Compare Equinix vs. Platform9

At Equinix, we understand that digital infrastructure is a crucial element for gaining a competitive edge. Leaders in the digital space require a unified location to consolidate and interconnect their essential infrastructure, which is vital for their success. As the premier global entity in digital infrastructure, our reliable platform facilitates this integration. Numerous organizations face challenges due to disjointed and intricate architectures that encompass both private and public domains, leading them to seek a singular solution to streamline and unify their operations. We provide a comprehensive global platform that lays the groundwork for your achievements. You can position your infrastructure wherever it is most needed, ensuring connectivity to all the resources essential for your success. By harnessing agility, speed, and confidence, you can capitalize on opportunities effectively. Additionally, you’ll find that you can create immediate physical and virtual links to a vibrant global ecosystem comprising over 10,000 customers, each of whom is rapidly establishing new connections on our platform, outperforming the next ten competitors combined. This interconnected approach allows businesses to thrive in an increasingly digital world.

Platform9 Private Cloud Director turns existing servers and storage into a fully featured private cloud. It provides a fast and efficient method for organizations to migrate away from VMware, with minimal disruption. Enterprise IT teams get a familiar virtualization management experience and a true drop-in replacement for VMware vSphere features, offering all critical enterprise features out of the box: Virtual Machine (VM) High Availability, live migration (vMotion equivalent), Dynamic Resource Rebalancing (VMware DRS equivalent), VM cloning, snapshots, templates, software-defined networking, and secure multi-tenancy. Unlike other solutions that may require proprietary hyperconverged infrastructure or re-platforming to Kubernetes, Private Cloud Director works with existing environments—including servers from Dell, HPE, Lenovo, and storage systems from NetApp, Tintri, Pure Storage, and more. Private Cloud Director can be deployed as a fully self-managed solution, a SaaS-managed service, or in air-gapped environments, giving IT teams complete control over their operating model. With Platform9’s free vJailbreak tool, enterprises can perform automated migrations of entire VMware vSphere clusters to Private Cloud Director—including complex VM configurations, multiple datastores, and advanced network policies—at a fraction of the time and cost of traditional approaches. Private Cloud Director supports both VMs and container workloads on a single unified platform, enabling a gradual transition to cloud-native architecture without disrupting current operations. Private Cloud Director can be deployed flexibly as a fully self-managed solution, a SaaS-managed service, or in air-gapped environments.