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ServerStack Renews Relationship with Equinix to Enable Continued Delivery of 100% Uptime

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — January 26, 2012 — Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), a provider of global data center services, today announced that ServerStack, a provider of managed hosting services, will continue to leverage its presence within the Equinix International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers to deliver high-end managed hosting services including virtualization, storage, load balancing, VPN and CDN. Since joining Platform Equinix™ in 2008, ServerStack has drawn upon the standardization, consistency and network connectivity within the Equinix IBX data centers in New York and Silicon Valley to significantly grow its North American customer base and ensure it delivers on its promise of 100 percent uptime for its hosting customers. ServerStack has also opened a storefront in the Equinix Marketplace™ to promote and sell its services to the more than 4,000 potential customers that are on Platform Equinix.

As part of Equinix’s growing ecosystem of more than 800 cloud and IT service providers, ServerStack offers managed hosting solutions and powerful dedicated servers that are backed by unparalleled network, server, and application support. Originally launched in 2003, the company delivers proven solutions for some of the most demanding hosting needs, including highly available websites, PCI-compliant e-commerce sites, SaaS platforms, and virtualization. ServerStack also offers load balancing and firewall security as well as network storage and CDN services, in highly available configurations.

“At ServerStack, our number one goal is to ensure 100 percent uptime for our customers. In order to achieve that, it is crucial that our data center service provider offer the stability, security and compliance necessary for us to follow through on that promise,” said Ben Uretsky, CEO of ServerStack. “We specifically chose to work with Equinix because of the company’s superior stability and scalability. In the many years we have been with Equinix, we have never experienced any outages. In addition, the company’s unparalleled network connectivity enables us to reach any network provider within the Equinix ecosystem. Equinix also has the global reach we need as we expand our business both nationally and worldwide.”

“As more and more companies look to partners such as ServerStack to provide a vast array of hosting solutions in a secure and high-performance manner, it’s imperative that hosting providers can adapt to customers’ needs in a dynamic and secure environment,” said Vince DiMemmo, general manager of global cloud and IT services at Equinix. “We are thrilled to help a company like ServerStack, along with our other partners in the cloud and hosting space, achieve success in delivering performance-optimized solutions.”