Equinix

The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA), an executive agency of the UK government, was facing a significant challenge in its digital transformation journey. The agency was transitioning away from long-term contracts, minimizing vendor lock-in, and moving towards open source and cloud solutions. This shift was aimed at improving efficiency, adding flexibility, and gaining value for money. However, the agency was encountering issues with its connectivity. DVSA was connecting to the cloud via virtual private networks (VPNs), but the VPN firewall ran out of capacity, necessitating an alternative solution. The challenge was to find a solution that would provide fast, reliable connectivity, essential for the agency's digital transformation.

Simplitium, a UK company delivering ModEx, a catastrophe risk modeling platform for the (re)insurance industry, faced a significant challenge. The industry had been relying on outdated technology for the better part of three decades, using resource-heavy, legacy in-house hosting systems. These systems were used to analyze risks and potential damage of events such as natural catastrophes, helping (re)insurers calculate the financial implications to ensure they have enough capital to pay the claims and remain solvent. However, as cloud and hosted environments developed significantly, these legacy systems became increasingly inefficient and costly. Simplitium needed a reliable colocation partner with a strong presence in the insurance sector to help grow its customer base. They required a solution that would offer clients faster roll outs, lower costs, and zero downtime.

Avid Technology, Inc., a global SaaS media production solution provider, was faced with the challenge of enabling efficiencies and real-time collaboration across creative teams in the production process, without compromising performance or security. The company needed to deploy a cloud-based, global, online editorial suite to increase efficiencies in creating, editing, and enabling final production of media in a rapidly changing business landscape. The challenges also included capturing global customer access and scaling with quick deployment capabilities in a collaborative environment, connecting a diverse group of global users, ensuring high availability, optimizing application performance and usability by interconnection to a large number of global networks, and securing assets while allowing multiple contributors simultaneous access.