services to a technical link with payment acquirers, GlobalCollect is a full service partner consulting clients on how to increase transaction volumes, expand distribution channels, and reduce costs by streamlining back office processes. Through a single-interface online payment platform, we offer access to an unrivalled portfolio of local and international payment methods in over 200 countries, including all major credit and debit cards, direct debits, bank transfers, real-time bank transfers, eWallets, cash at outlets, prepaid methods, checks, and invoices. http://www.globalcollect.com.
About Equinix
Equinix, Inc. (NASDAQ: EQIX) provides global data center services that ensure the vitality of the information-driven world. Global enterprises, cloud, content and financial companies, and more than 595 network service providers rely upon Equinix. The company operates 90 International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) and partner data centers across 35 metro areas in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Learn more at http://www.equinix.com.
Press Contacts
Equinix Media Contact (Global)
Joan Powell
Equinix, Inc.
(650) 513-7098
E-mail
Equinix Contact (Europe)
Richard Scarlett / Ben Roberts
Johnson King
+44 (0)20 7401 7968
E-mail
Equinix Contact (Netherlands)
Annemieke van Baal | Lammers van Toorenburg Benelux PR
Lammers van Toorenburg Benelux PR
+31 (0)30 656 5070
E-mail
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from expectations discussed in such forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause such differences include, but are not limited to, the challenges of acquiring, operating and constructing IBX centers and developing, deploying and delivering Equinix services; unanticipated costs or difficulties relating to the integration of companies we have acquired or will acquire into Equinix; a failure to receive significant revenue from customers in recently built out or acquired data centers; failure to complete any financing arrangements contemplated from time to time; competition from existing and new competitors; the ability to generate sufficient cash flow or otherwise obtain funds to repay new or outstanding indebtedness; the loss or decline in business from our key customers; and other risks described from time to time in Equinix’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In particular, see Equinix’s recent quarterly and annual reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, copies of which are available upon request from Equinix. Equinix does not assume any obligation to update the forward-looking information contained in this press release.
Equinix and IBX are registered trademarks of Equinix, Inc. International Business Exchange is a trademark of Equinix, Inc.
PR Archives: Latest, By Company, By Date