During the past year, the global pandemic caused businesses to transform their operations almost overnight, catalyzing a period of unprecedented demand for digital infrastructure and connectivity. Organizations that made digital infrastructure mission-critical to their operations maintained business continuity and gained a competitive edge during one of the most disruptive periods in modern times.
Despite the need to adapt to the pandemic’s lockdown constraints and record numbers of remote workers, Equinix customers were not only able to adapt and survive but thrive. In large measure, their success was due to the pioneering efforts, resourcefulness and deep expertise of our channel partners. Through their vision, ingenuity and advocacy, our partners drove outstanding advances in digital transformation and network modernization both globally and regionally, creating expansive opportunities across our value chain.
Two’s company, three’s a powerful ecosystem
We’ve always believed in the power of ecosystems, where partners come together to create innovative solutions for our joint customers and speed time to market. This year’s Equinix Partner Award winners embody how our partners are cooperatively powering global digital transformation.
Congratulations to this year’s Equinix Partner Awards winners. We are thrilled to recognize the significant value you bring to our digital partner ecosystem and our customers and the impact you have on our global communities. Together, you continuously work to create new integrated solutions that fuel the digital ambitions of enterprise customers around the world and we thank you for your continued partnership.”Karl Strohmeyer, Equinix, Chief Customer and Revenue Officer
Digital leadership paves a path for others
In 2020, we tracked the extraordinary digital leadership of our global partners and customers as reported in the fourth annual Global Interconnection Index (GXI), which explores how business leaders use digital infrastructure to fuel growth. It identified three levels of digital transformation maturity: Digital Leaders, Digital Enablers and Digital Followers. Digital leaders are the most digitally mature and are primarily made up of our service provider partners that are long-established or born-in-the-cloud businesses. They efficiently provide agile solutions to extend their reach and gain proximity to the users and businesses they support, which include Digital Enablers and Digital Followers.
Over the last year, our amazing partners have worked with us to close the gaps for customers around the world as they progress along this spectrum of digital readiness. They have helped businesses deploy outcome-based solutions that accelerate their digital strategies toward success. It is these partners who have demonstrated extraordinary digital leadership that we are acknowledging with this year’s Equinix Partner Awards.
New award categories reflect channel program growth and evolution in the Americas and EMEA
This year, we’ve updated our annual partner awards program to showcase new categories of excellence and distinction to reflect the continued modernization and growth of our channel programs. These categories acknowledge partners who have transformed their enterprise customers from traditional businesses to digital businesses on Platform Equinix. They also recognize partners who are innovators in next-generation technologies and social programs.
Join us in celebrating these industry pioneers who have set the pace of progress for digital business transformation globally and regionally across the Americas and Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Asia Pacific (AP) award winners will be announced at our Annual Partner Summit in the fourth quarter.
Global Transformation Award Winners
Reseller: Demonstrated excellence in driving global growth of services, markets and customers through the development of new vertical acquisition approaches, solutions enablement and marketing support.
Alliances: Demonstrated excellence, innovation and customer success in applying Equinix technologies with their own solutions to deliver breakthrough services across multiple countries or regions with Equinix, our partner community and customers.
Master Agent: Demonstrated excellence in expanding into new countries/regions, through services, market and customer growth, facilitating new regional sales pairings and providing marketing support to ensure partnership success.
Social Impact: Demonstrated excellence in partnering with Equinix to protect, connect and power a more sustainable digital world through the use of Equinix and partner resources and investments to deliver specific social initiatives with Equinix.
Regional Award Winners
Regional Acceleration:
Demonstrated excellence in driving services, market and customer growth, with support for technical and services certifications/competencies and customer growth/retention/satisfaction.
AMERICAS
EMEA
Partner of the Year:
Recognized for value delivered to their customers’ business through the use of Equinix digital infrastructure solutions, where the partner has a proactive strategy and program to establish customer value before opportunities arise.
AMERICAS
EMEA
Trailblazer Award:
Demonstrated excellence in pioneering the use of Equinix products in combination with next-generation technologies including 5G, edge, IoT, blockchain, and AI /ML/cognitive/advanced analytics, with proven ability to implement greater penetration of a joint value proposition for market verticals.
AMERICAS
EMEA
Alliances:
Demonstrated excellence, innovation and customer success in applying Equinix technologies to achieve breakthrough solutions through work with us and our clients, as well as our partner community.
AMERICAS
EMEA
As the world’s digital infrastructure company, we’re committed to creating and interconnecting the foundational infrastructure digital leaders need to accelerate business growth and competitive advantage. Congratulations to 2020’s outstanding Equinix Partner Award winners who make that growth possible!
Check our Equinix Partner Program Portal and stay tuned to Interconnections for more exciting partner news.